Blog Posts and Articles

Anyone who knows my work knows that me running out of things to say isn’t a risk. I may not be on an editorial calendar, churning out content just to churn it out, but my articles—even if they’re scant over a period of time—are as thoughtful and educational as I can make them.

Case in point…this is my first article since March 10.  

I have tens of thousands of longtime readers and I’m so grateful for every single one. They’re used to my “rhythm” and know that I’m not going away.

Yes, I still do private coaching, despite nearly every “business guru” saying that 1:1 coaching is dead. Let me tell you, it’s not—not by a long shot.

I wrote a blog post back in 2019 for my practitioner community, where I quoted one of my colleaugues, who said, “Interestingly, I’ve observed through the years that when some practitioners hit a ‘certain stardom,’ they stop working with clients 1:1 and start focusing on their image, or their ‘empire.’ Okay, so this is definitely not every rock star practitioner, but when you see a practitioner with tens of thousands of followers on Instagram (but are following nary anyone back), or a practitioner who seems more concerned about marketing and being funny, or are all about their social media status, well, I suspect that they’ve probably lost their way. It’s less a judgment and more an observation. In the end, we all have to decide who the right practitioner is for us.”

I’m continuing to walk a relatively narrow path and I don’t care about being a star or building an online empire. And over the last few months, my head has been immersed in working with some seriously complex clients—the most challenging (and fulfilling) of my 20-year career.

I’ve been deep in the trenches spending real time, doing real research, and solving problems—stuff that can’t be reduced to a carousel post. (I have nothing against carousel posts…I suck at social media (no, I don’t have a social media manager) but I’ve been thinking that I should probably create some carousels. Remember, I don’t write fluff, so they’re not going to stand on their own; they’d point to a more in-depth article.)

No, I’m not a medical provider and I don’t pretend to be one. But I’m stubborn and curious and I love piecing things together. And my clients have gotten phenomenal results—some after having been “working on it” for months or years. They’re overjoyed…and did I mention how rewarding this work is?

Incomplete information pretending to be enough

There’s no shortage of health information—God knows there’s no shortage. The problem is the format it’s being delivered in and what that format is doing to people’s ability to actually get well. For example, I have an article coming soon about “biohacking” and how the obsession with quantification is pulling people further from the intuitive, relational process that healing actually requires.

I want to be careful here because again, I’m not opposed to social media as a health education tool. I’ve learned things from a well-constructed Instagram slide deck. Short-form content has its place. But here’s what doesn’t have a place: the illusion that a short-form answer exists for a long-form problem.

Take “balancing hormones.” It’s everywhere. Seed cycling. Cutting out coffee. Eating more protein. Here, take this adaptogen.

Some of this advice isn’t wrong in isolation, but hormones don’t exist in isolation. For example, estrogen metabolism depends on gut health, liver function, methylation, and your stress hormone output, among other things. Did you know that post-menopause, the adrenals are the backup system for progesterone production? I learned this in a course called Restorative Endocrinology in 2008 and I think I’ve heard only two practitioners talk about it since.

It’s difficult to convey any of this—in any meaningful way—in a slide deck or bulleted list.

And when someone implements soundbytes without understanding the system it lives in, they can get partial results at best and at worst, a bigger mess.

Same with autoimmunity. “Manage your autoimmunity” is often paired with a list of anti-inflammatory foods or a stress reduction protocol. Again, not wrong. But autoimmunity isn’t simply a lifestyle problem with a lifestyle solution—it’s systemic immune dysregulation with identifiable root drivers. Addressing it meaningfully requires labs, pattern recognition (one of the things I love MOST about my work…recognizing patterns), and a framework sophisticated enough to consider all of those variables simultaneously.

As I’ve said for many years, none of this operates in a silo. It all works together and sequencing is everything. Which is why I’ve also said to my clients for many years, “Take heart, we’re going to be catching a lot of butterflies with one net.”

So, this is what I do. It’s what I’ve done for 20 years. And it’s why I write the way I write.

My Contact page says: I work with people who are ready to take full responsibility for their health and wellbeing.

And full responsibility means full engagement. It means reading the long post. It means getting the labs. It means sitting with situation long enough to understand how the pieces connect because this is where the answers are.

Look, I have people on my newsletter list who’ve been reading my work for well over a decade. Some have been there since 2008. They haven’t hired me, enrolled in a program, or taken a course. Truthfully, part of me loves that because it tells me that what I put out is worth coming back to, that it holds up over time, and that it isn’t disposable content manufactured for an algorithm or search engine optimization.

But it also tells me something I want to say here, which is reading isn’t the same as taking action. And understanding isn’t the same as changing. If you’ve been here for years and your health hasn’t shifted—or worse, gotten worse—the missing piece is almost certainly not more information. It’s the decision to stop waiting for a simpler version of the answer, because I promise you, it doesn’t exist.

The people who get well are the ones who lean in, who read the whole article, and who ask the difficult follow-up questions. They stop treating their health like a background project or something that they’ll “get to” when things get bad enough. They start treating it like the serious, worthy, urgent endeavor it is. They understand that their body didn’t arrive at dysfunction overnight and solutions won’t show up overnight either. And that with the right information, the right labs, and the right support, things can turn around.

This is who I write for. And this is who I’m here for.

Look, thin content isn’t just frustrating, it can keep you stuck on a rat wheel of trying to piece things together yourself. I’m not saying that you can string together an entire nutrition/hormone health/autoimmunity program from my blog, but it’s dense and I do my best to cross-link within those posts so that things make as much sense as possible. 

I can’t worry that “people have short attention spans these days.” I refuse to cater to it. And I’m not going to change my style because of it. 

I have a quote in my email signature that says, “Your body’s ability to heal is greater than anyone has permitted you to believe.”

And I’m not here to dumb things down. I haven’t done that in 20 years and I’m not going to start now.

If you’re still reading, then I think you know you’re in the right place. And if you’d like to schedule a Jumpstart session with me to talk about possibilities, go here.

Next up:

- Why I’ve changed my tune about Vitamin D supplementation (I can hear a collective gasp!)

- Why your ferritin won’t budge (this is a chronic problem for so many and it should not be ignored)

- The truth about “biohacking” (how it can make things worse for those with chronic illness)

- What is MAStery (mastering multiple autoimmune syndrome)?—where I am with this program (hint: I’m not sitting on it, it’s currently inside my 1:1 coaching work)