FullWell Coaching

10/26/2022

We are entering the season of sugar. Did you know sugar weakens your immune system? It is no wonder that we are also entering "flu season!"

Dump the candy and sugar filled treats and choose to be kind to your body by feeding it all the good stuff! 🥦🥒🍓🍎🧄🌰🍄🌽🥕🫐🥑

Don't fall prey to the sugar monster!☠️👻

10/17/2022

Local ladies! Join us this Wednesday night for some delicious wine, education and tips about your immunity! Community, fun and yummy food. DM me for the address!

02/03/2022

We have talked about toxins in products... how about toxins in our foods!🍞🥨🌭

I am not a proponent of fad diets, but of eating real food. Lots of veggies, fruit and whole grains that haven't been processed a ton. Lean meats that are grass fed and grass finished or game meats whenever possible. 🥦🍓🥑🍍🫑🥒

Learn to read labels! Not sure where to begin? Let me know, I would love to start you on this journey to a life full well!

The FDA does not review the safety of food additives when new science reveals potential health risks. That means there are thousands of food products on U.S. store shelves containing chemicals linked to health harms.

We created a guide so that you can avoid the worst food additives allowed on US store shelves. https://bit.ly/2WixVeo

01/29/2022

Sometimes you just need to nourish your body with good food, added to that the nourishment of you heart with a great friend. Then pile on soul food with a night of worship and great teaching at the church that has taught me so much in this past year.

This was my first night out since surgery and I can't even tell you how filled up I am this morning!

What are you doing for self care this weekend? It doesn't look the same for each of us and it isn't always a spa day...

01/01/2022

As we continue on this journey, I want to introduce you to a term I will be using GREENWASHING.

So what is “geeenwashing?”

In super simple terms, it's when a company markets or presents itself as an environmentally conscious company or that its products are safe and healthy to use, but in reality they are achieving neither of these things - their marketing is suggesting conscious, safe practices, but if you dig past their fluffy buzz words, you find it is not actually true.

Why would a company greenwash?

Money! It's a lot cheaper to spend "a little" money on advertising and marketing that touts being "green" and "eco-friendly,” than actually investing a huge amount of money, time, and energy into transforming their practices and standards to greener, safer methods.

How to spot it

The following terms are often red flags of a greenwashed product. If you see some of these on the label of a product, train that to be a trigger for you to be skeptical and look beyond the front label. Most of these terms are completely unregulated and can be used purely for marketing and hold no real meaning.
*botanical
*bio
*chemical free
*dermatologist recommended
*earth-friendly
*eco
*gentle
*green
*natural
*paraben-free
*sulfate-free
*sensitive
*hypoallergenic

If you’re looking for safe swaps I have a Toxin Free List that you can refer to when you are ready to make a swap!

Just join my community FullWell Together

https://www.facebook.com/groups/479465820036541/?ref=share

12/31/2021

Time for a few quick safe swaps specifically designed to reduce your exposure to daily use endocrine disruptors.
We talked a little bit about our endocrine systems yesterday... So what can you swap out?

🔎 For a complete list of tried and safe personal recommendations on daily use topical products that are absorbed through your skin along with household products join my community.
💥FullWell Together💥

https://www.facebook.com/groups/479465820036541/?ref=share

This is a VITAL component of toxin free living. That master list will be your best friend on your journey to a full well life!

To eliminate artificial fragrance from your home:
••Febreeze ⇨ Truly Free Space Freshener
••Perfume/Candles ⇨ Essential Oils/Diffusers or candles made with essential oils

Reduce daily exposure to BPA & phthalates:
••Plastic wrap ⇨ Beeswax wrap
••Plastic bags ⇨ Stasher silicone bags or recycled paper bags (I found some cute ones at Target)
••Plastic lunch boxes ⇨ Stainless steel lunch boxes
••Plastic Food Storage ⇨ Glass containers
••Canned Foods ⇨ Glass jarred foods or cans that are BPA free
••Nonstick cookware ⇨ Stainless steel, cast iron, Green pans All available on Amazon

Reduction of common pesticides/herbicides:
••Prioritizing Certified Organic ingredients across the board in what you eat AND apply to your skin.
If this is not an option using a great fruit and veggie wash - Truly Free and Attitude have great ones Norwex has a scrubber that I love!

Drinking water
••Water filters ⇨ Aquasana for whole house filtration, or Big Berkey for countertop/showerhead filters, Brita Water Pitcher
••Plastic water bottles ⇨ Glass or Stainless Steel

Here is one more thorough and well written resource for those wanting to dive deeper and learn more about eliminating endocrine disrupters ⇨ https://greensmoothiegirl.com/endocrine-disruptors/

In this article, we look at 14 of the most pervasive, dangerous endocrine disruptors we’re exposed to on a daily basis in modern society.

12/30/2021

❌The Toxic Chemical Leaderboard ❌

First up, let’s start with the WHYs...
What does endocrine mean, and what does the system do? The endocrine system is made up of all the body’s hormones and regulates all of the body's processes from conception through adulthood and into old age! That’s a lot of impact! This includes our metabolism function and blood sugar levels, the growth and function of our reproductive system, and even our brain 🧠 and nervous system development.

Now, we need to ask.. what exactly is an Endocrine Disruptor? According to the National Institute of Environmental Health Science, “endocrine disruptors are chemicals that may interfere with the body’s endocrine system and produce adverse developmental, reproductive, neurological, and immune effects in both humans and wildlife. The damage is believed to be most severe during prenatal or early pregnancy exposure.”

💥 Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals:
❗️Increase Production of certain hormones
❗️Imitate hormones
❗️Interfere with hormone signaling
❗️Compete with essential nutrients
❗️Accumulate in the organs that produce hormones
❗️Decrease production of other hormones
❗️Turn some hormones into others
❗️Tell cells to die prematurely
❗️Bind to essential hormones

I talk about this not at all to scare us but so we can be AWARE and empowered to make the best decisions possible! The list below shows just some of the thousands of chemicals, or mixtures of chemicals, that can interfere with our bodies delicate hormone system, which can set us up for disease. They can be found all through the environment, and also in our daily products we use... there are over 85,000+ manufactured chemicals used in the USA!!
Over the last 25 years, much research has been done to take account of the different health concerns related to endocrine disruption. A few of the concerns are:

•Male and female reproductive disorders
•Obesity
•Diabetes
•Neurological impacts
•Premature death
•Cancers
•Endometriosis
•Osteoporosis
•Immune disorders
•Thyroid disorders

To me this can be super frustrating but also super motivating. I was definitely impacted by many factors, including personal care toxins and environmental toxins, so it is super important to me to make others aware. Clearly, with the lack of regulation on these products, our government is not doing the best job in protecting us from these. This means, it is up to us to make safe and wise choices in the products we use and that we give to our friends and family!!

Below are the “dirty dozen” toxic chemicals that we can avoid to help minimize our body burden and hormone disruption.

Live FullWell friends

12/29/2021

The first breast surgeon I saw said to me "We are really good at treating breast cancer, but we are not good at preventing it." I think this applies to most of the major diseases in America. We are a country that likes to treat the symptoms instead of finding the root and changing our lifestyle to heal. We want a quick and easy fix.

The ironic thing is I have been living a preventative lifestyle for the past 10 years or so. My journey into a more integrative way of looking at health began when we were going through fertility treatments. One of the nurses gave me an article about a very popular skin care company and their soaps, body washes and lotions. In the article it said that there were ingredients that were hormone disrupting in them. Now I happened to have a TON of these products in my house, I used them all the time. I went home and threw them all out (I do not recommend that). A gradual change is much easier and financially better :) As I continued to do more research, I have found a sad truth. Most of the products we use in our homes, on our bodies and the food we eat are not good for us at all. We are actually causing damage where we think we are healing. Throughout the next few months I am going to be doing a series of posts that will list some of the dangers in products, food and skin care and my favorite alternatives.

This is an overwhelming topic and I want to help as much as possible. The philosophy I have built my business along with the way we (in my household) live our lives is this: What you put on your skin, feed your body, and nourish your mind matters. The less toxins your body has to combat the better it can fight off disease and illness. We are a toxin-free household. Is it hard? Absolutely! Especially with a 6 year old who wants to eat the things her friends are having or play with the bright kid-appealing makeup kits and lip glosses (a few of our recent battles)... but I teach her that we need good things for our bodies to work and show her some alternatives. It is a journey, an on-going process. I pick my battles and educate through them all.

If this helps one of you along the way then it is worth it! So if you are interested please follow along. If this isn’t your thing, that’s ok keep scrolling and have a great day!

12/03/2021

I have been doing a huge amount of self-work lately. Digging into my story and letting God redeem the loss and pain.

Let me tell you the healing power!! As I sit here this morning in the midst of a scary health challenge, I have a peace about it all. God is still working in me and I will come out of this even stronger than before.

If you want a taste of this freedom, I would love to sit in your story with you.

Photo from Tara Shannon

08/16/2021

This weekend was alot of fun in Michigan celebrating my cousin with her baby shower.

It was also a painful weekend for me. The devil was hard at work in my heart, head and body. I know that God is working in my story and when we are on the right path the devil hits hard! Little does he know that he just pointed out more places in my story for God to bring the light back into.

The day at the beach was much needed for my soul and for Charlee's. The water and sand are her happy place and I love watching her relish in that space. I don't have many pictures, as I was being present in the moment and taking pictures in my heart. But can you see her joy?!

Are there parts of your story that need the light?? Do you want to live a life FullWell?

It would be my honor to walk next to you in this journey!

07/30/2021

When the path before you seems overwhelming and full of stumbling stones, sometimes you need to take a look behind you.🌫

When you look behind you see the promise of hope for your future. You see how far you have come and all the hardships you have overcome and how strong you really are!

Trying to forget your past doesn't work unless you process through it and see the rainbow. 🌈

I would love to walk through this process with you. DM me if you are ready to start.

07/27/2021

👂I have been hearing alot about stories lately. Also digging into mine (it's not very pretty)!

💥All of us have a story, we all have a past. As we dig into our past we learn how that affects us and our decisions today. If we ignore it, we will keep reliving the same story. ❣

💥If you want to change the narrative you have to dig in and do the work.
I would love to walk along side you and give you the tools to create the story you want to live - instead of living in the story curated from your past.
Let me tell you, it will be work! But oh my goodness the joy that comes from it is unbelievable! 🥳