Peanut Butter Tahini Comfort Cookies
My gluten-free, grain-free, dairy-free twist on the classic peanut butter cookie. These babies are a go-to treat when I’m feeling my energy drop. When I sense my brain is overwhelmed and starting to slow down, this is the kind of snack I will go to for a reviving pick-up! If you have to memorize, recall, process in large amounts, or perform under pressure – you need handy bites with a dense collection of quality fats for the brain, protein for the nervous system, and energizing carbs for your adrenals and thyroid. These are the organs that are going to see you through the day and hold you steady in tough projects! Grab a comfort cookie for these moments.
These are healthy enough to have for breakfast, and a fantastic bedtime snack to support deep REM sleep all the way through the night. And, yes, you can make large batches and freeze them. They taste delicious 5 min out of the freezer ;)
RECIPE
macros
7g protein ~ 13g fat ~ 9g carbs
per cookie
makes 12 cookies
Ingredients
1 cup Peanut Butter, natural
3 tbsp Tahini Butter
1/4 cup Real Maple Syrup
1 Whole Egg, pasture-raised
1 tsp Vanilla
1 tbsp Brown Coconut Sugar + extra for sprinkle
1/4 tsp Baking Soda
1/4 tsp Sea Salt, I use Celtic
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Prepare a baking pan lined with unbleached parchment paper
Mix all your wet ingredients, then add the dry and gently fold in to avoid overmixing. Overmixing leads to cookies that crack once baked
Scoop a tablespoon of dough and plop on baking pan. Gently use your spoon or a spatula to shape, if you want them round. Continue till you’ve placed 12 cookies
Generously cover each with coconut sugar and, using a fork, create a crisscross marking, if desired
Pop into the oven for 20 minutes or until the bottoms are golden
Allow to cool fully before lifting to avoid cracking :)
Sultry Blackberry Banana Muffins & Jammy Eggs
beauty breakfast series
Start your day with an unexpectedly easy pairing - a fluffy grain-free muffin and soft-boiled eggs. Luscious enough to savor on a quiet morning at home, but simple enough to grab-n-go, if need be. These muffins are infused with a sexy adaptogen dose, fortified with marine collagen, and topped with revitalizing black sesame seeds! The texture is just fluffy enough to satisfy and really upgrades with a smear of your favorite butter. Your 2 soft-boiled eggs are dusted with a volcanic-looking soil of freshly ground black sesame seeds and celtic sea salt. I know, it may sound odd, but just wait till you try it - especially if you like your eggs extra jammy like me… just divine.
Shatavari is an adaptogen derived from asparagus known for regenerating the body, especially for women. It rebalances estrogen, amplifies fertility, revives libido and energy, provides antioxidants, promotes strong immunity, strengthens the digestive tract, and more. As an adaptogen, it brings all levels into balance; whatever is too high or too low, Shatavti returns to homeostasis. I’ve long been a fan of adaptogen use in my daily life. I normally take all mine in my morning tonic, but recently I have been getting more wild about tucking it into daily food, like these muffins and my freezer goji chocolate bark. I personally notice much deeper sleep, more focus and energy, clearer skin, and effortless menstrual cycles since taking this regularly. So for your beauty’s sake, I am weaving it into your morning muffins. You get the perfect daily max dose of ¼ tsp in each muffin. You’re welcome ;)
If I Had to Heal Mold Toxicity in 6 Months, This is What I Would Do in 9 Steps
1. Test my whole body mycotoxin levels with a urine panel. This will tell me what specific toxins are in me and what targeted supports to use to clear them. Test my gut microbiome with a stool test to see if fungal spores are in my GI tract. This will tell me if my body has live colonization or just mold toxin buildup. These test results also give me a baseline to compare my progress in retests.
2. Drink half my weight in ounces of water to keep my cells communicating: 16 oz of spring water upon waking to flush my kidneys of overnight waste, and the rest with a pinch of sea salt, sipping throughout the day to stay hydrated
3. Expand my capacity.
Realistically assess my present capacity level and bring in bandaid non-addictive supplements to lift my mood and energy so I can actually handle the extra work of healing for the next 6 months.
Notify my loved ones and peers that I will be taking on a “second job” for the next 6 months, so they don’t take my reduced availability personally and I can easily say no often.
4. Immediately open my main detox pathways - GI tract & skin: increase and improve my bowel movements to 1-3x daily - the intestines are the #1 route for clearance.
Add insoluble fiber to my diet - this grabs mycotoxins and pulls them out with regular stool release.
Add quality fats into every meals that encourage regular free flowing bile - nuts, avocado, olive oil, avocado oil, coconut oil are my top recommendations.
Sit and sweat in a sauna or bath and immediately shower afterwards - to clear the mycotoxins that can leave through the skin. Sweating while working out is different, you need to be resting (parasympathetic side of the nervous system) while sweating to have the best clearance
5. Focus on calm - parasympathetic nervous system activation. The more supported, stable, and relaxed my body is, the easier and more efficient it is to release mold spores and their toxins.
I would eat 3-6x a day, small meals to keep my body fueled and out of primal survival state.
I would go to bed at 10 PM every night and stay horizontal in bed until 8 AM to give the body time to regenerate. I would take natural and non-addictive sleep, and HPA supports to deepen and regulate my sleep.
6. Begin binders.
Layer in targeted binders, based on my test results. Slowly titrate these up to manageable doses for my unique capacity. Binder is a term that can include probiotic strains, multiple clays, minerals like zeolite, chlorella/chlorophyll, fibers, and more.
Layer in fungal clearing herb and mineral combos, based on my test results, to kill and remove any live mold colonization in the GI tract.
7. Add support for surrounding organs and address colonization of sinuses and lungs:
Supplements to support organ function, specifically liver and gallbladder for detox, spleen and gut for immune regulation, brain and cells for inflammation mitigation.
If I had chronic sinus congestion or tested positive for a MRSA nasal swab:
I would add in nasal biofilm busters and eradicators morning and night to my personal tolerance level.
If I had trouble breathing/lung colonization - elephant sitting on my chest - I would add in regular mouth/nasal nebulizing with diluted food grade hydrogen peroxide and or iodine, depending on my personal mineral status and capacity.
8. Add in high-tech tools, like weekly hyperbaric oxygen treatment for 60-75 minutes 1-3x weekly and rectal ozone insufflation 1-2x weekly. I would not listen to the practitioners on these and I would instead start very low and slow. I would titrate one at a time or alternating increases, so I don’t overwhelm my body.
9. After 90 days of taking the targeted binders and fungal clearing, I would pause for 2 weeks, then retest my mycotoxin panel and GI stool test to see my progress. If I’ve done it right and I walked the line of staying calm while moving through the discomfort of clearance, I will be clear. If not, then I know my body was holding far more than I knew and I give myself so much grace for all that I’ve been carrying over the years. I either take a break to give myself a moment or I dive back in and reset my supports in response to my results and invest even deeper into the high tech tools to speed up clearance to make my 6-month deadline
If this is you, I see you. I’ve walked this road personally, guided those I love to clear test results, and supported numerous clients over the years with this approach. It’s not an easy road, and it has many body nuances, subtle detox layers, and unique healing challenges that are overwhelming to navigate alone. If you desire a partner in your journey, my wisdom is yours to use. Book here to discuss a plan
Lesser-Known Signs of Mold & Mycotoxin Poisoning
MOLD. A huge part of my health story. I was exposed to heavy mold in my childhood home and then had subsequent exposures that brought me to my knees. It affected my hormonal development, my intelligence, my memory, my energy levels, my stress capacity, my relationships, and worst of all (in my perspective) my ability to meet my potential in almost every situation. I didn’t know this burden existed within me until my 30s, but once I did, I actually avoided it for a few years. This avoidance is a classic pattern for me that happens when my subconscious recognizes life-altering information, but my conscious mind is not able or ready to face all that it will ask of me. And I was right, it did ask A LOT of me. It took me having 3 heavy exposures in a row after this to finally devastate me to a level where the only solution was to take it seriously and go deep. So I did.
I started with what I knew and had access to financially, binders and eradicators, then I progressed to adding sauna, more targeted binders, red light, and ozone insufflation therapy, which really took it up a notch. I saw progress, but still felt off. The main turning point, for not just the mold and mycotoxin clearance but the other imbalances and downstream symptoms that had developed from this, came when I began hyperbaric treatments. I started HBOT for another massive health journey - skin cancer - one of those downstream effects of my system being wrecked for so long. Yet, in the end, it was what really progressed my clearance to the point of feeling like I was rebirthed! The euphoria and freedom and release I felt when this shift happened was literal heaven on earth for me. Suddenly, the world was open! I could be in moldy or high-allergy spaces and not be wrecked. I could recall the library of my brain again. I could think clearly about relationships. I could make decisions that required great nervous system capacity. I could eat almost anything I wanted without feeling bloated, nauseous, itchy or exhausted for days. I could spend time with friends and family and not need a week to recover. I could wear normal clothes and makeup without having reactions or breakouts. I could sleep and feel rested. I could cycle regularly like a healthy woman, with bright red blood and no pain. I could lose excess weight effortlessly without hard workouts or lowering my food intake. I was ME again, a healthy, full-grown woman for the first time ever. I had not experienced “health” since being a child, and even then, I was still far from normal.
Not everyone needs such heavy-hitting tools, but my levels of exposure from a young age, paired with a body that naturally struggled with detox and an emotional history that carried a lot of grief, confusion, and anger, meant that I required the extra steps. I always end up requiring the extra steps.
I’m not bitter about this anymore - I used to be in my 20s and early 30s, when I watched everyone around me navigating, seemingly effortlessly, the things that took everything in me to do. Now, I understand that we all have our hard journeys. They are just expressed in different ways and through different channels. I also no longer believe in health as a deserved basic. I see it as a gift that I can cultivate or reject. In summary, my health is simply the top channel for growth in my life. In others, it may be relationships or career, not that I don’t have those too, but the difference is that these areas of life are all a reflection of how I’m choosing to carry and treat my body. I experience life through my body. When I am on the right path and living authentically, my body shows it. When something is off, my body shows it. Again, this is a huge gift. Frustrating at times, but truthfully, the best gauge one could ask for these days. As a result, I no longer run from it. I lean in, regardless of how hard the request may be. I see my body’s needs as my path and my main learning channel. It is where I will always grow towards wholeness, and wherever the opportunity presents itself, help others do the same.
Lesser-Known Signs
Okay, so the reason you started reading this was to get the list of symptoms. How about I share those now ;). These are the expressions from the body that are either rarely discussed or the natural downstream cause of your cells swimming in mycotoxins and mold for years:
OCD
Hyperfixations on body sensations / Extra high sensitivity
Inability to stabilize: mentally, emotionally, physically
Mental looping
Cancer
GI tract not healing, despite clean detailed labs and comprehensively resetting the microbiome
Swelling
Moon face
Worts
Hair loss
Hair greying early
Skin pigmentation / Liver spots
Acne
Shallow sleep overnight & best sleep from 6 AM or later
Waking between 11-4 AM regularly
Intense vivid nightmares and dreams
Lost mission and purpose
Depression
Anxiety
Stuck in a fear perspective
Unable to trust
Confusion
Hermiting
Overwhelmed easily by just about everything and everyone
Eyesight reduced
Regular sore throats / strep
Regular staph infections on skin
Hormone imbalance
Hypothyroid
Hypoadrenal
Loss of libido
Struggles with vinegar and citrus
Classic Signs of Mold & Mycotoxin Presence
Now, just in case you aren’t aware of the standard symptoms that would cause us to consider or test for mold and mycotoxins, here are the easily identifiable symptoms.
Allergies & hypersensitivites
Excess Mast Cell Mediator Release: histamine, cytokine, leukocytes, and more
Itchy eyes, skin, nose, scalp
Chronic or recurring UTIs, BV, yeast infections
Chronic sinus congestion
Brain fog
Recall struggles
Achy joints
Rashes
Exhaustion
Elephant on the chest - difficulty taking full breaths, especially when climbing stairs or walking
Candida identified in stool samples
Positive MRSA nasal swab
Damage or scar tissue in lung sacks upon scan
Mold and mycotoxins are being discussed and considered more regularly in the health world because a rise in issues has been occurring since the 80s. The way we built and still build our homes, offices, and schools lays the groundwork for loads of toxic water damage. As a result, much of the current population has had heavy exposure from a young age. 5G and other man-made frequencies have increased year after year, and these waves activate and encourage mold spore growth, expansion, and toxin release. Our bodies have also taken on the largest amount of stress ever seen in the history of our species. We carry the emotional weight and patterns of centuries of ancestors before us who didn’t have the space to process their patterns. It’s all coming to a head with us. And…. this is a GIFT. You are here at this time in history for a reason. You are meant to be the change. You are the ONE who will finally face and move through all your line has carried. It’s time to honor your body’s requests and support the release of at least this one burden, if not others along the way. Give the next generation a lighter load, where possible, and offer yourself the opportunity to find freedom and healing in this lifetime. I have done it. I am doing it. I will continue doing it. I’m here if you desire guidance and learned wisdom along your health journey. Love to you.