Rooted Well

01/11/2022

November is National Gratitude month. What better way is there, especially in this season of thanksgiving, to remind ourselves what an important role gratitude plays in our health and well-being. Practicing gratitude boosts your serotonin and dopamine neurotransmitters. It has also been linked to better sleep, improved immune function, and increased resiliency to stress.
I challenge you to take these next 30 days and write down 3 things you are grateful for each day. I promise when you look back over it all at the end of the month, not only will you see there is always something to be grateful for, you will feel it too.

14/03/2022

I love this description of food, and the mindset it brings to nutrition. There is so much beauty and wonder in nature. And I believe the same is true for food itself, as well as how food interacts with our bodies. The more I learn the more intrigued I become, and the more I realize the most powerful tool in our toolbox for health and wellness is the food we eat ❤️💫

12/03/2022

SO thrilled Functional Medicine is being talked about more and people are digging deeper! Still have a long way to go but this is a step in the right direction! 🎉🙏🏼

Functional medicine aims to understand the root causes of symptoms that people are having, and the health trend is steadily growing in popularity. NBC’s senior medical correspondent Dr. John Torres joins the 3rd Hour of TODAY to talk about how this approach differs from traditional medicine, as we...

10/03/2022

It’s official!! I am a CERTIFIED Integrative & Functional Nutrition provider 🎉😄🎉
I started this path at the beginning of 2020, with plans to become certified that year. Well…as with many of you, the next year (or two), didn’t quite go as planned. Needless to say, it has been a long road and I am SO grateful to officially cross this finish line.

Next up is the Functional Medicine Certification through IFM. But for now, Rebekah Zonozy, APRN, IFNCP at your service ❤️

Dig deep & shine bright friends 😘

08/03/2022

It’s International Women’s Day. There are women in the world right now carrying a burden heavier than most of us can fathom. Let’s use today to send them every ounce of love and courage we possibly can. They need it. ❤️

“The power you have is to be the best version of yourself you can be, so you can create a better world” - Ashley Rickards.

02/01/2022

Hands up if you made a long list of resolutions for 2022? What if I told you the best way to improve your health and well-being is to pick just ONE, and I mean ONE small step and start there? It might sound crazy, lazy, insane, not in line with our culture to try and do it all? Well guess what - it is actually the best way to ensure success. Seriously!
Our brains are wired to default to old patterns deep in our subconscious. You can absolutely rewire the patterns, but it takes time and focus. And to think you can do it all at once unfortunately just sets you up for failure.
How do I know this? Well - research says so, but also I have lived it MANY times.
Getting your health and well-being back into balance is a journey. It takes numerous small steps, implemented one at a time. That’s what sets you up for success.

Here are my favorite ways to start the journey - pick ONE, work on it until it becomes your new pattern, then start working on another.

#1: Hydrate - by this I mean 1/2 your body weight in ounces of water EVERYDAY. And no, coffee certainly does not count! Maybe start with 1 glass of water BEFORE your AM cup of joe. Heck, if you want to get really crazy add some pink Himalayan salt and lemon to really boost the hydration effect

#2: Fill your bucket - this goes along with that old adage “you can’t pour from an empty cup”. Find what fills your bucket - meditation, journaling, singing in the shower, a podcast on commute to work. You pick. Whatever it is, DO IT every single day.

#3: Movement - every single day. Move your body. Find an exercise you LOVE - walking, running, hiking, yoga, boxing, strength training, dancing. Again, you chose. But do it because you like how it makes you feel/how you feel when you do it - not because of what you ate yesterday 😉

#4: Increase variety in your diet. Maybe make a goal to eat all the colors of the food rainbow every day? Or try a new vegetable once a week. Or make a new recipe with a new spice. Ultimately work on branching out of your comfort zone with food and include as much variety as possible.

Dig deep & shine bright,
Rebekah

31/12/2021

If there is anything I have learned in 2021 it is this. Far too often we are looking for a quick fix, a bandaid, a solution that deals only with the symptom, rather than the actual dis-ease, the imbalance.
Getting to the root of the issue is where we find the true solution - this is the path to restoring balance. This is where well-being lives.
My goal for this coming year is to share what I have learned, and what I continue to learn, about how to do this, with you. Because, in my opinion, we need to shift our focus. We need to create vibrant health and well-being instead of trying to just fix the symptoms of dis-ease.
Cheers to finding the balance in 2022 my friends - one step at a time.
Dig deep & shine bright,
Rebekah

30/12/2021