5 Ways to be Healthy Without Kale

Is being healthy about guzzling down 14 kale smoothies, going to 6am spin classes, and shopping at Whole Foods? When my body became sick with Epstein-Barr virus (mono that doesn’t goes away,) I believed the pathway to health was threefold: gentle exercise in the forms of swimming, yoga, and strength training, a nutritional plan that included a whole array of supplements, and acupuncture. Burgers and pizza became no gluten, no dairy, grass fed, pastured, and organic.  I canceled my health insurance so I could begin to afford the $100 a week acupuncture treatments and the overpriced farmer’s market bills from all the produce I was juicing, and the hefty supplement protocol I was taking. Meanwhile, I believed that within months I’d be healed because I was doing everything perfectly. When, after a year of diligently caring for my health through proper diet and nutrition, my symptoms continued to worsen, I began to question what else I needed to do to heal my body. I realized I’d been neglecting an integral part of my well-being: my emotional health.  I also realized the immense amount of stress that my lack of emotional health was bringing to my life. All those feelings: the guilt of not doing enough, the shame of past behavior, the fear of not being good enough.  They were getting in the way of my healing. Not to mention the hidden shame of my fragmented story - of growing up with an emotionally unavailable, alcoholic dad, of being a stripper at 15, of not finishing h...
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