INSPIRATION & EDUCATION

Self-love is your untapped energetic potential. You came into this world open, loving, and complete. You came into this world capable of making rooted and intuitive choices regarding your health and wellness. Make no mistake: this culture has created the difficulty within many women. Society bombards women with messages that their stomachs should look flatter and their lips fuller. Advertisers—even those claiming to promote health—often create ads to shame you and then sell y

You can turn to Ayurveda to understand your reactions, your current state of health and wellness, and how, moving into the rest of your year, you can slowly but dynamically improve your health. Ayurveda is a pattern, a predictable way to see the body and understand your reactions to everything.

Your brain is elastic, pliable, changeable, and full of untapped potential. Vibrant health is not something you buy, but it is something you live. And many women need to change the way they live with food. Whether it’s anxiety, worrying, controlling, or just rushing through the sacred act of eating, your brain needs a new pathway.

By leveraging neuroplasticity, the brain’s ability to reorganize and form new neural connections, positive affirmations heal (or are a big part in healing) self-sabotaging thoughts. In manual therapy, we think of how neurons that fire together stay together. You want to couple food and eating with a calm breath, a focus on nourishment, and ultimately lasting self-love. When you are consistent, the repetition of positive statements strengthens neural pathways.

***The following is an excerpt from my digital download PDF about Ayurveda and food combining. For this blog post, I made some changes and included a very simple list of Ayurveda food combining concepts. To learn more, check out my Etsy shop which includes a stylized Ayurvedic Food Combining PDF, Ayurveda Dosha  Food Guide PDFs, and wellness checklists based on the concepts in The Elemental Woman  book and Basic Ayurveda, The Elemental Woman Supplement Guide . So who benefits