I thought it was me.

My quest to understand how wireless technology affects my body continues…

Last week I had a 30-minute conversation at 11AM on my new, military-style, old school flip phone. I used my new airtube headset from Rfsafe and set my phone down on the passenger car seat (No, I wasn’t driving. I was talking in a parking lot). The conversation was pleasant, and I carried on with my day, running some errands, just ordinary stuff – nothing stressful.

At the first store we stopped at, I noticed that I was all revved up. I hadn’t felt that way in weeks. Some might use the word anxiety to describe the feeling, but staying with the phenomenon of my body, I would say that my energy was rising up into my chest, where it would get stuck. It causes me to feel a mild panic. It's almost like a buzzing.

I also want to say that I can’t breathe this feeling away. It persists.

As usual, I had a distinct urge to walk, like I needed to discharge myself, but there was no time for that. I had commitments to keep. I just kept observing, thinking, “What is this feeling and where is it coming from?”

At about 4PM, I felt my energy start to sink. It wasn’t so much crashing, as I was starting to get a heavy feeling in my body. Afterall, what goes up must come down, right?

And that’s when it hit me: this feeling was from my cell phone.

So I scrolled through the recent calls on my phone to see when my last phone conversation was. I remembered who it was because I enjoyed catching up with an old friend, but I had that intense feeling of trapped energy in my chest after that call as well. At the time, I didn’t think anything of it because this feeling had come and gone so many times in the past, but here I was, 3 weeks later, having the same experience. I now realize that this was almost like a food elimination diet.

That’s right, I went 3-weeks with only talking on our new corded, landlines and that’s what I’m going to continue to do because who needs this shit? I don’t. I had already noticed that I don’t sweat when I talk on our new home phones, so this was just another layer revealed. Look, life is hard enough without an impending sense of doom and a restless feeling induced by cellular fucking technology that, for me, can only be addressed by taking a long walk.

Come on.

And I can’t help but wonder: how many other people are suffering and don’t understand the source of their discomfort? Or how many people out there are doing everything they possibly can to heal their bodies, but still can’t get better?

This just doesn’t just make me concerned, it makes me fucking mad because over and over again, I always think that it’s me...

-My nickname as a kid was The Exorcist because when I was hungry I was crazy. “What’s wrong with you?” was what I heard from my family. Turns out nothing was wrong: I was eating too much sugar, my body couldn’t handle it, and I would have angry fits…until I got my next hit.

-As an asthmatic kid, I was often told that I had weak lungs. Then, as an adult looking for answers, healers told me that I had unresolved grief which often settles into the lungs. As it turned out, my lungs were just fine: I was having an immunological reaction to dairy that showed up in my lungs.

-When it came to my asthma and allergies, nobody had a conversation about food with my family. Instead I lived on pharmaceutical drugs. At one point, when I was 13 years old, I pretty much stopped eating. No, I’m not exaggerating: a banana a day is not enough. So I started passing out and lost over 30 pounds in a month. We went to more doctors who didn’t have any answers. Somehow my parents suspected the medications, so they bought a book about drugs. They looked up each one. As it turns out, lack of appetite was a common side effect. No shit? You mean, it wasn’t me, AGAIN? You mean, I now had a pharmaceutical drug induced eating disorder? Yep, wasn’t me at all. They took me off the meds, and I started eating again.

-Then, there was that nasty case of irritable bowel syndrome where I would have a normal bowel movement and then poop again up to five times after breakfast. You know, due to stress and anxiety, except that it wasn’t: I was sensitive to gluten.

-Oh, I don’t want to forget to my history of depression. There were times that I was so tired I could barely function and I couldn’t stop thinking, “What’s wrong with me?” So I went to a psychiatrist who asked me about my relationship with my mother. Not that we don’t have issues, but my mom was the least of my concerns: later I learned that a latent infection in my body was wreaking havoc with my nervous system and emotions. Yeah, we now know that inflammation often causes depression.

-So now I can add wireless technologies to the list…

When this feeling in my chest happens, the story playing in my head says, “Oh, Charlotte, why do you keep losing yourself like this? Why can’t you just be calm and grounded and not so intense? Yeah, it’s my fault I’m like this. I am inherently flawed and weird, and I need to go to some yoga classes, have more time in the float tank, schedule an appointment with my therapist and chill the fuck out.”

But you know what? I call bullshit.

I’ve come to understand that this invisible wireless technology is assaulting our nervous systems.

Some of you may remember having TVs with antennas. I do. And if it wasn’t a clear picture, what did you do? Touch the antenna, of course. Then the TV would be clearer. Why is that? We are electrical beings. We conduct energy through our bodies.

A few days after my aha moment, I received an email from a conference my husband and I will be attending this fall about the health effects of EMFs. Here’ what that document had to say...

Common symptoms that may be related to EMF exposure are:

Sleep disturbances

Tinnitus

Depression

Memory loss

Arrhythmias

Headaches

Skin rash

Nausea

Cognitive impairment

Restlessness and anxiety

High-risk patients include:

Underlying infection (mold, Lyme, Bartonella, etc.)

Exposure to and/or retention of toxic metals and other pollutants

Autoimmune disease

Adult and childhood cancers Infertility

Autism

Dementia

Ask patients about symptoms related to use of devices:

Numbness and tingling of hands and arms when using wireless mouse or computer

Headache or ear pain when using cell phone

Numbness, tingling in hand when holding a cell phone that is in use

Assessment: Ask patients about exposure at home and work

Residential:

Smart meters on their home, neighbor’s home, apartment, or condo

Cell tower near home or child’s school

5G roll-out in your area

Use of devices (cell phone held to head, Bluetooth device, wifi in home, router “spreaders,” “hubs” or “receivers” to extend and improve wifi access, use of Alexa-type voice assistant devices, smart appliances

Workplace:

Use of headset, Bluetooth, number of hours on cell phone or cordless phone daily

Proximity of work-station or workplace cell tower

Smart meters at work

Do you see yourself in these lists? Can you see the possibility that some of this technology is fucking you up? Nope, I’m not alone at all, am I? And one-by-one, people will wake up.

Here are a few observations after removing almost all wireless technology from our home (my husband kept his iPhone and I traded in mine for a flip phone):

#1 Improved sleep. I’m having more dreams and waking up more refreshed. I have a notable history of not dreaming. I always thought it was related to nutritional deficiencies, but not in this case.

#2 Increased feelings of being grounded and calm. I am less irritable and my energy feels stronger and more stable.

#3 Significantly less thoughts of death and dying. Yes, this has been haunting me for a few years now. I thought it was just me waking up to my significance as a mother, but now, I don’t think that’s it at all.

#4 Last but not least, we feel empowered because we are taking effective action and that alone is healing.

My invitation to you is this: sure, you can limit the use of wireless technologies and take effective action, but I want to go bigger…

Next time you go down the spiral of shame over something you’re feeling in your body, consider that it’s not your fault. Consider that it’s not in your head, that it’s in your body and could be the result of an environmental assault. While it may be something you are eating or drinking, it could also be, as we are learning, these invisible waves of energy running through your body.

Educate yourself in peace, my friends!

Love,

Charlotte

P.S. - The good news on my end is that I am officially a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner which allows me to offer new tests to my clients! We can do saliva, urine, blood and stool tests now which can look at your stress hormones, sex hormones, digestion, detoxification, oxidation, gut permeability, gut pathogens, and more. I've been doing this work long enough to confidently say that people's health issues are more complex than they used to be, so this testing will allow us to do some serious investigative work together and get to the root cause of your concerns. After all, symptoms are often far removed from the cause! If this interests you, here is my online scheduler. I'm happy to have a 20-minute free conversation with you to see if we're a good fit to work together. And if you are a current client, then we've most definitely got some new things to consider.

All that said, I'm taking a few weeks off to be with my family and recharge! Thanks again for being here and "see" ya in mid-August.

Baby, You're Worth It: Recipes for Low-Carb Root Beer Floats

Do you ever wonder why one alcoholic becomes sober and another doesn’t?

Or why one person makes dietary changes in the face of chronic inflammatory disease and the other doesn’t?

I do. I think about this a lot. It is clear that there is an element of grace, but there's also something else, at least for me. Fear helps me avoid my drug of choice - sugar.

You see, if we are going to celebrate food’s ability to heal the body, then we also have to respect its ability to destroy the body.

I know that fear isn't a welcomed word in the wellness community. We need to do everything out of love, right? Nope. Fear is healthy, and there is evil in this world.

A healthy fear helps us avoid things that have the potential to hurt us. I’m not going to jump head first into shallow water. I’m not going to put my hand in boiling water. And I’m not going to eat frosted fucking cornflakes for breakfast.

Some of these may strike you as common sense but then why do we eat sugar when we know it's harmful? Because if you're not tuned in to your body, the effects seem "down the road." It's true, there are fast poisons and there are slow poisons. Sugar is the latter.

Alongside fear is this simple question I ask myself: is it worth it?

This is the question I carry with me every time I’m faced with a decision as to how I treat my body.

The donut isn’t worth it.

Staying up late to watch a movie isn’t worth it.

Having a glass of red wine with dinner isn’t worth it.

Eating my son’s leftover sweet potato fries isn’t worth it.

That beer with a plate of hot wings isn’t worth it.

The convenience of wireless connections in my home isn’t worth it.

These things aren’t worth it because I understand their impact on my body and won’t feel as well if I partake in them. Sure, they are fun in the moment, but what about the aftermath?

The truth is that life is FULL of fleeting pleasures. They will always be there for us. But right now, in this moment, fleeting pleasure doesn’t interest me. I want to build my life force, not deplete it. I want to love my body, not disrespect it.

In the words of Fifth Harmony, baby I’m worth it! And so are you! (I would kill this song in a karaoke bar, by the way.)

So in the spirit of finding treats that give something back to our body (or at least don’t take something away from us), I want to share my favorite low-carb root beer float recipes with you. This is a hit with my entire family:

Start with making a low-carb, high-fat vanilla ice cream. These are my two favorite recipes:

Keto Vanilla Ice Cream from Healthful Pursuit

A Low-Carb Ice Cream Miracle from Bulletproof

Note to self about this recipe: I only use 3 Tablespoons of xylitol. 5 is too sweet for me.

This is the ice cream maker I use.

Once you make the ice cream, you know what to do: scoop into a cup and pour a stevia-sweetened root beer on top. My two favorite brands are: Zevia and Virgil's Zero Sugar Root Beer. While both are delicious on a hot summer day, I must say that I am partial to Virgil's because it has a darker color which makes it more like a "real" root beer, but that's just me! Either one is a winner.

Enjoy your root beer floats in peace, my friends!

Love,

Charlotte

PS: If you are longing to improve your relationship to food and your body or maybe you feel like there's something you're missing in terms of your wellbeing, you might want to check out my book Eat in Peace to Live in Peace: Your Handbook for Vitality. Thanks for being here!

Going Backward to Move Forward

From convenience foods because you need to work more and spend less time eating BACK to traditional foods that require preparation because nourishing your body is a priority.

From margarine BACK to motherfucking butter.

From vegetable oils BACK to lard.

From having a baby in a hospital BACK to birthing at home with a midwife.

From pumping breastmilk BACK to literally breastfeeding.

From fever suppression with anti-inflammatory drugs BACK to respecting the wisdom of the body and managing fever with herbs and hydrotherapy.

From vaccines against benign childhood infections BACK to letting our kids get sick and rest because we know that this creates robust immune systems.

From pharmaceutical drugs and unnecessary surgery BACK to real food, herbal medicine and lifestyle changes to support vitality.

From conventional farming with chemicals, monocropping, and genetic modification BACK to biodynamic farming with a diversity of plants and animals.

From using screens to educate our children BACK to good ole fashioned books…with pages…of paper.

From wireless technology BACK to hard-wired technology.

From a smart phone BACK to a flip phone.

And maybe from a flip phone BACK to a home phone.

Yes, sometimes going backwards moves you forward.

When it comes to our health and the health of the planet (which cannot be separated), these are a number of ways that we must un-fuck ourselves. I mean, really, when you stop and think about anything that requires action. You have three options: to do, not to do, and to undo.

I say that undoing is the hardest part.

I remember years ago when I gave up sugar, flour, white rice, pasta, potatoes and alcohol in an effort to stabilize my blood sugar. I cried on the kitchen floor because when I cleaned my pantry and refrigerator, I had nothing to eat. But I learned. I changed my diet and now avoiding sugar is second nature to me.

This is the energy I call upon as my family continues to address EMFs in our home and community. I’ve been here before. “Fuck! You mean I’ve been hurting my body with all these years with eating too much sugar and avoiding fat?” morphs into “Fuck! You mean that electromagnetic fields are damaging our bodies. We’ve been doing this wrong and now we have to fix it?!”

This is what un-fucking yourself from EMFs looks like:

1. We hired Riun Ashlie, an electromagnetic radiation assessment specialist, to evaluate our home for EMFs.

2. Riun also measured the dirty electricity in our home and installed appropriate devices in the electrical sockets to dampen it.

3. We eliminated our WiFi and hardwired internet into our computers with ethernet cables.

4. WiFi and Bluetooth are turned off on all devices.

5. We eliminated most wireless devices. Our phones are now corded. My printer is now attached to my computer. Our Bose portable speaker is now corded to the iPad for listening to music and audiobooks, which I swiftly shift to airplane mode the minute the music or book are up and running. I’m also going to sell our wireless vacuum cleaner. Dammit.

6. We replaced 2 fire alarms that use ionizing radiation.

7. We got rid of dimmer switches in our home which are a significant source of dirty electricity.

8. I rearranged my office so that I am not sitting in wires.

9. After two months of going back and forth, the city replaced our smart meter with an analog meter. We are thankful.

10. We replaced our Firebox for streaming with a hardwired Roku. This is still throwing off a ton of RFs so we are looking for a mitigating device and we rearranged the furniture so that we aren’t bathing in that crap when we enjoy a movie. We also turn off the power strip when we’re not watching the television.

11. We just installed solar panels on our home and had to pay an additional $2000 to relocate the inverter which creates a large magnetic field. It’s no longer on the side of my son’s bedroom! (As a side note, the environmental movement often fails to take human health into account. From inverters on bedroom walls to the magnetic fields of smart cars to the toxic air recirculating in energy efficient homes, the industry has improved energy production without thinking about how these “improvements” affect our health.)

12. I do not work on my computer with it charging. In fact, I will be switching to a desktop soon. Oh, and we are making an effort to unplug all chargers when they are not in use. These chargers are a significant source of dirty electricity.

13. We are homeschooling our child. Kids are the most affected by EMFs, and if a school has WiFi, then they are bathing in it. Their skulls are not fully formed and the radiation also impacts their bone marrow, not to mention their behavior.

14. I just traded in my smart phone for an old fashioned flip phone and am trying to figure out which RF safe airbud headseat is compatible. Admittedly, this has been a total pain in the ass, but I don’t care. I want to see how it goes and how much I rely on wireless technology. Let’s just say that I am humbled and my creative juices are flowing.

15. And finally, there was my car. Up until 2 months ago or so, I was ignorant to the fact that using a cell phone and connecting to WiFi in a car is a bad idea. Apparently, metal conducts electromagnetic frequencies and the devices ramp up their ability to connect since they are inside a moving vehicle. So I had to disable Bluetooth, etc from my car as well. It’s not enough to just do that on your phone.

My husband estimates that we have spent $4500 undoing the wireless technology in our home. $4500 to unfuck ourselves from this invisible toxin in the air. To be fair, I don’t think it will cost you that much due to our situation with the solar panel inverter. But what if we lived in a world where people were educated on this issue? The inverter wouldn’t have been installed on a bedroom wall in first place.

Look, when it’s all said and done, we have to change in some very big ways. We as human beings are obsessed with convenience, control, certainty and comfort. Smart phones and all of this wireless technology plays right into our selfish little hands. This is a direct result of living in our heads where we put efficiency and productivity above all else. What we have called being connected is actually being hyperconnected.

And I’m here to tell you this: your soul wants something different…

Your soul doesn’t give a shit about convenience. It wants you to be challenged.

Your soul doesn’t give a shit about control. It wants you to trust.

Your soul doesn’t give a shit about certainty. It wants you to embrace mystery and grace.

Your soul doesn’t give a shit about comfort. It knows that you can only grow when you are uncomfortable.

What do you say we start living for our souls instead of for our lizard brains? We can blame the industry all day long, but we go along with all this crap because we fucking like it.

There hasn’t been a single day that I haven’t looked at my husband and said, “I have a one-month window to return this flip phone. This is frustrating AF. I think I should just trade it in for a new iPhone and you know, just use it differently.”

And I’ve done the same thing with Facebook. I deleted all of my social media accounts because my soul doesn’t want to participate in the insanity of it anymore. But again, there isn’t a day that has gone by that I haven’t wanted to set up another Facebook account. I want to sell things using the marketplace function. I want to participate in professional groups having chats about clinical work that they are doing or to continue conversations with online programs I am in the process of completing.

True confession: I set up a new Facebook account with these purposes in mind and deleted it twice before I finally decided that none of the information I am missing in these forums or the ability to sell things I don’t need anymore are worth my humanity. When we participate in something, we are approving of it.

At this point, for me, going to back to social media in any form or getting another smart phone is like making the decision to eliminate sugar from my diet and a week later telling myself, "I’m just gonna have a bite of cupcake, alright? Just one bite."

These are the longings of an addict and the one truth about addicts is that they always want more. More. More. More. More.

Wireless technology isn’t just damaging our nervous systems, our bodies, and nature; it is a spiritual problem.

This is really hard work, people. Un-fucking yourself from EMFs is no joke.

But I learned long, long, long ago that I can do hard shit. And I believe that you can too.

Remember, sometimes moving forward demands that you go backward. I hope that you will join me.

Un-fuck yourselves in peace, my friends!

Love,

Charlotte

P.S. – While I have been writing about the health effects of EMFs in my weekly newsletters that you may have missed, here are some resources for you to learn more about why I’m writing about this issue in the first place:

The Non-Tinfoil Guide to EMFs: How to Fix Our Stupid Use of Technology

The EMF Health Solution

The Environmental Health Trust

Manhattan Neighbors for Safer Telecommunications

Oceania Radiofrequency Scientific Advisory Association

Documentaries to watch: An Invisible Threat and Generation Zapped

And kudos to my friend Faith Harper who was brave enough to put "unfuck" in the title of her books. I love it!