📩 Krave Notes
Week of July 14
A quick dose of wellness, curiosity, and tools to support the healthiest version of you.
🧠 Something I’m Thinking About: Your Mind Can Make You Sick… or Well
I just picked up Mind Over Medicine by Dr. Lissa Rankin (revised edition)—a recommendation from my mentor—and it’s already reframing the way I think about healing.
Some of the people I work with are stuck not because of food or labs… but because of the story they’ve adopted about their body. It becomes a narrative they cling to. Chronic symptoms, fatigue, and mystery health spirals can all be reinforced by limiting beliefs and a nervous system that's constantly in fight-or-flight.
If this resonates: Healing is physical and emotional. And it’s always possible to choose a new story.
🧺 One Simple Swap: Upgrade Your Laundry Products
Your skin is your largest organ—and your clothes are in constant contact.
→ Try Truly Free or Dropps for your laundry instead of conventional detergent.
This small shift lightens your toxic burden and gives your liver more capacity to do what it does best: detox and protect.
🏋🏼♀️ What I’m Loving This Week
My APEXUP 15 lb weighted vest.
It’s like a weighted blanket for movement—and I love it for posture, strength, and even cardiovascular support. It gently pulls my shoulders back (screen slump, anyone?) and adds just enough challenge to my walks and strength workouts without overloading my joints. Never underestimate the benefits of consistent walking.
🌀 Myth Busted
“I just have a slow metabolism.”
→ Reality: It’s often not your metabolism—it’s undereating, over-stressing, under-muscling, and blood sugar chaos.
🔁 In Case You Missed It
Two bits of (rare!) good news in the nutrition world:
✅ Starbucks is removing canola oil from its menu
✅ Texas is now requiring nutrition education for doctors
Progress, finally!
🧡 From My Corner of the World
This month marks one year at Stonington CrossFit. I’m the type to get excited, go all in, and then quietly fade out—but not this time.
This time, I had community. Accountability. An environment I wanted to come back to.
I did it awkward. I did it frustrated. I did it slower than others and at lighter weights… but I kept showing up.
And now? I see muscle in places I never have. I feel stronger in both body and mind.
Healing and progress are never overnight. They belong to those who keep going.