Living Gluten Free, Navigating Chronic Disease, and Emotional Perseverance along a Wellness Journey featuring The No Gluten Girl, Rachel Straining

Join Emily as she sits down with recipe developer and content creator, Rachel Straining, to discuss her health journey, her experience navigating Crohn's disease, and the emotional toll it took on her mental health. Rachel shares vulnerably about how she spent many years experiencing symptoms without receiving a formal diagnosis and the emotional toll this took on her as an adolescent. Rachel discusses how recipe creation has changed her life; finding ways to create her favorite foods, while honoring her gluten and dairy free lifestyle, is now her career and she inspires others daily to advocate for themselves along their wellness journeys and shares recipes for them to nourish while doing so. Rachel Straining, otherwise known as The No Gluten Girl, is a content creator and recipe developer who openly shares about her health journey, while navigating food allergies and managing Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Rachel shares recipes to help those navigating gluten free and dairy free living, to demonstrate that there can be joy in food again, even amidst these dietary restrictions. Follow along with Rachel below! Emily is a Certified Holistic Health Coach and a Certified Dietary Supplement Professional with a Master's degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. Emily is a Functional Nutrition Expert through MindBodyGreen. Emily owns and operates Whole with Emily LLC, wherein she works with clients one on one within the space of holistic wellness, to support optimal physical and mental health. She believes that true health and feeling better means examining the intersection between physical and mental health and look at one's experience through this lens. Integration of nutrition, movement, sleep, stress management and self care, gut health, mindset and more is the formula for a better quality life. Emily marries mindset with behavioral change in order to create the ultimate mind body connection and promote sustained change and a healthful balance within her work with clients.  They explore: - Rachel's journey to receiving her diagnosis - the emotional impact that Rachel's physical illness had as an adolescent - Rachel's experience in remission and the fear around symptoms returning - the stress that accompanies recovery and the residual impact that symptom management can have - how the food industry has evolved to best support gluten free or dairy free living - recipe development and finding joy in food alongside food allergies - rediscovering food freedom amidst a gluten free lifestyle Connect with Rachel! @thenoglutengirl www.thenoglutengirl.com Interested in 1:1 holistic health coaching? ⁠⁠Learn more here!⁠ FREE RESOURCES FOR YOU: Check out ⁠my website⁠ to join my weekly newsletter and stay up to date on all things wellness, recipes, and more! ⁠31 Tips for Daily Mental Wellness:⁠ explore 31 different lifestyle habits to support your mental health daily ⁠Getting Started Wellness Guide:⁠ head back to the basics, build a solid foundation to get started on your wellness journey! Support the Show: Please subscribe, rate, and review to help support the show! Share to your IG stories and tag @_wholewithemily. Connect with me on IG: ⁠@_wholewithemily⁠ Connect with me on Tiktok: ⁠@wholewithemily⁠ Let's eat together! To sponsor our show or to become a guest, email: [email protected]