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Healing with Intention Integrative Medicine, 507 N. Garfield Avenue, Loveland, CO (2025)

12/10/2025

Week 1 of our December Self-Care Challenge was all about slowing down and grounding.
This week, we’re shifting into nourishing the body that carries you—with simple practices that help you feel more supported from the inside out.

What makes this challenge different?
It isn’t about adding more tasks to your already full life.
It’s about bringing intention and presence to small moments—because that’s where wellness is found… and where the magic begins.

If you haven’t joined yet, we’d love to have you.
Join the Self-Care Challenge → link in bio
And tell me—what’s one way you’re caring for yourself today?

12/05/2025

What if the thing you’ve been craving most isn’t more time… but more you?

Winter has a way of showing us what’s essential. Our bodies ask for slowness. Our nervous systems ask for softness. Our souls ask for space.
But most of us push through, overriding what we feel in order to keep up.

That’s why I created the December Self-Care Challenge—a month of simple, grounding practices to help you come home to yourself again. Small pauses. Deep breaths. Gentle reconnection with your inner calm.

If your body has been whispering for a different way… this is your invitation.
Join us. Your presence is the medicine.

We’ve already begun the December Self-Care Challenge, but there’s still plenty of time to join us. I would love to have you.

And if you’re not sure yet, tell me this:
How are you feeling today?
Or share one small thing you’re doing to care for yourself this week.
Your words might be the gentle reminder another woman needs.

✨ Sign up through the link in my bio.

12/03/2025

Redefining Self-Care

We talk so much about “self-care,” but most of what we’re told to do feels like more tasks, more pressure, more performance.

The truth is…
self-care isn’t something you add on top of your already full life.
It’s the way you live inside your life.

It’s the life you create.
It’s giving yourself space to breathe.
It’s allowing yourself to be who you are.
It’s grounding, grieving, feeling.
It’s noticing what your body needs and honoring it as you move through your actual, real days.

And as women, especially in December, we’re asked to hold so much.
We’re pulled in so many directions that we forget to come home to ourselves.

So this month, I’m inviting us to do it differently.

Today, December 3, I’m beginning a simple, free December Self-Care Challenge — one small daily invitation to bring more presence, attention, and gentleness into your life.

No perfection.
No checklists.
Just tiny, nourishing reminders to live in a way that supports you.

If your body is craving a different kind of December — a softer one, a more intentional one — I would love for you to join me.

Link is in the bio or drop an “I’m in” and I’ll send you the link.

12/02/2025

Today is December 1st… and this idea came to me this morning, right in the middle of my own messy, imperfect life.

Every December, women hold so much.
We make the magic, carry the emotional load, tend to everyone else’s needs — and somehow expect ourselves to stay grounded through it all.

I don’t expect any of us to radically change how we move through this month. Our responsibilities, traditions, and rhythms are real.
But I do want this December to feel different.

Not by doing more…
but by bringing presence, attention, and love back to ourselves in small, intentional ways.

So I created a simple December Self-Care Challenge — for women who want this month to land differently in their bodies.

It starts December 3 and goes through the end of the month.
One tiny practice each day.
A moment to breathe, reconnect, and care for yourself…
while moving through it alongside other women who are doing the same.

Because this isn’t meant to be a solo journey.
There’s something powerful about women tending to themselves together — even quietly, from our own homes.

If you’re craving a gentler, more grounded December…
if you want this month to feel a little different…
if you’re longing for a sense of “I’m not the only one”…

I’d love for you to join us.

Link is in the bio and I’ll drop it in the comments!
Let’s create a December that supports us, too.

11/28/2025

Today, the day after Thanksgiving, my body is speaking clearly. It's asking me to slow down—to soften the pace, breathe more deeply, and honor what this season stirs in our bodies.

If you're moving through this busy season feeling stretched, tired, or a little untethered, this week’s episode is for you.

I talk about what it really means to stay connected to yourself when life speeds up—how to honor your body’s quiet request for slowness, rest, and presence, even when the world is pulling you in every direction.

We explore how to align with the natural, slower “yin” energy of this time of year, and why that shift matters for your nervous system, your emotions, and your overall well-being.

I share a simple three-step practice to help you prepare for—and recover from—social gatherings or obligations that feel draining.

And we dive into why sleep, movement, and small pauses throughout your day are not just “healthy habits,” but powerful forms of integrative medicine. Tiny moments of stillness interrupt the cycle of busyness and invite you back into mindful, intentional choices.

Your body knows what it needs. This season, may you listen, soften, and stay connected to the rhythms that support you.

✨ Join me for this compelling conversation on "Your Life Is The Medicine," available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all podcast players. The link is in my bio, and your reviews mean the world to me, so please share your thoughts!

11/27/2025

For those who celebrate, Happy Thanksgiving

Before the day begins to move fast, I want to take a moment to pause and share something from my heart.

This year has been an extraordinary journey of growth for me—one of deeper self-love, uncomfortable clarity, reclaimed joy, and a fuller understanding of what truly matters. I’m grateful for the ways I’ve shown up for myself, even when it was messy or imperfect. And I’m grateful for every single person who has walked with me… my family, my friends, my mentors, the women in my circles, and every one of you who has read my words, listened to my podcast, or trusted me with a piece of your healing.

Thank you. Truly.

And I want to name something else, because it matters today more than ever:

Holidays carry many truths at once.
For some, today brings warmth, connection, and the beauty of family and friends gathering.
For others, it brings grief, loneliness, longing, or pain.
Most of us feel a mix of all of it.

There is no “right” way to feel today. Whatever is present in you—joy, tenderness, overwhelm, gratitude, exhaustion, grief—is valid. And it deserves space.

So as you move through the day, I hope you’ll also pause to honor yourself.
We’re so quick to discount the ways we’ve shown up and to focus on all the moments we think we should’ve done better. But growth happens when we soften toward ourselves… when we offer grace for our imperfect moments and celebrate the small steps we did take toward our joy, health, and well-being.

And during the day, take a moment to pause, breathe, and come home to your body. Allow and honor all that arrives. Send gratitude, love, and compassion toward yourself before you try to show up for everyone else.

You are wise and beautiful and worthy in every moment.

I’m grateful for you.
And I’m grateful to be on this journey together.

🧡 Happy Thanksgiving.

11/26/2025

Your inner knowing has not gone quiet — the world has just gotten loud.

The holidays have a way of pulling us outward… into obligations, expectations, and the pressure to carry everything. And when the world gets loud, it’s easy to override the quiet wisdom inside you — the knowing that tells you what you need, what’s too much, and where to soften.

This week on the podcast, I share why embodiment is the key to navigating the holidays without feeling overwhelmed.
It’s an essential guide to prioritizing yourself with honesty and tenderness.

✨ Learn how to use your body’s “yes” and “no” signals to set boundaries that actually support you.
✨ Explore simple practices for nervous system regulation when holiday stress hits.
✨ Understand why your routines are non-negotiable anchors for staying connected to yourself.

You deserve to move through this season feeling rooted, nourished, and at home in your body — not stretched thin or swept away.

Listen to this week’s episode of Your Life Is The Medicine on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.
And if it speaks to you, I’d be so grateful if you left a review — it helps other women find this work.

11/26/2025

If you don’t care for you, no one else will.
The days are shorter, the holidays are here, and the world whispers to women that they need to be doing more and more and more... that they need to make the holidays magical.

It’s so easy to slip into the pattern of getting everything done—fitting yourself into the margins, or not at all.
For many of us, that’s what we’ve been taught… to care for everyone else first and call it love.

But it takes awareness—and commitment—to change the pattern.
To choose movement that grounds you.
To eat food that truly nourishes you.
To rest before you’re depleted.

The magic doesn’t happen when you’re worn out.
It happens when you intentionally care for yourself, when you create joy and pleasure for you.

Because you matter. Your health matters. And when you are well, everything you touch becomes more alive. 💛

11/25/2025

November is Hospice and Palliative Care Month.

As a palliative care physician, I want to take a moment to talk about this work which is so deeply misunderstood — even by people who work in healthcare. I started my career as a hospitalist. After three years, I returned to training to complete a fellowship in hospice and palliative medicine (and a separate fellowship in Integrative Medicine). Practicing palliative medicine has transformed my life, and I wanted to share why I do this work.

I’ve never been one for small talk. Palliative medicine is the opposite of small talk. It’s depth. It’s truth. I have the honor of talking with people about serious illness and dying — and it is deeply transformative work. People who are seriously ill, even those who are dying, want real conversations and real answers. And yet, so many in our society (the healthcare system included) struggle to have frank, compassionate conversations about what’s really happening. I call it truth-telling. I can’t predict exactly how someone’s story will unfold, but I can bring my experience and my medical expertise to help illuminate the possibilities.
I also see palliative medicine as empowering patients. Too often I’ve seen people undergo treatments or tests that diminish their quality of life because they believe that the benefit would be greater than it likely is. Hard conversations about what a test or treatment can or cannot do are not meant to take hope away. They are meant to give people their agency back - so they can make decisions aligned with their values, their priorities, and their life.

And in my experience, dying is spiritual work.
To sit with people and their families as they navigate this sacred territory is a profound honor. I’ve witnessed extraordinary courage, unwavering love, deep grief, and families showing up for each other in beautiful, moving ways.

This work reminds me of my own humanity and the preciousness of each day. I am deeply grateful for the people who have allowed me to walk beside them, even for a moment. Palliative care is not about giving up. It’s about living fully, honestly, and with as much intention as possible — no matter what chapter you’re in.

11/20/2025

Women in my practice often tell me they’ve left medical appointments feeling unheard, unseen, or even questioned in ways that make them doubt themselves. Some have been told it’s “all in their head,” that they’re exaggerating, or that what they’re describing doesn’t make sense.
These are deeply intuitive, deeply feeling women who know their bodies. They are trying to communicate what they’re sensing to doctors, PAs, NPs… and yet they leave feeling dismissed or misunderstood.

Over time, they start to wonder if they’re crazy.
If what they feel is real.
If their body is betraying them.

And the message they receive—from the very people they’ve been taught to trust—is to doubt their own inner knowing.

Here’s the truth:
Your body is holding wisdom. It’s giving you information about what is and isn’t working. Our bodies are complex and deeply interconnected, and without understanding the language your body is speaking, of course it can feel confusing. But it does make sense. And you are not “too much.” You are not too complicated.

When you learn to trust your body—when you begin to listen, explore, and honor what it’s telling you—everything changes. Healing begins.
Not because you’ve forced something, but because you’ve created a different relationship with your body… one rooted in compassion, curiosity, and trust, instead of frustration or fear.

Sometimes the path forward involves shifts in food or supplements. Sometimes it’s more (or less) movement. Often, it’s about deepening the relationship you have with yourself.
Every body has its own map. Its own path.

This is the work I do with women in my work—helping them uncover and follow their own unique path to healing by combining soul with science and tending to mind, body, and spirit.

If you’re curious to learn more, DM whole health and I’ll send you my freshly revised whole health e - book.

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