Rebirth Your Body at Home Between Shoots: 3 Potent Therapies
You made it. The set high is still present, but as you fly home you recognize the intensity of the last few months and its toll on your body. You need to recover. Another project is hitting in 3 months and you need to be at 100% again. All you want to do is curl up and hide away in your home cave…
What if I told you that you can do both, at once – hibernate and recover?
Yep. I’ve got you. Let’s break this down. Keep it simple. Keep it at home. And rebirth your body for resilience.
Top 3 Therapies for Quick Recovery
My specialty is stacking and using your time efficiently. We can activate healing, multiple layers at once, and we will do it. Let’s look at my top 3 recommendations.
#1 Hyperbaric Chamber
This is the most powerful reset available to you. I refer to it as the healing nap. You lay or sit in a well-spaced chamber and rest or sleep while breathing pure oxygen under increased air pressure. It feels very similar to flying in a plane cabin. If you tend towards claustrophobia like me, we will set you up with a larger chamber, so you feel at peace. The options on the market are incredible right now, so we can find you the perfect match. I am a connoisseur of chambers.
The impact of spending time in a hyperbaric chamber is systemic – meaning it affects your entire body in one fell swoop – and initiates a massive reset and recovery of your stress-handling organs. Your soft tissue organs, like your brain (think hypothalamus and pituitary), adrenals, and thyroid gland, absorb the potent oxygen you’re breathing at a heightened rate due to the cabin pressure. This pure oxygen is like heavy luscious rain for your organ’s dehydrated crispy soil, it soaks, nourishes and revitalizes instantly at the cellular level – a deeply powerful experience for the body.
Chambers can be rented and delivered to your home between shoots or if you love it as much as I think you will, you can invest in your own chamber to use at home whenever you want. I love doing home visits or virtual tours to match clients with their best fit.
It’s vitally important to move through this therapy with an understanding of your body’s starting state. If you have chronic symptoms or labels like Lyme, MCAS or any autoimmune condition, please work with me to create a custom schedule to prevent healing reactions. If you’re simply fatigued and wanting to revitalize yourself, follow my general recommendation below to start!
General Recommendations
for personalized guidance, please step into my Concierge Reset
Ideally space these out with 1-2 days in between for your body to utilize the cellular jumpstart it received during the session. As a reminder, I specialize in serving the sensitive body, so even this general recommendation is tailored with that in mind.
1st week: 60 min 3x a week
2nd week: 90 min 3x a week
3rd week: 90-120 min 2x a week
4th/5th week: 120 min 3x a week
6-8th week: 120 min 4x a week
9-12th week: 90 min 3x a week
#2 PEMF, Light & Infrared Heat Stack
Revive your skin, reset your energy, and deepen your natural sleep recovery in one quick pre-bed session. This stack is like getting a hug from the most-motherly human in your life, leaving you soul settled, your body grounded, and your mind refreshed. You will emerge reborn!
I recommend enjoying this stack 2-3 hours after eating dinner and 1 hour before bed. Shower and climb under your fresh sheets right after this therapy for the most powerful impact. Your body will use this gift of support throughout your overnight rest and after a few weeks you will wake up each morning feeling like a new human. Just writing about this makes me want to do it right now! It’s hard to top this feeling…
There are a couple of ways to create this combo of tools. You can have multiple tools or use a system that includes all of them in one – my preference. I have my favorites that are very easy to keep in your home and even have an aesthetic appeal if you find you keep leaving it out for convenience.
Bonus Note: If you were exposed to any kind of toxin while shooting, mold, for instance, then you will want to add in the correct binders to enhance clearance. See me for this customization.
This Marriage of Modalities Can Provide:
Nervous system regulation with the power of PEMF frequencies
Activation of your cells’ engines to promote clearance and regeneration
Lymphatic movement to detoxify and enhance immune system recovery
Common Results:
Glowing skin
Toxin clearance
Bounding energy
Restorative sleep
Toned and sculpted body
Sharper mind
Immune resilience
Fast recovery
General Recommendations
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1st week: 15-30 min 3x a week
2nd week: 30-45 min 3x a week
3-6th week: 45 min 4x a week
6-10th week: 60 min 3x a week
11/12th week: 45 min 4x a week
Please wear organic or natural cotton clothing. Ideally, get in naked. Always, always, shower directly afterwards. Do not let the sweat dry on your skin. The toxins will be reabsorbed.
#3 Focused Nutrient Rebuild
We can’t skip the necessary step of re-nourishing your vessel post-shoot! Often, the extreme places you go to embody your role and express the story drain you deeply. Your brain and nervous system don’t know the difference between reality and your imagination. In other words, your body thinks it just went through the highs and lows of the world you and the crew created. So… your recovery should match the level of intensity and depth of this. At times, I would even say this is PTSD-level work.
Obviously, every shoot varies, but often clients return from a shoot and their labs show massive deficiencies simply because they lived in full survival mode for the entire 4-6 months. The late nights and early mornings, subpar food, extreme temperatures, heavy makeup turnover and olympic-level brain requirements all take a toll on the body. If you do not enter the shoot with robust nutrient stores, you will be dragging your war-torn body home.
My approach is not just about recovery, it’s also about preparation and prevention. Just as you prepare for a role mentally and emotionally, so you can prepare for it physically. Capacity is everything when it comes to resilience in this industry. As you recover from your last shoot, you are also rebuilding to enter your next, ready for game time.
The last thing you want is to get an opportunity you’ve dreamt about and not be able to give it your all because you’re depleted and not functioning at full tilt. Please don’t find yourself here.
When we’re considering nutrient levels, we want to keep it succinct and potent, so that you’re not taking a hoard of random filler supplements or navigating a complicated diet regimen. We do this by incorporating a custom powerful morning cupper and targeted nutrient protocol, based on lab testing and your innate areas of vulnerability within the body. I use advanced personalized labs and astrological mapping to uncover your nuanced needs. The supplements are therapeutic and in forms that hit the body almost instantly, meaning we’re able to shift you quickly and profoundly. I am a supplement savant. I love this work.
General Recommendations
for a personalized tonic and protocol, please step into my Concierge Reset
To do this on your own, a great place to start is with the Blood Type diet. Also uncover your Human Design digestive style and weave this into how, when and where you eat. Pair it with the foundational supplements and the baseline tonic.
Mêrfleur Baseline Tonic – source ingredients here
1 tbsp Collagen Powder
1 tbsp Cacao Powder
1 tbsp IAG Powder
1 tbsp TOCOS
1 tsp of MSM
1 tsp Inositol (Balanced B8)
1/8-1/2 tsp Matcha
*Optional: 1/8 tsp Peppermint Extract
*Optional: 1/2 tsp Raw Honey or Sucant
Combine with hot spring water and stir well to dissolve fully. Sip with breakfast. If you get jittery, reduce the cacao powder amount and make sure your meal has a fat, protein, and carb within it.
Re-Nourishing Supplement Basics
Magnesium: glycine and/or taurate
Probiotic: native and/or transient
Aloe Vera Juice: 2-4 oz on an empty stomach every morning
HCL: with every meal
Enzymes: with every meal
Adaptogens & Nootropics to match needs: rhodiola rosea, astragalus, kava, etc.
Glandulars for depleted organs – thyroid, adrenal, kidneys, brain, ovaries, etc.
Empower Yourself With Delegation
May your recovery be quick and robust! If you desire support and delegation of this portion of your process, connect with me for concierge reset care. You’ll have an on-hand expert with you everywhere you go and will never have to navigate your health alone again. Reset your body with me and return to your work reborn and resilient.
Your Health Impacts Humanity
Your calling is a cultural need. Humanity needs healthy artists. When you sink into your work, you reflect humanity back to itself and keep our hearts tender, our egos in check, and our minds open. Your health matters.
Reminder: Please run everything medical by your preferred licensed provider before proceeding.
Weekly Energetic Weather: April 28th-May4th
Overall Themes
Monday-Saturday
Patterns. We are facing our repetitive cycles this week. Both beneficial and damaging, we all have actions, habits, thoughts that swoop in to ease discomfort, tension or pain. I encourage you to notice what you turn to when life gets hard – when that moment of stillness or frustration arrives and instead of sitting in it, all of a sudden, you have to do something to get out of it. What is your natural go-to? Is it searching for chocolate, caving to that harsh inner voice that tells you you’re never going to make it, nail-biting, over-exercising, planning another “get-together” with friends, zoning out on instagram, tiktok, shows or music?
When you feel that pull this week, pause for a minute, and come back into your body.
Hold yourself here for a few minutes and see what happens. Notice the discomfort in your body and acknowledge it out loud - use your voice. Continue to sit with it. Any additional symptoms arising? Itching? Aches? Heart palpitations? Heat? This is your body talking to you. It’s communicating an emotion that is asking you to take a deeper look at an underlying need. You can run from it and distract yourself, but this is what you usually do, right? So perhaps just for this moment, try going a little longer with it. What comes up? How does your intuition guide you? If you’re having trouble interpreting the meaning of your body’s messages, pop into a single session with me this week and we can interpret it together.
If you’re able to sit with this stillness and feel the pulse of tension all the way through until it dissipates, what do you find at the end of it? A revelation, I bet. What lands for you? A delightful, surprising truth? Let me know what you uncover.
Saturday-Sunday
Over the weekend we will continue to go further inward. Reflecting on our patterns will lead us to consider, on a wider scale, where we are headed. Are we progressing as intended or are we lost, feeling disconnected and out of sync with ourselves and humanity as a whole? There is a divide in you between your internal masculine and feminine energies - a need for organization and answers, but an aching for freedom and possibilities.
A very feminine few days, you might feel a call to cultivate community and unity, a desire to be in flow instead of rigid form. Paired with taurus season and a leo moon… I’m predicting a lot of desire to create and post it all online, a need to cover your home in fresh flowers, and a longing to pack all your favorites around a table full of gorgeous and grounding foods. DO IT and invite me or send me pictures :).
Moon Schedule
The moon impacts your subconscious, your body is the physical expression of your subconscious, so your health is tied tightly to the rhythms and state of the moon. Let’s go over this week’s energetic weather:
April 28th - Moon Is In Taurus:
Body Zone 2: lower head, jaw, mouth, salivary glands, and tongue, ears, throat, thyroid, neck
Take extra care of yourself if you have a tendency towards hypo, hyper or autoimmune thyroid imbalance today; any extremes should pass tomorrow as the moon switches
Taurus is all about the body - savoring, relaxing, honoring. This is a lovely time to treat the body as you feel led. It’s also a time to slow down and move with intention.
April 29th - Moon Moves Into Gemini:
Body Zone 3: speech centers of the brain, upper lungs and inhaling, shoulders, arms and hands
You may find yourself chattier. It’s a great time for interviews, phone calls and presentations. This is also your reminder to slow down and take a breath between words, you might notice a tendency to hold your breath. Relieve tension in your shoulders with a massage - book with your favorite therapist or if you’re on the go - a theracane works magic!
April 30th - Venus enters Aries - you may feel relief of eye and head pressure today and a clearing of congestion. Copper and estrogen levels will drop dramatically, which can cause heart palpitations and, depending on your hormonal state, an energetic lightness or if you’re already deficient, dry skin and hair. The kidneys may be challenged due to the dryness, so please stay hydrated and enjoy potassium-rich foods or a supplemental form. Lastly, it is a very affectionate day, let yourself dance freely and soak in love!
May 1st - Moon Moves Into Cancer:
Body Zone 4: lower lungs, rib cage, breasts, diaphragm, esophagus and stomach
A tender energy, you may feel extra sensitive to light, temperature, sleep, and family/attachment-bond memories. This could show up as stomach or digestive symptoms.
Continue to focus on your breath as you did with the moon in Gemini
If you notice a challenge in your lung expansion, like an elephant is sitting on your chest, consider testing for mold and fungal toxins or improving oxygenation in the blood with nicotinamide - see me for dosing and test interpretation.
May 3rd - Moon Moves Into Leo
Body Zone 5: heart - muscles and electrical function, spinal alignment, gallbladder, back muscles
A great time to take extra magnesium to stay relaxed and open, contraction of the heart and back muscles can lead to anger, irritation, confusion and irrational action.
Leo is all about being seen and shining like the sun - show up online, for your people, let yourself glow and receive the attention. Your body will support you!
May 4th - Pluto goes retrograde in Aquarius. This is BIG. A sign tightly connected to chronic conditions, you will be invited to reset and consider the deeper meaning behind these symptoms. An inward journey, you may also find yourself re-evaluating arrangements, cultural constructs, old systems, repetitive mental patterns and decide you want a change! This is a season of reset and rebirth! This is my jam, so I’m excited to walk through this with you all!
Your astrological map is a powerful tool to understand sources of chronic symptoms, health blocks, your body’s vulnerabilities and strengths, and the best preventative measures to stay strong, youthful, vibrant, and dis-ease free. I can introduce you to your map in my single session or use your astrology to dive very deep as a part of your Concierge Reset. Come see me!
Weekly Energetic Weather: April 21-27th
Overall Themes
Monday-Sunday
Taurus season is about nourishment, especially nourishment of the body. This is a moment to come home, to ground and settle into your space, so make time to savor the goodness, the juiciness of your 3D experience.
This week has one theme running through it. A time of both self and selflessness, you are first invited to tend to your own needs and then from this place of wholeness open up your heart. Walking and moving through life with an open heart is one of the most selfless acts you can take. Giving of your energy, your time and attention is THE gift. No one is owed this. But when the moment is pure and right and you are open, selflessness will just flow out of you naturally.
I don’t see self care or the progress to selflessness as opposing and I do feel they can happen side by side, but the key is nurturing trust with your body. The more you consistently show up for your body and demonstrate that you will care for it first and foremost, the more your body will relax and open and flow in the presence of others that have needs.
One interesting note about this week is that in order to make the transition from self-nourishment to selflessness, more than empathy is needed. You already have this in spades as a Natural Sensitive, what you may not possess is purpose. Knowing why you’re here and, as a result, “loosely” where you’re headed is a large piece of the pie to living freely and fully within the realm of selflessness. If you don’t know who you are or why you’re here, it will consciously consume you, create a need for continual distraction or you will simply feel like you’re wandering… lost. The most selfless act you can take is to pour yourself into this study. Uncover how you work, your wiring, the intention behind your creation, your role in God’s story and then from this framework move forward in life. The openness, the freedom, the courage that will arise may astound you. I don’t dare promise certainty as nothing in life is certain, and it’s a facade anyways, but you will have a North Star.
Start with yourself. Come home. Soak in the beauty of this body and life. Learn yourself. Honor yourself, in everything. Then… unfold and awaken to the world around you. Share the outflow of love and joy and peace that exudes from the Taurean foundation you’ve nourished.
This is an ongoing cycle - you may be at the beginning again, need to focus on yourself or you may be at the end flying around like a butterfly of love and generosity. Wherever you are, it’s where you’re meant to be. Be there. Any spot on this circle beautiful. I’m currently flowing through it every few days. Today I’m feeling the selfness open generosity, last weekend and this weekend I was deep in self-nourishment. Let it flow, slow or fast, it’s all human and it’s all healthy.
Moon Schedule
April 21st - Moon is In Aquarius:
Body Zone 11: influences the rods and cones of eyes, quality and oxygenation of blood, cellular respiration (oxygen-carbon exchange),venous system, spinal nerves, ankles, shins. *sign often related to source of chronic illness
April 22: strong electrical PSA - electricity in the body think heart, thyroid, muscles, electrolytes - minerals. Stay hydrated and if you have a random spasm, dont panic just get some good hydrating spring water and a pinch of sea salt in you. If your heart starts to palpate, take magnesium glycinate or lie down and slow your breathing - in for 3 counts exhale for 4 counts.
April 23rd - Moon moves into Pisces:
Body Zone 12: influences the lymphatic system, extra cellular matrix (internal sea), cellular hydration, intestinal porousness/mucous levels/nutrient absorption, cecum and duodenum function, parasympathetic nervous system, supernatural causes of imbalance (etiologies), subconscious impact on biology, sleep, feet/toes
April 24th: a time for fertility and starting things that will last. This is a very yin/female moment so your hormones or your feminine desires may rise, which will look different for everyone depending on where you’re starting from. If you have an imbalance in your hormonal production, it may be exacerbated. If you’re healing and moving towards rejuvenation, you may see strong progress! Longing for love will come up here too. Care for yourself well.
April 25th - Moon moves into Aries:
Body Zone 1: influences the sense of sight, eyes, entire brain, especially motor centers, top of head/cranium, adrenal glands, upper jaw, teeth
A fantastic day to work with the fascia! I love Human Garage for this! Try their organ reset on this day to marry the yin energy.
Watch for head and eye nerve-based pain or discomfort. Eye strain may come forward this day, so be gentle. Enjoy looking over vast expanses, use blue light blockers and take breaks from your phone or other screens.
April 26th: ears, nose, and throat may become congested or inflammed today. Gargle, massage around the ears, use gua sha or hands to gently drain the face down the neck… if you’re a client of mine - use your warming sock therapy to improve draining from the head the night before and after if you’re feeling stuck or blocked here.
April 27th - Moon moves into Taurus:
Body Zone 2: influences the lower head/neck/throat (thyroid, parathyroid), base of brain, ears/hearing, mouth (tongue, salivary glands, lower teeth, gums) lower jaw/chin, gullet, pharynx, vocal chords, upper esophagus, swallowing reflex, epiglottis, jugular veins and carotid arteries and thymus
New Moon! A beautiful new cycle. Notice where Taurus lands in your houses and which of your planets are in this cozy homey sign. These are the areas that are asking for attention and getting a rebirth or jumpstart with this new moon. Whatever emotions are tied to your house and planets in Taurus are what will also be experienced in the body during this time. Look it up HERE.
Your astrological map is a powerful tool to understand sources of chronic symptoms, health blocks, your body’s vulnerabilities and strengths, and the best preventative measures to stay strong, youthful, vibrant, and dis-ease free. I can introduce you to your map in my single session or use your astrology to dive very deep as a part of your Concierge Reset. Come see me!
GABA as a Non-Addictive Solution for Racing Thoughts & Body Anxiety
Anxiety in Artists
Waking up feeling soft, integrated and grounded in your body, this is the dream. It’s also the rare experience for the creative spirit. With your heightened imagination and ability to see all angles of every situation, it’s very easy for your mind to accelerate. Your body can follow this and ramp up quickly to match. Lying in bed first thing in the morning and feeling your heart and mind racing is an overwhelming way to start a day. The morning should be a time of gentle entrance into the world, full of softness.
Knowing you, you’ve already been weaving yoga, breathwork, and meditation into your days to naturally ease the anxiety. Avoiding caffeine, herbal teas, eating upon waking, getting natural sunlight in your eyes first thing… you’ve been doing it all and yet it still isn’t fully resolving. It helps some days, but isn’t enough on other days. I hear you and get it.
Foundational Causes of Anxiety
You need a deeper support for those tough mornings. Perhaps you even need to look into your biological or emotional status to address the foundational sources. When it comes to anxiety, these are the areas I consider:
Biological
Gallbladder Congestion
GI Pathogens
Adrenal Hypo/Hyper Function (cortisol issues)
Reduced or Elevated Hormone Release
Toxin Burden (mold spores, mycotoxins, endotoxins, heavy metals, etc.)
Emotional
Unprocessed Stored Emotions
Attachment & Relational Wounds
PTSD
You do not have to be perfect to experience peace, but these areas should be reviewed and addressed if they are strongly affecting your body’s function or your ethereal state.
Natural Solution for Quick Relief
Whether you choose to address the above or not, a solution for the here and now until you find everyday ease is amino acid therapy. Amino acid therapy is my go-to solution for bringing you to a place of resilience now. It is non-addictive and can provide temporary ease if not full relief until you are able to go deeper.
Amino Acid Therapy: GABA
GABA stands for gamma-aminobutyric acid and is one of the brain's most important inhibitory neurotransmitters. It supports communication between brain cells (neurons) and ultimately slows down the rapid interactions that can occur. When it is at healthy levels in your body and brain you feel calm, cool, and collected. Often times a downstream effect of the foundational imbalances I listed above is neurotransmitter deficiency. GABA is commonly low in sensitive artists, especially when your schedule demands constant production and performance. Always being “on” can quickly deplete the body’s natural GABA reserves if your body’s foundations are already rocky.
The good news is that GABA can be taken as a supplement. The body absorbs and utilizes it very quickly, so you’ll feel the calming impact within 15 to 45 minutes of consumption, especially if taking your correct dose in the form and manner that suits your body.
Neurotransmitter Lab Testing for Anxiety
If you have time to test your neurotransmitter levels, I highly recommend it. This allows us to confirm exactly what you need. At times, excess GABA can also create the same symptoms as deficient GABA or another neurotransmitter imbalance could be at play. Testing cuts right to the problem and makes it very clear what will work and will not work without much experimentation. You can book a single session plus labs with me and order the Brain/Mood or Brain/Mood + Stress panel right HERE.
Dosing
If you need support ASAP and a 2-3 week turnaround time for testing is not an option or you want to combine your options and try GABA while you wait for test results, in case you can get some relief right away, then do it!
Here’s how to dose, if you’re trying it on your own. Please remember this is general advice as I do not know your starting state or full symptom presentation, but it may be enough to get you rolling. There is a lot of nuance in dosing, so I share this as an overarching guide.
Start low and slow. GABA comes in a couple forms. Begin with pure GABA capsules to keep it simple. I recommend no more than 100 mg per capsule, less if you can find it. Look at the fillers, avoid supplements with a long list of additional ingredients, like dextrose and rice flour. I do not recommend getting mutli’s or blends. Save that for later once you know how you respond to GABA on its own. Quality and effectiveness is everything when it comes to supplementation. I’ve included a few starter brands below for you to try.
Take away from food or other supplements so you can clearly observe how you feel. I recommend opening the capsule and pouring ½ on your tongue. Observe how you feel after 15-45 minutes. Set an alarm clock or ask a friend or partner to give you feedback on how you are acting 1 hour later. If they observe you smiling more, laughing or just seeming generally lighter, you know you’re on the right track! If you feel nothing, then the next day try it again, pouring 1 full capsule on the tongue. Continue increasing in this manner, but you only need to pour the first capsule on your tongue. You’re sending a message to your brain that the nutrient is available so that it responds quicker. If you cannot stand the taste, I added chewable options below for you to try as well.
If you feel more irritable within 15-60 minutes, then you know GABA is not the right fit and I would highly recommend testing your neurotransmitters.
Please note: if you’re on medication, consult with your prescribing physician before adding any additional mood balancers.
Once you find your right dosage, you can take regularly until you resolve your foundational imbalances or you fill up your GABA deficiency tank. You may find that after some time you need less support to feel good. This means that you gave your body what it needed to resolve the underlying imbalances, even if that was just the space of having a calm nervous system from taking GABA to bring everything back into working order, and it is now producing enough GABA on its own. Eventually, you will not need it and can keep it in the house for highly stressful seasons when you need extra care.
A peaceful grounded morning is possible for you. Give your mind and body the extra support and space they need with amino acid therapy.
Recommended Starting Supplements
Reminder: Please run everything medical by your preferred licensed provider before proceeding.