My life after silent celiac disease has been a constant work in progress. I was relieved and grateful for my diagnosis 15 years ago, but soon learned that healthful living with celiac is not just about diet. Celiac disease is a hard thing to teach or explain. If we all become more aware… Read More
Last week, a friend reached out to me about her new celiac diagnosis. She messaged me the news and we scheduled a meet-up for the next day. I had 24 hours to think about what I was going to say, so I wrote this letter. It got me thinking about how truly amazed I am… Read More
Someone I met on my recent boat trip explained the Conscious Competence learning model to me and then my son Doug mentioned it in an interview, so now it’s crossed my path twice in one week. It got me thinking of the whole gluten free diet and what I’ve learned from my initial diagnosis to… Read More
The mysterious thing that happens to people when they get sick is they know something is off, but what is it? Being tired can come from anything. And what about headaches… or anemia? “Ohhh, you’re Italian, that’s cultural.” All Italian young girls are anemic? Really? Um, no. Achy joints aren’t normal if you are young… Read More
Celiac Disease has come to the forefront in a BIG way recently, however, people walked around with Celiac—or gluten intolerance—for yeeeears and didn’t know it. People would go to doctors with all sorts of symptoms (anemia, weight loss, malnourishment, exhaustion, joint pain, etc.) and tests would be done, but often the results were inconclusive. The… Read More