My raw vegan diet change – BIG updates!

July 4th just passed… and as I renewed the domain for this site, I realised it’s been 3 years since The Wellness Explorer was officially formed. I purchased this domain on the 4th of July 2013… I couldn’t even walk during that time but the desire to start up a blog was still there. My intent has always been to share my wellness journey, to share what I’m learning, to inspire others to thrive and take control of their health & diet. That intent remains the same to this day, 3 years later. I love that I get to share through …

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Traveling through Freiburg & hiking the Black Forest

To be honest, travel to Germany has never been big on my radar. I’m a Scandinavia girl, always have been and always will be. And more recently over the past few years I’ve become Southeast Asia-infatuated. But Germany? It’s always been a country that I’ve passed through en route to other destinations, never really devoting large chunks of time there. I did know about the Black Forest though. And my gosh, did I want to see the Black Forest. You may have heard of this enchanting German forest through the Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales, which is how I became familiar with …

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Afraid of being JUDGED? Read this

Last year I was writing an email to an old friend of mine who I hadn’t seen in a long time. I had recently gotten back into the habit of blogging regularly again and had set up a few automated things to promote my writing more – one of these being a link to my blog in my gmail account. It had seemed like a good move at the time… and then I soon quickly forgot it was even there… I finished up my email and pressed SEND without thinking much about it – and suddenly realised to my sheer horror …

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How I healed my body – the secret to my success

A couple months ago back in January I woke up with MAJOR insomnia one night. Not something I often experience and I spent the first hour trying various methods to soothe myself back to sleep. When that didn’t work and I was pretty much resigned to being up for the rest of the night, I asked myself a question: Is there something I need to know here? Is there something this is trying to show me? I had a burning desire to write for some reason so I pulled out my journal… and proceeded to write the outline for what is …

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How (and why) Ayurveda shapes what I eat

Plus a recipe for Kitchari ♥ I’m teaching the nutrition section in a yoga teacher training this month and as I put together the content for this, it’s gotten me thinking a lot about ayurveda and just how much this ancient science shapes how and what I eat. Ayurveda is basically a system of holistic self-healing – it’s the oldest continually practiced medicine in the world, originating from India over 5,000 years ago. I’ve been very familiar with ayurveda for a long time as a result of working in the yoga world… it’s fairly common to hear us yogis refer to …

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Some of my fave superfoods

Superfoods: are they worth eating?

There’s so much hype about superfoods these days… and SO many different kinds out there on the market! Walk into any health food store and you’re likely to be bombarded with dozens of little packages boasting amazing health claims. Every once in a while I get questions about superfoods and which ones are the best, which ones do I like, are any of them even worth buying, etc… so today I thought I’d write more on this and explore the whole superfoods trend. First lets get clear on just what a superfood really is, shall we? This is probably due to …

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