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Angie Dawn Palmer 1/9/26 Angie Dawn Palmer 1/9/26

Planning Your Health Journey

Have you ever thought about time? The kind of reflection I’m thinking about is looking back after a busy season, and noticing weeks of little habits that disappeared as life got “lifey.”

Angie Dawn Palmer 1/2/26 Angie Dawn Palmer 1/2/26

Resolutions vs Goals

When I first began to change my food, I had started with a trainer who pushed me to change everything at once for a weight loss goal.

Angie Dawn Palmer 12/26/25 Angie Dawn Palmer 12/26/25

Nourishing Mental Health

We often shame ourselves over cravings.
The truth is, this is your body’s way of caring for you when you neglect it. When the body is missing certain nutrients or energy, …

Angie Dawn Palmer 12/19/25 Angie Dawn Palmer 12/19/25

Being Truly Present

I like routines. They keep me off of the emotional tilt-a-whirl.
Recovering from an eating disorder, I use some personal fences around eating. Most of these were gradually normalized with healthy behaviors…

Angie Dawn Palmer 12/12/25 Angie Dawn Palmer 12/12/25

Your New Best Friend

I think fiber should be celebrated the way that we celebrate about weight loss, cold plunging or meditation for health! Why do I feel so strongly about fiber?

Angie Dawn Palmer 11/21/25 Angie Dawn Palmer 11/21/25

Osteoporosis and Bone Density

A little known fact about your bones, is that you can rebuild them like a house—within reason, and if you don’t wait too long.

Angie Dawn Palmer 11/7/25 Angie Dawn Palmer 11/7/25

Setting Back the Clock

Here we go again! Leaving out the politics of whether or not falling back and springing forward is “good for society,” this one little hour wreaks havoc on your health. You aren’t imagining feeling lousy!

Angie Dawn Palmer 10/31/25 Angie Dawn Palmer 10/31/25

Seasonal Allergies

It’s that time of year again! Light is ending earlier, and the temperature drops. During the day around this time of year, I often have to have a change of clothes with me…

Angie Dawn Palmer 10/24/25 Angie Dawn Palmer 10/24/25

Finding Your Health Team

I wanted to talk a little bit about having a multifaceted health team. It frustrates me how our “health care” system is set up in silos. What we really need is a team of experts that share the load of a healing journey.

Angie Dawn Palmer 10/17/25 Angie Dawn Palmer 10/17/25

Fixing Cravings

When we want chocolate badly, is that a real need or a craving for some inner need for happy chemicals in the brain, a hug, vitamins, protein or water? Why do we have these cravings?

Angie Dawn Palmer 10/10/25 Angie Dawn Palmer 10/10/25

Cutting Down Cravings

Cravings, sigh. We all have them from time to time. I am finding as my life gets busier and I’m sleep less to fit it all in, I’m craving more things to make up for the lack of sleep.

Angie Dawn Palmer 9/19/25 Angie Dawn Palmer 9/19/25

Fixing Your Taste Buds

I remember when I thought I was being healthy for choosing sugar-free vanilla syrup in my coffee and having a lunch with Coke Zero. I was totally addicted to the sweetness.

Angie Dawn Palmer 9/12/25 Angie Dawn Palmer 9/12/25

It’s Not Your Fault

Beginning in the 70s when the cigarette companies finally had to be transparent and could no longer market Americans in the predatory way they had, they moved their business into Big Food.