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Stress 101: How to Reduce It and Why You Should
Hi everyone! This week’s topic is all about stress, which is something I think is not talked about enough. I know that in my experience, stress is something I would continually choose to ignore. And by choosing to ignore it, it impacted many aspects of my life. If I were stressed out about school, it would not allow me to focus when I was doing other things. My mind was constantly thinking about this and that and I just felt so overwhelmed by my thoughts. It became very hard to concentrate and live in the moment because I was always so worried about something. It became unbearable and was interfering…
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My Top 5 Tips for Cutting Out Intolerant/Sensitive Foods
Food sensitivities can have such large impacts and I can attest that they have caused pretty significant adjustments of the lifestyle I used to live. About two years ago, I started to experience extremely harsh stomach issues, which I later found out to be due to a gluten and dairy sensitivity. With hard work and dedication, I was able to heal my gluten sensitivity completely (feel free to check out my blog post to learn how I did this). At this point in my life, I have created a lifestyle that I truly love and enjoy, while also complying with my dairy sensitivity. To be honest, it took a lot…
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My Journey with Food Sensitivities and Gut Health + Where I’m at Today
Throughout high school, I was eating semi-healthy. I was playing high school and club soccer, so I was extremely active and in very good shape. Food wasn’t something I ever thought deeply about. I pretty much would eat whatever was in my house or what the cafeteria at school had. I definitely wasn’t eating the healthiest I could have, but I would say I ate more or less 50% healthy. Right after high school, I had stopped playing soccer and was not active whatsoever. Soccer was never something I did for the exercise; it was always because I genuinely enjoyed it and when it was no longer a part of…
