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5 Smart Ways to Have a Healthy Holiday When Combating Lyme Disease

November 24, 2020 · In: Lyme Disease, Soulful Healthy Living

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Before your Lyme disease diagnosis, the typical holiday drill went something like this: a flurry of appetizers followed by a raucous feast. Then, a couple of trips to the dessert table until the tryptophan from the turkey kicked into high gear. Then, you are dozing off the food high until it was time for turkey sandwiches. Our feasting and festivities look different for those of us whose health has been inextricably altered by a chronic illness. Here, I created a simple guide to help you navigate the holidays while combating persistent Lyme disease or chronic illness.

COVID-19 altered many of our holiday traditions anyway, so now is a great time to implement a sustainable holiday Lyme eating plan and lifestyle practices.

How to have a healthy holiday while combating Lyme disease

1. Create a healthy holiday Lyme meal plan that nourishes your body. 

Lyme disease or chronic illness causes inflammation. One of the most effective lifestyle habits that reduce inflammation is food. I know, this is the time of year we tend to splurge, sometimes binge, on desserts and nosh on delectable holiday party treats. When you are combating chronic illness, there really is no time off from your eating protocol. Every bite counts toward your recovery.

Fortunately, a meal plan comprised of nutrient-dense foods, mostly from plants, provides anti-inflammatory antioxidants and phytochemicals plus other vital nutrients.

So what should you eat when the rest of the family and friends fill their plate with the standard holiday fare?  Inform your hostess about your dietary restrictions. Then, coordinate with her (or him) to bring sides that comply with your protocol.

Are you planning to host or attend a small gathering this Thanksgiving, but you aren’t sure what to bring that you can eat? Maybe I can help. Remember, when you are fighting Lyme disease or a chronic illness, every bite counts. Trust me, I know. I’ve been right where you are.

I prepared a free healthy holiday meal plan for you. The 7-day healthy meal plan includes recipes for Thanksgiving Day, plus desserts and snacks. My meal plans also provide high-quality images (for us, visual learners), cooking instructions, and allergy-sensitive substitutions.

The recipes support a Lyme disease or chronic illness eating plan.

2. Prepare meals from scratch when possible.

Pre-packaged food often contains ingredients that incite inflammation. The more processed your food, the less you really know about the product. I get it; we all need to shave off some time in food prep. You can do that by buying pre-sliced, pre-cubed veggies or fruit.

If you are crunched for time, the processed foods to avoid are sauces, canned soups, frozen main dishes, and lunchmeat. I say this all of the time, but it is such important food wisdom READ. YOUR. LABELS.

When in doubt, use Michael Pollan’s sage wisdom about which foods to buy: “avoid food products that contain more than five ingredients or food products containing ingredients that a third-grader cannot pronounce.”

Another way to distill which foods to eat and which foods to avoid, ask yourself, “if I eat this food, will it serve as a detriment or a benefit to my health?”

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I have a favorite local Italian market where I buy my olive oil and balsamic vinegar. While I wait in line to pay, right there within my grasp is a basket of chocolate peanut butter bars, each the size of my phone. I learned early on in my battle with Lyme disease that one indulgence could impede my healing.

So you know what I do. I pay for my olive oil and balsamic vinegar, then drive to the health food store and buy my favorite apricot-date squares. You see, I didn’t deny myself a treat, but I opted for the one that benefits my body.

Too often, we equate choosing healthy foods as some self-induced punishment. But if you are fighting for your health, you have to learn to view the chocolate peanut butter bar scenario like a weight that prevents you from moving forward through the corridors and escaping from chronic disease.

3. Get plenty of rest and sleep.

If you have Lyme disease, then insomnia is no stranger to you. And therein lies the monumental paradox. Because to heal, the body needs rest. And lots of it.

The holiday season brings an influx of activity. While you are struggling with chronic illness, it’s essential to get a minimum of eight hours of sleep. That means grabbing a guilt-free nap whenever possible. It also may require you to decline an invitation if you are feeling particularly fatigued.

Remember this, maintaining sleep hygiene throughout the holidays helps fight off potential viral invaders or relapses of symptoms.

Like nutrition and physical activity, sleep health is a critical determinant of health, well-being, and stress management.

Tips for improved sleep:
  • Structure your bedtime routine by going to bed at a consistent time and getting up at the same time each morning.
  • Create an environment that welcomes sleep. Make sure your bedroom is quiet, dark, relaxing, and temperature regulated.
  • Avoid consuming large meals, caffeine, and alcohol before your established bedtime.
  • Establish a daily exercise routine. Physical activity during the day promotes sleep at night.

I used to feel guilty about snatching a 15-minute power nap until Lyme Disease entered my life. Early on in my battle with the disease, my Lyme disease specialist asked if I was getting enough rest. Sheepishly, I admitted how good it felt to take a quick rest in the afternoon. She reminded me of the healing power of rest.

From that point on, I never felt guilty for grabbing a cat nap whenever possible.

4. Reduce stress

Chronic stress elevates the cortisol and adrenaline hormones, which then ignites inflammation, the stuff we are trying to eradicate. Thanksgiving weekend kicks-off the seasonal splendor festooned with greenery and sparkle. We tend to get pulled into the whirlwind of the holidays rather than relishing in the elements of calm.

There are simple ways to minimize the stress that will support your Lyme rehabilitation.

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Ways to reduce holiday stress:

Pray

Writer Scotty Smith often publishes prayers that address specific times of stress— trust-stress, times of devastating loss, periods of social and community crisis.

During stressful times, it helps to meditate on a specific verse of the Bible. Whether you say the verse aloud or silently repeat it in your head, the crucial step is to focus on the promise of the passage.

Breathing techniques

Taking a few minutes to breathe and refocus can shift your body’s response to stress. Try the S.T.O.P. breathing method.

The 4-7-8 is another breathing exercise you can anywhere.

The following steps should all be carried out in the cycle of one breath:

  1. Close your lips, inhaling silently through your nose as you count to four in your head.
  2. Then, for seven seconds, hold your breath.
  3. Make another whooshing exhale from your mouth for eight seconds.

My daughter experiences mild stress and anxiety, so I taught her to use this technique when she feels her body begins to tense.

See, easy peasy.

Aromatherapy

Aromatherapy uses high-quality essential oils to mitigate stress and promote healing and wellness. It employs the olfactory system to help navigate essential oils’ healing properties to the central nervous system.

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Essential Oils

Diffuse- add essential oil to water to a diffuser

Massage – mix the essential oil with almond, apricot kernel, or grapeseed oil.

Baths – in a container, combine the essential oil with fragrance-free Epsom salts.

Topically – use essential oils or a blend of several essential oils. Follow the instructions before applying.

Herbal Teas

Nothing beats a warm cup of tea to take the edge off of a stressful day. Teas that offer help with stress often contain chamomile, lavender, or adaptogens.

The practice of using adaptogens, a group of herbs that assist in helping your body “adapt, “respond, and reset during times of stress, is a part of Ayurveda medicine. Ayurveda is one of the oldest approaches to wellness.


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5. Exercise

An exercise routine does not mean joining a gym or spin class. You can if you want, but that may add to your stress. It’s one more activity to cram in the already tight schedule. Instead, take a walk outside. There are plenty of outdoor venues that offer scenic paths and walkways.

Walking is an uncomplicated way to clear your head and keep stress under control. Make your walk soulful by spending time praying, reflecting, or practicing gratitude.

As we move forward, remember this.

You don’t have to endure any health issues alone. In fact, now more than ever, you need a community of people who understand your health struggles. Whether it’s your Lyme disease or your Type 2 diabetes, it’s important to know that others are here for you.

And more importantly, God is here for you. He knows pain, isolation, frustration, and anything else you experience.

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P.S. Don’t forget to grab your free healthy holiday meal plan

 

By: Denise Sultenfuss · In: Lyme Disease, Soulful Healthy Living

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Why we are afraid of that first step… The fear Why we are afraid of that first step…

The fear of falling or failing.

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Don’t declare a cheat day, Especially if you ar Don’t declare a cheat day,

Especially if you are combating a health crisis!

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If you declared a cheat day for every holiday, you could cheat multiple times per month per year.

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Why is it okay for us to “cheat” with food yet in other areas of our lives cheating would be prohibited?

The foods you eat should never be considered part of a sinister or underhanded behavior or choice.

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You can keep using these reasons NOT to change you You can keep using these reasons NOT to change your negative health habits, but

your God-designed body deserves better.  If you continue with making excuses for not taking care of your body then chronic disease will continue to challenge and deteriorate your health {tough ❤️}.

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What will happen if you don’t make changes?

Who will your poor health affect?

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Does your health prevent you from engaging in activities?

What is holding you back from changing?

Share you reflections in the comments😌

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3 ways to become the expert of your body and manag 3 ways to become the expert of your body and manage your health!

You can’t rely on your doctor/PA/NP or practitioner to manage your health.

The first step is to maintain a log of every supplement/vitamin or pharmaceutical you take. Record dosage, conditions (with or without food) and suggested time you take them. 

The second step, keep a symptom log. Write down any physical or emotional symptom that you experience, how often it occurs (acute or chronic), and pain/ discomfort level (0-10 scale).

Finally, as often as possible, keep a health journal to record moods, sleep, food, stress, goals, exercise, etc. 

Doing this helps you do the detective work by determining whether maybe mood is affected by hormones, lack of sleep, or weather, headaches are because of dehydration or sleep deprivation, etc.

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If you have a chronic disease you can’t eliminat If you have a chronic disease you can’t eliminate your participation and responsibility in making  lifestyle changes.

No one volunteers for chronic disease or a health crisis 🙋‍♀️🙋

I didn’t excitedly wait in line to be bit by a tick and contract a horrific disease.🤒😷

When I received my diagnosis of chronic Lyme, I had two choices:
1. Make significant lifestyle changes that would restore my health
2. Watch my health drastically decline

So I changed my eating life (like crazy), rested, followed a carefully crafted supplement protocol, and detoxed (something I never did prior to my diagnosis).

Facing a health crisis means that you will need to ask lots of questions, advocate for yourself, and do research.

If you have been diagnosed with high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, anxiety, Hashimoto’s, or any other chronic disease, chances are that lifestyle changes are inevitable.

Do you need to alter or consider your :
➡️ eating life
➡️stress
➡️ sleep routine
➡️ protocol
➡️ body therapies (massage, chiropractic, acupuncture)

Or other areas of your health and wellness?

Take the time evaluate your health to decide on your next step.
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You have a responsibility to manage your chronic d You have a responsibility to manage your chronic disease or health with lifestyle changes.

Western medicine  enables you by handing out prescriptions rather than insisting on lifestyle changes.

Regardless of which chronic disease you manifest, you are responsible for making essential behavioral changes:

➡️ The food you eat/food habits/food choices

➡️ The exercise you do or not do

➡️ How you manage stress or ignore stress 

➡️ How much sleep you get or not get

➡️ Who you get to support you

➡️ The time you devote to your spiritual life

➡️ How you manage your supplement protocol or believe that supplements erase and compensate for poor food choices.

➡️ How you manage gut health 

Your daily choices, habits, and practices affect your physical, mental, and spiritual outcome.

Just like any other disease, you can readily participate in your recovery or demise,

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Don’t make the mistake of ignoring stress. It h Don’t make the mistake of ignoring stress.

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You are going to want to make this! Avoid salad m You are going to want to make this!

Avoid salad monotony by adding various veggies to your bowl. Broccoli Rabe offers a spicy flavor and unique texture to your salad, plus nutrients.

Salad greens with roasted broccoli rabe with tahini dressing:

Broccoli Rabe Drizzle
3 Tablespoons of olive oil
1 pound of rabe
1 garlic clove 
Sea salt to taste
1/2 of a lemon

Prep Rabe:
Trim ends and discard 1 inch of stalk
Wash and dry rabe
Cut leaves and florets from the top keeping tops whole and separate them from stems
Transfer to parchment lined baking sheet
Brush or drizzle olive oil mixture on rabe
Broil on low til tender (5 minutes but keep check leaves every few minutes. You don’t want them charred)
Remove from over. Let cool.
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Tahini Dressing

2 minced garlic cloves
Sea salt to taste
1/2 cup tahini
4 teaspoons of coconut amino 
2 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar
1 tsp honey
1/3 cup of room temp water
2 tablespoons of chopped fresh parsley

Combine all ingredients in a food processor and pulse until thoroughly combined.

Assemble salad:
4 cups of mixed greens
Add rabe onto greens
Drizzle dressing

Optional add-ins:
Roasted butternut squash
Pomegranate seeds

Enhance your salad life with in-season fruits and veggies.
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You are fighting two battles. The first battle i You are fighting two battles.
 
The first battle is with yourself.

And how to conquer the problematic health habit demons that haunt you.

The second battle lies within the healthcare system. 

They typically prescribe rather than heal. 

They satisfy a craving rather than nourish your body.

It’s really how they’ve been educated so to blame them is futile.

Instead of blaming, let’s deconstruct and then rebuild.

Start rebuilding with real food and natural ways to heal the body (avoiding copious amounts of prescribed medications etc.)

Instead, try lifestyle changes which no lie…are much, much, much more difficult than swallowing a 💊 for the next four decades (plus the side effects from long-term pharmaceuticals).

But the benefits of lifestyle changes are mind blowing!

Lifestyle changes are far reaching. They benefit your mind/body/spirit ✝️

Here are 3 simple ways to take your first step toward lifestyle change:

🛒 start with your eating life (download my FREE anti-inflammatory eating plan)

👩‍⚕️work with a health coach to create a health-wellness plan that meets your needs (schedule a FREE consultation)

👯‍♀️ find friends or a community that encourages and supports your lifestyle change (sign up for my community newsletter)

Pick one and start today!

All the best,
Denise

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Lifestyle change isn’t easy. Chronic diseases ar Lifestyle change isn’t easy. Chronic diseases are responsible for 7 out of 10 deaths in the United States each year.

You may have the best intentions to get healthier, but your efforts continue to stall then fail.

What we have to reconcile is that our lifestyle habits and choices eventually impact the people we love and cherish.❤️

The reality: it’s not about eating and living the way that pleases YOU.

To manage your chronic disease and make sustainable healthy lifestyle changes, you realize that you need help.

Here are core elements to lifestyle change that will restore your health:

1. Realistic Health-Wellness Goals
2. Understand what triggers your behavior, habits, and choices
3. Determine your options and build a protocol
4. Create an action plan
5. Determine how you will maintain your healthy lifestyle

Achieve change that lasts! 

What is getting in your way and preventing you from making essential lifestyle changes?

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You are not alone in your suffering. My story is y You are not alone in your suffering. My story is your story too.

Different disease, differ health crisis but the same story:

I combat a ____________ that confounds the medical community so there exists very few resources to restore my health or change my habits.

That was me in 2008 with chronic Lyme disease and co-infections.

I needed to make essential changes in my health-wellness so that I could restore my health.

Your answer isn’t in diets, food fads, shakes, health gurus, or health apps.

Your answer is in lifestyle change. 

Health-wellness coaching offers ways to make lifestyle change.

Enroll in HWC to begin your new journey.

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A simple, clean granola recipe that a 3rd grader c A simple, clean granola recipe that a 3rd grader can make.

There’s no need to shell out a hefty some for store-bought granola when you can make it at home.

Most industrially made granola contains unnecessary amounts of refined sugar.

Here’s a tiny reminder that eating plans high in refined carbs and sugar contribute to chronic conditions.

Fancy up your granola with nuts, seeds and unsulfured, minimally sweetened dried fruit.

Store in a glass jar with a lid.

Using sprouted oats adds a layer of health to the grain. It also boosts gut health. 

For full recipe:

https://www.denisesultenfuss.com/recipes/easy-healthy-granola-recipe-in-20-minutes-or-less/

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I get it. On the outset, a quick fix seems easier I get it. On the outset, a quick fix seems easier then making a lifestyle change.

In the end though, lifestyle change is the wisest, sustainable choice.

Healthcare providers have 15 minutes to diagnose and offer a solution, which too often includes a pill.

I am certain they would love to have the time to work 1:1 with patients in crafting a health-wellness blueprint for lifestyle change.

That’s not the reality of our current healthcare system.

Most of the time my clients with chronic disease have to make essential changes with their eating life. 

Soon though, they begin to see the value of making that change.

What was broken in the body begins to fix itself.

Your first step in restoring your health is to manage your eating life.

I can help you reform problematic eating habits with techniques that are sustainable.

Enroll in my coaching program to address chronic disease by making lifestyle changes.

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Here’s how to effectively create habits, rhythms Here’s how to effectively create habits, rhythms, and goals: 

✔️ write goals, habits, and rhythms in the form of a SMART goal

✔️ Find accountability (coach/friend/spouse)

✔️ Circumvent potential obstacles that could or try to get in your way

✔️ Use a habit tracker, journal, app, to help you manage your progress

Create goals, habits, and rhythms in any of these areas of health-wellness:

1. Nutrition
2. Sleep/rest
3. Stress
4. Exercise
5. Family
6. Physical environment/organization
7. Social/friends/support
8. Faith
9. Personal development
10. Finances

What goals, rhythms, and habits do you want to achieve this month?

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Invest in sustainable behavior change that leads t Invest in sustainable behavior change that leads to restoring your health.

Without the result of behavior change, you are wasting your time and money.

Lifestyle changes can reverse chronic disease. But, first, you need to be ready for change.

Lifestyle change will prevent disease, combat disease, restore, and promote your health.

Put away the gimmicks for quick fixes. 

Instead focus on change that lasts.

Sign up for one of my health coaching programs now and be ready to start in January. Limited enrollment available. 

1. Heath-Wellnss Coaching

2. Quit Sugar Coaching Program

#healthcoaching
#habitchange
#sustainablechange
#chronicdisease
#chronicillness
#newhabits
#healthhabits
#behavior change
#weightloss
#foodheals
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#healthcoachforwomen
#healthylifestyle
In a few days, the ball will drop announcing a new In a few days, the ball will drop announcing a new year.

Before 2023 arrives, take some time to reflect about your relationship with food.

All of my clients, at some point in coaching, evaluate their relationship with food. 

It's a fundamental starting point in building a healthy lifestyle.

We evaluate with honesty, self-kindness, empathy,  and non-judgment.

Where do you need help with making better food choices?

#foodchoices
#healthyliving
#eatinglife
#healthyeating
#foodtriggers
#chronicillness 
#food
#healthcoach
#emotional eating
#balancedeating
#New Year's
#healthgoals
Negative health habits slow your recovery from chr Negative health habits slow your recovery from chronic disease or a health crisis.

Have you contemplated about changing that problematic health habit once and for all?

🚬 smoking

🥞🍛 overeating/emotional eating

🍬🍭🥤 sugar

😩 stress

📆 Over scheduling 

📂🗃 Adult ADHD/Organization

If you struggle with a problematic health habit I didn't mention, DM me with your specific concerns. 

If you continue to ignore the negative habit, it will only deepen. 

Decide to change the problematic habit with the help of health-wellness coaching, then you can really begin to make strides in your health.

 Enroll now for January 2023 coaching. 

#januaryhealthkick
#goals 
#januarygoals 
#chronicillness 
#lymeliterate 
#healthhabits 
#lifestylechange 
#habitchangecoach 
#healthcoaches 
#healthwellnesscoach 
#christianhealthcoach 
#addiction 
#overeating 
#healthylifestyle 
#healthyeating
3 Herbs 🌿 that help you get and stay healthy. 3 Herbs 🌿 that help you get and stay healthy.

Fight chronic disease or injury with herbal remedies, teas, tinctures, raw herbs, or salves because they:

🌿 offer anti-inflammatory properties

🌿 contain anti-oxidants

🌿 provide anti-microbial support

🌿 boost immune system

Parsley, bergamot, and oregano offer amazing benefits. 

When I combated Lyme, I needed to find effective abd economical ways to restore my health. 

 On my journey I discovered that an herbal approach provides an arsenal of weaponry to battle chronic disease, restore, and maintain health.

Find an evidence-based herbal protocol that addresses your chronic disease. Remember,  the goal is to HEAL your body not just eradicate the symptoms. 

Ideally your protocol will accomplish both in adjunct with your spiritual life, eating life, stress management,  sleep hygiene, exercise, detoxification and community support.

If you battle chronic disease, enroll in health-wellness coaching in January. Make 2023 the year you regain your health and live life from a place if wholeness.

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#chronicdiseasemanagment
#herbalprotocol
#herbs
#herbaltreatment
#healthcoach
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Here's my go-to flu-virus protocol. You know what Here's my go-to flu-virus protocol. You know what my favorite part of the protocol is?

INTENTIONAL REST AND SLEEP

5 days before Christmas and I am combating fever, body & headaches, and crushing fatigue. 

Early Wednesday morning, I felt the aches descend and dominate my body. The fever showed up with a vengeance. It's the crushing fatigue that weighs my body down that forces me to acquiesce and SLEEP.

We had to postpone a party with dear friends, cancel  Christmas dinner, and just let go of the minute details that typically keep me buzzing around.

I am being kind to my body and letting it heal on its own terms. Not mine.

This is a new practice for me. Ever since Lyme ravaged my body, I learned to be kinder to my body and not hurry healing.

Here's my protocol that helps restore my body back to wellness:

🥱 Rest and sleep

🌿 Homeopathic flu remedy, Genexa ibuprofen ( I take only if necessary. I rarely take ibuprofen but if the headache teeters on migraine level...I am slowing two of these gf, dye-free, titanium dioxide-free, paraben-free and more)

🥤Dairy-free/sugar-free anti-inflammatory smoothie with frozen pineapple for added bromelain.

Smoothie Recipe Book:
https://www.denisesultenfuss.com/healthy-smoothie-recipe-book

🍵 Herbal tea (select one that addresses symptoms or builds immunity)

🍲 Bone Broth (high quality if store bought)

Recipe on my blog:
https://www.denisesultenfuss.com/recipes/savory-chicken-bone-broth/

💧🥥 Coconut water

It's been rainy and cozy these past few days. As I convalesce,  I love listening to the conversations of my family. 

Was this possible the most inconvenient time of year to land in bed or on the couch for 5 days? Indeed!

But it's been a time of slowing down.

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#healing
#Lyme
#healthcoach
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#holisticprotocol
#integrativemedicine
#selfcompassion
#christianhealthcoach
#dairyfree
#smoothies
#healthysmoothies
#bonebroth
#Antiinflammatoryeating
Real change takes time. So how much time? It depe Real change takes time. So how much time?

It depends on your readiness for change and the changes you want/need to make.

The amount of time it takes to see results looks differently for everyone. I took me 1 year to restore my health from Lyme yet it may take others a lot longer or even less time.

Always the essential first step is to examine your relationship with food. 

Are you an emotional/ stress eater? Are stuck in negative food habits?

Getting those habits under control will propel you in forward momentum toward a healthier YOU.

Our bodies are inextricably connected: mind/body/spiritual, as God intended. If one area weakens it has an effect on the other two.

And you are you. And that's something to celebrate not compare.

#healthylife
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#lymedisease
#healthyhabits
#habitchange 
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#chronicillness 
#addiction
#christianhealthcoach
#goals
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Why we are afraid of that first step… The fear Why we are afraid of that first step…

The fear of falling or failing.

Social media makes it easy well paralyzed us from making changes.

If you just hang out in the social media periphery as a perpetual follower of health-wellness accounts just watching and never changing your lifestyle, then you are scrolling.

Anytime we take a bold step or make an inaugural voyage fear looms large.

We watch our babies take their first step, knowing that they will tumble.

With a mixture of joy and trepidation, we witness our teens and young adults taking maiden voyages or etching out a journey.

It’s taking that first step and moving past the “what if I fall , fail, or relapse?”

So we continue perpetuating our problematic health habits until we face a health crisis.

Everyone falls, fails, and relapses. It is part of figuring it out. It’s okay. No one gets it down right away. Mastery takes time and requires change.

Rather than avoid change, invest in change. 

We willingly take risks and invest in our financial life and so many other areas of our lives, but we tend to skip over our health.

What holds you back from taking your first step?❤️
Don’t declare a cheat day, Especially if you ar Don’t declare a cheat day,

Especially if you are combating a health crisis!

Instead decide to exchange the celebratory foods that, in truth, don’t support your health or your health goals for foods that nourish your body and are festive as well.

If you declared a cheat day for every holiday, you could cheat multiple times per month per year.

Think about it. The word “cheating” implies something forbidden or sinister.

Why is it okay for us to “cheat” with food yet in other areas of our lives cheating would be prohibited?

The foods you eat should never be considered part of a sinister or underhanded behavior or choice.

After all, a generous God created perfect foods that nurture and nourish your body.

So why the need to “cheat?”

Especially if your health depends on maintaining and managing a specific eating life.

Download my free Valentine’s Day Recipe Collection and never worry about “cheating” on Valentine’s Day.

#healthcoach #healthcoaching #christianhealthcoach #healthcrisis #chronicdisease #chronicallyill #holisticliving #holisticlifestyle #healthylifestyle #healthchouces #healthyhabits #healthandwellness #valentinesday #healthyrecipes #healthyvalentinesday #foodheals
You can keep using these reasons NOT to change you You can keep using these reasons NOT to change your negative health habits, but

your God-designed body deserves better.  If you continue with making excuses for not taking care of your body then chronic disease will continue to challenge and deteriorate your health {tough ❤️}.

Your body will continue to break down unless you do something to change.

So it’s up to you to change your lifestyle, which you are totally capable of doing even if it takes some coaching.

Finding out why you are reluctant or afraid to change will help you with your next step.

These questions will help you look inward:

What will happen if you don’t make changes?

Who will your poor health affect?

Do you have the confidence to change your lifestyle?

Does your health prevent you from engaging in activities?

What is holding you back from changing?

Share you reflections in the comments😌

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3 ways to become the expert of your body and manag 3 ways to become the expert of your body and manage your health!

You can’t rely on your doctor/PA/NP or practitioner to manage your health.

The first step is to maintain a log of every supplement/vitamin or pharmaceutical you take. Record dosage, conditions (with or without food) and suggested time you take them. 

The second step, keep a symptom log. Write down any physical or emotional symptom that you experience, how often it occurs (acute or chronic), and pain/ discomfort level (0-10 scale).

Finally, as often as possible, keep a health journal to record moods, sleep, food, stress, goals, exercise, etc. 

Doing this helps you do the detective work by determining whether maybe mood is affected by hormones, lack of sleep, or weather, headaches are because of dehydration or sleep deprivation, etc.

To get these resources, you can enroll in 1:1 coaching  and we can work together to make the changes you need in your health and wellness.
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If you have a chronic disease you can’t eliminat If you have a chronic disease you can’t eliminate your participation and responsibility in making  lifestyle changes.

No one volunteers for chronic disease or a health crisis 🙋‍♀️🙋

I didn’t excitedly wait in line to be bit by a tick and contract a horrific disease.🤒😷

When I received my diagnosis of chronic Lyme, I had two choices:
1. Make significant lifestyle changes that would restore my health
2. Watch my health drastically decline

So I changed my eating life (like crazy), rested, followed a carefully crafted supplement protocol, and detoxed (something I never did prior to my diagnosis).

Facing a health crisis means that you will need to ask lots of questions, advocate for yourself, and do research.

If you have been diagnosed with high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, anxiety, Hashimoto’s, or any other chronic disease, chances are that lifestyle changes are inevitable.

Do you need to alter or consider your :
➡️ eating life
➡️stress
➡️ sleep routine
➡️ protocol
➡️ body therapies (massage, chiropractic, acupuncture)

Or other areas of your health and wellness?

Take the time evaluate your health to decide on your next step.
#healthcoach #healthylifestyle #habits #chronicillness #chronicdiseases #chronicdisease #lyme #lymecoinfections #lymediseaseawareness #stressmanagement #sleephealth #exercise #bodytherapy
You have a responsibility to manage your chronic d You have a responsibility to manage your chronic disease or health with lifestyle changes.

Western medicine  enables you by handing out prescriptions rather than insisting on lifestyle changes.

Regardless of which chronic disease you manifest, you are responsible for making essential behavioral changes:

➡️ The food you eat/food habits/food choices

➡️ The exercise you do or not do

➡️ How you manage stress or ignore stress 

➡️ How much sleep you get or not get

➡️ Who you get to support you

➡️ The time you devote to your spiritual life

➡️ How you manage your supplement protocol or believe that supplements erase and compensate for poor food choices.

➡️ How you manage gut health 

Your daily choices, habits, and practices affect your physical, mental, and spiritual outcome.

Just like any other disease, you can readily participate in your recovery or demise,

To get help. DM me for a free 1:1 consultation.

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Don’t make the mistake of ignoring stress. It h Don’t make the mistake of ignoring stress.

It has a way of sneaking in and creating a staycation in our bodies.

Then we begin to grow accustomed to its presence.

And treat it like it’s a normal part of our life.

In time, stress silently erodes your health.

If you are combating chronic, stress management is an essential part of your healing protocol.

Stress affects sleep, causes chronic pain, increases blood pressure, causes gastrointestinal difficulties, evokes depression, other body systems.

Learn to cultivate stress management practices and chalk the chaos.
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You are going to want to make this! Avoid salad m You are going to want to make this!

Avoid salad monotony by adding various veggies to your bowl. Broccoli Rabe offers a spicy flavor and unique texture to your salad, plus nutrients.

Salad greens with roasted broccoli rabe with tahini dressing:

Broccoli Rabe Drizzle
3 Tablespoons of olive oil
1 pound of rabe
1 garlic clove 
Sea salt to taste
1/2 of a lemon

Prep Rabe:
Trim ends and discard 1 inch of stalk
Wash and dry rabe
Cut leaves and florets from the top keeping tops whole and separate them from stems
Transfer to parchment lined baking sheet
Brush or drizzle olive oil mixture on rabe
Broil on low til tender (5 minutes but keep check leaves every few minutes. You don’t want them charred)
Remove from over. Let cool.
————————————————————————————
Tahini Dressing

2 minced garlic cloves
Sea salt to taste
1/2 cup tahini
4 teaspoons of coconut amino 
2 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar
1 tsp honey
1/3 cup of room temp water
2 tablespoons of chopped fresh parsley

Combine all ingredients in a food processor and pulse until thoroughly combined.

Assemble salad:
4 cups of mixed greens
Add rabe onto greens
Drizzle dressing

Optional add-ins:
Roasted butternut squash
Pomegranate seeds

Enhance your salad life with in-season fruits and veggies.
##healthyrecipes #healthyfood #healthydinner #saladrecipe #salad #antiinflammatorydiet #guthealth #guthealing #guthealthmatters #foodheals #broccolirabe #tahinidressing #nourishingfood #healthcoach #healthcoaching #lymewarrior #lymedisease #chronicillness #chronicpain #chronicillnesslife
You are fighting two battles. The first battle i You are fighting two battles.
 
The first battle is with yourself.

And how to conquer the problematic health habit demons that haunt you.

The second battle lies within the healthcare system. 

They typically prescribe rather than heal. 

They satisfy a craving rather than nourish your body.

It’s really how they’ve been educated so to blame them is futile.

Instead of blaming, let’s deconstruct and then rebuild.

Start rebuilding with real food and natural ways to heal the body (avoiding copious amounts of prescribed medications etc.)

Instead, try lifestyle changes which no lie…are much, much, much more difficult than swallowing a 💊 for the next four decades (plus the side effects from long-term pharmaceuticals).

But the benefits of lifestyle changes are mind blowing!

Lifestyle changes are far reaching. They benefit your mind/body/spirit ✝️

Here are 3 simple ways to take your first step toward lifestyle change:

🛒 start with your eating life (download my FREE anti-inflammatory eating plan)

👩‍⚕️work with a health coach to create a health-wellness plan that meets your needs (schedule a FREE consultation)

👯‍♀️ find friends or a community that encourages and supports your lifestyle change (sign up for my community newsletter)

Pick one and start today!

All the best,
Denise

#healthylifestyle #health #healthyeating #healthcoaches #healthyeating #chronicillness #chronicpain #chronicillnesswarrior #chroniclyme #lymedisease #lymelife #holistichealth #holistichealing #holisticlifestyle #holisticnutrition #healthyeatinghabits #habit
Lifestyle change isn’t easy. Chronic diseases ar Lifestyle change isn’t easy. Chronic diseases are responsible for 7 out of 10 deaths in the United States each year.

You may have the best intentions to get healthier, but your efforts continue to stall then fail.

What we have to reconcile is that our lifestyle habits and choices eventually impact the people we love and cherish.❤️

The reality: it’s not about eating and living the way that pleases YOU.

To manage your chronic disease and make sustainable healthy lifestyle changes, you realize that you need help.

Here are core elements to lifestyle change that will restore your health:

1. Realistic Health-Wellness Goals
2. Understand what triggers your behavior, habits, and choices
3. Determine your options and build a protocol
4. Create an action plan
5. Determine how you will maintain your healthy lifestyle

Achieve change that lasts! 

What is getting in your way and preventing you from making essential lifestyle changes?

#healthylifestyle #habitchange #habitchangecoach #healthcoach #healthyeating #healthandwellness #healthjourney #christianhealthcoach #chronicdiseases #chronicillnessawareness #chronicfatiguesyndrome #lyme #lymewarrior #lymetreatment
You are not alone in your suffering. My story is y You are not alone in your suffering. My story is your story too.

Different disease, differ health crisis but the same story:

I combat a ____________ that confounds the medical community so there exists very few resources to restore my health or change my habits.

That was me in 2008 with chronic Lyme disease and co-infections.

I needed to make essential changes in my health-wellness so that I could restore my health.

Your answer isn’t in diets, food fads, shakes, health gurus, or health apps.

Your answer is in lifestyle change. 

Health-wellness coaching offers ways to make lifestyle change.

Enroll in HWC to begin your new journey.

#healthcoaching #healthcoach #healthylifestyle #healthyfood #healthyrecipes #habitchange #habits #habitchange #chronicillness #chronicfatigue #chronicillnessawareness #lymedisease #lymediseaseawareness
A simple, clean granola recipe that a 3rd grader c A simple, clean granola recipe that a 3rd grader can make.

There’s no need to shell out a hefty some for store-bought granola when you can make it at home.

Most industrially made granola contains unnecessary amounts of refined sugar.

Here’s a tiny reminder that eating plans high in refined carbs and sugar contribute to chronic conditions.

Fancy up your granola with nuts, seeds and unsulfured, minimally sweetened dried fruit.

Store in a glass jar with a lid.

Using sprouted oats adds a layer of health to the grain. It also boosts gut health. 

For full recipe:

https://www.denisesultenfuss.com/recipes/easy-healthy-granola-recipe-in-20-minutes-or-less/

#healthyrecipes #healthylifestyle #healthyrecipes #healthcoaching #healthcoach #chronicdisease #chronicillness #granola #granolagirl #granolabowl 
#lymedisease #nosugarrecipes
I get it. On the outset, a quick fix seems easier I get it. On the outset, a quick fix seems easier then making a lifestyle change.

In the end though, lifestyle change is the wisest, sustainable choice.

Healthcare providers have 15 minutes to diagnose and offer a solution, which too often includes a pill.

I am certain they would love to have the time to work 1:1 with patients in crafting a health-wellness blueprint for lifestyle change.

That’s not the reality of our current healthcare system.

Most of the time my clients with chronic disease have to make essential changes with their eating life. 

Soon though, they begin to see the value of making that change.

What was broken in the body begins to fix itself.

Your first step in restoring your health is to manage your eating life.

I can help you reform problematic eating habits with techniques that are sustainable.

Enroll in my coaching program to address chronic disease by making lifestyle changes.

#healthcoach #healthylifestyle #healthyliving #chronicillness #chronicillnessawareness #womenshealth #lymedisease #lymeawareness #lymelife #eatingdisorderawareness #eatinghealthy #eatingclean #habits #newhabitsnewresults #healthylifestyle
Here’s how to effectively create habits, rhythms Here’s how to effectively create habits, rhythms, and goals: 

✔️ write goals, habits, and rhythms in the form of a SMART goal

✔️ Find accountability (coach/friend/spouse)

✔️ Circumvent potential obstacles that could or try to get in your way

✔️ Use a habit tracker, journal, app, to help you manage your progress

Create goals, habits, and rhythms in any of these areas of health-wellness:

1. Nutrition
2. Sleep/rest
3. Stress
4. Exercise
5. Family
6. Physical environment/organization
7. Social/friends/support
8. Faith
9. Personal development
10. Finances

What goals, rhythms, and habits do you want to achieve this month?

#goals #newgoals💪 #habits #newhabits #healthcoach #healthcoaching #healthcoachtips #christianhealthcoach #rhythms #chronicdiseaseprevention #stressmanagement #sleephealth #exercise
Invest in sustainable behavior change that leads t Invest in sustainable behavior change that leads to restoring your health.

Without the result of behavior change, you are wasting your time and money.

Lifestyle changes can reverse chronic disease. But, first, you need to be ready for change.

Lifestyle change will prevent disease, combat disease, restore, and promote your health.

Put away the gimmicks for quick fixes. 

Instead focus on change that lasts.

Sign up for one of my health coaching programs now and be ready to start in January. Limited enrollment available. 

1. Heath-Wellnss Coaching

2. Quit Sugar Coaching Program

#healthcoaching
#habitchange
#sustainablechange
#chronicdisease
#chronicillness
#newhabits
#healthhabits
#behavior change
#weightloss
#foodheals
#2023habits
#restoreyourhealth
#healthcoachforwomen
#healthylifestyle
In a few days, the ball will drop announcing a new In a few days, the ball will drop announcing a new year.

Before 2023 arrives, take some time to reflect about your relationship with food.

All of my clients, at some point in coaching, evaluate their relationship with food. 

It's a fundamental starting point in building a healthy lifestyle.

We evaluate with honesty, self-kindness, empathy,  and non-judgment.

Where do you need help with making better food choices?

#foodchoices
#healthyliving
#eatinglife
#healthyeating
#foodtriggers
#chronicillness 
#food
#healthcoach
#emotional eating
#balancedeating
#New Year's
#healthgoals
Negative health habits slow your recovery from chr Negative health habits slow your recovery from chronic disease or a health crisis.

Have you contemplated about changing that problematic health habit once and for all?

🚬 smoking

🥞🍛 overeating/emotional eating

🍬🍭🥤 sugar

😩 stress

📆 Over scheduling 

📂🗃 Adult ADHD/Organization

If you struggle with a problematic health habit I didn't mention, DM me with your specific concerns. 

If you continue to ignore the negative habit, it will only deepen. 

Decide to change the problematic habit with the help of health-wellness coaching, then you can really begin to make strides in your health.

 Enroll now for January 2023 coaching. 

#januaryhealthkick
#goals 
#januarygoals 
#chronicillness 
#lymeliterate 
#healthhabits 
#lifestylechange 
#habitchangecoach 
#healthcoaches 
#healthwellnesscoach 
#christianhealthcoach 
#addiction 
#overeating 
#healthylifestyle 
#healthyeating
3 Herbs 🌿 that help you get and stay healthy. 3 Herbs 🌿 that help you get and stay healthy.

Fight chronic disease or injury with herbal remedies, teas, tinctures, raw herbs, or salves because they:

🌿 offer anti-inflammatory properties

🌿 contain anti-oxidants

🌿 provide anti-microbial support

🌿 boost immune system

Parsley, bergamot, and oregano offer amazing benefits. 

When I combated Lyme, I needed to find effective abd economical ways to restore my health. 

 On my journey I discovered that an herbal approach provides an arsenal of weaponry to battle chronic disease, restore, and maintain health.

Find an evidence-based herbal protocol that addresses your chronic disease. Remember,  the goal is to HEAL your body not just eradicate the symptoms. 

Ideally your protocol will accomplish both in adjunct with your spiritual life, eating life, stress management,  sleep hygiene, exercise, detoxification and community support.

If you battle chronic disease, enroll in health-wellness coaching in January. Make 2023 the year you regain your health and live life from a place if wholeness.

#wholeness 
#chronicdisease
#chronicdiseasemanagment
#herbalprotocol
#herbs
#herbaltreatment
#healthcoach
#evidencebasedpractitioner
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Here's my go-to flu-virus protocol. You know what Here's my go-to flu-virus protocol. You know what my favorite part of the protocol is?

INTENTIONAL REST AND SLEEP

5 days before Christmas and I am combating fever, body & headaches, and crushing fatigue. 

Early Wednesday morning, I felt the aches descend and dominate my body. The fever showed up with a vengeance. It's the crushing fatigue that weighs my body down that forces me to acquiesce and SLEEP.

We had to postpone a party with dear friends, cancel  Christmas dinner, and just let go of the minute details that typically keep me buzzing around.

I am being kind to my body and letting it heal on its own terms. Not mine.

This is a new practice for me. Ever since Lyme ravaged my body, I learned to be kinder to my body and not hurry healing.

Here's my protocol that helps restore my body back to wellness:

🥱 Rest and sleep

🌿 Homeopathic flu remedy, Genexa ibuprofen ( I take only if necessary. I rarely take ibuprofen but if the headache teeters on migraine level...I am slowing two of these gf, dye-free, titanium dioxide-free, paraben-free and more)

🥤Dairy-free/sugar-free anti-inflammatory smoothie with frozen pineapple for added bromelain.

Smoothie Recipe Book:
https://www.denisesultenfuss.com/healthy-smoothie-recipe-book

🍵 Herbal tea (select one that addresses symptoms or builds immunity)

🍲 Bone Broth (high quality if store bought)

Recipe on my blog:
https://www.denisesultenfuss.com/recipes/savory-chicken-bone-broth/

💧🥥 Coconut water

It's been rainy and cozy these past few days. As I convalesce,  I love listening to the conversations of my family. 

Was this possible the most inconvenient time of year to land in bed or on the couch for 5 days? Indeed!

But it's been a time of slowing down.

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Real change takes time. So how much time? It depe Real change takes time. So how much time?

It depends on your readiness for change and the changes you want/need to make.

The amount of time it takes to see results looks differently for everyone. I took me 1 year to restore my health from Lyme yet it may take others a lot longer or even less time.

Always the essential first step is to examine your relationship with food. 

Are you an emotional/ stress eater? Are stuck in negative food habits?

Getting those habits under control will propel you in forward momentum toward a healthier YOU.

Our bodies are inextricably connected: mind/body/spiritual, as God intended. If one area weakens it has an effect on the other two.

And you are you. And that's something to celebrate not compare.

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