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What Your Body Is Really Asking For When Comfort Food Calls

What Your Body Is Really Asking For When Comfort Food Calls

Rachel Kuehn
The pull toward warmth in autumn is not a character flaw. It is an ancient signal. The question is what you reach for when it arrives.It happens every October.The days get shorter. The air gets colder. The evening comes earlier than you expect.And something in you shifts.The salad that felt perfect
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🌿 Rooted Reset — with Rachel

Because healing starts at the root.

Welcome to Rooted Reset, where we talk about what really drives your health — from insulin resistance to mindset shifts, metabolic truth to natural healing.

As a nurse, holistic educator, and advocate for women 50+, I’m here to help you understand your body, unlearn the myths, and reconnect with the power you’ve always had.

This isn’t about band-aids.

This is about root cause, real change, and feeling great again — from the inside out.

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Meet Rachel

 
Hi, I’m Rachel — a nurse, author, Reiki Master, and holistic health educator.

I’m also a daughter, a mother,  a caregiver, and a woman who believes that healing is possible — at any age, and especially after 50.

After years working in hospice care, I saw what happens when chronic illness is treated with pills instead of root-cause solutions. That experience lit a fire in me — to advocate, educate, and empower women to take their health back naturally.

Today, I help women understand the real cause behind symptoms like fatigue, belly weight, brain fog, and cravings — and how they’re often signs of insulin resistance, not just aging.

Through science-backed protocols, mindset shifts, and deep energetic healing, I guide women back to the vibrant, purposeful life they were always meant to live.

You were never meant to “manage” your way through life.

You were meant to heal, rise, and live rooted in who you truly are.


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