Category: Holistic Medicine
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Your Body Loves Predictability (Even If Your Mind Doesn’t)
We love freedom. Eating when we feel like it.Skipping meals because we’re busy.Snacking impulsively because something sounded good. The mind thrives on flexibility. But the body?The body is not wired for chaos, it’s wired for rhythm. Your body actually likes knowing what’s coming next. When meals happen around the same time each day, digestion works…
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The Five Types of People In The Holistic Wellness Space
I’ve been in the holistic wellness space for about five years now, and I can confidently say this work will humble you, stretch you, and reshape you, if you let it. When I first started my wellness journey, I was so enthusiastic, so curious, and so passionate… But also, if I’m being honest, I was…
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My Honest Experience of Wellness and Holistic Medicine Schools
Over the last few years, I’ve enrolled in three very different wellness and holistic medical education programs: A lot of people ask me what schools they should attend to become a holistic practitioner. I wish I had an easy answer, but to be honest, in the holistic world, one school just doesn’t cut it. One…
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A Simple Way to Understand How the Body Falls Out of Balance
For most of human history, medicine wasn’t about naming diseases first, it was about noticing patterns in the body. Is the body running hot or cold?Dry or overly damp?Tense or weak?Heavy and sluggish or light and restless? This way of understanding health exists in the traditional systems of medicine such as Ayurveda, Unani, Greek medicine,…
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Different Bodies, Different Movement
Not every body is built for the same kind of movement, and that’s not a flaw, it’s biology. Some people feel alive after a hard, sweaty workout. Others feel wrecked for days. Some bodies crave strength and resistance. Others soften, open, and heal through slower, gentler movement. None of this is random, and none of…
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The Small Habit That Changed How My Body Handles Life (and Digestion)
I started belly breathing because I learned it in Ayurvedic school. Belly breathing is when you inhale slowly through your nose and let your belly expand, then exhale fully and let it soften so the belly should be moving, not the chest. What I didn’t realize at the time was how shallow my breathing had become day to day. Everything…
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Is Ayurveda Compatible With Muslim Life?
This is a question I get often. And the short answer is yes, they can coexist, as long as Ayurveda is approached as a health framework, not a belief system. Ayurveda, at its core, is not a religion. It doesn’t ask for worship, devotion, or spiritual allegiance. It’s an observational system, one that looks at how the…
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To Ice or Not to Ice?
I run cold.Not in the personality sense, but in the body sense. My terrain runs on the colder side. Cold hands. Cold feet. Slow mornings. Low appetite first thing in the day. Stiff joints when I wake up. A tendency toward sluggish digestion, bloating, or feeling better once I’ve eaten something warm. I do better…
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Honestly, Vanessa 