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Managing Lyme Disease with an Integrative Approach

October 29, 2020 · In: Lyme Disease, Soulful Healthy Living

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In the spring of 2009, there was a war waging inside my body. I sat on the edge of my bed that morning and forced myself to get dressed. Lyme Disease had crept in and cunningly hijacked my health. I would soon learn the benefits of an integrative approach to managing Lyme disease.

I wondered how long I could go on ignoring the symptoms.

At first, I attributed my swollen knees to years as a long-distance runner combined with just getting older. Then one day, I noticed swelling in my wrists and ankles. Still, I dismissed the signs as the inevitable markings of mid-life.

Six months or so later, overwhelm settled in like an uninvited guest. I would later learn the term for this condition is “Lyme brain.” At the time, I was trying to homeschool four of our six kids and manage my daily responsibilities.

A friend called, somewhat irritated because I neglected to return her several attempts to contact me. As my health slowly eroded, it took every bit of energy to get through the day, so returning phone calls ranked low on the list.

When the short-term memory loss, coupled with difficulty completing sentences emerged, I went to see my physician. After a brief conversation and examination, she wanted to write me a prescription for depression medication.

Puzzled and perplexed at this diagnosis, I brought up Lyme Disease. After all, we live in the epicenter of the disease, so it wouldn’t be out of the question to suspect Lyme.

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She agreed to run a battery of tests with a little persuasion, including the three Lyme tests.

The trouble with getting help

Two weeks slipped by, and one evening in early March, my physician phoned to say that the test results indicated acute Lyme Disease. She admitted not knowing much about the disease beyond a thirty-day round of the antibiotic doxycycline.

After we hung up, I knew I would be responsible for getting help in regulating the disease. Whatever energy I had at the end of the day, I researched and inquired about treatment.

Finding a Lyme literate physician that I could afford was a challenge. Ironically, our health insurance did not cover the costs of treatment beyond antibiotics.

Managing Lyme Disease, so What’s next?

One of the thorniest issues in Lyme disease is the use of antibiotics. While the IDSA and CDC say a short course of medications will knock out the illness, many patients find that not to be the case, including me.

“Since traditional antibiotic approaches fail to resolve symptoms in up to 25% of patients treated for Lyme disease and many suffer disabling effects of the disease, it requires a rigorous approach to treatment.

If the tick-borne disease thrives within your body, it can generate multiple issues in other systems of your body.

Reset the body

Three of the most important initial steps to take in eradicating the disease are:

  1. Controlling inflammation by removing gut-disrupting, inflammatory, hormone-unbalancing food groups from your diet and feed the body unprocessed, real food.
  2. Decrease immune dysregulation
  3. Reduce auto-immune activation

Nutrition will become one of the most powerful weapons in your healing arsenal. We often take better care of our cars than we do our bodies. That is until faced with a health crisis.

Improve gut health

Over 70% of the immune system resides in the gut. Restoring or improving a healthy gut environment should be part of your frontline protocol in reclaiming your health.

An anti-inflammatory eating plan provides the right foods to fight infection.  It would help if you had an intestinal tract that can wage war on intruders like bacteria, viruses, yeast infections, toxins, food allergies, and stress.

We refer to a gut that is incapable of an aggressive attack on hostile enemies, a “leaky gut.” It’s no longer an effective barrier.

There are many ways to improve and strengthen your gut health. Your Lyme disease eating plan includes fresh fruits and vegetables, organic meats, herbs, and spices.

Your eating protocol should exclude processed foods, sugar, grain, and dairy.

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The typical Western diet or Standard American Diet (SAD) increases inflammation and impairs your body’s ability to battle infection.

A recent study conducted by D.L. Katz of Yale University School of Public Health and S. Meller of Yale University School of Medicine studied several dietary plans and concluded that:

” a diet of foods mostly direct from nature, and predominately plants is supportive of health across the life span.”

Probiotics offer a bounty of benefits—from digestive health to neurological wellness. Also, they restore a balance of healthy gut bacteria that supports your overall well-being.

Reduce toxins

Another tactic to bolster your immune system is to eliminate toxins in your body and reduce reentering chances.

To eliminate toxins, I recommend an effective detoxification routine. Some of the most powerful herbs and supplements for detoxification are:

  • milk thistle
  • Burdock root
  • slippery elm
  • Dandelion root
  • Curcumin (liver support)
  • N-acetyl cysteine (NAC) maintains immune health

Other detoxification methods are smoothies, Epsom salt baths/foot baths, ionic foot baths, or dry skin brushing.

It is also important to remember to remove environmental toxins like synthetic cleaning and body care products.

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In some cases, the toxic contents in conventional make-up products could weaken my at-risk immune system or disrupt my endocrine system. Even without pre-existing health risks, you still want to part ways with the harmful contaminants in your favorite tawny foundation.

Here is a shortlist of the dirty cosmetic chemicals to avoid:

  1. BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene) nicknames: benzoic and benzyl
  2. DMDM hydantoin preservative that releases formaldehyde (yes, the same liquid you used in high school biology class)
  3. Parabens (alkyl-p-hydroxybenzoate) a major endocrine disruptor
  4. Phthalates Family and the Phthalate cousins: DEP (diethyl phthalate), DBP (dibutyl phthalates), DEHP (diethylhexyl phthalates).
  5. Sodium Laurel Sulfate

Manage stress

Long term stressors that can negatively affect your adrenal system because your survival response to stress is on “over” drive. Dr. Aviva Romm explains that “when you are in a constant state of stress, the short-term beneficial responses to stress backfire which manifest in negative ways like:

  • blood sugar problems
  • brain fog
  • sleep issues
  • fatigue
  • burn-out
  • digestive issues
  • food cravings
  • frequent illness
  • hormonal imbalance
  • inflammation
  • irritability
  • weight gain

If Lyme Disease or chronic illness has already manifested some of these side effects, your goal is to reduce stress so that you can manage these symptoms.

Rest

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

Sufficient sleep supports the body in fighting off invaders.

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.

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Look back to move forward.

I remember the exact day that my body started to respond to my Lyme protocol. Sometimes we have to look back so that we can appreciate moving forward.

Kneeling on the soft spring earth weeding and pruning, it felt wonderful to be back in my garden, a place I avoided since my diagnosis.  Then I stood up and realized an increase in my energy level. A wave of relief flooded my body.

My war with Lyme disease was far from over, but I fought fewer battles. The side effects continued to dissipate as I continued to strengthen my body.

If managing Lyme disease or another chronic disease is part of your life narrative, give it your concentrated attention and intention. Hold fast and stay the course.

I ascribe the eradication of my Lyme disease to four integral components:

  1. My faith
  2. An integrative protocol
  3. Grit and perseverance
  4. The community of family and friends who offered compassion, support, and empathy

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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.

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.

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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 ❤️}.

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.
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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,

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.

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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
#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
#Antiinflammatoryeating
#antiinflammatory
#stressrelief
#sleephygiene
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
#fluprotocol
#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 
#foodheals
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#integrativehealthcoach
#holisticliving
#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.

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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 ❤️}.

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.
##stressmanagement #stressrelief ##chronicillness #chronicpain #chronicfatigue #chronicfatiguesyndrome #lymedisease #lyme #lymewarrior #lymediseaseawareness #lymewarrior #babesia #rmsp #stressreliever #healthcoach #healthcoaching #healthcoaches
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
#Antiinflammatoryeating
#antiinflammatory
#stressrelief
#sleephygiene
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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