Simplifying the food on your plate at each meal is a positive form of intentional eating. (Keep reading – there’s a free gift for you at the end of this post!) By having fewer ingredients at each meal your body can benefit in the following ways: Supper doesn’t need to be meat, potatoes, veggies, and…
Tag: Healthy Living
What are your hunger signs?
As newborns, we let our moms know when it was time to feed us. For a newborn baby, when the body says food, he/she sends signals to be fed. As the baby grows into a toddler and then a young child, the food on demand becomes less and the family food routine takes over. Generally,…
New Theme – Intentional Nutrition
Being intentional about our food can feel complicated and full of rules and “shoulds” and “have tos.” When we try to process all the contradictory information coming at us about nutrition, no wonder we’re confused. So let’s spend the next few weeks simplifying how we think about food. Let’s take first steps and small bites…
Making & Maintaining Life Changes
I’ve made a lot of changes in my life. Especially going through burnout recovery where changes became a need instead of a desire. But change is hard. (If you prefer video, scroll to the bottom of this post.) The mind doesn’t like change and breaking and creating habits takes work. At the height of my…
Giving and Taking Compliments
Has anyone ever given you a compliment and you feel self-conscious, so you shoot it down? For example, someone says, “I love your shirt!” and your response is, “Oh, I all my good shirts were in the wash, I just threw this on.” The outcome of this sort of response is actually an insult to…
Date-a-Month
James and I really enjoy spending time together. We’re each others best friend. However, after coming out the other side of COVID restrictions and being in burnout recovery, the idea of going out and doing fun things seemed like a great idea, but also felt uncomfortable and even overwhleming. I’m sure so many people felt…
A Simple & Fun Workout
This is my workout pattern, let me know if this sounds familiar: Get energized and motivated — join a gym — set up a routine — go consistently — something hiccups my routine (cold, earache, holidays, change in schedule, etc) — stop going to gym — take months (or years) to get energized and motivated…
15 Simple Ideas for Daily Self-care
I’ll be honest, I’m generally annoyed by “lists.” They can be overwhelming. If we tried to incorporate everything off every list of things we “should” do, we’d have a never-ending morning routine, never mind all the other “shoulds” for our work routine, workout routine, eating routine, meeting our success goals, etc. We just can’t do…
Self-care Thoughts on Deodorants
On this last day of focusing on our personal hygiene self-care, we’re talking about deodorants and anti-perspirants. (If you prefer video, scroll to the bottom of this post.) It’s pretty common knowledge that anti-perspirants block our natural sweat glands. Many people worry about the aluminum in anti-perspirants increasing the risk of breast cancer. There’s actually…
Self-care & Body Wash, Shampoo & Toothpaste
Reducing toxins that enter our body is an excellent practice in self-care. Considering what we apply to our body daily in the way of body wash/soap, shampoo/conditioner, hairspray and hair products, toothpaste, and lotions — that’s a lot of toxins that exist just in our morning routine! (If you prefer video, scroll to the bottom…