It started with one small coffee in the morning… then progressed to a medium and a large. After that, a second small one in the early afternoon. And then that small one became a medium one, etc.

At that point, the negative symptoms set in. I became dependent on the increased energy and ritual. Until I finally quit!

Learn more about it in my video or read on below.

One day, I got fed up with the negative symptoms I felt when drinking coffee. The perks I was getting from drinking it couldn’t compensate for what it was doing to my body.

There are 5 specific reasons why I quit coffee.

Reason #1: Anxiety

I went through several years of anxiety and panic attacks. The coffee definitely didn’t help with this, giving me a racing heart and shakiness.

Reason #2: Addiction

There was no doubt I was addicted to coffee. The cravings… the withdrawal headaches… I tried quitting once before and ended up relapsing.

Reason #3: Adrenals

Once I gained a better understanding of how important our adrenals are, and that coffee doesn’t do them good, I found another reason to give it up.

Reason #4: Toxins

As a non-toxic lifestyle proponent, it just made sense to quit burdening my body with this toxic brew. Even organic coffee contains acrylamide from the fact that the beans are roasted.

Reason #5: Acid

Coffee is an acidic substance, which can cause your bones to lose calcium. Plus, acid burns. As part of other health improvements I implemented, I removed coffee and focused on alkalizing foods.

Finally, when my mindset shifted to wanting to take my power back in all areas of my life, it just made sense to release the control coffee had over me.

These are the reasons why I quit drinking coffee. Now I occasionally have coffee but it is out of DESIRE instead of need.

What is your relationship with coffee?

M.

PS – Learn how to take your power back in my 5-week program Lead Your Health.

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In my early twenties, I suffered from really bad anxiety. I’m talking debilitating panic attacks. Tightness in chest, couldn’t breathe, heart palpitations, racing heart.

I tried to manage it as best I could, but it only got progressively worse to the point where I had to take time off work. I could not drive on a highway and eventually I could not even be alone for a few minutes. At the time, I was living on my own and my parents were in a different city.

At my lowest point, my parents came to town and rented a hotel room to take care of me. I couldn’t handle being in my own apartment anymore but I couldn’t handle being in public either. I stayed locked up in that hotel room with my parents by my side until I could get it together again. I was literally like Marge in that episode of the Simpsons where she gets mugged and develops agoraphobia.

I sought conventional treatments and made progress but it was always a struggle. I also started researching alternative therapies and became very interested in holistic health. I started supplementing, ate more whole foods, started doing yoga, etc.

However, the game-changer for me was when I got an IgG food sensitivity test done and found out I had an “extremely high” sensitivity to almonds. This was eye-opening to me as I was regularly consuming almonds: almond butter, almond milk, massive bags of tamari almonds from Costco… oops.

I quit the almonds right away and, no joke, the anxiety improved exponentially. That’s when I discovered the real power of food.

Since then, I listen more closely to my body and pay better attention to what I feed it. I’ve noticed it often tells me what it needs or doesn’t need. The challenge is sometimes figuring out what that is

Hope this helps!

M.

PS – By no means am I suggesting that we should all stop eating almonds and anxiety will be eradicated from this earth – or that managing anxiety is this simplistic. What I learned and want to share is that the food we eat is an integral part of our health and it should never be overlooked as a possible trigger.

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