Healing by Living

Learning to live with chronic pain and auto immune disorders has been both a challenge and a learning experience.  I have always been a major planner and love to plan months and even years ahead.  There was a sense of accomplishment with planning every little detail, creating goals and check lists of how I was going to meet those goals.  I had a very difficult time accepting that with my health I was not sure if I would be able to meet the goals I had set.  I would always take on more, both at work and in my personal life trying to keep distracted from what was really going on.  Endometriosis pain causing me to need my heating pad and cuddle puppy. 

Baked Biscuits  Gluten-Free Almond Cranberry Breakfast Biscuit by  Tanya Grenoble  January-26-2018 Ingredients 2 c. blanched almond flour 1/4 c shredded unsweetened coconut 3 Tbs. coconut flour 3 Tbs. chia seed 1/2 tsp. iodized sea salt 1/2 tsp. baking soda 1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon 2 large eggs 1/3 c. coconut oil 1/4 c. raw honey 1 orange orange zest 1 tsp. vanilla extract 1/2 c. dried cranberries naturally sweetened or unsweetened 1/2 c. chopped almonds Instructions 1. Preheat oven to 325o F.  2. In large bowl (or Kitchen Aid Mixer) mix together the first 7 ingredients. 3. Next add eggs, oil, maple syrup, honey, orange zest, and vanilla. Mix well 4. Fold in cranberries and almonds 5. Line muffin pan with cupcake papers. Drop by ¼ cup onto all 12 cups.  6. Bake for 25 minutes or until golden brown and centers are no longer doughy Details Prep time:  15 mins  Cook time:...

Finished mushrooms ready to go into the oven.          Stuffed Portobello Mushroom Caps by Tanya Grenoble January-19-2018 Ingredients 1/2 lb. ground Italian sausage 1/4 c. diced red bell pepper 1/4 c. diced orange bell pepper 1/4 c. diced yellow bell pepper 1/3 c. diced red onion 4 cloves diced fresh garlic 2 Tbs. olive oil 2 cut into slices romano tomato 1 c. mozzarella cheese shredded 12 leaves fresh basil 2 caps portobello mushrooms 1/2 jar spaghetti sauce 3 c. cooked brown rice Instructions 1. Preheat oven to 350oF. 2. Remove the stems from the mushrooms and clean the caps. Dice the stems to add later. 3. In a frying pan brown the ground sausage. 4. Over medium heat add olive oil, bell peppers, mushroom stems, onion, and garlic. Cook until peppers and onion soften. 5. Spray a 8x8 glass baking pan with olive oil and place mushroom caps into pan. 6. Lay tomato sliced ar...

For years, I would wake up each morning looking forward to my extra-large cup of coffee to start my day.    I have always had the mindset that I “could not” start my morning without coffee.   Mornings have always been a struggle for me and in recent years they have become even more difficult because of my health issues.   I always just used the excuse “I’m not a morning person.”   Then one day I was reading an article about the effects of water on our bodies and how important water is for our daily functions.   Being a food and nutrition teacher, I knew we needed water to function and I thought I was getting enough, but wasn’t tracking my water consumption.