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Your Wholistic Healing Journey Starts Here. Join our next event to learn more. "Santosha" is the ancient Sanskrit word for contentment and active acceptance.

Discover contentment in your body & life through Functional Nutrition, Lifestyle Coaching, Yoga Therapy and Ayurvedic Wisdom. What would it feel like to completely accept yourself and feel content with your life? What would it take to get there? We are here to help you find out...

We view each person as a multidimensional system, including all aspects of body, breath, mind, intellect and emotions. Our aim is to address each facet as part of an integrated body

11/11/2026

You’ve explained this before.

You explained the bloating to one person. The exhaustion to someone else. The crying that comes out of nowhere, you mentioned once, to somebody who was looking at a screen.

Each of them got a piece. Nobody got the part where all of it started in the same year. That’s the part that would have told them something.

A first appointment here is ninety minutes and most of it is questions. Digestion, elimination, where your energy goes across the day, whether your joints ache. And then: what were the last few years like, what was happening when this started, and does your body settle after a hard conversation or stay switched on for hours.

Those two sets of questions belong to two different professions. I’m licensed for both, so they happen in the same room.

And the thing that most often cracks a case open isn’t a test result. It’s a timeline: what started when, and what else changed around the same time.

Only then does anything get ordered. I have lab ordering authority as a registered dietitian in California, so I order what the pattern calls for and read it myself against everything you told me.

And if you’ve been told this is anxiety: sometimes that’s the right answer, and when it is, that’s a real finding. I’m a therapist and I take it seriously. I just won’t conclude it without checking the physical causes that look identical from the outside.

Full piece in bio.

11/05/2026

You’ve done the protein. You’ve tried magnesium. You went to bed earlier for three weeks straight. You cut out the thing a podcast told you to cut out.

Some of it helped a little. Most of it did not. And somewhere in there, you started wondering whether the problem is you.

It is not. Here is what gets left out of all that advice: every one of those levers has a precondition. Protein only helps if you’re breaking it down and absorbing it. Magnesium only helps if it reaches the places that use it. Sleep advice assumes your blood sugar holds steady overnight.

Most nutrient deficiencies are not intake problems. They are absorption problems. And when the nervous system reads things as unsafe, the body treats digestion as optional, so less gets absorbed, which makes everything harder to handle, which keeps the loop going.

I’ve been making this series since the spring. Energy, hormones, weight, gut, the nervous system. Five topics, one path underneath all of them. We call it The Return to You.

Two phases. Your story first: a real intake where both sets of questions get asked, then testing ordered from what the asking turned up. I have lab ordering authority as a registered dietitian in California, so I order what the pattern calls for and read it myself. Then your rebuild: fortify first, meaning we rebuild what you’re depleted in with the specific nutrients your testing showed were missing. That is not the diet. Then the gut and liver reset. Then the diet that’s actually right for you. The order is most of the value.

Nervous system support runs alongside all of it from the first appointment. Not a step you finish before you’re allowed to start.

And none of this is a reason to stop the care you already have. Medication is often the right call and that stays with your prescriber. If you have a therapist you trust, keep going. I’m a therapist. What I’m adding is the half nobody has been looking at.

Full path in this week’s piece. Link in bio.

10/28/2026

In a first appointment I’ll ask whether your body settles after a hard conversation, or stays switched on for hours. Then I’ll ask about your digestion, your elimination, your energy across the day, whether your joints ache.

Most women have never had both of those in one conversation. Those questions belong to two different professions. Most clinicians are licensed for one. I’m licensed for both.

Your physician ran a panel built to detect disease. Your therapist has your history and has never seen a lab result. The labs that would explain how you feel are often in neither file. Nobody ordered them.

As a registered dietitian in California, I can order labs, so I order the tests a case actually calls for and read them myself. As a licensed therapist, I also take a mental health history. Usually that means a comprehensive nutritional evaluation, not a routine panel, read next to everything you told me.

The most useful thing in a combined assessment is almost never a test result. It’s a timeline. The anxiety started eight months ago. The cycles changed ten months ago. The red meat came out two years ago and nothing replaced it. None of those is remarkable alone. Together they’re a hypothesis, and a testable one. Usually, no single provider has all three.

To be clear: I’m not a physician and I don’t prescribe. Where medication is appropriate, and it often is, that belongs with your prescriber and we work alongside them. If you have a therapist you trust, keep going. This isn’t an argument to replace anyone. It’s an argument that somebody should be looking at both halves together.

This series started in the spring. Energy, hormones, weight, gut, and this month the nervous system. Different topics, same path underneath every one. We call it The Return to You. Two phases: Your Story first, then Your Rebuild, with the nervous system work running alongside from day one. Next month I’ll walk you through the whole thing.

If you’ve been here since the spring, be here in November. Link in bio if you’re ready before then.

10/22/2026

You’ve probably been asked to pick a side. Is this anxiety or is it hormonal. Is it in your head or in your body.

Every version of that question assumes there’s an answer. Often there isn’t, because what you’re dealing with is a circle.

Survival mode slows digestion. Less digestion means less absorption. Less absorption means fewer of the raw materials your brain builds mood chemistry from. Less of that chemistry means less capacity to handle stress, which keeps you in survival mode.

Here is the part almost nobody explains. Serotonin gets built, step by step, and each step needs a nutrient to run. The enzyme that starts it requires iron. The step that finishes it requires vitamin B6, which also builds GABA, your brain’s main calming signal. Research has found that even mild B6 deficiency reduces GABA and serotonin production specifically.

This is why everything you tried worked partway. Therapy works on the psychological piece. Supplements target the deficiency. Stress management targets the nervous system. Each is correct. Each hits the same ceiling, because the rest of the loop keeps running underneath it.

To be clear about the limits: not everything is nutritional. Some anxiety is primarily psychological and needs psychological treatment. Medication helps many women and is often the right call. The loop explains why partial results are so common, not that the body explains everything.

This is exactly the part that gets split in half. A therapist explains the psychological loop. A dietitian explains the nutritional one. I am licensed for both, which is why I can show you the whole circle.

Working out which part of the loop is currently holding the rest in place is the assessment we do at Santosha Wellness.

Which piece of the circle have you been working on?

Save this one. It explains a lot.

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