Happy new year!  Is it too late for that now? I know it’s February, a long ways away from the sparkly bright hope of January 1st. But this year I felt the need to start the year off slow so while everyone was getting busy welcoming the New Year I was busy hibernating. (or at least trying to).My s ...

One of my favorite things about Christmas is all the delicious food, oh how I love the holiday food. From hot chai, to delicious desserts, chocolate and scrumptious meals I love eating over the holidays. It’s one of the things I really look forward to.As I stated in last week’s blog there have b ...

Christmas is my favorite holiday of the year, with all the lights, great food, visiting family and friends, parties and other holiday fun; I love it. But all the frivolity can be a bit stressful, while it can be good stress, it can still be stressful and this can affect my body.Over the years there ...

How is your colitis Kyla? How is your tummy/ belly or whatever other question that relates to my ‘illness’? This is something that I used get asked all the time, I still get asked it but not as often. Now you may be saying what’s the big deal, people care about you so they ask.And I agree but ...

When I was first healing I was overwhelmed with all the things I had to learn. Not only was I dealing with a ‘lifelong’ illness, I had to research what to eat, what supplements worked for my body, how my body wanted to move and more. I had to find people that could help guide me along the way an ...

The attitude of gratitude. You have probably heard this saying before and for this Thanksgiving we are going to be talking more about the attitude of gratitude.This week is Thanksgiving weekend in Canada, thanksgiving is not a holiday that I have given a lot of thought about or one that has a huge a ...

I’m never going to live my dream life; how will I manage it all?That’s what I thought when I was experiencing a huge flare up that sent my life to a grinding halt.It was a several years ago and before it happened my life seemed pretty perfect.It felt like everything was on track in my life, I wa ...

You were made to be awesome! This is the quote from Kid President and it’s something that I can often forget about myself.So often we can get into mindset of looking at our faults, this is especially so when you have a chronic illness. It’s hard to think ‘I am awesome’ when you feel terrible ...

Ah breathing the unconscious function that when brought into the conscious can help our body relax. Conscious deep breathes have a lot of benefits on of which is helping to put us in a parasympathetic state which helps us digest. And as I’m sure you know when we digest well we have better colon he ...

There is a lot going on in the world at the present moment. There are fires, floods, famine and threats of nuclear war, it’s all pretty maddening, sad and scary.I don’t know about you but the past few weeks I was feeling really overwhelmed by it all. In the face of it all, everything else seems ...