From my Kitchen...
healing your relationship with food
Your Kitchen is where your self-nourishment begins…
I didn’t always take good care of myself. I was a young designer in NYC and my sole focus was on the success of my business. Every day, I had an Iced coffee with 4 sugars and a chocolate chip cookie for breakfast.
One day, while bending to pack and ship an order, my heart went into an accelerated rate and I was rushed to the hospital. I was diagnosed with something called, SVT. Supra-ventricular tachycardia is when your heart can beat up to 280 beats per minute. It’s different than panic attacks, and scarier than any other health issue I ever faced. When I got SVT, I knew I needed to take my health much more seriously, especially since I didn’t want to go on lifelong heart medication or have surgery.
I started in my Kitchen…
Since I realized that I more likely to have SVT when I was constipated, stressed, tired or ate large carb or sugary meals, I started a gluten free, sugar free diet. This wasn’t easy for a girl who loved pasta and cookies. BUT, you just can’t achieve your goals when you are SICK and don’t have a healthy relationship with FOOD.
Eating in a way that is healed, whole and conscious, will help you elevate your whole health, allowing you to meet your business and personal growth goals, and even radiate on a higher frequency, which in turn can help you to help others heal.
Today, I thrive on a gluten free, white sugar free diet, I have learned to make the BEST chocolate chip cookies and many other ridiculously delicious baked goods that are actually GOOD for you. I use food to help me achieve my life goals instead of be a source of illness and self-criticism.
I help people with SVT look at their relationship with food as a healing tool and have written an e-Book called The SVT Prevention Diet. I also help moms, creative entrepreneurs and anyone who is looking to improve their relationship with food, and self-nourishment.
Your relationship with food is a vehicle to help you achieve your goals.
Below, learn about my recipes, take a peek inside my kitchen, read about how I managed my own emotional eating, and how I used food to heal my SVT naturally…
check out the links below and thank you for visiting my site!
Love Laura xo
Recipes from my Kitchen...
Your Self-care starts with every bite!
It’s taken me a long time to organize my kitchen, and my food in a way that speaks to my intuition, my needs, my cravings and my health. My recipes are not fancy… they are from my kitchen…a mom with 2 boys. They are fast, gluten free, refined sugar free, and practical. I am a super busy woman just like you, and it is not my goal to spend all day cooking. Yet, I NEED to eat healthy to live a life of SVT prevention, and feeling as healthy as I can. xo enjoy!
My Recipes
My recipes are all naturally gluten free. I have non-celiac gluten sensitivity and believe gluten plays a major role in SVT and related anxiety.
My Sweet Treats
I don’t eat refined sugar and only cook with honey, maple syrup, coconut palm sugar, and brown rice syrup.
My Choices
While I do eat occasional meat, its very rare. I opt for legumes and veggies as much as possible.
My SVT Prevention Kitchen: Gluten Free French Toast Bake
From my SVT Prevention Kitchen I love finding ways to make traditional dishes a bit healthier. This gluten free french toast bake is an easy sweet treat for Sunday brunch. Serve with a side of green juice to decrease guilt;) As you know, I need to be gluten free as a...
I Have to Eat Right: Green Smoothie Bowl
I have to eat right or I risk not feeling well. I manage a health issue called SVT, Supra-ventricular Tachycardia. To keep it at bay, I am on gluten free, white sugar free diet. Fast, easy, nutritious food is a must when you are a busy mom, small business owner...
Lentil Salad
Yesterday I made a batch of lentil soup, and today I had the leftovers over a salad. My recipes are easy, fast, gluten free, dairy free, and white sugar free. To make the soup: 1.5 cups of baby lentils 4 organic carrots 1 small onion 2 cloves of garlic Seasonings In a...
Green Smoothie
One of my new favorite smoothies! So easy to make! 2 Frozen Bananas (peel before you freeze) 1 Regular peeled banana 2 cups frozen washed baby spinach 1 tablespoon mediclear plus protein poweder by thorne (optional) 1 teaspoon honey aprox 1 cup organic rice milk...
2 Bean Hummus
I make variations of bean dip weekly for myself and my kids. This is a staple food in my kitchen. Today I tried a little twist that I got from my office mate and health coach, Sharon Goldner. Not sure if I made it exactly like her, but not to worry, because the...
Cashew Butter Oatmeal Cookies
You will need: 2 Eggs Stick Butter ½ cup brown sugar 1 Cup All Purpose GF Flour (Bob’s redmill) ½ teaspoon baking powder ¼ teaspoon salt ½ teaspoon Baking Soda 1 ½ cups GF Rolled Oats 1 teaspoon Vanilla ½ Cup Raisins 2 tablespoons Cashew Butter ½ Cup Grain Sweetened...
A Girl Needs Her Cookies…
I love chocolate chip cookies. always have…always will. After becoming totally 100% gluten-free a few years ago to help prevent a health issue that I have called SVT (supra-ventricular tachycardia), I have learned to make many versions of them. Recently I learned how...
Helpful e-guides + e-books…
This e-guide is for anyone who is struggling or managing emotional eating. It has practical tools that work, guided journaling questions, affirmations and lots of LOVE xo
This e-guide is for anyone who is struggling to layer in self-care to their life to heal a health issue or especially for SVT. I wrote this with SVT in mind, but you can fill in SVT for any health issue as these practices, stories and inspiration are universal. A must read for anyone who wants more self-care! xo
for SVT…
My TOP TEN TIPS to Heal SVT Naturally is a FREE 14 page Digital Download e-guide that you receive for FREE when you sign up for my Heal SVT Naturally Inner Circle Newsletter
Learn all the basics about taking an integrative approach to SVT. What are the root causes? Is it really manageable using diet and lifestyle? How can you subside the debilitating anxiety that comes along with SVT? This is the guide that I WISH was handed to me when I was first diagnosed. 71 Page Digital Download. $9.99
The SVT Prevention Diet: The SVT-GUT Connection & The Power of Food and Self-Care to Control Your SVT and Transform Your Health 201 page Digital Download E-Book $14.99