What Are Antioxidants and Why Are They Good for You?

You’ve likely heard the term antioxidant a number of times here and there and wondered what it actually meant. Here we will be diving into this topic and answering the question: What are antioxidants and why are they good for you? Antioxidants Defined Also known as “free radical scavengers,”...

4 Components of a Healthy Diet

“Food as medicine” is one of the core foundational elements of natural health and healing, as the food that we eat plays a tremendously important role in our health. When it comes to one’s diet, adhering to your unique bioindividuality and specific subjective physiological needs (such as your hormone...

10 Key Elements of a Healthy Lifestyle

Our lifestyle has a big influence on our health and wellness. These are the elements that go into making up your particular way of life. This is one of the most important areas to address when building a happy and healthy life. Here, we will explore the 10 key...

What to Expect at a Natural Health Practice + Tips for Your Appointments

Most natural health medical practices and offices operate in a way that is reflective of the core tenets of natural health, as your appointments will be comprised of several key elements. If you are new to natural health, or are just embarking on your own natural healing journey, you...

Types of Natural Health Practitioners

A very important element of navigating your healing journey is finding the most appropriate health practitioner for your unique healthcare needs. It can be a bit confounding trying to decipher all of the different professions within the integrative health field, and to try to make sense of the alphabet...

What is Natural Health?

“Natural health” is a broad term that refers to a wide variety of healing methodologies, modalities, principles, and paradigms. While there are indeed different forms of natural medicine, which we will discuss in this article, there are several commonalities amongst most forms that make up the core tenets of...

About Me

Hello and welcome to Healing Journey Essentials! I’m Megan Westbrook and I am so happy to have you, thank you so much for visiting! I am a writer and life coach and my own intensive healing journey from a number of medical conditions (primarily including Biotoxin Illness/Mold Toxicity, gut...