Post-Holiday Habit Refresh
For many of us, the holidays are filled to the brim with sugary treats, heavy meals and perhaps a drink or a dozen. Now that the holidays have come and gone, we may feel lousy or simply that some of...
View Article9 Immune-Supportive Foods To Cook With
We tend to pay more attention to our immune system during cold and flu season when germs are swirling around like a tornado. However, it’s important to focus on practices that will support and...
View ArticleIn Pursuit of Purpose and Rising Together
Do we start big? Dive right on it? Let’s do it. What is your purpose? Do you know? Asked another way – what gets you out of bed in the morning (and don’t say coffee or Wordle as the case may be). Did...
View ArticleIs Your Perfume Poisoning Your Family?
If you’re a perfume wearer, can I be the one to tell you that it doesn’t smell good. I know you may love it. It may feel like your safety blanket, a second skin, part of your brand or identity or maybe...
View ArticleHealthy Travel Tips: Key Strategies For Healthy Holidays
As we get more and more engaged in this healthy vibrant lifestyle, things we used to take at face value and accept as the norm, may no longer be normal or okay enough for us. While there are a growing...
View ArticleThe Time In Between: How To Be Present
The time in between is where the magic is. It’s what I am learning to live for and be present for. Don’t get me wrong, it’s hard though. It’s hard to get there. Now more than ever perhaps. In fact, for...
View Article8 Essential Habits For Healthier Cell Phone Use
Cell phones can be bad for your health, if you let them be. Don’t worry – I am definitely not telling you to ditch that lifeline. Instead, I have outlined eight essential habits to ensure your...
View ArticleHow to Get Started Growing Your Own Food
For many new gardeners, growing your own food may seem like a daunting (or even impossible) task. When you get right down to it, there are only a few key components you need for a healthy garden – but...
View ArticleFood Packaging Tricks That Fool Us
These days, we need to be amateur detectives in order to figure out the truth behind products and whether they are good for us. Recently my mom told me she found an amazing bread company at a farmers’...
View ArticleBest Wild Leek Recipes
There is nothing better than fresh picked ingredients, and there is nothing quite as special as the first wild foods that make themselves known after the snow has melted. And there is nothing more...
View ArticleNatural Solutions for Allergy Season (with Recipe)
It’s officially allergy season. And rather than resorting to over-the-counter drugs that induce drowsiness, I have the very best tips for natural allergy solutions. As someone with a predisposition to...
View ArticleGluten-Free Veggie Quiche
Traditional quiche is made with a pastry crust and is filled with eggs, milk, cheese, meat and vegetables. Over the years, I have attempted to adjust certain recipes so they fit in with my whole food,...
View ArticleHow to Handle Energy Vampires
We all have a finite number of hours in the day to work, cook and eat, sleep, socialize, exercise, pursue hobbies, do nothing and all of the other things that make life awesome. Nature abhors a vacuum...
View Article15 Ways to Use Rhubarb
Rhubarb season is short, and that only makes us appreciate this tart vegetable even more. Every spring, we look forward to cooking and baking with rhubarb because it’s fleeting and special! If you...
View ArticleSpring Cleaning Your Thoughts
I remember very clearly the first time I was told that my thoughts weren’t actually real – that my thoughts didn’t have to dictate the way I lived, what I believed or filter the reality I was living...
View ArticleClimate Change Measures Versus True Ecological Care
We’re being told ‘climate change’ is the crisis we need to pay attention to. If this is true, is it possible we’re being pointed in the wrong direction regarding both primary causes and solutions? And...
View ArticleHow I Created A Healthy Home
#StayHome was the anthem heard worldwide in 2020. Even as things started to open up again in parts of the world, most of us have been continuing to spend all day, every day in our homes. This means...
View Article10 Important Questions to Ask Your Farmer at the Market
What I eat and where my food comes from are very important to me, and I know these are things many of you value as well. As much as I enjoy growing my own garden, both outdoors and indoors, I’m not as...
View ArticleHave you stopped listening? Have all of us?
Most of what I’ve written here, I recently shared in my monthly note with my insider crew – my subscribers. About once a month, I send a personal note about what I’m thinking about and working on. This...
View ArticleNatural Bug Repellent Recipe
Spending time in nature has a multitude of benefits, but sometimes the outdoors can have its drawbacks – especially if you’re in a spot that is crawling with bugs that love to feast on warm-blooded...
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