Self-Love

2018-07-09-09-45-41

Food Is Medicine – A Color Coded Guide

Food is the natural medicine provided by Mother Earth. Before I went vegan, I ate for the simple pleasure of satisfying my taste buds. Tons of fried foods, cheeses, pizza, burgers, pasta, bread, all of the good stuff. I went vegetarian when I was 19 because I saw a PETA video about the realities of slaughterhouses and factory farming. I never looked back after that day and now I am celebrating a decade meat-free. Even then, becoming a vegetarian wasn’t for health reasons. In March of 2016, I came across Earthlings on Netflix as a recommended documentary. This was when I was freshly sober, just over two months in, and I was really into health-related documentaries at the time. I watched Earthlings once, and my life has been changed forever. The last two and a half years have just been completely engulfing myself in the vegan lifestyle and learning more and more. There were so many things being said about the vegan diet that didn’t make sense to me. People…

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2018-05-09-00-04-02

Rid Your Life Of Everything Toxic

For the last two and a half years, I have been trying to rid myself of everything toxic in my life. I’m not just talking about drugs and alcohol, although I did remove those as well. I’m talking more about the things in your life that make your heart sad. Anything that doesn’t bring you joy into your life. This could be jobs, relationships, living situations, or bad habits; Whatever you need to get rid of in order to be happy. I know how scary this can be at times because you would be facing the unknown. Sometimes we get comfortable doing something, or being something, or being with someone, even if it’s killing us. These are the things I needed to get rid of. Why should we go through life feeling miserable because of something we have the power to change it? We live in a world that allows us a lot of freedom, even if it may not feel that way. We are the only ones who can…

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2018-30-08-18-31-42

Natural Options For Mental Health

When I was diagnosed with depression seven years ago, I knew I didn’t want to get prescribed medication and I wanted to look into natural options. I didn’t want to be on antidepressants even though I did try to get her to prescribe me Xanax instead. She saw right through my addict manipulations, however, and declined referral. At the time, I was convinced that the only reason I was depressed was because I was so heavily into drugs and alcohol, and for all of the things that have happened in my life because of that. I had taken enough court-mandated drug and alcohol classes to understand my addiction and why it is there. When I realized the depression wasn’t going anywhere after I got sober, and the anxiety was building immensely, I knew I had to do something about it fast. I am still in a place where I don’t want to rely on pharmaceuticals. Once you’re on them, it’s a life-long dedication that I’m just not ready for yet.…

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2018-29-08-09-09-15

Mental Health: Let’s Talk About This

Mental illness is something so common but rarely talked about. I have always been interested in the way the mind works and found the study of psychology intriguing. The mind is an intricate and unpredictable machine that isn’t even fully understood yet by modern day science. So many questions are still unanswered. I have just recently begun to dive into my own mind, and try to figure out what is going on in there. Since getting sober, my mind has been “acting out” if you will. I was diagnosed with depression 7 years ago, but I was drinking so heavily that there was no way I was going to figure it out or deal with it. Alcohol just fuels the depression. It did, however, numb the anxiety. Since I’ve stopped drinking, my anxiety has skyrocketed. (Disclaimer: Hopefully anyone reading this, trying to get sober, is not deterred by this statement. Everyone is different, and it definitely does not mean that you will have anxiety if you were to sober up.…

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