Francie Healey
  • Home
  • About
  • Eat To Beat Alzheimer's
  • Resources
  • Recipes
  • Appearances
    • Book Francie
    • Media Kit
  • Blog
  • Contact
  • Children's Health

Francie's Blog

How I Knew It Was Publishing Time

3/28/2017

0 Comments

 
Picture
Image source: Flickr user pifou95.
Completion is an ambiguous arena to navigate. Creative projects rarely feel done. Eat to Beat Alzheimer’s, a fairly small book, tapped into a place inside of me that had so much to say! It was while working on Eat to Beat that I realized this book was a beginning for me, not the whole. I couldn’t burden one book with all that I had to share. It was important to stay clear on what this cookbook was meant to be: an educational text for learning about nutrition and brain health with recipes to put that learning into action!

Read More
0 Comments

Energizing Baby Boomers

3/21/2017

0 Comments

 
Picture
Image source: Flickr user shanecp.
Baby boomers are the generation born between 1946 and 1964.  This puts them in an age range of 52 – 70 years old in 2016.  While standards of aging are changing for the better and in general, people are able to live longer, healthier lives, baby boomers do have a unique set of health challenges.

Read More
0 Comments

Feeding the Brain

3/14/2017

1 Comment

 
Picture
Image source: Flickr user llee_wu.
We are in the midst of a great paradigm shift. Our understanding of health and the root cause of disease is expanding. While health concerns, issues and illnesses are extremely difficult for the individual and the community, they also offer us a particular leverage point for looking more closely at the human body.

Our diets have a significant effect on the health of our brains, which will potentially affect all areas of functioning. Alzheimer’s and dementia are only two examples of how compromised brain health can manifest. Depression and anxiety are other manifestations that are even more common and can be just as debilitating.

Read More
1 Comment

Why eating healthy matters to me

3/7/2017

0 Comments

 
Picture
Image source: Flickr user smartyr.
Nurturance has always been something I’ve looked for. I think I have traveled along a path that many would be familiar with. I looked for nurturance in other people to give me the love and kindness I craved. I looked for nurturance in fad diets to get the results physically that I wanted, as an athlete to be fit and strong, and also as a woman, to be healthy and attractive. I spent a long time looking for this outside of myself and thought there were people and times when things appeared to line up, but nothing was ultimately sustainable for me.

My health continued to decline, even though I felt I was doing everything right, based on the information I was getting at the time. This led me to investigate deeper, both nutritional science, and my own psychology. I kept stumbling across an interface between the two, that I wasn’t seeing talked about, but from my perspective was significant. That is when I first started to draw the line between food and mood, which is really another way of describing brain health.


Read More
0 Comments
    Picture

    Francie Healey

    Francie Healey  is the author of "Eat To Beat Alzheimer's and has a Master’s Degree in Counseling and is both a Certified Health Counselor and Licensed Mental Health Counselor.practitioner.

    Picture

    Archives

    July 2018
    July 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    December 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016

    Categories

    All
    ADHD
    Alzheimer's
    Anti-inflammatory
    Anxiety
    Avocado
    Baby Boomers
    Beat
    Brain Health
    Butternut Squash
    Chicken
    Children's Health
    Chronic Disease
    Coconut
    Complex Carbohydrates
    Connection
    Cooking With Kids
    Creativity
    Curry
    Dementia
    Depression
    Diabetes
    Diet
    Eating Habits
    Education
    Engage
    Francie
    Frittata
    Ginger
    Healthy Eating
    Healthy Fats
    Hope
    Inflammation
    Information
    Inner Health Advocate
    Inspiration
    Judgment
    Kale
    Learning
    Lemon
    Listening
    Meal Planning
    Metabolism
    Mindset
    Mission
    Mood
    Nourishing Choices
    Nutrition
    Pancakes
    Podcast
    Press
    Prevention
    Processed Foods
    Quinoa
    Recipe
    Relationship With Food
    Relish
    Research
    Salad
    Salmon
    Self Advocate
    Self-aware
    Shitake Mushrooms
    Social Media
    Soup
    Spinach
    Stir-Fry
    Sugar
    Tips
    Walnut
    Watercress
    Wholeness
    Writing

    RSS Feed

Copyright 2016-2018, Francie Healey
​Site Design by Artotems Co.
  • Home
  • About
  • Eat To Beat Alzheimer's
  • Resources
  • Recipes
  • Appearances
    • Book Francie
    • Media Kit
  • Blog
  • Contact
  • Children's Health