IG: ✨IT’S OFFICIAL✨ You’re looking at a future Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach (FMCHC), class of 2019 baaaaaby! 🙋🏻‍♀️ Holistic Nutrition + Functional Medicine just go so well together. 🌱 I begin Sept. 1st and I couldn’t be more excited to integrate Functional Medicine into my career to share it with others and be part of a movement that’s transforming healthcare. 🙌🏼 As someone who has personally experienced profound healing through the integration of functional medicine into my own life (as so many people do, I had stealth health issues causing chronic illness that only functional lab testing could identify), I am SO, SO excited to be the one to coach and guide others as they embark on their own healing journeys towards restoring health and vitality. 👊🏼 This is truly what I’m designed for. ✨ What are your thoughts on functional/integrative Medicine?

✨IT’S OFFICIAL✨
You’re looking at a future Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach (FMCHC), class of 2019 baaaaaby!
🙋🏻‍♀️
Holistic Nutrition + Functional Medicine just go so well together.
🌱
I begin Sept. 1st and I couldn’t be more excited to integrate Functional Medicine into my career to share it with others and be part of a movement that’s transforming healthcare.
🙌🏼
As someone who has personally experienced profound healing through the integration of functional medicine into my own life (as so many people do, I had stealth health issues causing chronic illness that only functional lab testing could identify), I am SO, SO excited to be the one to coach and guide others as they embark on their own healing journeys towards restoring health and vitality.
👊🏼
This is truly what I’m designed for. ✨
What are your thoughts on functional/integrative Medicine?

IG: Flashback to one of last year’s backyard organic spinach hauls 🌱 For those of you new to the gardening game, spinach is a cool weather crop that does best in cooler spring and fall temps and basically hates hot summer. Once the temps increase it’s best to pull the plants (then compost them PLEASE) and replace them with something else, because they basically become inedible. Don’t worry though, you can re-seed spinach again in the fall for another harvest! ✨ Is it just me, or are things growing extra slow this year?! Gardening 100% from seed is certainly a practice in patience. Sure, I could buy veg that has already been started but where’s the fun in that? 😏

Flashback to one of last year’s backyard organic spinach hauls 🌱
For those of you new to the gardening game, spinach is a cool weather crop that does best in cooler spring and fall temps and basically hates hot summer. Once the temps increase it’s best to pull the plants (then compost them PLEASE) and replace them with something else, because they basically become inedible. Don’t worry though, you can re-seed spinach again in the fall for another harvest!

Is it just me, or are things growing extra slow this year?!
Gardening 100% from seed is certainly a practice in patience. Sure, I could buy veg that has already been started but where’s the fun in that? 😏

IG: ✨FERMENTS✨ Where do I even start? If you aren’t getting fermented food into your diet somewhere, you’re missing out on a perfect (easy + delicious) source of gut-healing, super-health-promoting nutrients. There’s a reason most of the unique diets of ancient cultures included a staple ferment. Fermented food is just hella good for you and our ancestors knew this. It also tastes great so for me it’s a win-win. My fave? Organic sauerkraut and kimchi (aka pimped-out sauerkraut). Sure, you can buy them, but you can also, easily, make them yourself. Sauerkraut in particular is SO. DAMN. SIMPLE. it kills me. Yesterday I whipped up a batch of kimchi (my first try) and sauerkraut which I have made many times before (pictured above). Wanna learn how to make your own? Visit freshandfrank.com and search “sauerkraut” under my recipe section. Happy fermenting! ✨

✨FERMENTS✨
Where do I even start?
If you aren’t getting fermented food into your diet somewhere, you’re missing out on a perfect (easy + delicious) source of gut-healing, super-health-promoting nutrients.
There’s a reason most of the unique diets of ancient cultures included a staple ferment.
Fermented food is just hella good for you and our ancestors knew this.
It also tastes great so for me it’s a win-win.
My fave?
Organic sauerkraut and kimchi (aka pimped-out sauerkraut).
Sure, you can buy them, but you can also, easily, make them yourself. Sauerkraut in particular is SO. DAMN. SIMPLE. it kills me.
Yesterday I whipped up a batch of kimchi (my first try) and sauerkraut which I have made many times before (pictured above).
Wanna learn how to make your own? Visit freshandfrank.com and search “sauerkraut” under my recipe section.
Happy fermenting! ✨

IG: When your rollout is halted by a butt in the face. 🤔Why do cats always want to put their butts right in your face? Speaking of butts, I finally got mine back to the gym after ummm October 2017? 8 months? 😱 The good news is that my muscle is still there, it has just been sleeping 💤😅 . Gonna slowly wake it back up with body weight and mobility and move on from there. Anyway, happy Tuesday from all the butts ✨

When your #postworkout rollout is halted by a butt in the face.
🤔Why do cats always want to put their butts right in your face?
Speaking of butts, I finally got mine back to the gym after ummm October 2017? 8 months? 😱
The good news is that my muscle is still there, it has just been sleeping 💤😅 .
Gonna slowly wake it back up with body weight and mobility and move on from there.
Anyway, happy Tuesday from all the butts ✨

IG: Thinking back to this time last year when @chriswynia and @bryanprimetime visited me in my backyard to shoot a badass gardening👩🏻‍🌾/healthy food🥗/workout 💪🏼 video for @corefx.ca. Love how it turned out! Link to vid will be on my profile for the next 48 hours if you want to check it out 🤗 Happy Mondaaaaayyyyyyyy! P.s. my plant babies were way further along last year than this year! Damn!

Thinking back to this time last year when @chriswynia and @bryanprimetime visited me in my backyard to shoot a badass gardening👩🏻‍🌾/healthy food🥗/workout 💪🏼 video for @corefx.ca. Love how it turned out!
Link to vid will be on my profile for the next 48 hours if you want to check it out 🤗
Happy Mondaaaaayyyyyyyy!

P.s. my plant babies were way further along last year than this year! Damn!

IG: SUNSHINE GOTS ME CRAVIN’ A COOOL TREAT 😋☀️🍨 So I enlist my beloved @vitamix. Toss in some frozen fruit; wild bluebs I picked last summer, a lil’ banana, mango, strawberry, peach and a splash of coconut cream. Then I work the tamper (plastic stick thing) like my life depends on it, until this creamy deliciousness happens. VOILA! It tastes like Yogenfrüz but better. And then I ate it outside in the sun, cuz yeah What are your secrets for satisfying that summertime sweettooth in a healthier way?

SUNSHINE GOTS ME CRAVIN’ A COOOL TREAT 😋☀️🍨
So I enlist my beloved @vitamix. Toss in some frozen fruit; wild bluebs I picked last summer, a lil’ banana, mango, strawberry, peach and a splash of coconut cream.
Then I work the tamper (plastic stick thing) like my life depends on it, until this creamy deliciousness happens.
VOILA!
It tastes like Yogenfrüz but better.
And then I ate it outside in the sun, cuz yeah 💁🏻‍♀️.
#totallysatisfied
What are your secrets for satisfying that summertime sweettooth in a healthier way?

IG: GERMINATION STATION ✨ My germination station is expanding at an alarming rate as I pot seedlings that are rapidly growing too big for their seedling cells. I’ve already put the beans, chard, lettuces, spinach and pak choys outside but I’m waiting patiently on more consistent warm temps for everything else. Keep your fingers crossed for us because if it doesn’t warm up soon our entire house will be filled with seedlings 😂.

GERMINATION STATION ✨
My germination station is expanding at an alarming rate as I pot seedlings that are rapidly growing too big for their seedling cells.
I’ve already put the beans, chard, lettuces, spinach and pak choys outside but I’m waiting patiently on more consistent warm temps for everything else.
Keep your fingers crossed for us because if it doesn’t warm up soon our entire house will be filled with seedlings 😂.

IG: ZOODLES FOR DAYS 🤤 Zucchini noodles are one of my favourite meals so I hope that this year I’ll be able to grow some more mammoths like this beauty.✨ Usually when you let zucchini get this big they become quite seedy and less tender but I let this one go as an experiment and it was perfection— no seeds and so delicious— lasted me so many meals lol. Do you experiment in the garden?

ZOODLES FOR DAYS 🤤
Zucchini noodles are one of my favourite meals so I hope that this year I’ll be able to grow some more mammoths like this beauty.✨
Usually when you let zucchini get this big they become quite seedy and less tender but I let this one go as an experiment and it was perfection— no seeds and so delicious— lasted me so many meals lol.
Do you experiment in the garden?