The gut houses trillions of microbes known as microbiome or microbiota. With a healthy balance of these tiny microbes comes a healthy immune system. But what happens with lifestyles, stress, food, etc these communities of microbiota can get disrupted which is then called “dysbiosis”.

Acne. It affects people of all ages. It can appear on the face, neck and/or back. But what is Acne?  It is when the pores of the above mentioned areas become clogged. Excess or thick oil and debris such as dead skin cells and/or bacteria clog the pore creating an infection bump aka a pimple.

Studies suggest that the maintenance of a healthy gut microbiome is inseparable from host health; there is, in fact, a bidirectional relationship between the gastrointestinal microbiome and the innate immune system.

The traditional way to make Matcha is with a ceramic Japanese bowl, a mini colander, a little bamboo scoop (it looks like a mini back scratcher IMO) and a bamboo whisk. The ritual alone helps me to center into my morning and makes me feel good about what I'm putting into my body.

Skin is our largest organ meaning it filters out toxins and it regulates temperature, it secretes toxins through sweat, it has pain and pressure receptors that send messages to our nervous system.

What is the Lymphatic System and what is Manual Lymphatic Drainage?

Light Emitting Diode Therapy for anti aging as well as healing acne.

Connective Tissue manipulation isn’t just for lifting and plumping the skin it also gives your lymphatic system a little kick in the booty giving it the ability to flow.

Focusing on the face and neck because I am an esthetician, when there is inflammation, stagnation, and tension this indicates that the fight or flight nervous system has been triggered.

Skin is the first responder and the LARGEST organ - someone touches the skin it is either sending calming, soothing, safe signals to the brain and stomach or it’s sending run away, fight and tension, to the brain and stomach.

I haven’t always been interested in green beauty. It started happening once I realized all of the pesticides they use on our food (highest pesticides are used on coffee beans and grapes aka wine) and how are soil/earth is slowly diminishing and becoming more and more damaged not being able to hold in proper minerals and nutrients to provide our food with (for more details on that go watch Kiss the Ground on Netflix).

Connect to breath. You’re thinking whatever Jen if I wasn’t breathing I wouldn’t be living, You’re crazy!!! OR am I????? Nope I’m not crazy. When I say connect to breath, I mean really connect and feel your breath. Take a long, deep breath in all the way down, down, deep, fill those lungs up. Guess what happens… I’ll wait…

Hey there and thanks for taking time to read my very first blog post. Why start now you ask? I figure why not, I have a shit ton of thoughts that run through my head and some of it may or may not be helpful to someone else out there or it might help someone not feel like they’re alone in the world.