How to Use Castor Oil Packs. Castor oil packs are a great way to naturally and gently detox the body.

Gluten is what makes bread dough stretchy and elastic!

The boys and I needed a gut-friendly cookie, so I whipped these gut supportive cookies up. These crispy and chewy chocolate chip cookies are gluten-free, grain-free, dairy-free, egg-free, nut-free and grain-free, too!

Hoping your heartburn away? Wishing you could control your heartburn pain, gas and bloat with a more natural solution than a sleeve of Tums? Looking for a natural way to stomach heartburn in its tracks? Here’s what happens when your digestion is dysfunctional from the very start.

While we’re all at home working up experiments to entertain our kiddos with, I thought it may be high time to teach some simple “how to’s”. Starting with some soaking and sprouting first is a fun activity for kiddos and a highly nutritious one for the whole family.

First and foremost, don’t let a virus keep you from holding your little loves close! Whether COVID-19 or another virus (heyyy Mono, looking at you!) , there are many habits, nutrients and nutraceuticals that you can boost your defenses.

What follows are my 13 strategies for surviving a healing protocol. Whether you’re starting a course elimination or beginning a major healing protocol - these ideas will be worth returning to again and again - on the hard days - and may even help you enjoy the process. Healing will come, yes. But there is so much more fruit from the experience and the disciple. Promise.

It can be easy to lump food allergies and sensitivities together because both cause unwanted symptoms after eating a particular food item. There are two ways to define adverse food reactions -- those that elicit an immune response, and those that do not.

“Hey, Hey, Mae: If I’m trying to lose weight and feel like I can only devote attention to one - which is more important for reaching my weight loss goals: nutrition or exercise?”

“Hey, hey, Mae: I’m busy and feel like I’m not getting enough protein in - recommendations for a somewhat clean protein powder?” Hey girl, i see you! Protein plays in not just your muscle gains, but also in your day-to-day happy feels and even blood sugar regulation…hangry, anyone?

As we’re creeping into fall and getting closer to citrus season and further away from that summer abundance, I like to start adding in different (and inexpensive) ways to keep my veggie intake high. Feeding myself a real meal at lunch can also be a little tricky when I’ve got two preschoolers to feed, too.

Listen up, ladies - did you know that we tip the scales on suffering more with insomnia than men? Stress (sleepless kiddos, anyone?) and traumatic events can trigger an acute case of insomnia, while longer struggles with difficulty falling asleep and/or staying asleep can be stem from some medications, substance use, hormone imbalance or medical conditions.

“Hey, hey, Mae: I struggle with getting my kids to even try new foods, so they're stuck on their favorites and those contain loads of what we may need to try an elimination for. How can I make this work for our family?” Implementing food changes can be easy...until our feelings and our kids’ opinions get involved, right?

“Hey, hey, Mae: What’s the big deal about gluten and why does it matter for our health and the health of our children?” What is gluten? Gluten is a type of prolamin found in wheat, barley and rye.

“Hey, hey, Mae: How exactly DO you eat and why? How did you go gluten-free and dairy-free with kids?” Grandma’s brownies, chips, family-recipe chocolate chip cookies and pouches of fruit punch Capri-Sun were the high, yummy points of my childhood.

Mindfulness can feel like a big mountain to climb, then you throw kids in the mix and it seems like a lofty goal: a far-and-away idea that is less than possible.