Wellness Blog

My Food Journey My relationship to food has evolved quite a bit over the past few years. Before I learned what healthy foods really were, my diet consisted of a lot of carbs, processed foods, and sugars. Because the foods I ate were low in vital nutrients my body...

Nourishing Our Bodies with Healing Foods Our bodies are incredible things. They have the ability to create, grow, and heal all while sustaining life. The importance of taking care of our bodies is obvious, yet proves to be challenging. Life has its temptations, and...

Integrating Wellness in Our Daily Lives Something I admire about the practitioners at Ampersand is their commitment to fully embodying our mission by practicing integrative wellness in their own daily lives. When I joined the group, I wanted to do the same so I...

My food journey is not unlike many others. I’d be remiss to talk about food without talking about trauma and resilience. For those who know me, understanding my relationship with food has taken many twists and turns much like my relationship with my body. And boy has...

Food and nutrition are sensitive topics for me. Yet I’m still very happy to share how nutrition has helped my healing journey.  As a personal trainer, food and nutrition play an important role in helping my clients and I reach our goals. Like peanut butter and jelly,...

The Nutritionist will guide the public and provide them with knowledge about the most important element in their lives they can control to take charge of their health: the food on the ends of their forks. Hippocrates, largely regarded as the Father of Modern Medicine,...

  Let’s try an activity. I’m going to list out some foods, and I want you to think to yourself “good” or “bad.” Salad Cookies Beer Salmon Ice Cream Fried Chicken Spinach Pizza Chocolate All of the foods I listed above are OKAY to eat. Eating any of those “good” or...