IG: Missing these two beautiful people like crazy today😥. Feeling great sadness at lives cut short. Feeling gratitude for the deep bonds and love I was shown by both my parents that will be with me always. Feeling an intensified reminder and drive to help others live long, healthy lives via daily preventative Holistic health and functional medicine practices. Hope—preventative is so key. It’s the daily habits and lifestyle choices we make that are going to determine our future states of health. We are so lucky to have access to so much information on health, nutrition and testing that we never had in the past. Heart disease (my dad) and cancer (my mom) doesn’t have to be your destiny. But we can’t change the past, we can only start here and move forward with what we know now. If there are two things I urge you to do today, they’d be: 1) put your health FIRST over anything else, and if you’re unsure what that means, seek guidance from a holistic healthcare professional or functional medicine practitioner. 2) remind your most loved ones how much you love them. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Missing these two beautiful people like crazy today😥. Feeling great sadness at lives cut short. Feeling gratitude for the deep bonds and love I was shown by both my parents that will be with me always.
Feeling an intensified reminder and drive to help others live long, healthy lives via daily preventative Holistic health and functional medicine practices. Hope—preventative is so key. It’s the daily habits and lifestyle choices we make that are going to determine our future states of health. We are so lucky to have access to so much information on health, nutrition and testing that we never had in the past. Heart disease (my dad) and cancer (my mom) doesn’t have to be your destiny. But we can’t change the past, we can only start here and move forward with what we know now.
If there are two things I urge you to do today, they’d be:
1) put your health FIRST over anything else, and if you’re unsure what that means, seek guidance from a holistic healthcare professional or functional medicine practitioner.
2) remind your most loved ones how much you love them.
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

IG: Another grey day called for a superfood fat bomb chocolate making sesh 🍫. These babies are an organic explosion of raw cacao butter, virgin coconut oil, @kerrygoldusa grass fed butter, raw cacao powder, collagen powder, dairy-free 85% cacao chocolate, Himalayan salt and a new favourite secret weapon ingredient: a big scoop of @organifi GOLD (turmeric and reishi unite!). Bonus, I also chopped and lightly toasted some almonds and coconut chips with some liquid Stevia and Madagascar vanilla and filled the moulds with that blend before pouring the chocolate overtop. This makes for a toasty, crunchy, EXTRA superfood surprise inside every chocolate. DAYYYYYYYUUUMMMMMM🤤 🍫 • • • • Sorry I don’t have a recipe for you, the truth is that I just threw all this stuff into a sauce pan willy nilly, gently melted it down, taste tested it for approval, blended it up and then poured it in the moulds and chilled it. Defo experiment for yourself

Another grey day called for a superfood fat bomb chocolate making sesh 🍫. These babies are an organic explosion of raw cacao butter, virgin coconut oil, @kerrygoldusa grass fed butter, raw cacao powder, collagen powder, dairy-free 85% cacao chocolate, Himalayan salt and a new favourite secret weapon ingredient: a big scoop of @organifi GOLD (turmeric and reishi unite!). Bonus, I also chopped and lightly toasted some almonds and coconut chips with some liquid Stevia and Madagascar vanilla and filled the moulds with that blend before pouring the chocolate overtop. This makes for a toasty, crunchy, EXTRA superfood surprise inside every chocolate. DAYYYYYYYUUUMMMMMM🤤 🍫




Sorry I don’t have a recipe for you, the truth is that I just threw all this stuff into a sauce pan willy nilly, gently melted it down, taste tested it for approval, blended it up and then poured it in the moulds and chilled it. Defo experiment for yourself!
#superfood #fatbomb #chocolate #guthealing #fatfatfat #sogood #crunchy #easy #eatmorefat #healthytreats #healthy #health #wellness #winter #hawaii #healtheverywhere #travel #realfood #creativity #meditation

IG: Do you feel emotions super intensely? Do you ALLOW them or do you tend to block them with distractions? 😖 It’s hella uncomfortable, but sometimes we just need to ALLOW ourselves to FEEL by recognizing and consciously steering clear of the typical tactics we use to distract ourselves from the feelings (relationships, work, substances, technology etc.). I’m having an intensely emotional week and I’ve always struggled with communicating… especially when things aren’t GOOD. But I acknowledge this as a point of improvement and putting my ego aside as much as I can, I’ve learned to reach out to close friends to communicate my feelings. It’s tough when you aren’t a talker or used to sharing your vulnerabilities, but it’s insanely healing. This week I’m just feeling SAD. I lost my mom a year ago, I’m turning 30 in a week and a half, I’m doing some intense inner body cleansing and I’m generally feeling a bit lost in life. But we all have emotions and it’s OK to feel them fully. In fact, it’s VERY good. So if you’re feeling some intense emotions this week, I send you a virtual hug and strength to allow them to be… so they may pass P.s. The island of Kauai makes you FEEL more intensely than anywhere else I’ve ever been.

Do you feel emotions super intensely? Do you ALLOW them or do you tend to block them with distractions? 😖
It’s hella uncomfortable, but sometimes we just need to ALLOW ourselves to FEEL by recognizing and consciously steering clear of the typical tactics we use to distract ourselves from the feelings (relationships, work, substances, technology etc.).
I’m having an intensely emotional week and I’ve always struggled with communicating… especially when things aren’t GOOD. But I acknowledge this as a point of improvement and putting my ego aside as much as I can, I’ve learned to reach out to close friends to communicate my feelings. It’s tough when you aren’t a talker or used to sharing your vulnerabilities, but it’s insanely healing.
This week I’m just feeling SAD. I lost my mom a year ago, I’m turning 30 in a week and a half, I’m doing some intense inner body cleansing and I’m generally feeling a bit lost in life.
But we all have emotions and it’s OK to feel them fully. In fact, it’s VERY good.
So if you’re feeling some intense emotions this week, I send you a virtual hug and strength to allow them to be… so they may pass ❤️




#truthbombs #wednesdaywisdom #hugs #naturetherapy #hawaii #love #allowingemotions #healing #sharing #oneness #communicating #talking #lettinggo #lettingitout #breathing #being #crying #slowingdown #gratitude #empathy #health #wellness #kalalaulookout
P.s. The island of Kauai makes you FEEL more intensely than anywhere else I’ve ever been.

IG: Thinking back to last summer when I took part in an unconventional method of self-healing that involved large-scale urban backyard/frontyard gardening and hanging with 3 chickens (aka “the ladies”). After losing my mom to her long battle with cancer in March, all I really wanted to do was grow things. So I spent, no exaggeration, April to October in the garden. The garden was my safe place. Planting, tending to, and harvesting from the garden was my meditation. So was observing and interacting with the chickens, who provided us with endless entertainment, laughs, and love, as seen here in my selfie with GretcHEN. Healing is a long process and it’s something I’m working through every day, but my point is, when devastation happens to you, it’s important to find the (healthy) things YOU need to do to heal. We’re all so different and have such different needs. Listen to your heart and let it be what guides you #2017

Thinking back to last summer when I took part in an unconventional method of self-healing that involved large-scale urban backyard/frontyard gardening and hanging with 3 chickens (aka “the ladies”). After losing my mom to her long battle with cancer in March, all I really wanted to do was grow things. So I spent, no exaggeration, April to October in the garden. The garden was my safe place. Planting, tending to, and harvesting from the garden was my meditation. So was observing and interacting with the chickens, who provided us with endless entertainment, laughs, and love, as seen here in my selfie with GretcHEN. Healing is a long process and it’s something I’m working through every day, but my point is, when devastation happens to you, it’s important to find the (healthy) things YOU need to do to heal. We’re all so different and have such different needs. Listen to your heart and let it be what guides you. ❤️




#waybackwednesday #2017 #chickentherapy #urbangarden #urbangardening #healing #unconventionaltherapy #toronto #chixinthe6ix #gretcHEN #love #animals #organic #doyou #health #wellness #emotionalhealth #unconventionalmeditation #growing #cultivating #harvesting

IG: So far, my Friday has included work in the AM, then some SUPing, then picnic lunch on the beach (rockin’ the grain-free&dairy-free these days), then snorkeling, then educational reading on the beach — read it!). Now…??? No complaints whatsoever here. Wherever you may be, hope you’re making the most out of today and incorporating some self care, too

So far, my Friday has included work in the AM, then some SUPing, then picnic lunch on the beach (rockin’ the grain-free&dairy-free these days), then snorkeling, then educational reading on the beach (#Headstrong — read it!). Now…??? No complaints whatsoever here. Wherever you may be, hope you’re making the most out of today and incorporating some self care, too! 🙌🏼❤️🤗 •



#travel #craftyourday #remotework #SUP #supsurf #snorkel #realfood #selfcare #selflove #healing #whatfuelsyou #balance #play #work #takecare #wellness #health #prioritize #makeithappen #hawaii #kauai

IG: I have a thing for long, empty dirt roads and glowing skies

I have a thing for long, empty dirt roads and glowing skies… ✨




#tbt #lastweek #molokai #hawaii #travel #adventure #reddirt #longemptyroad #goldenlight #magichour #landscape #photography #naturalbeauty #nature #appreciate #gratitude #love #bestill

IG: ✨Mountain vibes

✨Mountain vibes ✨⛰🌋




#northshore #molokai #hawaii #kamakou #molokaiforestreserve #amazing #waterfalls #green #forest #nature #trees #special #love #gratitude #outdoors #explore #adventure #respect #energy #healing #health #travel

IG: Just like we need food or water, humans need nature🌱. Enveloping ourselves in the rhythms and forms of nature can be transformative and healing. Ayurveda, the ancient healing tradition of India, recommends spending time in nature each day. Doing so allows us to experience the wonderment of this existence with all our senses. Nature allows us to shift our attention beyond the domain of our ego and to recognize that we are inextricably connected to the universe. • I know, this is hard AF in the freeeeeezing cold wintertime ❄️. But get some nature however you can. Bring nature indoors with some hearty house plants like snake plants, spider plants, golden pothos, jade or a rubber plant (all low maintenance and hard to kill 👌🏻) . Visit an indoor botanical garden like Allan Gardens Conservatory in Toronto and soak it in. Or bundle-up and go for a walk through a wooded trail. However you can, nurture your humanness with some plants

Just like we need food or water, humans need nature🌱. Enveloping ourselves in the rhythms and forms of nature can be transformative and healing. Ayurveda, the ancient healing tradition of India, recommends spending time in nature each day. Doing so allows us to experience the wonderment of this existence with all our senses. Nature allows us to shift our attention beyond the domain of our ego and to recognize that we are inextricably connected to the universe. • I know, this is hard AF in the freeeeeezing cold wintertime ❄️. But get some nature however you can. Bring nature indoors with some hearty house plants like snake plants, spider plants, golden pothos, jade or a rubber plant (all low maintenance and hard to kill 👌🏻) . Visit an indoor botanical garden like Allan Gardens Conservatory in Toronto and soak it in. Or bundle-up and go for a walk through a wooded trail. However you can, nurture your humanness with some plants ✨




#nature #plants #naturetherapy #ayurveda #plantsofinstagram #plantsmakepeoplehappy #energy #health #wellness #winterwellness #spiritual #mondaymotivation #green #selfcare #love #photography #naturephotography #hikes #upthemountain #molokai #hawaii #kamakoupreserve #adventure

IG: Wild raspberries 😍😍😍! West Indian Raspberries, aka Ola’a or Roseleaf Raspberry, aka Laura’s hike snack is an introduced invasive weed (🙁) generally found growing in the shady understory of wet or mesic (moderately moist) forests at lower elevations. Their presence is an indication that a particular area gets a lot of rain. We hiked for hours up the mountain yesterday and I ate so many of these

Wild raspberries 😍😍😍! West Indian Raspberries, aka Ola’a or Roseleaf Raspberry, aka Laura’s hike snack is an introduced invasive weed (🙁) generally found growing in the shady understory of wet or mesic (moderately moist) forests at lower elevations. Their presence is an indication that a particular area gets a lot of rain. We hiked for hours up the mountain yesterday and I ate so many of these… •



#wildraspberries #saturdayfun #hikes #exploring #adventuring #wild #snacks #snax #redraspberries #westindianraspberries #delicious #beautiful #health #fitness #wellness #travel #nomnomnom #Molokai #Hawaii #Kamakou #destress #bestday #love