November 1, 2010 "Since I started drinking the herbal liver tea, cut out caffeine and started taking flaxseed oil with protein foods, I have felt more energetic, calmer, and I fall asleep much easier and wake feeling great. And I don’t feel like crap if I do have to get up early. My stomach is now flat and I feel slimmer. I still have OCD thoughts, but not for quite as long as I did previously, and not as intensely." The paragraph above is from an email I sent my Naturopath in the first month I began working on my OCD recovery (November 2010). I’m Francesca Eldridge, and I lived with moderate to severe OCD for 20 years. It eventually became so debilitating that leaving my house became a struggle. After finally deciding enough was enough and committing to working on all aspects of my mental and physical health in my early 30s, I experienced 80–90% reduction in my symptoms of OCD. Nutrition was one of the tools that helped most. This led to me studying to become a nutritionist, and eventually writing my ebook, Nutrition for Your OCD Recovery. It’s available in Kindle and pdf formats here. The previous two articles in The OCD series looked at how protein and nourishing fats support your nervous system and mental health. This article will discuss the importance of ensuring your body can digest and use those fats.
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I lived with moderate to severe OCD for 20 years. It eventually became so debilitating that leaving my house became a struggle. After finally deciding enough was enough and committing to working on all aspects of my mental and physical health in my early 30s, I experienced 80–90% reduction in my symptoms of OCD. Nutrition was one of the tools that helped most. This led to me studying to become a nutritionist, and eventually writing my ebook, Nutrition for Your OCD Recovery. It’s available in Kindle and pdf formats here. In this article, I discuss the types of fats that nourish your nervous system and your mental health. And I'll share how mega-dosing with supplemental omega 3 supported my recovery from OCD. Welcome to the first article in The OCD Series! I lived with moderate to severe OCD for 20 years. It eventually became so debilitating that leaving my house became a struggle. After finally deciding enough was enough and committing to working on all aspects of my mental and physical health in my early 30s, I experienced 80–90% reduction in my symptoms of OCD. Nutrition was one of the tools that helped most. This led to me studying to become a nutritionist, and eventually writing my ebook, Nutrition for Your OCD Recovery. It’s available in Kindle and pdf formats here. This article looks at the role of protein in your neurotransmitter production and mental health. I could eat this Italian-inspired soup again and again. Nourishing, delicious, full of lovely seasonal veg, and comforting in cold weather. The chicken can be left out and more cannellini beans added to make a hearty vegetarian soup.
Serves 2, prep time 60 mins (including making sourdough croutons if desired) Olive oil 5-6 large potatoes (organic if possible – potatoes can be heavily sprayed with pesticides) Sea salt and ground black pepper ½ large white onion 1 large leek Good handful cavalo nero Few cloves of garlic, roughly chopped Fresh thyme sprigs 1 tin cannellini beans (use 2 tins if making vegetarian version) A few good handfuls of shredded or sliced roasted free range chicken Optional extra: Pre-made sourdough croutons – simply cube the end of a stale loaf of sourdough and bake in the oven for 20 mins with olive oil and a generous sprinkling of salt. Contrary to what you may have heard in some circles, bread is not the devil's food, and nor are grains (though if you are allergic to gluten or don't tolerate glutinous grains, you have my understanding...feel welcome to check out my gluten-free recipes instead). Seldom is a single food outright bad - the problem with some so-called 'bad' foods often lies more in how we are preparing them. And, in the way we are now over-consuming these modern, non-nourishing versions (refined sugar anyone?) Many food production processes that have emerged over the last 50-odd years have left certain foods - particularly grains - highly processed, devoid of nutrients, harder to digest, and in questionable, genetically modified forms. This is especially true for bread. So, what if we returned to making bread the way our great grandmothers would have made it? |