Welcome to Healthy Reads. This is where I share what I’ve learned in years of coaching about eating well and feeling better: nutrition, stress and burnout, sleep, hormones and menopause, healthy habits and simple ways to relax. Every article is based on science and written for real life, so you get clear steps you can start using today. No fads, no guilt and no extremes. Pick a topic below, or simply start reading.
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How to Stay on Track with Your Health Goals During the Holiday Season
December doesn’t have to undo the habits that make you feel good. Here are simple, kind ways to enjoy the festive season and still look after yourself.
Have You Ever Tried Dry Brushing?
Dry brushing, or garshana, is an Ayurvedic morning ritual that leaves your skin soft and your body wide awake. Here is how to do it gently, step by step, and when to leave it out.
Ask Yourself Four Simple Questions to Overcome Stress: A Book Recommendation
One thought going round and round can spoil a whole day. Byron Katie’s book Loving What Is gives you four simple questions to ask of it, and they can change how you feel surprisingly quickly.
What Is Intuitive Eating? A Gentle Way Back to Trusting Your Body
Intuitive eating isn’t eating whatever you like all day. It’s learning to trust your body again after years of rules, and here’s how to begin.
How to Reduce Toxins in Your Diet: Simple Everyday Swaps
Have you ever wondered about the plastic around your vegetables or cheese? Here are a few calm, simple swaps for your shopping, your sink and your cupboards.
The difference between self-esteem, selfishness and self-acceptance
Many of us hold back from looking after ourselves for fear of being selfish. Here is how to tell self-esteem from selfishness, and why self-acceptance is the ground they both need.
Take Care of Yourself This Winter
Winter invites you to slow down and look at what your body, mind and soul really need. Here are seven gentle habits to help you feel rested and well until spring.
Meditation, or How to Withstand the Stress of Today’s Life
There are days that flow and days that don’t. A few quiet minutes of simply being, every day, can change how you meet all of them. Here is why meditation helps with stress, and how to begin.
The Power of Time Off: Recharge Your Thinking
Two days off, and still as tired as on Friday? Here is why real time off matters so much, how to find the kind of rest that restores you, and how to make room for it in a full life.
4 Secrets to Find Happiness
If you want happiness, stop looking for it! The harder we chase it, the more it slips away. Here are four ways we get in our own way, and what brings contentment instead.
Take Care of Yourself in Every Possible Way
Children, work, shopping, friends, projects: you manage it all, and yet a quiet voice asks “What about me?”. Here is what taking care of yourself really means, and where to begin.
Kindness: Why Small Acts Make Such a Difference
A small kind gesture can brighten someone’s day and travel much further than we ever see. Let kindness set your day.
Health Tips from Around the World
A walk among trees, a proper coffee break, a short rest after lunch: a country-by-country tour of simple traditions that help people stay well, and how to try them at home.
Is Dance the New Yoga?
Dance is one of the most joyful ways there is to move your body. And since movement is a true pillar of health, finding a way you love to move matters. Could dance be yours?
The 6 Most Important Concepts for a Healthy Life
Real health is about so much more than what is on your plate. These are the six simple ideas at the heart of how I coach, each explained with an everyday example.
How to Overcome Emotional Eating, Gently
Emotional eating usually follows a simple four-step loop. Once you can spot it, you can step out of it with kindness rather than rules.
Why Change Is Hard, and How to Make Healthy Habits Stick
“I want to change, but…” Here’s why willpower rarely works, and the gentler way I help people make healthy habits stick.
