Fall Equinox

Today marks the beginning of fall here in the northern hemisphere. Equinoxes mark the time when the light of day and night are equal, a day of balance. After today, the days will begin to shorten as we make our approach toward winter. Here at my home in the Pacific Northwest, it feels like fall. […]

Drink Your Spring Lawn

If you haven’t read my blog called, Eat Your Spring Lawn, start there. One of my favorite things to make with all the fresh spring plants in my yard is a sun infusion. Here’s how: Step 1: Harvest the plants. For this sun infusion, I used dandelions, violets, cleavers, mint, and a few bee balm […]

Real Food with Jen Owen, NP: Planning

Hey everyone. Welcome back to Real Food with Jen Owen, N.P. I am so happy to have you along for this journey! After working diligently on Real Food in my home for the past several weeks, I have much to report and many tips to offer, but first, watch the newest video below now:   […]

Why Every Woman Needs Holistic Pelvic Care™

I’ve gotten a lot of interesting reactions since I began doing Holistic Pelvic Care™ (HPC), a technique that combines inter-vaginal massage with breath work to help women clear stagnation and other issues in the pelvic area. Some have thought it was odd, and even gross, that I would want to do this work. To me, […]

Real Food Experiment Week 2

Hello everyone and how are you doing with eating Real Foods? This week, we focused on eating up quite a bit of the factory foods we had and planning for this next week. An interesting note is that while I was eating more regular factory food than normal, I gained 5 pounds. Getting back to […]

Real Food Experiment Week 1

Today marks the first day of a new way of living at my house. We are beginning an experiment to change all of our food into “real food”; food as close to nature-made as possible; food not make in factories and food that does not stop off in factories. See the introduction straight from my […]

Office Physical Therapy

Did you know that many are calling sitting the new “silent killer”? In our culture, we are sitting more and more and it is taking a toll on our bodies. The way we sit and sitting without a break are very common sources of pain and injury. We can also have pain and injuries from […]

You Are Enough.

Recently, I listened to a talk by Dr. Marisa Peer. She is an author and therapist who works with international superstars, CEOs, royalty, and olympic athletes. Her technique is very simple. She helps people to realize that they are enough. Isn’t that really what is holding most of us back? We worry that we are not […]

No Time to Exercise???

The biggest block to exercise I hear is time, and I totally get it. You get the kids up, fed, and off to school or daycare, work all day, get home, cook dinner, do homework, baths, bedtime, try to spend a little quality time with your spouse, and then it’s time for bed to do […]

Stop Running From the Bear!

One of the most frequent conversations I have in my practice is about how many people are living most of their lives in the “fight or flight” response, the sympathetic nervous system. This system is designed to help us in an emergency, like when we are running from a bear. When we become stressed, the […]