How We Flourish

Creating healthier people and a healthier planet, one step at a time

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Health Update – October 2014, part 2

I may receive a commission if you purchase something mentioned in this post. See more details here.Read part 1 here. Part 2 is also know as the gut health and husband update! The big event in the How We Flourish household was my husband picking up an awful cold at the funeral two weeks ago. […]

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Health Update – October 2014, part 1

Helloooooooo! I know. I’ve been gone forever. What have I been doing? Healing. Sort of. Slowly. Mixed with occasional bouts of panic attacks and extreme fatigue. I’m working on it. As I mentioned in my last post, I got test results back showing that I have subclinical hypothyroidism, low vitamin D, low sex hormones, and […]

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It’s Not All in Your Head

Dysthymia. Fatigue. Irritability. Infertility. All things I have suffered from for years. All things I never got treated. All things I thought I just needed to get over. Maybe if I changed my lifestyle, I could get back to normal. Well, I did. I went AIP. I did a detox that supported gut healing and […]

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Let it Go

Do not start singing! I had a bad introduction to Frozen. If I had just seen it when it first came out like the rest of the world, it would have been fine. But that’s a story for another day. My Revelation I suffer from chronic stress, and it has a very negative impact on […]

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Green Periods: The Good, the Bad, and the Bloody

When I wrote the title, my first thought was that if you periods are actually green, you should probably see a doctor. I’ve been using a menstrual cup for over 3 years now. It has not been continuous – in the first year I went back to pads and tampons a few times and twice […]