"What do you eat, then?" I get asked all the time! It's true, if I don't eat conventional foods typically bought off the store shelves and I try to eat as much real food as is possible for my meals, my meals are not made up of meat, and they're not made up of grains, or at the least are gluten free, then yes, the average American eater might have difficulty contemplating what I might eat.

While it has never been outrightly spoken, society and the use of medicine and the ease of its availability has seemed to be sending us the message that anxiety is bad, undesirable, something to get rid of, rather than understanding the nature of its presence. As if there is something wrong. There IS something that is currently wrong, or feels currently wrong, but it is not YOU that is wrong. YOU are not defective. The situation is. You don’t have a DISEASE. You have an improper use of a tool.

What this tells me, is that if STRUGGLE is this common, there must be something to it. Either our world is "going to hell in a handbasket" and we're all going down or there's something else. Believing as I do that we are always expanding, that consciousness and life are ALWAYS expanding, I know that it is not the latter option. You can't subscribe to the "everything happens for a reason" mantra without also believing in the former.

See, we create great reasons for us to reach out and seek help in getting down to the root of why we are really hurting. Our symptoms, our problems, and our struggles create fear, which causes us to reach to someone who "knows", to fix or alleviate the fear, which is why true healing has to be so much more than the naming of symptoms. The fear of the known thing then, once fixed, goes away, but the fear deep within that allowed us to get so scared in the first place still resides. Understanding this fear and what it says about us is paramount then. To help each other be better, we have to see it as fear and offer solutions.

Feeling a lack of 'satisfaction' just means that you haven't had a plan for your own happiness and have not created a life in which your satisfaction is paramount.

Interestingly, the vast majority of professionals believe anxiety is TRAUMA ANXIETY. When in fact it seems the greater majority of sufferers are LEARNED ANXIETY. That is a big difference, and it's imperative that we do not blanket them together as the same.

Various techniques, supplements, and tips for reducing the symptoms of Anxiety

We have ditched feelings because of trending popularity methods that teach that feelings lie and become exaggerated and that we shouldn't be ruled ...

It was perfectly ok for this mom to voice her fears in the forms of the doubts we question ourselves with all the time. Our natural instinct when we respond to someone is “Oh you’ll be fine. You’re strong! Don’t talk nonsense. Of course you can do this!” type messages even though that person really IS NOT feeling strong NOR feeling like they can do anything at this point.

In reality, an anxiety monster is just an immature feeling. It is a toddler having a temper tantrum, because it is based in emotion. Think of any toddler who doesn’t have the skills developed yet to handle the anger he feels when you say “no” to the cookie. An Anxiety Monster HAS to throw a temper tantrum and wreak havoc in your life, because it’s the only way it knows to get attention for its uncomfortable feelings.

What we WANT and what is REALITY is a vast difference. What we THOUGHT marriage would be like and what it is are two different things. The job we have and the purpose we WANT to have feel far between.

To feel like you are living the person you want to be in each role of your life it's important to know who that person is. Then, you live, breathe, move, talk, and act from that image. Which is why we do this exercise called your "Personal Avatar". It's the image of who you see yourself to be.

PCOS is a common problem among women that seek support.

When it comes to kids, they can be a trick when supper time rolls around. Picky eaters, anyone?

Picky eating can be a trick for any family. Luckily, we at DrFoodie are not immune and have TONS of articles to help.

Because of the wide range of symptoms, people can be diagnosed with any number of conditions, without histamine being considered. The condition can also be worsened because a person doesn't make the changes to diet that would be necessary to restore the necessary balance.

Stress, overwhelm, overburden, tension, anxiety... Here are three of the most common indicators that the reason you feel overwhelmed and stressed is because your life and purpose aren’t matching up.

As once being a person in the path of the runaway train that is Colitis and Crohn's, trust me, I know what it's like to have a struggle with healthy bowel movements....or going at all!

Concept Work for the improvement of your life, health, and happiness takes time. What do you do so you don't just keep bouncing back to your limiting beliefs? How do you truly change your brain? Just like learning any new skill, the success of mastering it takes daily practice.

The interesting thing is how many times people say, "But I didn't ask for this". True, not verbally, but every second, and with every breath you are more intently creating your world around you. How? by not even thinking about it....not consciously anyway. Subconscious mind is always listening, creating, and acting, using it's imagination and playing off of these products. It's these subconscious ideas that are running REPEATEDLY in the brain, and most of the time....you aren't even aware of them!