Jaime Brideau CNP

11/17/2025

Practicing what I preach!! (I’m a fitness model now 😏)

I’ve lost lots of muscle after surgery, and it takes a lot of patience with myself to remember to slowly build.

This is the loving yourself part. Love yourself enough to be patient. Love yourself enough to get started. Love yourself enough to keep going.

We all start somewhere, or restart somewhere.

11/09/2025

Loving yourself is the best gift you can give yourself.
Stop the hate. Learn to love.

10/06/2025

WE NEED YOUR HELP

In the last three months, AHC has received just one donation and one membership. We’re so grateful for these contributions — but we know we can do more, together.

It’s a reminder that conservation depends on all of us. If you value visiting wild places like Robertson Cliffs and King Mountain, please consider supporting our land trust and becoming a member ($30/year) or making a small donation today — every bit truly makes a difference. 🌲

If you can’t donate, please consider sharing this post or tagging us in your photos from the Highlands — visibility helps more than you know. 📸💫

Contributions over $20 are tax deductible!

Donate: https://www.algomahighlandsconservancy.org/donate-now

Become a member: https://www.algomahighlandsconservancy.org/Support-Us

📸:J.Cavaletto

10/03/2025

UPDATE. (And trigger warnings for those who don’t do well with incisions)

Want to know why I want to keep you all healthy all the time?
Because I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy.

I just had approximately 30-40% of my large intestine removed from Crohn’s disease.
Over the last 18 years I’ve built up three strictures that were on the verge of a full blockage, should another flare up arise. This could have meant nothing moving through, massive pain, and emergency surgery.

I opted to do it before it became an emergency.

The last few days have been tough, to say the least. But this is part of my journey. And this is why living well is SO important to me.

Please make it a priority. You don’t want to end up here (really, I promise. It fu***ng sucks.)

Having said that, I’m doing OK. Finally seemed to have found pain management that is working, and I am hoping to be home tomorrow after 5 days in hospital.
It’s going to be so nice to sleep in my own bed!!!

Please take care of yourself ❤️❤️❤️

08/06/2025

I travel so that I can eat. 🤷‍♀️

Always a balance of trying foods that are necessary for the area (poutine, tire d’érable, and bagels, yo. It’s Montréal!) and delicious cultural foods, amazing seafood, and a fun frozen yogurt buffet for the fun of it.

06/05/2025

Just a reminder that you’re probably extremely deficient in vitamin D from hibernating all winter and you need sometime in the sun WITHOUT sunscreen to help fix that.

Vitamin D is more of a hormone, assisting in the regulation of everything from bone density and immune function to hormone balance and metabolism.

Don’t be stupid and get burned - just get out there and soak some up to your own tolerance.

01/08/2025

This is, by far, the best food documentary I have ever seen.
If you like learning about food and the environmental impact of it, please watch this!!!

The world is overwhelmed when choosing what to eat. Sacred Cow probes the fundamental moral, environmental and nutritional quandaries we face in raising and ...

09/12/2024

Learn your body. Listen in. What is it telling you?

No one knows your body better than you do. We live in a world where our mind, body, and spirit have become entirely disconnected.

This does not help us on our journey to health.

Write, log, listen in, breath, do what you need to do to to disconnect from external distraction, and learn to read your internal ones.

It’s a necessity!

05/12/2024

Happy Mother’s Day ❤️❤️❤️

I am so grateful for this creature I created.

Grateful for my mom, who always has my back.

Grateful for my friends, who are also there for me and my kiddo when needed.

Grateful for all the wonderful female influence in my life.

Grateful for what women and mothers being to this world.

It takes a village. ❤️❤️❤️

01/12/2024

It's been a long time, but I'm finally doing it again!
Join me for a virtual cooking class on Feb 11th. This way, you get to make it in your own home, and keep all your food for you and your family.
Hope to see you there!

Join holistic nutritionist Jaime Brideau from Fit Bodies. Fit Minds. for a virtual cooking class!

01/11/2024

You have to WANT to heal. You have to be TRYING to heal. You have to address the good, the bad, and the ugly.

It’s not anyone else’s job to heal you - it’s YOUR journey. Others can only help guide you.

07/21/2023

Our world has approximately 100,000 new chemicals since the 70’s.

That’s a LOT more for our bodies to deal with than they’re used to or made to handle.

A lot of these are toxins that effect the way our cells function, not allowing them to produce energy properly.

And lots more are endocrine disruptors, which change the way our hormones interact and are used in our bodies.

Reducing your toxin intake and helping your body with detoxification has never been more important.

What can you do?
➡️Make sure you have regular bowel movements!
➡️Check the cookware you’re using. Ditch anything with a non-stick coating.
➡️Get rid of any beauty/personal care products that aren’t safe to ingest
➡️Same with household cleaners!
➡️Make sure you’re exercising so that your detox pathways are moving.
➡️Follow the EWG’s Clean Fifteen and Dirty Dozen

Unfortunately, there are so many things that we come into contact with on a daily basis that we can’t control, and I’m finding more and more people who need extra help to get their bodies cleared up.

The results have been fascinating!! So much more energy and hormones that are normalizing 👌

Message when you’re ready to take your next steps and take your health back. You have to make the choice!