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What Do You Believe About Cleansing?

I’ve been focusing these past couple months on completing The Real Food Cleansing Guide. I’m excited to announce the release of this ebook and wanted to share a few thoughts that surfaced as I worked through it. I started to realize how we hold so many standards or beliefs in our minds– mostly kept hidden [...]

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Skeleton Self Care in Challenging Times

I hesitated using the word ”challenging” for this post because there are many joyful, exciting fun times in our lives that require so much energy, time and focus that we run the risk of ignoring our basic self care needs which can lead to burnout and sickness.  But ultimately it tends to be the times that are laced with [...]

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3 Simple Tricks to Weed Out Poor Choices at the Supermarket

I’m writing at Simple Mom today;  “We know that directing our diets away from highly processed foods and toward unrefined whole foods is a surefire way to increase our health and well-being.  That said, most of us still use processed foods every day.  Learning to quickly identify which ones are healthy is essential as we navigate our way [...]

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A Day of Rest

“What did you do this weekend?,” a friend asked me on a Monday morning.  “Nothing much,” was my knee jerk response.  But “nothing” couldn’t have been farther from the truth.  Saturday was spent shuffling the kids from one set of grandparents to the other so that I could race to clean the house and get caught up [...]

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11 Ways To Use the Kitchen Timer

I use my kitchen timer all throughout the day.  In fact, I started using the timer as a productivity tool when I was in college.  My roomates and I would set “power hours” for studying through the night- we’d set the timer for an hour and focus completely on our work.  Then when it would [...]

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