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Carefully chosen guides, tools, and resources relevant to those learning to manage the stresses of chronic illness while recovering from it.
Free Guides & Starting Points
What Do You Do When You Have a Laundry List of Symptoms?
When you have multiple symptoms or problems, the way you’ve always approached your health may no longer be enough. This Starting Points Memo looks at what can happen when everyone is dealing with one piece of the puzzle — and why figuring out where to begin may require looking at the whole picture.
Advocating for Yourself When You Have Complex Illness.
Practical language for medical visits, family conversations, and everyday life.
Is the Wrong Reference Body Affecting You and Your Recovery?
A grounded look at how comparison, expectation, and life history shape recovery— and why your body may need a different approach.
Roots & Wings Apothecary
The people I serve often rely on specialized supplements that can be difficult to find through traditional retail sources.
The Roots & Wings apothecary was developed to provide access to carefully selected practitioner-grade products, curated collections, educational resources, and meaningful savings through practitioner pricing.
Benefits of the Roots & Wings Apothecary
1) Over 300 practitioner-grade brands of vitamins, supplements and wellness products.
2) Purchases directly from manufacturers and climate controlled warehouses, Fullscript helps eliminate concerns about freshness, purity and counterfeit products.
3) A reduction of 15% off MSRP on your account. Accounts purchasing an average of $175 per month get a 20% reduction. Consolidating purchases from multiple sources into a single Fullscript account may provide additional convenience and savings.
4) Personalized supplement protocols for clients, allowing recommended products with instructions to be organized in one place for simplified ordering and ongoing use.
5) For clients and non-clients alike, you will find curated collections for specific needs including immune support, gut health, brain health, stress and adrenal support, sleep support, and healthy aging.
6) Convenient ordering by computer or app for fast service, free shipping, and optional auto shipping.
7) You do not need to be an active client to access the Apothecary.
Designs for Health - Metagenics
Pure Encapsulations - Thorne
Restorative Formulations
Apex Energetics - Seeking Health
BrainMD - Life Extension - Gaia
Professional Formulas (Homeopathics)
Restorative Reformulations
Plus so many more…
Enjoy access to respected, well-known brand names including:
“You can’t go back and make a new start, but you can start right now and make a brand new ending.”
C. S. Lewis
Moments of Pause
Brief audio recordings (30 seconds to 5 minutes) designed to gently support nervous system regulation and help you build capacity in small, sustainable ways.
These are simple, steady practices — meant to be used in real life, not in perfect conditions.
Beauty as Regulation
Not every intervention comes in a bottle or a protocol.
Sometimes a quiet moment with beauty is enough to gently shift your physiology.
Roots & Wings * New Life. New Music. *
Roots & Wings * New Life. New Music. *
Our grandparents, our parents — and most of us — have a soundtrack tied to the best parts of our lives. Music that brings back when we were younger and more vibrant, danced the night away, and felt connected to people and life itself.
With chronic illness, those same songs may carry something else. They can highlight what’s changed in our lives — and instead of helping, they can overwhelm the nervous system.
For that reason, I often suggest finding new-to-you music.
Music without history.
Music that meets you where you are now.
What you will find here is some of the music I’m currently listening to AND loving. It will change every few weeks.
Nothing too loud.
Nothing too demanding.
Nothing too full of memories.
Just a little something to keep us company while supporting calm, settled nervous systems.
Food for Thought:
Essays and Mini-Essays
I was once taught an essay form that values clarity over completeness — brief reflections written from a single vantage point, often attributed to Sir Francis Bacon. I’ve taken up that pen again.
These essays are offered in the spirit of conversation. You might think of them as moments where I’d pause and ask, “Do you mind if I say something?”