Category: health
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Supportive measures at the first signs of a cold
A practical guide to supporting your body early with nutrition, hydration, rest, warmth, supplements, and simple home remedies. This post explains why we get sick more often in winter and offers effective measures to ease or help stop a cold before it fully unfolds.
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What Psychology does not teach us about depression
This post explores depression through a holistic lens, combining personal experience with insights from psychology, nutrition, gut health, hormones, and lifestyle. It challenges the idea that depression is purely psychological and encourages a broader, more compassionate approach to healing.
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Understanding Blood Tests: “Normal” isn’t Optimal
This post explains why standard blood tests often fail to detect early nutritional deficiencies or disease risks and argues for aiming for optimal rather than “normal” lab values. It highlights the importance of preventive, more detailed testing, shares personal insights from advanced blood work, and introduces a practical spreadsheet to help people understand and interpret their own…
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My homemade Face Serum for glowing, nourished, and firm skin
This post shares a simple, natural DIY face serum recipe using organic, cold-pressed oils and explains the benefits of each ingredient. It also offers guidance on choosing optional essential oils based on their unique aromatherapeutic and skin-supporting properties.
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How to Work with Your Menstrual Cycle, Not Against It
This post explores how women can work with their menstrual cycle rather than against it, embracing each phase as a source of guidance for energy, creativity, rest, and self-compassion. It highlights the benefits of understanding one’s body rhythms, adjusting lifestyle and work accordingly, and reclaiming the innate wisdom of the cycle. Ultimately, it’s about shifting…
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How convenience foods are silently stealing our vitality and years
Convenience has a soft voice. It tells us “just grab this, it’s faster.” It wraps itself in shiny packaging and misleading slogans such as “healthy” or “100% natural”, while quietly stealing our vitality, focus, and years. And because it doesn’t hurt right away, we don’t notice. Not until the tiredness becomes constant, the illnesses creep…
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The Secret to Long-Term Results (that has nothing to do with Motivation)
This post explores what I’ve learned about building habits that stick, possible obstacles (and what you can do about it), and what mindset shifts helped me make it sustainable. I also invite you to reflect with journaling questions to explore how to build habits that fit your life.
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From Control to Freedom: My Healing Journey with Food
This blog post is a deeply personal reflection on my healing journey with food. From emotional eating and orthorexia to finding balance and food freedom. It explores how childhood influences, relationships, and self-discovery shaped my relationship with eating, and how compassion and knowledge helped me make peace with my body.
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How skipping breakfast affects your hormones, mood, and metabolism
Explanation how skipping breakfast increases cortisol levels, causing chronic stress, mood swings, cravings, brain fog, and belly fat storage over time.
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Movement is not about proving anything
I was almost always picked last in PE class. And for a long time, I thought it meant I wasn’t good enough. But the truth is: I’ve always loved movement. Just not the way school taught it.
Minimalist Traveller 