AUTOIMMUNE LIFESTYLE
Living a life worth living, even with chronic illness, requires a sense of humor, an understanding of the world and culture surrounding us, an ability to take control of our health, and a willingness to always get back up.
Regaining Spiritual Health to Help Heal Autoimmunity
Part 3 of the Total Wellness Pyramid is dedicated to exploring spiritual health and understanding how it relates to healing autoimmunity & other conditions.
read moreMental & Emotional Aspects of Healing Autoimmunity
This is Part 2 of our "Total Wellness Pyramid" series, where we discuss my philosophy for achieving total wellness through Physical and Lifestyle, Mental and Emotional, and Spiritual wellbeing tips. In this post, we'll be discussing the second "level" of the pyramid:...
read moreIntroducing the Total Wellness Pyramid
One thing that I think it’s important to understand, and that I try to talk about throughout all of my posts here on Instinctual Wellbeing, is that wellness isn’t just one thing. It’s not just following the AIP diet, or just taking your supplements, getting an...
read morePaleo-friendly Restaurants in Kansas City
If you’re looking for AIP or paleo-friendly restaurants in Kansas City, you’ve come to the right place. While my wife and I now live in Chicago, I lived in Kansas City for about 15 years and my wife was actually born there, so most of our “Paleo upbringing” was spent...
read moreWhat Does “Self Love” Really Mean?
Recently we hear all the time about this concept of "self-love." Heck, I even have an entire downloadable dedicated to it! But when it comes down to it: Do we really understand fully what self-love is? Or is it simply a buzz term that we are getting mildly tired of...
read moreNew Website Launch Day Giveaway!
I'm so excited to announce my brand-new website and updated brand here at Instinctual Wellbeing! This has been a project long in the making, so it's an accomplishment that I'm proud to share with you all. Before I get into the giveaway details, I wanted to just...
read moreThe Art of Journaling: The Healing Benefits of Keeping a Journal
One thing people may not realize about me is that I’m an avid journaler. I literally have 10+ journals filled to the brim with thoughts from childhood to yesterday, plus (much to my wife’s dismay) a few extra journals and notebooks lying around that I just take random...
read moreI Completed a 5-day Media Detox: Here’s How It Went
Oh, boy - what a week. I just finished participating in a challenge from Tim Ferris’s book, The 4-hour Workweek, which was to go on a “Low Information Diet” / Media Detox for 5 straight days. This book has been around for more than a decade, but I just got around to...
read moreKeeping up with @Mr_and_Mrs_Jones
As I sat there on a cold February morning, drinking my tea and scrolling through Instagram and Facebook, I found myself feeling angry. My inner self was restless, unaccommodating and irritated. Yet, I couldn’t put my finger on it. Overall I just felt this weight...
read moreThe Joy of Being AIP at the Holidays
Being AIP and managing an autoimmune condition can be…well, interesting You never know where a secret allergen may be hiding via GIPHY Or what enlightening conversations you may have about your diet with your second cousin, Jerry via GIPHY Sometimes it seems like...
read moreUsing the Seasons to Help us Heal
We’re just a short 7 days away from the first day of Fall (for 2017), so I thought it would be fun to talk a little bit about the seasons and how we can use their different energies to our advantage when healing autoimmunity. Fall has always been my favorite season...
read moreWhy Women Have More Autoimmune Diseases Than Men
It’s a well-recorded fact that autoimmune conditions disproportionately affect women; in fact, 78-80% of those with autoimmune conditions are women. It’s also true though that nobody is 100% sure why this is. As a man who blogs about autoimmunity, I notice this...
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