Okay, I have a few questions for you. Can you hear electricity humming? That may be a strange question, but it is a thing for some people. Do you notice tiny details about something that no one else notices? Or have you ever had a little pain and couldn’t stop focusing on it? If you…
Each November, most of the United States turns the clocks back one hour as daylight saving time ends. Most people look forward to “falling back” because they get an extra hour. But even though we gain an hour on the clock, your body doesn’t necessarily experience it as an extra hour of rest. The time…
Many of the recipes that I feature here on the blog are designed to be simple for those days when energy is low, but you still need something for dinner. This Slow Cooker Southwestern Chicken Soup is what I like to call a “throw-and-go” recipe. It only takes opening a few cans and packages to…
I want to talk about digestive problems for a moment. I’ve struggled with them my whole life. In fact, they started very young for me. As a 7-year-old child, I was waking up each night with stomach upset. I remember having to go to the doctor and having tests run and X-rays done. But there…
I had a pretty big “aha” moment recently. I realized that I haven’t been thriving, but have been stuck living in survival mode for a long time. For far too long, my days had a pretty specific pattern to them. I’d wake up and struggle to even get out of bed. I would spend at…
There are some recipes that are so comforting to me. Recipes that feel like a warm hug…or feel like home. This recipe is my Mom’s meatloaf recipe, and I love it so much! It’s one of those recipes that is always so comforting to me. It’s kind of funny that when I was a kid,…
Have you ever noticed that some days feel heavy even before you get out of bed? Everything seems like it’s “too much”. You wake up tired, and your mind is already racing before you’ve even had your morning coffee. To make matters worse, somehow even the smallest tasks feel overwhelming. We live in a culture…
Imagine telling someone you’ve made one of the biggest life decisions of your life. It is something that you’ve thought about for a long time. You’ve decided to talk it over with a few trusted people in your life, only to have them say, “Oh, you’ll change your mind.” Or even worse, they say: “That’s…
Okay, it’s time for me to get up on my soapbox. Today it’s about women’s body hair. The beauty industry has been pushing a narrative that women’s body hair is unnatural and masculine. But is that actually true? Well…no. And it’s time to normalize women’s body hair again. Why did women start shaving their body…