Natural Anxiety Therapy

Why is it that when we know our limit on something and if we go beyond that, we’ll feel like “junk”?  For example, I experience many food sensitivities – gluten, diary (whey/casein), caffeine, sugar, nightshades (tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, potato), soy, and corn. Here’s the situation: because my body prefers that I do not eat the aforementioned items I can indulge in a TINY bit of dark chocolate.  Key word: TINY (two 1″ X 1″ squares).  Any more than that it is the OPPOSITE of anxiety therapy! It is an anxiety cause.

However, I know when I should stop.  Then, I go back for a few pieces more. “Just a few more tiny squares, I’ll be fine.”  Those few pieces take me from feeling grounded to jittery, racy, and anxious.  My good friend Cynthia always knows when I’ve overdone the chocolate because I get on the phone with her I won’t take a breath as I ramble at lightening speed for 45 minutes!  She’ll say, “Have you been eating chocolate?”.  I ask if it’s that obvious and she always gives me the honest, “Yes!”.   For me, over doing it on the chocolate is equivalent to taking a handful of speed.

Yum!

Thank goodness for natural remedies that calm me down in a jiffy or I wouldn’t sleep for days.

I guess almost all of us do it. If you don’t, please do tell your secrets to self control!  Chocolate is my weakness, I confess.  At least now – after re-building the strength of my body – small amounts of caffeine don’t send me into full blown panic attacks.  Two years ago, different story. My body was so out of balance that anything stimulating (even cayenne!) would throw me into the crazy zone.  I am so sensitive to the sugar and caffeine, why do I over do it?!?  Personal boundaries? Childhood trauma?  Lack of self love? Or, something more complicated – I just love CHOCOLATE!

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Since the launch of this blog I have had many people contact me for consultations.  I’m not a doctor, so I cannot give medical advice. However, there is much experience to share regarding how I healed myself from anxiety, panic attacks, adrenal fatigue, hypoglycemia, and food allergies.  My anxiety therapy can now be your anxiety therapy!

I have decided to broaden the scope of my local practice to the internet.  If you’d like to schedule a consultation with me, send over an email at Jen@NaturalAnxietyTherapy.com. I’ll then send you my schedule of fees and we’ll book a time.  My schedule is very limited, I am accepting only a few clients a week.

When I work with someone I pull from the nutrition and wellness coursework I have completed, my bodywork training, and most important – my experience. If you are my client, it is my intention for you to understand why you feel the way you do, as well as how & what to do about it. “A-HA” moments for my clients are a regular event!

Clients have sought me out for issues such as:

• Adrenal Fatigue
• Weight Loss
• Hormone Health
• Food Allergies
• Chronic Inflammation
• Mental Wellness
• Blood Sugar Balance

My approach is that if you give the body what it needs and remove what’s causing problems, it will automatically heal itself.  One of my teachers said in a class, “The body never makes a mistake.”  We have identify WHY we are seeing symptoms such as fatigue, anxiety, panic attacks, blood sugar swings, bowel issues, foggy thinking, weight gain, and hair loss – then address those root causes.

Note that I am not a doctor, nor do I pretend to be.  One of the most important components of a successful recovery program is finding a physician who has your health as their top priority.  If you do not already have a doctor that can run tests that target the causes of your  un-wellness, I can direct you to sources to find one. My role is to help guide you back on the path of health in partnership with your doctor.

Proper nutrition is a huge part of your anxiety therapy.  As part of this blog, some of the yummiest and anxiety liberating food recipes will be posted.  Most of my healing has been through proper choices of food. Sometimes though making healthy quick, but YUMMY recipes can be challenging. Here’s one of my latest that just knocked my socks off!

Marinated Fresh Trout:

1 trout cleaned

raspberry vinegar (Vom Fass is the best!)

olive oil

fresh or dried dill

Real Salt

Oyster Mushrooms – chopped

Marinate fish in olive oil and raspberry vinegar.  About a 2:1 ratio of the olive oil and vinegar.  Sprinkle with dill, and lightly salt.  After a few hours of marinating, pan fry in a tablespoon of coconut oil at med/high heat. Start with skin down and add all the deliciousness of the marinade!  When you flip after a cooking  the fish a minute or so, add the oyster mushrooms around the sides to cook in the marinade.  Fish is cooked when flakey and tender, it’s very quick – just a few minutes. Serve fish with mushrooms and a fresh spring greens salad!

Why so good for you? Trout is a good source of calcium, vitamin A, potassium, phosphorus, and of course PROTEIN.  Help anxiety, cook trout!   Enjoy, until next time…