🧠 Edition 37: All About Your Environment
Enjoy this week's tips, resources, and strategies all about creating the ideal environment for your health, wellness, and inner peace.
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❤️ Stephanie 🧠✨🤸♂️🌱
The Freedom to Live 5 things Friday
Every Friday, 5 things of value from the integrative health sciences.
The best of the best functional medicine, educational resources, research, quotes, books, tips, advice etc. all from the key pillars of the integrative health system.
1. The Difference
I AM literally the PICTURE PERFECT IMAGE of HEALTH.
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I eat, sleep, breath health, and am definitely considered above the average by my conventional medical doctor's standards:
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Bloodwork is normal
Hormones are normal
Tests are normal
Lifestyle and Mindset on point
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So when I walk in to my conventional medicine doctor appointments with a list of subtle digestive and hormonal dis-ease symptoms, I am left with either of the 3 options:
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A prescription to band-aid my pains,
A referral to a specialist, or simply
"you're tests are all showing up as normal", there's nothing further to be done. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
I can walk away and accept this, or I can continue to seek answers.
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THE DIFFERENCE between conventional and functional medicine lab testing is that:⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
There is ALWAYS a reason WHY.
Symptoms are not to be JUST accepted as a way of life, and
What is NORMAL is not necessarily OPTIMAL.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
This healthy lifestyle, an integrative approach, and yearly functional lab testing is the path I chose to live the rest of my life and in the process I'm able to help guide my family, children, and others who are seeking answers.
If you or someone you know is struggling or still seeking answers, I invite you to set up a complimentary call today.
2. Environment is Everything
The many LESSONS from plants.
My #1 lesson so far in this new gardening life and newfound love for growing plants 🌱 is that it's all about the ENVIRONMENT.
Continuously cultivate and create the environment of health, wellness, and inner peace so that balance will be restored. You will THRIVE.
3. Nutrition: Create a Detox Lifestyle with Soups
Soups are easy to digest, gut-healing, nutrient-dense, and full of delicious properties to aid in a constant detox lifestyle.
This recipe/method can act as a template to mix and match a variety of ingredients and spices to suit your tastebuds or to accommodate whatever you have on hand.
The Insta Pot Method
Since getting my insta pot, it has saved me so much time and money in the kitchen and I'm more inclined to make healthy batches of soups, stews, grains, legumes etc. from scratch
Sweet Potato Squash Soup
1. Choose a base: onions, garlic, fennel, leaks, celery
2. Choose some spices: turmeric, ginger, red pepper flakes, cumin, curry
3. **Choose main ingredients: sweet potato and kabocha squash
4. Add veg stock or filtered water
5. Choose some garnish: fresh herbs, hemp hearts
**Pressure cook the squash and sweet potatoes, 8-10 minutes, first to easily remove skins.
Sauté step 1 ingredients 3-4 minutes
Add in spices and sauté for another 3-4 minutes
Add stock + cooked sweet potatoes and squash, pressure cook on soup mode for 15 minutes
Remove lid and blend with a hand blender.
Garnish with some basil and hemp hearts.
3 TBS of hemp hearts = 10g of protein.
Let me know if you try this recipe or make up your own.
4. Build an Environment of Immunity
5. Connect with a like-minded Community
This week we spoke about building the strength, courage, and bravery to live more in your truth. Create the confidence to make any step towards your truth.
👉 Click here to watch this week's episode
Enjoy your week!
Wishing ✌️peace 💪 strength ❤️ love and ⚖️ balance.
Stephanie