If you visit my little blog frequently, you may have noticed that I’ve been talking more and more about whole foods recently. The more that I learn about human biology and nutrition, the more passionate I become about the importance of whole foods. If you’re…
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Day 14: 3 Healthy Habits
Read moreThis post is meant to be as much of a kick-in-the-pants to myself as it is to be helpful to anyone else. While I know that these are important, healthy habits — fact is that I’ve done a terrible job of maintaining them recently. I…
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy & Motherhood
Read moreFrom ages fifteen to twenty-one, I suffered from severe depression and anxiety. Over the course of that time, I visited with countless doctors and therapists. I was prescribed different medications and sat through fruitless therapy sessions. After years without much change, one day, I found…
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Making Up & Going Natural
Read moreFrom about nine-months pregnant to about three-months after birth, me & makeup just didn’t get along. For awhile I couldn’t even see my legs, let alone shave them. Then, when I could see everything again, I didn’t even remotely have the time to think about…
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Chicken Keeping!
Read moreAfter five-years of patiently waiting, we’re finally getting chickens this spring! I am so excited. The construction on our house, my pregnancy, and our town’s previous ordinance prohibiting chickens on less than an acre had kept us from getting them sooner — but this spring,…
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Baby Weight Loss: Smoothies
Read moreI’ve been working to lose the fifty pounds that I gained during pregnancy. It’s been coming off pretty steadily but the last ten pounds seems to be sticking. It is likely because I am breastfeeding, and as such, eating like a horse that got loose…
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Roman’s First Fever & Please Vote for Us!
Read moreI haven’t talk too much about vaccinations here on the blog. It seems to be a touchy/controversial issue and the last thing that I want to do — ever — is offend anybody. I’ve been called judgmental before and ever since then I try really…
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Recipe: Healthy Rice & Bean Cakes
Read moreYesterday I was craving something “substantial” but didn’t have much in the house. So I threw a little bit of everything together and came up with these rice & bean cakes. They were delicious. You can serve them warm with applesauce or sour cream or…
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another day, another farm
Read moreSummer is my favourite season and I love the warm weather; but the past couple of weeks have been brutally hot. Roman & I had gotten into a great routine of going for a long walk every afternoon but with temperatures close to 100 degrees…