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✨ Practitioner at Mandeville Total Wellness
🎓 Tulane Health & Wellness Grad.
✨ Certified NRT Practitioner
✨ Advanced Bioenergetics
💁‍♀️ Here to help your body feel heard 🫶
❌ Not Medical Advice

11/12/2026

Before we ever assess your body, we will find our energy and lock together so we can assess accurately! If you've never watched a muscle test happen, it's a little funny how simple it looks. I have you hold your arm out, and I ask you to match my pressure and push up toward the ceiling. When the deltoid holds nice and still, that's what we call a locked muscle. Then we do it again with a different polarity, and the same arm just drops right down. That's an unlocked muscle. It's the same arm and the same you, and your body is showing us something it can't say out loud.

That's the whole reason I do this. I don't have to guess at what your body is working so hard on. I get to watch it tell me. Your body is not your enemy, it's working incredibly hard with whatever you've given it, and this is one small way we listen back.

NRT® is how we analyze and identify underlying causes so we can recommend nutritional support for the body's own healing. It's not a diagnosis, and it doesn't replace your own provider.

If you want to talk about what that looks like for you, call the office at (985) 624-9888 or comment GUIDE to get our online booking link and our free whole foods guide.

❌ Not medical advice. Our content reflects observations from years of clinical practice.

11/11/2026

If you drink a diet soda every day, you probably picked it on purpose, because every label and ad told you it was the smart move.

The study in this carousel followed what happened to people who made that swap for years. It shows an association, not proof, and I would rather you hear that from me than from a headline. But after forty years of testing bodies with NRT®, I can tell you what I see: the people running on chemical isolates are rarely the ones with the strongest terrain. Pull the one drink you reach for out of your routine and use plain water for two weeks. Pay attention to what your body tells you. Your body is telling us something with every reaction, and what's actually going on usually starts with what goes in.

If you want to talk about what that looks like for you, call the office at (985) 624-9888 or comment GUIDE to get our online booking link and our free whole foods guide.

❌ Not medical advice. Our content reflects observations from years of clinical practice.

11/10/2026

Last time this patient came in, one spot was blocked. Right ear, eyes open. So today we went back to it with the same assessment and it held. I said, "Look at that. Beautiful. You're no longer blocked there." I told him good job, because honestly he did all the work.

This is a muscle-response test. It's me reading how the body answers when I ask, and last visit it said one thing and today it says another. I love seeing that. Your body is not your enemy. It's working incredibly hard with whatever you give it, and sometimes it just needs the right support to stop being stuck in one spot. I'm still a patient myself, and I still get a little giddy when something that was blocked isn't anymore.

If you want to talk about what that looks like for you, call the office at (985) 624-9888 or comment GUIDE to get our online booking link and our free whole foods guide.

❌ Not medical advice. Our content reflects observations from years of clinical practice.

11/09/2026

You know your body better than any chart or algorithm. Learning to track patterns, in your energy, your sleep, your digestion, your mood across your cycle, gives you information no single lab result can provide. That awareness is not anxiety. It is intelligence about your own system. And it is where real healing always begins. 💬 Do you track how you feel day to day? What have you noticed that surprised you? 📍 Mandeville Total Wellness | Link in bio

❌ Not medical advice. Our content reflects observations from years of clinical practice.

11/05/2026

Okay, so I want to tell you about the part of healing nobody puts on the brochure. Sometimes you start feeling better and then you get a drop. You're going up, going up, and then you feel a little off for a day or two.

Here's what I explain to patients. When your body starts clearing things out, it's got a lot of waste product it suddenly needs to get rid of, and that can show up as a little bit of inflammation or some detox symptoms. That's one reason the dosing matters so much. We're not trying to see how much you can take. We're finding what your body can handle right now. What your body can handle. That's the number we go by.

So in that first stretch, I'm comfortable saying: let's add water, let's add supplements slowly, and let's leave some space in the day for something that's actually restful. I'm a patient too, and I have absolutely been the person who wanted to do everything at once.

Your body is not your enemy. It is working incredibly hard with whatever you give it. Go easy on it.

If you want to talk about what that looks like for you, call the office at (985) 624-9888 or comment GUIDE to get our online booking link and our free whole foods guide.

❌ Not medical advice. Our content reflects observations from years of clinical practice.

11/04/2026

Comment IMMUNE for our seasonal immune support bundle! Many people like to have this on standby for the moment they feel that first sign of sickness. And, as always, bring it in on your next visit to test!

Same virus going around, two very different outcomes. I have watched that play out in this office for four decades, and it never comes down to who got exposed. It comes down to who walked into the season with a body that was already overloaded and backed up. Your body is telling us where it stands long before the first cough shows up.

With NRT® we analyze what is actually going on underneath, identify the underlying stressors, and recommend nutritional support so your body can do what it was built to do. Early fall, while you still feel fine, is the time to look.

If you want to talk about what that looks like for you, call the office at (985) 624-9888 or comment GUIDE to get our online booking link and our free whole foods guide.

Comment IMMUNE for our seasonal immune support bundle!

❌ Not medical advice. Our content reflects observations from years of clinical practice.

11/03/2026

Somebody comes in and says, "I was doing so great, and all of a sudden my digestive symptoms are back." And I think, okay, something switched. So we go find it.

This clip is that hunt! I'm using NRT® (Nutrition Response Testing®), which is a muscle-response test. I ask the body a question and see if the muscle holds. Does this group make it strong? No. Okay, this one by itself? No. Then there are two in the group, so I have them lock it, and this time it does. Interesting. That's the one to look at.

Symptoms returning usually means something changed and the body is telling us where to look. You're not failing and your body isn't your enemy. It's working incredibly hard with whatever you give it, and sometimes it just needs us to ask the right question.

This is how we identify underlying causes and recommend nutritional support to support the body's own healing.

If you want to talk about what that looks like for you, call the office at (985) 624-9888 or comment GUIDE to get our online booking link and our free whole foods guide.

❌ Not medical advice. Our content reflects observations from years of clinical practice.

11/02/2026

This is why addressing one symptom in isolation rarely works long-term. The gut affects the brain. The liver affects hormones. The nervous system affects digestion. Sleep affects immunity. Immunity affects mood. When we look at the whole picture, the connections that were invisible before suddenly become very clear, and the path forward makes a lot more sense. 💬 What symptom connection surprised you the most when you learned about it? 📍 Mandeville Total Wellness | Link in bio

❌ Not medical advice. Our content reflects observations from years of clinical practice.

10/29/2026

I'll be honest, for a long time I thought stress meant a bad week. A deadline, a fight, a day where I wanted to lie face down on the kitchen floor. And that counts. But here's what gets me: your nervous system can't tell a traffic jam from a money worry from a night of bad sleep. To your body, stress is stress. A poor diet, ongoing inflammation, a hard relationship, consistent poor sleep, it all lands in the same bucket.

We're not going to get rid of every stressor. Nobody gets to. The trouble is that the stress response itself never gets switched off, and after enough time the whole system gets overwhelmed. It's not a weakness or something you did wrong. Your body is working incredibly hard with whatever it's been handed.

So if you've been telling yourself you should be handling it better, please be gentler with yourself. Your body is not your enemy.

If you want to talk about what that looks like for you, call the office at (985) 624-9888 or comment GUIDE to get our online booking link and our free whole foods guide.

❌ Not medical advice. Our content reflects observations from years of clinical practice.

10/28/2026

Everybody wants to know if ultra-processed food really hurts the gut. Here is how I read this one.

It is a small study. Twenty young, healthy adults. The pattern showed up anyway, and that is the part worth noticing. When even healthy people show a shift in the bacteria tied to gut lining health, you are looking at a signal, not proof.

Here is what I see in the room. Processed food is not food. It is a product built to last on a shelf, loaded with additives your body has to sort out. The gut does the first sorting. The liver does the next. When they fall behind, the overflow has to go somewhere, and it often goes out through the skin.

That is why I never treat a rash or a breakout as just a skin problem. Your body is telling us something upstream is overloaded.

With NRT® we analyze what your body is reacting to, identify the underlying stressors, and recommend nutritional support so the body can do what it was designed to do. We should be eating like our ancestors ate!!

Call the office at (985) 624-9888 or comment GUIDE to get our online booking link and our free whole foods guide.

If you want to talk about what that looks like for you, call the office at (985) 624-9888 or comment GUIDE to get our online booking link and our free Whole Foods guide.

❌ Not medical advice. Our content reflects observations from years of clinical practice.

Address

221 St Ann Drive # 2
Mandeville, LA
70471

Telephone

+19856249888

Website

https://mandevilletotalwellness.com/

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