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Why you ate too much peanut butter…
Wondering how it’s possible a health-conscious woman like you can “go unconscious” eating spoonfuls of nut butter in one sitting? It can...
Laura Burkett
Jan 15, 20173 min read
If you’re planning a healthy start to the New Year, start with this…
Happy, happy New Year! First of all, I had a wonderful time last Wednesday teaching A Nutrition Class for SANE Eating. The lessons I...
Laura Burkett
Dec 31, 20163 min read
A Personal Share & Your Challenge for 2017
As I’ve been reflecting on 2016, it seems it has been a steady year at Real Food Wellness. Here are some honorable mentions from the...
Laura Burkett
Dec 15, 20164 min read
The one piece of workout equipment that will enrich your life
I don’t mean to brag, but I’ve been a walker for nearly 20 years now. I used to go for walks with my mom for exercise around my childhood...
Laura Burkett
Nov 1, 20162 min read


Seasonal Presence & Your Nutritional Selves
I’m so in my element right now. Fall is my season! I’ve enjoyed the satisfaction and meditative quality of raking leaves as well as...
Laura Burkett
Oct 13, 20162 min read
Should you cleanse or build your body this season?
It’s about this time of year the air gets a little dryer, the days shorter, and the weather cooler. Many of us intuitively start...
Laura Burkett
Sep 28, 20162 min read
The Multi-Dimensionality of Binge Eating
When I was a child I learned how to play the organ. I learned how to make my mom laugh really hard. I learned how to swim underwater. As...
Laura Burkett
Sep 14, 20162 min read
Suffer from Last Supper Syndrome? Find out in this short quiz.
Been working on your relationship with food? Here’s a quick quiz to monitor one aspect of it: True or False: 1.) When there’s a certain...
Laura Burkett
Aug 30, 20162 min read
Warning: This one toxic nutritional belief may still be driving you crazy
Off in a beautiful land not too long ago, Christine*, our nutritional heroine, said “Enough!” and set off to pursue, in a valiant effort,...
Laura Burkett
Aug 13, 20164 min read


The nutritional self that will always support you
As I’m writing I’m about halfway through an immersion in the Mesoamerican healing tradition of Curanderismo in sunny,...
Laura Burkett
Jul 14, 20163 min read


Throwback Summer Detox Salad (a la Whole Foods)
With summer here, here’s a good Whole Foods salad throwback recipe to add into your rotation. It will last and feed you and loved ones...
Laura Burkett
Jul 13, 20161 min read
Not in crisis? Here’s your nutritional work.
Last month I shared two guiding principles for eating when you find yourself in the midst of a chaotic, stressful, or disorienting time...
Laura Burkett
Jun 29, 20162 min read
How to Eat During Challenging Times
Last year, around this time, I was moving out of my shared home with my husband into my own apartment. It was a disorienting and very...
Laura Burkett
Jun 14, 20162 min read


An unusual place that regulated my appetite
Last July, two of my girlfriends and I went for a skinny dip in Lake Michigan on the evening of the full moon. We were the only 3 people...
Laura Burkett
May 30, 20162 min read
What to do when the food, supplement, or super-herb doesn’t work
In your effort to lose weight, stop binge eating, start eating more whole foods, or get your eating habits in order, have you found...
Laura Burkett
May 14, 20163 min read


How to trust your wild body (gift for you)
This, my dear women, is the “after” picture from my sweet little niece Jade’s (okay almost-neice’s) 1st birthday party last weekend....
Laura Burkett
Apr 29, 20162 min read
Requirements of Food Freedom
Here’s a short-ish musing I posted on social media not long ago. Perhaps you’ll find it good food for thought: Overly focusing on...
Laura Burkett
Apr 6, 20161 min read
Why sensitive women eat too much sugar
I am very recently home from a third trip to Peru within the last 13 months or so. Each experience I’ve had has been ENTIRELY different....
Laura Burkett
Mar 26, 20164 min read
Here are The Course Details!
Empower Your Eating: 6 Weeks to a Hot & Healthy Body Image, is a 6-Week online home-study program that I will personally be guiding (for...
Laura Burkett
Mar 13, 20163 min read


Healing body image without addressing THESE might keep you stuck (video)
What we need to be talking about in our body image journey: 1. Your personal story, your body image history, what people and/or...
Laura Burkett
Mar 9, 20161 min read
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