Unleash Your Inner Healing Power
Instinctual Wellbeing is dedicated to helping heal autoimmune and other chronic conditions by bringing us back to our roots and retraining ourselves to follow our natural instincts. It’s a “back-to-basics” philosophy grounded in preparing and eating nourishing food, listening to your body’s innate wisdom, and restoring ourselves to a natural state of wellbeing by unleashing our inner healing power.
Update 10/28/20:
Please note that as of November 1, 2020, this blog will most likely remain inactive. I invite you to please continue to enjoy the posts and resources that are currently live though, as countless hours were put into making these helpful for those with autoimmune conditions. If you’d like to follow along with my (the author, Mitch) new posts, please head over to humblHuman.com. Thank you and be well!
Recent Posts For Healing Autoimmunity
Regaining Spiritual Health to Help Heal Autoimmunity
Part 3 of the Total Wellness Pyramid is dedicated to exploring spiritual health and understanding how it relates to healing autoimmunity & other conditions.
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Mental & Emotional Aspects of Healing Autoimmunity
This is Part 2 of our "Total Wellness Pyramid" series, where we discuss my philosophy for achieving total wellness through Physical and Lifestyle, Mental and Emotional, and Spiritual wellbeing tips. In this post, we'll be discussing the second "level" of the pyramid:...
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Introducing the Total Wellness Pyramid
One thing that I think it’s important to understand, and that I try to talk about throughout all of my posts here on Instinctual Wellbeing, is that wellness isn’t just one thing. It’s not just following the AIP diet, or just taking your supplements, getting an...
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The Emotional Meanings Behind 10 Autoimmune Conditions
It is my belief that a physical showing of symptoms is actually the last stage of the disease process. This obviously contradicts the modern medical system, which holds that symptoms are the first indications of a disease formation. However, in many Eastern...
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Paleo-friendly Restaurants in Kansas City
If you’re looking for AIP or paleo-friendly restaurants in Kansas City, you’ve come to the right place. While my wife and I now live in Chicago, I lived in Kansas City for about 15 years and my wife was actually born there, so most of our “Paleo upbringing” was spent...
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What Does “Self Love” Really Mean?
Recently we hear all the time about this concept of "self-love." Heck, I even have an entire downloadable dedicated to it! But when it comes down to it: Do we really understand fully what self-love is? Or is it simply a buzz term that we are getting mildly tired of...
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Guide To Self-Love
I’ve learned from experience that this is true, so I
designed this workbook to help you on your journey toward
greater self-love and acceptance.
About Mitch
Hi there! Nice to meet you. My name is Mitch, your guide here at Instinctual Wellbeing. I’m a certified health coach specializing in autoimmune conditions. I live in Chicago with my wife, am a huge #booknerd, love tea, think cats are hilarious, and believe anyone can attain amazing health if you just follow your instincts.
Recent Recipes
Roasted Herb Crusted Pork Loin Recipe (AIP & Paleo)
With Springtime and Easter upon us, I decided to create a delicious AIP-friendly and paleo pork loin dish, which is what my family always used to eat for Easter dinner growing up (that, or a baked ham!). While some pork loin recipes can be super dry and not...
Romantic AIP Valentine’s Dinner for 2 (under $25!)
We all know that sometimes eating out while following an AIP (or even straight-up paleo) diet isn't always the easiest. So what are two love birds to do when Valentine's Day -- one of the holidays probably most well-known for romantic nights out on the town -- comes...
3-Ingredient Grain-free Plantain Tortillas (Paleo/AIP)
If you're looking for an grain-free, AIP-friendly tortilla recipe, you've come to the right place! These homemade tortillas are bendy, delicious, and made with just 3 ingredients (plus salt and water) that are easy to find in your pantry, local store and Amazon. What...
30+ Paleo / AIP + Vegan Recipes
Alright, folks - here's the deal. I really dislike the term "pegan" (i.e. paleo + vegan). It's overly trendy and I believe it's used purely as a marketing gimmick. So let me just be clear that I am not a "pegan" and that I do still follow the AIP diet 80% of the time...
AIP Turkey Brine Recipe + Our AIP Thanksgiving Menu
Thanksgiving is upon us! I literally can’t believe it’s here already -- seems like just yesterday we were celebrating the start of the year; how is it almost over already?! This Thanksgiving is extra special to me because - while it’s our third Thanksgiving...
My AIP Low FODMAP Experience + Meatloaf Recipe
For the past three weeks, I have been trying out an AIP + Low FODMAP diet. The reason I'm doing it is because I'm currently on a gut healing regimen (through my functional MD) and I listened to a podcast episode with Chris Kresser that explained how he typically...