New Year "Intentions" vs. "Resolutions" + January Reboot

New Year "Intentions" vs. "Resolutions" + January Reboot

HAPPY NEW YEAR! 

Where has the time gone, it's already 2017?!

I hope you had a good festive season, eating, drinking and being merry with friends, family and loved ones. Whenever it comes to the holidays and a little bit of indulging... "a little bit" is always OK. After all, we need to do things that are also good...

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5 Awesome Ways Plant Foods Boost You Through Your Day

5 Awesome Ways Plant Foods Boost You Through Your Day

I started this article as a guest-post in the newsletter for one of my favourite lunch delivery places in Amsterdam - Cropbox! Turns out I ran over their word count and wasn’t able to include a list of all the delicious plant foods you can get all these amazing nutrients from...

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Survey Result: You Wanna Learn How to Use Your DNA to Hit Your Health Goals!

Survey Result: You Wanna Learn How to Use Your DNA to Hit Your Health Goals!

Last week, I sent out a message to see what topics you'd be interested in if I were to create my first online course. I got an overwhelming response, woohoo! You guys rock! THANK YOU! 

And yup, you guys showed overwhelming interest in learning how to use your DNA...

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Survey: Help Me Pick An Online Course Topic!

Survey: Help Me Pick An Online Course Topic!

Hi!

If you've been following me on this blog's Facebook or Instagram accounts, you'll know that after 4 long years of slogging, I've done all my final exams and handed in my clinic portfolio... and about to qualify as a nutritional therapist. Woohoo! Exciting stuff! Everyone's already been...

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What Makes A "Good" Breakfast?

What Makes A "Good" Breakfast?

All too often, I see people starting off with the best intentions of having a "healthy breakfast", only to pile their bowls with too much of one thing and not enough of another. Spiking your blood-sugar levels with a bowl of sugary granola and fruit and jolting your adrenals with a shot of caffeine first thing in the morning is shocking the system artificially into action and... 

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Golden Milk Chai: Turmeric Paste + Chai Tea

Golden Milk Chai: Turmeric Paste + Chai Tea

As we're well into the thick of winter here in Amsterdam, I've been experimenting with various warming drinks that are sugar and caffeine-free. I've got a good chicory-cacao-cayenne pepper recipe I've been experimenting with, but that will be another post for later, so look out for it. ;) In the meantime, I've been looking to Ayurvedic recipes...

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Easy DIY Coconut Yoghurt With 2 Ingredients!

Easy DIY Coconut Yoghurt With 2 Ingredients!

If you're generally dairy-free like me, there's probably one thing you miss quite a bit: YOGHURT! That tangy taste, all that natural probiotic-goodness for the gut, and a protein-rich part of breakfast (or even dessert). I remember when I first discovered coconut yoghurt - it was like hitting the jackpot. THIS STUFF EXISTS?! If you haven't already tried...

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Pack A Protein Punch - Chocolate Spirulina Protein Bliss Balls

Pack A Protein Punch - Chocolate Spirulina Protein Bliss Balls

The past few months have been kind of intense - between work, studying for final exams for 2nd year of naturopathy school, writing a final paper and dealing with relationship stuff, I've barely been keeping my head above water. It's always in busy and stressful times when it's all too easy to...

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