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Just a few truly haunted houses from the wellness world for you to giggle at 🎃
10/28/2026

Just a few truly haunted houses from the wellness world for you to giggle at 🎃

Just some truly scary haunted house scenarios for you to giggle at.
10/28/2026

Just some truly scary haunted house scenarios for you to giggle at.

10/19/2026

To be able to give informed consent, you need to understand all of the possible benefits, risks, and outcomes of different treatments. In modern medicine, we are given a list of what these are because there is appropriate and sufficient research behind those treatments and modalities or medications. In the wellness world there are often little to no research to inform us of what the possible risks and benefits are for different treatments which means we’re more likely to hear about the benefits than the potential risks.

If you’re looking into using a wellness treatment or modality supplement or herbal medicine, it’s really important to understand what this can and cannot do. So please ask your provider to provide that to you and if they give vague answers or can’t give any answer that’s a huge red flag for me. For some patience it still might be worth it to try but for others perhaps this can help you look more critically at treatments instead of just the hype that we receive.



10/12/2026

Being ignored or dismissed from care because you have normal labs is a total cop out in my opinion. If you experience symptoms that change your life or require you to change your life in order to function that should be taken seriously and lab work is only one part of the puzzle. If you feel like you’re being dismissed because of normal labs, it can be helpful to ask what the labs were hoping to find or look for or confirm so that you have more clarity on what was tested and why and then ask for next steps because lab work is only one piece of information. There may be additional testing trials of medications or other specialist that you can get referred to, but sometimes doctors will opt for the easy way out, and that means shutting the conversation down instead of keeping it going. By being able to ask more questions and guide the conversation to what’s next instead of accepting normal as an answer, you might be able to get more comprehensive care.

Maybe you need a little laugh today. Although none of these scenarios are really laughing matter since they often harm p...
10/06/2026

Maybe you need a little laugh today. Although none of these scenarios are really laughing matter since they often harm patients - physically, emotionally, socially and financially.

09/29/2026

One of the biggest and most dangerous red flags you can find in the wellness industry is when a provider requires that you stop all other treatments, discontinue seeing all other providers and only listen to information from them.

This is incredibly harmful on so many levels and can result in disastrous outcomes. But at the core, it’s a course of control tactic, and this is why I often referred to the wellness industry as the “cult of wellness“

Controlling your behavior and where you access information are to huge categories of how cohesive control works. And of course there’s a very fine line here because when you’re hiring a provider, you’re hiring them in a sense to control you to help you change behaviors or to find new information. That provider is in a position of power and by requiring exclusivity of you, they are abusing that Power

If you’re thinking about using a modality in the wellness industry or hiring a wellness provider, we’ve created a free tool to help you Vet providers with a little more confidence. You can access it for free with our link in bio.

09/25/2026

When you’re trying to get diagnosed and feeling like you’re being dismissed one of the things I want you to actually avoid is leading your appointment with your suspected diagnosis. This can feel really infuriating and frustrating because you probably done a lot of work getting to the place for you think you figured out what’s going on. But sometimes leading with the theory of your diagnosis, triggers dismissal even further from your provider and sometimes your suspected diagnosis can actually bias us the provider in favor of that diagnosis and cut off further evaluation. This actually happened to me where I thought I had one thing it ultimately was more than one thing, but my doctor never dug into it because she agreed with my suspect diagnosis and it took years to figure out the additional issues that were happening.

So lead with your symptoms, the severity of those symptoms and describe how it impacts your life describe how you have to change your life in order to do the things you were able to do before or how you can no longer do those things because of how much this impacts you. Don’t forget to write things down. It’s OK to come with a notebook or something written down so that you make sure you cover everything you plan to cover in that visit.

And if your clinician continues to dismiss you after all of that work, don’t forget to request that they notate it in your chart that they are refusing to look further into the symptoms you presented to them on that day #

09/21/2026

We’re really excited to announce that Kim’s first children’s book is now available to read and purchase.

It’s Okay to Trust an Expert tackles an increasingly important topic: how do we help kids navigate conflicting information, strong opinions, and the growing influence of anti-intellectualism?

The story follows Dani, a curious kid who becomes confused by all the conflicting messages she hears from the adults around her. When she asks her dad how she’s supposed to know who to trust, they have a conversation about why people sometimes feel certain that they’re right.

Sometimes people hold tightly to their beliefs because they’re scared. Sometimes they aren’t curious enough to question what they already believe. And sometimes, they simply don’t know.

Experts spend years, and often decades, studying, training, and working within a particular field. That doesn’t mean we should believe everything an expert says without question. It means their expertise should carry more weight than the opinion of someone who hasn’t spent that same time developing knowledge in the field.

The goal isn’t blind trust. It’s curiosity, critical thinking, and discernment.

We live in a time when anti-intellectualism and the dismissal of expertise can have very real and sometimes harmful consequences. This book offers families a simple, approachable way to start conversations about how we decide what information deserves our attention.

Kim is passionate about helping people understand coercive control, cognitive biases, and problematic thinking patterns. It’s Okay to Trust an Expert is one way to begin teaching kids how to think critically while keeping the conversation accessible and age-appropriate.

The book is available FREE through Kindle Unlimited, and hardcover copies are available for purchase through the link in our bio!

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