Dr. Riley Smith
There’s a version of this conversation that I have in my practice probably three or four times a week. The details change, but the core of it is always the same. Someone sits across from me—usually someone who’s very good at what they do, who has handled difficult situations for years—and says something like: “I […]
I’d regularly go 16 hours without eating, calling it “intermittent fasting” while really it was just prioritizing everyone and everything above my basic needs. By 3 PM I’d be anxious, irritable, reaching for any quick fix. Sound familiar? After my adrenal crisis revealed how meal skipping had literally dysregulated my entire system, I learned meal […]
Your reactivity is your response to the past. Are you ready to live in the present? I spent years hypervigilant, my nervous system constantly scanning for threats that weren’t there. This stress response served me in childhood but was sabotaging my adult relationships and health. Growing up in a household affected by my mother’s anxiety […]
Have you ever noticed how your mood can shift dramatically when you haven’t eaten in a while? That irritability that seems to come out of nowhere isn’t a character flaw—it’s your body sending an urgent message. For years, I lived disconnected from these signals. I pushed through hunger, powered past exhaustion, and ignored the tension […]
Dr. Riley Smith, LAc · DACM · DiplOM
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