Emily Wiggins
How Estrogen Impacts Your Mood

I’m sure you’ve personally experienced the connection between your hormones and your mood. 🙋‍♀️It’s a thing, for sure. It just so happens that estrogen, which is high during the first half of your menstrual cycle and throughout pregnancy, is directly involved with the productions of serotonin aka your feel good neurotransmitter.

How Estrogen Impacts Your Mood
Emily Wiggins
What Is Your Relationship with Breastfeeding?

It’s almost never a simple answer. One of my biggest lessons in motherhood has been the ability to hold two very different feelings at the same time. “I love you with all my heart AND I just want 3 days to myself to especially not see you.”

What Is Your Relationship with Breastfeeding?
Emily Wiggins
What Caused My PCOS? Here's My Story

What caused my PCOS? I’ve been thinking of root cause of PCOS a lot lately and truthfully, for everyone it’s different. It’s not only because of being overweight, eating too much sugar or stress but it always, always starts long before a diagnosis.

What Caused My PCOS? Here's My Story
Emily Wiggins
Coming Off Hormonal Birth Control: Here's What ...

I have this conversation all the time in my office. It’s often the only option that is presented to a lot of women and it’s certainly the first so it’s like a major act of rebellion to choose that the pill or IUD is no longer the right option for you. On top of that, if you’ve been on hormonal birth control for some time, it might take some time and a little extra intention to bring your body back into balance.

Coming Off Hormonal Birth Control: Here's What You Need to Know
Emily Wiggins
Virtual Visits: What It's Like To Meet ...

I’m seeing a vast majority of client virtually these days and I’ve had a lot of questions about what it’s like to meet virtually, rather than in-person.

First of all, now is such a great time to address your health because there is an amazing opportunity to slow down right now. With as much conflicting information as there is out there, having a guide to individualize a plan that is made for you specifically is so, so important.

Virtual Visits: What It's Like To Meet Virtually Vs. In-Person

How To Drink More Water

How To Drink More Water

You know that. Maybe you have no trouble getting half your body weight in ounces per day and maybe you can go ALL day and not want a sip. First of all, I’d just like to de-villanize that phenomena. Your thirstiness if a part of your constitution, though a constitution likely at least a little out of balance if you really never want water. I pick remedies based on whether or not you’re thirsty. That is important for me to know. It tells me a lot. In balance, your body should naturally tell you to drink water. I love helping people get back to that place.

Flower Essences for Emotional Support

Flower Essences for Emotional Support

My mentor once told me if had to choose one of our tools as naturopaths to bring to that theoretical deserted island, it would be flower essences. He felt they made the big shifts in patients to allow for the grounding force needed to heal. I love, love using these powerful little gems to meet exactly what patients are going through emotionally and in that big-life-lessons sort of way that only the energy of flowers can touch.

Weaning and How to Make the Transition From Breast Feeding As Smooth as Possible

Weaning and How to Make the Transition From Breast Feeding As Smooth as Possible

Ooof.

All the feels about this one. I wanted to share a little about what I’m experiencing in deciding to wean my girl and some of the things we’re doing to make the transition as smooth as possible. For some people weaning is a choice and for others it’s just how things happen and there’s surrender to the experience no matter how it’s done.

Feeding Your Baby

Feeding Your Baby

Start looking for key signs of readiness in your child, such as teeth and the ability to sit on their own. If your babe is starting to show interest in food, like reaching, opening their mouths and looking like they want to have a bite of what you’re eating, it’s also a sign of readiness. These things generally start to show up somewhere between 5 and 7 months of age. That being said, I know kiddos that don’t get teeth until they are 16 months or more so you don’t need to have all these things in place in order to start solid foods.

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Chicken Liver Pate

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Chicken Liver Pate

Liver is one of the most nutrient dense foods out there! Full of B-vitamins, minerals, and protein, it’s a superstar food to include on a weekly basis. If you naturally love liver, I’m jealous! Pate and hiding it in meatloaves or other dishes is the only way I find it palatable. Most of the time, I’ll even buy the pate because I’d rather not prepare it myself. Or, at least that used to be the case. Enter this recipe. For whatever reason, I have no problem cooking up this pate and eating it straight away. It was even delicious warm. I know, I wasn’t expecting that either. I hope you love it as much as I do!

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Wander Well City Guide: Bend

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Wander Well City Guide: Bend

Whether you’re a local or visiting, Bend has a lot to offer when it comes to offering nourishing food and services that have your health in mind. Here’s a list of my favorite places in town to eat and spend time.

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Boosting Progesterone Naturally

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Boosting Progesterone Naturally

So maybe you've been tracking your cycle and you notice you have a short luteal phase, which is generally less than 10 days between ovulation and bleeding time, or you just had your progesterone tested and it came back low. It's possible your doctor recommended progesterone cream and maybe you're looking for other ways to increase your own production of progesterone. Here are my top progesterone production boosting tips!

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Progesterone Cream for Fertility and Hormone Imbalance?

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Progesterone Cream for Fertility and Hormone Imbalance?

Progesterone cream is often the recommendation when a woman has low progesterone. It's easy to find over the counter and it makes sense that if you're low in progesterone, it's probably worth supplementing. I like to take a few steps back from that thinking and consider why you might not be producing enough progesterone and start building up the system that way. Let's first take a look at what progesterone does for you body and why it's important.

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Cauliflower Fried Rice

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Cauliflower Fried Rice

This is a super-quick and delicious meal if you're looking to pack in a ton a vegetables and healthy fats, while avoiding grains. You don't have to be completely avoiding grains in your diet to appreciate a grain-free meal from time to time and this one is really satisfying and easy to throw together on weeknights, when you're looking for something comforting, yet nourishing.

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Grain-free Granola

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Grain-free Granola

Granola for breakfast or an afternoon snack in the summertime is such a treat! But un-soaked and barely cooked oats can be tough on anyone, especially folks dealing with any kind of digestive weakness, which is common in chronic illness, pregnancy, and many functional health issues. I replace rolled oats with flaked coconut and came up with this grain-free granola recipe that will make your house smell amazing and keep your tummy happy. Plus, by ditching the oats, and adding extra nuts and seeds this granola is full of healthy fats, protein, vitamins and minerals. By using soaked and dehydrated or sprouted nuts and seeds, digestibility and bioavailability will be even greater.

The @environmentalworkinggroup just released a report showing that glyphosate was found present in every cereal that was tested. Yikes!😟 If you’re not familiar, glyphosate aka RoundUp is a popular weed killer used in agriculture ALL. THE. TIME
Happy Father’s Day, Happy Solstice, Happy New Moon Eclipse & Happy 33rd birthday to me! This is has been such a big year so far and we’re just about halfway through. I can’t imagine where we’ll be by the end of it. . With
Growing up, I was the one with 10 gorgeous journals with only the first three pages written in, if that. I always aspired to journal regularly but then felt completely intimidated by creating a chronicle of my life in perfect prose to match the beaut
Happy Mother’s Day to all the mamas in all the many ways mothering can look. I’m so grateful this girl chose me to be hers. . This day is a tough one for some for a lot of reason. All the love to you too no matter where you fall on that s
Virtual Visits | I’m seeing a vast majority of client virtually these days and I’ve had a lot of questions about what it’s like to meet virtually, rather than in-person. First of all, now is such a great time to address your health
I could talk to you all day about the intricacies of hormone fluctuations during your cycle...nutrition to support balanced blood sugar and detoxification of excess hormones...herbs and homeopathic remedies...how you need enough cholesterol to build
Grateful for a light work space, connecting virtually with amazing people all over the world and my delicious chicken tortilla soup leftovers for lunch today. ✨💻🍲 How about you? What are you appreciating in your life today?✨💛✨
What is your FAVORITE color from the list above? I think mine might be green - white right now because I’m on a real roasted Brussel sprout kick. . Our food is our best medicine (along with good sleep, rest, water & sunshine) and eating an

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