Once upon a time, moms used to tend the fire and forage for food. Survival. Then, they’d try to marry their daughters off for financial advancement. Stability. Then, they not only kept their family healthy and clean, but they entered the workforce. Integration. (Of course,...
“Hi honey, how was your day?” This is a phrase spoken from parent to child every day in millions of homes all over the world. It’s a warm way to connect and ask your family about their lives. It’s common and comforting. It also, however,...
I’ve always had an affinity with babies. I am drawn to them. They stare at me in restaurants, a lot. This happens so often it’s a joke amongst my friends. “Baby fan club!” my girlfriends exclaim. When I was a teen, I loved babysitting and...
OMG! Here she goes again. What in the world is ING...
There is a revolution happening here on my blog… I was raised in a family that used over the counter drugs and prescription medications regularly. My childhood illnesses were medicated every single time. The feeling around sickness in my household was that it was inconvenient, scary...
We live in a society focused on immediate gratification and we aren’t used to waiting. We buy our lettuce fresh, washed and ready to go. We tap our fingers if our order at a restaurant is delayed. We send an...
As parents, we shape our children’s world by describing it to them. If we don’t mention the body’s innate intelligence to our child, how will they know about it? We need to figure out how to tell our children about their body’s inner healing wisdom. Then it...
When you develop your own inner knowing and demonstrate this to your kids, you help them get better at making independent conscious choices. The world sometimes feels full of artificial crap, disconnected people and food and stimuli that make us sick. That stuff is always going...
One of my creative loves is interior design and I enjoy making aesthetically pleasing spaces. Our children’s room can be a calm and soulful place for them to play, dream, recharge and heal (if needed). Creating a warm and inviting bedroom for your child can be...
I read parenting and health blogs all the time and every one has a green smoothie recipe on it. Every. Single. One. Except mine, and this is why…Can there really be any new green smoothie recipes that I could share with you that would rock...