The Naturalistic Nurse
The Naturalistic Nurse
Helping people with eczema live their most natural lives
 

Welcome to The Naturalistic Nurse

A blog dedicated to helping people with eczema live their most natural lives

 
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Meet Cassie Jaravata - The Nat Nurse!

Get to know my eczema story, how I found holistic medicine, and how The Naturalistic Nurse came to be.

 
 

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The Ultimate Eczema FUNDRAISER & GIVEAWAY! 😱🤩🎉😍 I came up with this idea to celebrate the unbelievable HEALING my body and mind have done from my severe #eczema and #TopicalSteroidWithdrawal. Along with my 2 eczema group coaches, Abby and Jen 👯‍♀️ whom I met toward the start of my #HealingJourney, we've come up with some truly AWESOME raffle prizes that have EACH helped me personally HEAL my skin over the past 1.5 years 🤭🙏 I will also PERSONALLY match half the amount of money entered and DONATE the total to the National Eczema Association (NEA)! So help out your own #EczemaCommunity with a chance to win one of these amazing products! 🙌 . RULES: 🌳 Must be following 👉 @thenatnurse, @eczema.holistic.healing, and @eczemaconquerors on Instagram in order to win 🌳 $5 per entry (unlimited entries) - The FULL amount of your payment PLUS a half-match will be DONATED to @nationaleczema 😄💰 🌳 Send entries to PayPal (thenaturalisticnurse@gmail.com) OR Venmo (@TheNatNurse) 🌳 Include your email address + Instagram username (if applicable) in the "memo" to contact in the event you win 📝 🌳 Entries accepted until Monday July 22 at 11:59pm PST. 1 prize per winner. 4 winners will be announced on Tuesday July 23 🌳 US participants only 🇺🇸 . Follow the link in my bio for more info on our prizes, my personal product reviews, and how they've helped me HEAL my skin to where I am today 🙋🏻‍♀️ Good luck, and happy healing! 😊☀️🙏 . . . #eczemafriendlylifestyle #eczemafriendly #eczemarelief #eczemasucks #eczemaproblems #eczemahelp #eczemahealing #eczemawarrior #eczemadiet #eczemalife #eczemalifestyle #dermatitis #holistichealth #holistichealing #eczemababy #eczemaexpo19 #unhideeczema #eczematreatment #skincareroutine #healthiswealth #skincare #naturalskincare #atopicdermatitis #psoriasis #tsw #skincaregiveaway
🌳☀️ Healing IS NOT linear! 🙅🏻‍♀️😌 I started my skin #HealingJourney back in 2017, and this video is from a YEAR later, AFTER I had already healed an IMMENSE amount from where I started. Even though my quality of life was already significantly better than when I began, I STILL had days, weeks, even months when I felt like I DIDN’T know if I was doing the right thing, and I DIDN’T feel like I was healing 😣🤨😩 . During times like this is when it’s especially difficult to PERSEVERE and KEEP GOING. So you must remember that whatever hardship you are going through; whatever pain you are feeling; it is TEMPORARY, and it WILL NOT last forever. Less than 24 hrs after this video, I was on a flight to Vegas to see my best friend from college get married ✈️🌃👰🏻 I danced, I laughed, and I had an amazing time! 😊🤨 But not bc my skin was physically any better than the day before - it wasn’t. It was bc as many BREAKDOWNS as you may have during your healing journey, they are ALWAYS temporary, and it can always get better, as long as you KEEP GOING 👍🙏🙋🏻‍♀️ . . . #eczemafriendly #eczemarelief #eczemasucks #eczemaproblems #eczemahelp #eczemahealing #eczemawarrior #eczemadiet #eczemalife #tsw #dermatitis #holistichealth #eczemababy #healthyhabits #foodismedicine #mentalhealthwarrior #healing #healthiswealth #skincare #skincareroutine #naturalskincare #eczemacommunity #atopicdermatitis #mentalhealthawareness #eczema #TopicalSteroidWithdrawal #healingisnotlinear #mentalhealth #unhideeczema
This weekend, I went to a Lotus Festival with my friends in LA 🌸🙆🏻‍♀️ Funnily enough, my favorite MEDITATION app (#DailyCalm) had recently had a featured daily #meditation entitled, “No Mud, No Lotus.” I learned that the lovely lotus begins its life in the muddy water, beneath the surface of a pond or marsh. Gradually, the pod PUSHES through the murky water, reaching up toward the surface of light above. In time, it BREAKS the surface of the water and unfurls it’s large, beautiful petals ☀️🌸🌼 Just as the lotus pushes through the darkness before it can bloom, we must push through our own suffering in order to grow and find peace 😌 And although it’s often difficult to recognize this in the midst of uncertainty and darkness, there is so much value in FIGHTING through adversity. Above all, your #HealingJourney will bring you PERSEVERANCE, WISDOM, and GROWTH, but it is only with every challenge that comes your way. . “Beyond the hurt of this moment; beyond the murky darkness; there will be SPACE, and WARMTH, and LIGHT” 🙏 . . . #eczemafriendly #eczemarelief #eczemasucks #eczemaproblems #eczemahelp #eczemahealing #eczemawarrior #eczemadiet #eczemalife #tsw #dermatitis #holistichealth #eczemababy #healthyhabits #eczema #mentalhealth #healing #healthiswealth #skincare #skincareroutine #naturalskincare #eczemacommunity #atopicdermatitis #mentalhealthawareness #TopicalSteroidWithdrawal #dailyinspiration #inspiration
Last week, I pretty much lived at the pool under the sun like it was nobody’s business! 😎☀️ A YEAR before this photo, I was going through the most physically AND emotionally PAINFUL time of my life, with the #depression and #anxiety through the roof to match. (You can see some of my progress pics already on my feed.) It HORRIFIED me to look at myself in the mirror or to look down at the skin on my body 😔 as I went through the toughest part of HEALING from my severe #eczema and #TopicalSteroidWithdrawal. My skin couldn’t handle ANYTHING—Too much sunlight burned, plain water burned, movement burned 😰 I was getting 2-4 hours of sleep every night for months, and I would cry DAILY from the physical pain, the mental stress, and pure EXHAUSTION. I was living in so much hell that I couldn’t even imagine my life beyond the current day, let alone a year later 🤨 . But look at me now! 😧😄 This isn’t to say my skin or #MentalHealth are perfect - I still have plenty of healing to do! - This is to show you that HEALING. IS. POSSIBLE. 👊 But it does’t happen overnight, and it sure as heck doesn’t happen on its own. It takes work, patience, #PERSEVERANCE, and GRIT. It takes an undeniable tenacity to continually GET UP every time you get knocked down. It takes constant reminders to yourself that YOU. CAN. DO IT 🙏💪 . I’ve already shared some pretty GNARLY skin PROGRESS PHOTOS on my feed, but the most EPIC ones are still yet to come! (Some of my most jaw-dropping pics are coming to you this week! 🤭) So follow me for more updates like this, to learn how I healed my skin, and how YOU CAN HEAL TOO 🙋🏻‍♀️🙌 I’m also currently hosting THE ULTIMATE ECZEMA online event where for every $5 you donate to the National Eczema Association, you can have a (pretty good) chance at winning some of the products that really helped my healing! Link in bio for info on how to enter! 😊
Graphic Content Warning ⚠️ #TopicalSteroidWithdrawal #eczema . HOW DID I DO IT? 😱🤔 My NECK was the first part of my body that really blew up when I started going full-force into healing from #TSW and a lifetime of eczema (see the last progress photo on my feed to learn why THIS IS NOT just ECZEMA). It was the first part of my body that made me feel an UNIMAGINABLE FEAR when I didn’t know what was happening to me 😥😔 . For over a year, I couldn’t bend or turn my neck at all. It was constantly covered in cuts and gashes, oozing and weeping. For months, I only got 2-4 hours of sleep a night bc of my skin, and ppl always asked me if I had back problems bc I couldn’t bend or turn my neck (like in this video) 📹👆Looking at these photos now, almost 2 years after I began this #HealingJourney, I’m in complete awe of the strength I’ve BUILT in both my mind AND body. . So the question is obvious—HOW DID I DO IT? My simple answer is this: GRIT. You MUST develop grit if you want to truly HEAL from your eczema and TSW to live a life unencumbered by your skin 👊 Grit is the PERSEVERANCE, TENACITY, and WILL to KEEP GOING toward your goals, NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS 😤 Through this journey, you will feel SO knocked down, SO many times. There might be days, weeks, even months that make you feel like you don’t even want to live anymore, and during those times especially, you must remind yourself that as long as you KEEP GOING, you WILL reach your goal, and YOU WILL HEAL 💪 . Follow me for more posts about how I HEALED my mind and body through the hardest time of my life, and how I got to where I am today - Happy, healthy, and here to help YOU 👩🏻‍⚕️❤️🙂 Also check out the link in my bio for THE ULTIMATE ECZEMA online event I’m hosting - By donating just $5 to the National Eczema Association, you’ll have a (pretty good) chance of winning some of the amazing products that helped me heal my skin (up to a $200 value)! 😊 Happy healing!
The Ultimate Eczema FUNDRAISER & GIVEAWAY! 😱🤩🎉😍 I came up with this idea to celebrate the unbelievable HEALING my body and mind have done from my severe #eczema and #TopicalSteroidWithdrawal. Along with my 2 eczema group coaches, Abby and Jen 👯‍♀️ whom I met toward the start of my #HealingJourney, we've come up with some truly AWESOME raffle prizes that have EACH helped me personally HEAL my skin over the past 1.5 years 🤭🙏 I will also PERSONALLY match half the amount of money entered and DONATE the total to the National Eczema Association (NEA)! So help out your own #EczemaCommunity with a chance to win one of these amazing products! 🙌 . RULES: 🌳 Must be following 👉 @thenatnurse, @eczema.holistic.healing, and @eczemaconquerors on Instagram in order to win 🌳 $5 per entry (unlimited entries) - The FULL amount of your payment PLUS a half-match will be DONATED to @nationaleczema 😄💰 🌳 Send entries to PayPal (thenaturalisticnurse@gmail.com) OR Venmo (@TheNatNurse) 🌳 Include your email address + Instagram username (if applicable) in the "memo" to contact in the event you win 📝 🌳 Entries accepted until Monday July 22 at 11:59pm PST. 1 prize per winner. 4 winners will be announced on Tuesday July 23 🌳 US participants only 🇺🇸 . Follow the link in my bio for more info on our prizes, my personal product reviews, and how they've helped me HEAL my skin to where I am today 🙋🏻‍♀️ Good luck, and happy healing! 😊☀️🙏 . . . #eczemafriendlylifestyle #eczemafriendly #eczemarelief #eczemasucks #eczemaproblems #eczemahelp #eczemahealing #eczemawarrior #eczemadiet #eczemalife #eczemalifestyle #dermatitis #holistichealth #holistichealing #eczemababy #healthyhabits #medicalmedium #eczematreatment #skincareroutine #healthiswealth #skincare #naturalskincare #atopicdermatitis #psoriasis #tsw #skincaregiveaway
Graphic Content Warning ⚠️ #TopicalSteroidWithdrawal #eczema . To be clear, THIS IS NOT just ECZEMA. This is the very gray area of topical steroid withdrawal, a condition largely unacknowledged and unfamiliar in the world of conventional medicine. This happens with prolonged steroid misuse or overuse for the treatment of eczema. Steroids are an immunosuppressant, so they are a great temporary fix for the eczema you see on the surface of your skin, as they suppress the symptoms just enough for you to go about your day. . But steroids are NOT MEANT TO BE a long-term treatment. People with more severe eczema will often find their skin flares up as soon as the next day after applying their topical steroid. So what do you do when this happens, but the only answer your doctor has for you is to prescribe more and more steroids? You feel like you have no choice, you feel like there are no other answers, and you feel like YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO. So you keep using them, bc that’s the ONLY way to make the pain of your skin tolerable enough just to get through your day... and then repeat again tmw 😔 . Since completely stopping my topical-steroid-use 5 years ago, my body has gone through hell and back working so hard to repair the unintentional damage done. In the past 2 years, I‘ve utilized a major DIET and LIFESTYLE change, #TraditionalChineseMedicine, #acupuncture, #CeleryJuice, minimal-ingredient moisturizers (link in bio to learn more☝️), and daily #meditation among so many other things to truly EXPEL the eczema I’ve suppressed inside me all these years and finally start to live a life UNENCUMBERED BY MY SKIN. . So follow me and STAY TUNED for more never-before-seen progress photos 🤭📸😱 plus a SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT comin’ at you tmw morning! 🤗 . . . #eczemafriendlylifestyle #eczemafriendly #eczemarelief #eczemasucks #eczemaproblems #eczemahelp #eczemahealing #eczemawarrior #eczemadiet #eczemalife #eczemalifestyle #dermatitis #holistichealth #holistichealing #eczemababy #healthyhabits #foodismedicine #medicalmedium #glutenfree #vegan #healthiswealth #skincare #naturalskincare #skincareroutine
🙋🏻‍♀️ MY TOP 5 MOISTURIZERS! - What products do I use for my incredibly sensitive #ECZEMA and through the shedding of #TopicalSteroidWithdrawal (TSW)? After over a year of healing and the wiiide range of torture my skin has endured (from raw, red inflammation, to being covered in cuts and gashes, to my old eczema literally drying up and shedding off my body) here are the 5 FINAL PRODUCTS that have made up my topical regimen at one time or another while healing (in order of thin to thick viscosity), that I feel CONFIDENT to put on my skin and share with others, and that I would trust enough to put on my own child 👍☺️ Link is in my bio☝️ . I would love to hear if you decide to try any of the products I’ve mentioned, or if you have any products you completely LOVE that have helped you HEAL in the comments below!👇 Happy healing! 🙏 . . . #eczemafriendlylifestyle #eczemafriendly #eczemarelief #eczemasucks #eczemaproblems #eczemahelp #eczemahealing #eczemawarrior #eczemadiet #eczemalife #eczemalifestyle #atopicdermatitis #dermatitis #holistichealth #holistichealing #holisticnutrition #eczemababy #healthylifestyle #foodismedicine #healthiswealth #tsw #naturalskincare #skincare #skincareroutine #nurse #nursing #sensitiveskincare #moisturizer
 
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