2021 Healthy Holiday Gift Guide!
It’s here, it’s real and it’s spectacular!
The 2021 Healthy holiday guide is finally here and IMO the best list I’ve curated YET!
This year I created even more categories so you can get really granular in getting something targeted and special for you or your loved one this holiday season.
I don’t know about you but I adore looking at gift guides. I love being introduced to something new and awesome and I hope to do the same in this list.
Because so many facets of health is woven into my work I’ll be sharing on a wide range of wellness and health products, courses and services. You’ll see everything from gifts to optimize your sleep to gut-health improving gifts.
Without further ado….the 2021 Healthy Holidays gift guide!
***Note There may be affiliate links in this post which means I may receive a commission if you purchase something through a link. However, please be assured that I only recommend products I have personally used and love!
Gifts for stress-relief
We all experience stress in our lives and a little bit of stress can actually be good and motivate/energize us. The problem is as a society we’ve hit surge capacity for stress and what should be temporary, more acute stressors have morphed into chronic stress which affects pretty much every system in our body, alters the gut microbiome and creates systemic inflammation. More than ever, we need tools to calm chronic stress, regulate the nervous system and bring our stress-chemistry back into balance. In fact, relieving chronic stress one of the main pillars of my signature program, Replenish. These gifts are great for your stressed-out mom friend for sure, but are also great choices for anyone looking to find more calm, peace and equanimity in their lives.
Gifts For (Healthy) Foodies
It’s no shock that I love talking about and eating really good food. I love cooking and baking for sure, but I’m always looking for new foodie products and game to try new food services like at home meal kit delivery services and smoothie kits! I also love finding superfood and adaptogenic foods that infuse a whole other level of nutrition into regular food items (see Mud/Watr for instance) The following are some of my favorites that I’ve tried this year. Let me know what you think! These make fantastic gifts for your food-obsessed friend or anyone looking to boost their nutrition and up their meal-planning game in 2022.
Farmer Jones Farm (free shipping before xmas)
Its Blume - your favorite latte, with a smooth superfood upgrade
Mud/wtr - Mushrooms are the new coffee bean.
Bumpin blends (superfood smoothie cubes sent to your door! What?)
Cratechef (it’s like being on chopped, but in your own home!)
Rawnice - create your own colorful food masterpieces and rainbow superfoods with natural, earth made ingredients
Vitamix - owning one of these is pricy, I’m not going to lie. But its also a complete game-changer and a great gift for your aspiring home cook loved one!
Urthbox - a monthly subscription box with healthy snacks
Chef’s vision knives - these are beautiful and will make the process of cooking even that more fun and enjoyable.
California Wine - haven’t you heard? Wine is good for your health, in moderation and filled with antioxidants! You can purchase subscription boxes for your wine-enthusiast loved one.
Gifts For gut-health
Another pillar in my Replenish program is about balancing gut-health. Having a strong and diverse population of bacteria in your microbiome can affect everything about your health from how well you sleep, your immunity & resilience and even your mood and brain functioning. (not to mention the obvious GI issues that come from an imbalanced gut microbiome.) Have a friend who is working on gut-health? These items will help makeover their microbiomes. Speaking of makeovers, I also have a free 7-day gut-health challenge that will help as well. Makes a great digital stocking stuffer!
Brodo - Gut healing bone broth delivered straight to your door
The Fermenting Fairy - get your fermented foods in for optimal gut-health!
Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ (Revised Edition)
Ixcela gut-health diagnostic test - use pro-code MAJEC2020 for 30% off!
Gifts For movement and exercise
We all know we need to move; for longevity, for stress reduction, for heart-health and for brain health. The hard part is figuring out how to do it consistently and to actually enjoy yourself at the same time. I spent way too many years hating exercise and tolerating it as a means to an ends. (to lose weight). When you change that goal, however, you have space to examine for yourself how you like to move your body, for how long and what time of day works best in your schedule. I became obsessed with online yoga during the pandemic which has continued. The boom of online fitness classes has been staggering but oh-so-needed in order to meet the demands of the times we’re living in. Online fitness has been a game-changer and there are so many good platforms to choose from! Here are a few of my favorites that I’ve used in the last 2 years. These make a fabulous gift (especially gifting someone with a full-year of classes) for that loved one who struggles to get daily movement in but who is reluctant to spend money on themselves in this way.
Practyce - amazing online yoga platform with a huge array of options from beginner to advanced
Obe Fitness - a Canadian based company with fabulous classes from 10-minute HIIT workouts to dance classes and everything in between.
YogaWorks - well-known in-person and online franchise. I found my favorite yoga instructor of ALL TIME using this platform last year. It’s a great one.
Booyah Fitness - huge array of classes from kick-boxing to pilates without a huge price tag and all the stinky sweaty people working out next to you!
Gifts For better sleep
If you are plagued by sleep disruptions (hello snoring husbands and early-riser animals!) or struggle with staying asleep, have a racing mind and/or insomnia than listen up! These gifts for your sleep-disrupted or sleep-deprived friend will help facilitate better, more consistent sleep which is essential for hunger-hormone balance, circadian rhythm and overall healing and feelings of well being.
Cooling bamboo weighted blanket - great for calming a racing mind and grounding the body
The Qi - whole flower holistic tea blends
At-home Programs/Courses and learning
Everyday Culinary Nutrition - this was the program that got me hooked on Culinary Nutrition and had me join the full 6-month certification program!
The Meal Planning Club - my monthly home cooking and meal planning strategy group.
Replenish - my signature 1:1 and group-coaching program.
Miscellaneous items and ideas I love!
Lumen - metabolic tracking device
Literati - book clubs for all genres
America the Beautiful - National Parks & Federal Recreational Lands Annual Pass
I’d love to know what you think of the 2021 Healthy Holidays gift guide! Let me know in the comments what you have your eye on.
However you chose to spend your holidays I wish you an epically happy and healthy 2022. May only good things come your way.