Teeth and Health
I first heard about the connection between TEETH and GUTHEALTH when I was researching the GAPS diet, and read a great deal about the most...
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Mary Kelly
- Oct 21, 2022
HEALING: my updated story
HEALIING. These two people are very different. You could argue that the lighting is very different, so it makes the contrast between the...
Mary Kelly
- Oct 14, 2022
RECIPE: GAPS Lemon Butter
I have always worked on recipes that allow the kids to try foods that exist in the mainstream, while loading these new recipes up with...
Mary Kelly
- Nov 23, 2021
Are your Storehouses full?
About 3 months ago, I started to feel an urgency on my heart from the Father to FILL UP YOUR STOREHOUSES. I thought to myself that I had...
Mary Kelly
- Feb 19, 2021
DETOX vs HEALING: a summary
We have had a wonderful, deliciously overwhelming increase in people subscribing to the Good Mood Food site over recent weeks, and it...
Mary Kelly
- Jul 6, 2018
RECIPE: GAPS Twix Squares
Well, SHUT THE FRONT DOOR, why didn't we try these earlier? Far OUT. 5 years without a Twix, and then Danny discovers a recipe that just...
Gillian Rayfield
- Mar 27, 2018
Hope for Healing: behavioural disorders
One of my most diligent, and consequently, successful clients (back when I was still a GAPS coach) is Gillian, a mum of three boys who...
Emma Fox
- Oct 27, 2017
Hope for healing: childhood chronic health disorders
Emma is a mum of 2 beautiful boys who has been to hell and back before finding the GAPS protocol, and an answer to her prayers. She was a...
Mary Kelly
- Oct 2, 2017
God Food: the premise.
I started writing The Book today and felt so overwhelmed with purpose and excitement that it was too much not to share. I had a vision of...
M Kelly
- Sep 8, 2017
The mysterious grief of weaning
After 20 months of breastfeeding my final baby, a record for me by more than 12 months, I made a decision to wean her, even though...
Mary Kelly
- Mar 30, 2017
Hope for Healing: auto-immune disease
A lot of my clients are doing it tough at the moment. When there is a pause, or a regression, while we are on a healing pathway, we can...
Mary Kelly
- Dec 14, 2016
RECIPE: GAPS Christmas Fruit Mince Pies
How to make GAPS Christmas Fruit Mince Pies
Mary Kelly
- Nov 14, 2016
RECIPE: Medicinal Raw Lemon Honey Jellies
Here is a recipe for you that offers an alternative to throat lozenges and is free from chemicals, toxins and refined sugar, but is...
Mary Kelly
- Jul 29, 2016
Stupid things you do when you are sleep-deprived.
This blog is titled: Stupid Things you’ve done because you are sleep deprived. And if this is a competition, I think I win. Because this...
Mary Kelly
- Jun 19, 2016
Detoxing our home
When we started our GAPS journey, I quickly realised that a huge part of the problem that needed to be solved, was the toxins that we had...
M Kelly
- May 26, 2016
RECIPE: GAPS Lemon Cultured Cheesecake
This recipe is dedicated to all my GAPS mamas out there who will have these ingredients on hand because that's how you roll. You guys are...
M Kelly
- Sep 5, 2015
RECIPE: Almond and Raisin Cookies
These cookies are going down an absolute treat at the moment! They are grain free, egg free, dairy free (optional) and refined sugar...
Mary Kelly
- May 22, 2015
Parasites: the hidden menace
After 18 months on GAPS, we have healed a LOT! But we also hit a bit of a brick wall in terms of the final, obvious immune response...
Mary Kelly
- Apr 30, 2015
Mama's Story
I have written up my kids stories (Danny and Eden) about their incredible healing through the use of the GAPS protocol, but now it is...
Mary McKenzie Kelly
- Mar 20, 2015
RECIPE: Hot Cross Muffins!
Grain free, Refined Sugar Free These muffins are a lovely way to get the flavours of Easter, as we knew it before cutting out grains and...
Mary Kelly
- Mar 4, 2015
The Second Child (the one that "didn't need any healing")
On Thursday, our family had one of those days where time becomes irrelevant, and all of your focus is on your child. Danny caught a cold,...
Mary Kelly
- Feb 10, 2015
RECIPE: The Perfect (healing) Morning Smoothie
There are a bunch of medicinal foods that are recommended on the GAPS protocol to: - assist the healing of the gut lining, - enable...
Mary Kelly
- Feb 5, 2015
RECIPE: Bolognaise made with Broth
I posted a picture of our dinner the other night, and was inundated with positive vibes and requests for the recipe. It is a very simple...
Mary Kelly
- Feb 3, 2015
HOW TO: keep your child's gut healthy during antibiotic treatment
Last week, my daughter was complaining of a sore ear (again). In the last few months we have been surprised that she has suddenly...
Mary Kelly
- Jan 27, 2015
RECIPE: Chocolate Date Balls
Grain free, Refined sugar free, Dairy free, Nut free option*, Egg free Chocolate date balls SOUND really decadent, and they are (sweet...
Mary Kelly
- Jan 10, 2015
RECIPE: GAPS Almond Bread
Grain free, Refined sugar free There is a really simple recipe in the GAPS book (Gut and Psychology Syndrome by Dr Natasha...
Mary Kelly
- Jan 7, 2015
Why 'Finding a Cure' is part of the Problem
Before children, I was a lot of things. I was fun, energetic, available for a party at short notice. I was also a career woman. And my...
Mary Kelly
- Dec 12, 2014
RECIPE: GAPS/ PALEO Christmas Cookies
Grain free, Refined sugar free, Dairy free Well, 'tis the season for giving, so please accept with my love and gratitude, for all of you...
Mary Kelly
- Nov 24, 2014
RECIPE: Homemade Coconut Milk
I always used to take the shortcut on coconut milk, aka, Bought Canned Milk, but this was because I believed that I had found a brand of...
Mary Kelly
- Sep 6, 2014
Normal vs Common
I’ve been having conversations with mums over the last few months that have prompted a big thinky eye-opening epiphany. It’s a really...
Mary Kelly
- Aug 27, 2014
RECIPE: Chocolate Almond Mudcake
This cake has been our 100% go to recipe for the last 8 years, it is moist and rich, and totally grain/ refined-sugar/ dairy-free. Over...
Mary Kelly
- Aug 5, 2014
RECIPE: Lemon Coconut Lollies
My wonderful lemon tree, knuckles dragging with heavy yellow fruit, has been relieved of her burden by two enthusiastic little pickers....
Mary Kelly
- Jul 30, 2014
The Food Matrix
Remember that movie The Matrix? Of course you do. It was a movie that resonated with truth, and got people really thinking and talking....
Mary Kelly
- Jul 4, 2014
Acceptance is the first step
When I started writing about Post Natal Depression, I was coming out of it. I had been in the mire and fog of it for about 3 years, on...
Mary Kelly
- Jun 3, 2014
You are Worthy (Chapter 22)
Self- Worth is not something that you can simply turn on and off. It is something that has to be fundamentally believed in order to...
Mary Kelly
- Apr 28, 2014
HOW TO: Make Essential food 1 - Meat Stock and Broth
Over the next few weeks, I will be posting information about the critically important foods that our family introduced into our diet,...
Mary Kelly
- Apr 28, 2014
HOW TO: Make Essential Food 2 - Fermented Dairy
This is the the second post on the Essential Foods series. I was going to write about Fermented Foods in general, but to be honest, I'm...
Mary Kelly
- Apr 28, 2014
HOW TO: Make Essential Food 3 - Sauerkraut
Today, I will share the information that I have about fermenting your own vegetables, in particular, that nourishing traditional food for...
Mary Kelly
- Apr 28, 2014
The Everything Woman (Chapter 7)
For many women, before we have a chance to start re-training our brains to think about raising a family based on our individual gifts and...
Mary Kelly
- Feb 14, 2014
Powerful Healing: our Miracle on the GAPS Diet
This post is a continuation of my last post regarding the GAPS diet (Hope and Healing: our food journey to happiness). When I last wrote,...
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