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Dana Schaub MS RD LD RYT | Care for Your Body, Heart, Mind, and Soul

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  • Enjoying Gods playground today
    3 weeks ago by wholeselfcarerd Enjoying God’s playground today
  • I am completely intrigued by the Enneagram lately Its a
    3 weeks ago by wholeselfcarerd I am completely intrigued by the Enneagram lately. It’s a great tool for understanding our own complexities and empathizing with the other humans in our lives. (The “Enneagram Institute” has great tools on their website to learn more if this is complete gibberish to you :) . After taking several tests and studying the different types, I wasn’t 100% sure which type I was. When I realized I was a 9, it hit me like a bag of bricks (which is a typical experience for most). I initially mistyped myself as a 1 and wrote a post about it back
  • September 13th is a great day for firsts! The
    1 week ago by wholeselfcarerd September 13th is a great day for firsts! . The story of Dana and Ricky began exactly 12 years ago today. I was interviewing for my very first job as a newborn dietitian, and during a tour of the areas I’d cover in my job (spoiler alert—I got it), I met this guy named Ricky in Cardiac Rehab. Yadda yadda yadda, *insert heart emojis, we were married a year and a half later. . Now, 12 years later, it was a funny surprise that Ricky’s next stop would be, you guessed it, back to the hospital he served for many
  • Repost from kaelyrd How to not be bloated
    1 week ago by wholeselfcarerd  #Repost  from  @kaelyrd . How to not be bloated ⁣ ⁣ Movin’ on down the pipes for this microbiome series: your stomach (go back and start with the first ones if you’re just tuning in). ⁣ ⁣ We eat whenever we want, in any condition we want and just assume our stomach will be able to get the job done. ⁣ ⁣ Well lemme tell ya, the work the stomach does isn’t as simple as we’d like to believe! ⁣ ⁣ Once we send food down the hatch the stomach needs to provide physical digestion (churning and squishing up the food)
  • Have you ever considered that your behaviors to pursue health
    17 hours ago by wholeselfcarerd Have you ever considered that your behaviors to pursue “health” may actually be causing more harm? Are strict food rules and forced exercise truly making you feel better? When you don’t feel your best, do you feel guilty for not “doing MORE”? (As in, more controlled eating, harder exercise, etc.) . While I’m not negating the effect certain behaviors may have on our health, I want to invite you to dig deep into the motivations behind your actions, and what true health means for you. . Whole body health involves more than just the physical body. Whole health also considers