Paleo Pancakes

Serves 1

Ingredients

½ cup cooked sweet potato or winter squash (such as butternut, acorn, or kabocha), or 1 banana
3 large pastured eggs
2 tablespoons hemp seeds, flax seeds, or nut butter
Virgin coconut oil

Directions

Combine the first three ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth. Heat coconut oil in a pan over medium heat, and spoon in silver-dollar-size dollops of the batter. They cook quickly!

From the book A Mind of Your Own: The Truth About Depression and How Women Can Heal Their Bodies to Reclaim Their Lives by Kelly Brogan, MD. Copyright © 2016 by Kelly Brogan, MD. Published on March 1, 2016 by HarperWave, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. Reprinted by permission.

About the Author

Kelly Brogan, MD, is a Manhattan-based holistic women’s health psychiatrist, author of the New York Times bestselling book A Mind of Your Own, and co-editor of the landmark textbook Integrative Therapies for Depression. She completed her psychiatric training and fellowship at NYU Medical Center after graduating from Cornell University Medical College, and has a BS from MIT in Systems Neuroscience.

She is board certified in psychiatry, psychosomatic medicine, and integrative holistic medicine, and specializes in a root-cause resolution approach to psychiatric syndromes and symptoms. Dr. Brogan is on the advisory board of Price-Pottenger. Her website is www.kellybroganmd.com.