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My 9 Best Strategies To Help You Unwind
Do you ever feel kind of tight and contracted, like the littlest thing can cause you to spring up (or lash out) for no real reason at all? Or that you are overreacting to things that should be no big deal, and even as you’re reacting, you know you’re being dramatic about it? Why am…
All the culinary nutrition
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15 Ways to Use Rhubarb
Rhubarb season is short, and that only makes us appreciate this tart vegetable even more. Every spring, we look…
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How to Get Started Growing Your Own Food
For many new gardeners, growing your own food may seem like a daunting (or even impossible) task. When you…
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9 Immune-Supportive Foods To Cook With
We tend to pay more attention to our immune system during cold and flu season when germs are swirling…
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How to Celebrate Healthy Holidays: Tips and Recipes
This time of year can be challenging for those of us who maintain a healthful, whole foods diet throughout…
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22 Gluten-Free and Dairy-Free Holiday Treats
It’s because I love you that I put this list together for you. It’s also my love for you…
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Our 9 Favourite Dairy-Free Baking Substitutions
When it comes to healthy cooking, it’s relatively easy to swap out common allergens or ingredients such as butter,…
Inspiration For The Heart + Mind
Nap Time Self-Care: Tips for Tired Moms
I laugh at the days when I thought I was busy. I used to write about self-care in the chaos, would Instagram my hour-long sauna/home spa routine and preached…
From FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) to JOMO (Joy Of Missing Out)
We’ve all done this at one point: we’re out for dinner and constantly check our phones, we double-, triple- or quadruple-book our schedules to have social plans, or…
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Have you stopped listening? Have all of us?
Most of what I’ve written here, I recently shared in my monthly note with my insider crew – my subscribers. About once a month, I send a personal…
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Spring Cleaning Your Thoughts
I remember very clearly the first time I was told that my thoughts weren’t actually real – that my thoughts didn’t have to dictate the way I lived,…
How to Handle Energy Vampires
We all have a finite number of hours in the day to work, cook and eat, sleep, socialize, exercise, pursue hobbies, do nothing and all of the other…
The Time In Between: How To Be Present
The time in between is where the magic is. It’s what I am learning to live for and be present for. Don’t get me wrong, it’s hard though.…
Healthy Home
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How I Created A Healthy Home
#StayHome was the anthem heard worldwide in 2020. Even as things started to open up again in parts of…
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How to Get Started Growing Your Own Food
For many new gardeners, growing your own food may seem like a daunting (or even impossible) task. When you…
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8 Essential Habits For Healthier Cell Phone Use
Cell phones can be bad for your health, if you let them be. Don’t worry – I am definitely…
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How to Choose A Water Filter
Water is fundamental to our health – but with all of the different kinds, it can be tough to…
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How to Make Tinctures and Tonics, Guide To Homemade Medicine
The world of plants is a powerful one. There are a wealth of components in plants that serve to…
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Gardening Inspiration: My Favourite Instagram Gardeners
They say it takes a village to raise a child. Guess what? It also seems to take a village…
Recipes
Easy Dairy-Free Ice Cream Recipe + 11 Awesome Topping Ideas
If I could use a season to describe myself, summer would definitely be the one. It’s my favourite time of year –…
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The Simplest Homemade Blueberry Jam
Blueberry season is very important for our family. Specifically, wild blueberries. The adventure usually begins in early August when wild blueberries first…
How to Make Sauerkraut
When I began my career in culinary nutrition, homemade sauerkraut was a dying art. Over the years while I was teaching in-person…
Gluten-Free Veggie Quiche
Traditional quiche is made with a pastry crust and is filled with eggs, milk, cheese, meat and vegetables. Over the years, I…
Natural Solutions for Allergy Season (with Recipe)
It’s officially allergy season. And rather than resorting to over-the-counter drugs that induce drowsiness, I have the very best tips for natural…
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Best Wild Leek Recipes
There is nothing better than fresh picked ingredients, and there is nothing quite as special as the first wild foods that make…
Ecological Care
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Natural Bug Repellent Recipe
Spending time in nature has a multitude of benefits, but sometimes the outdoors can have its drawbacks – especially…
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10 Important Questions to Ask Your Farmer at the Market
What I eat and where my food comes from are very important to me, and I know these are…
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Climate Change Measures Versus True Ecological Care
We’re being told ‘climate change’ is the crisis we need to pay attention to. If this is true, is…
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How to Get Started Growing Your Own Food
For many new gardeners, growing your own food may seem like a daunting (or even impossible) task. When you…
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Best Wild Foods: Guide To Harvesting and Preserving
Though I have long been a fan of farmers’ markets and local awesomeness when it comes to food, it’s…
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Into The Woods: Healing Benefits of Forest Bathing
Forest bathing: it’s good for you. Now I’m not talking about skinny-dipping or luxuriating in your fancy outdoor shower…
Healthwashing: Digging Deep On The Nonsense
Why Goldfish Crackers Don’t Belong In A Lunch Box
Parents spend a lot of time, money, thought and effort packing lunches for their children. The school day, summer or winter break activities, day camps and other non-school…
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What is Natural Flavour? Is It Actually ‘Natural’?
If you’ve ever looked at a food label or read the health claims on the front of the package, you’ve probably seen the term ‘natural flavour’ (or ‘natural flavor’…
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Is The Beyond Meat Burger Healthy?
I tried to avoid writing about the Beyond Meat burgers. I didn’t want to deal with the haters that I got when I shared facts about Arbonne, Soylent,…
Your Clothes Are Made Of Plastic
This topic has been on my mind for a long time. A really long time. I don’t like wearing plastic. I don’t like the way it feels on…
What Does ‘Naturally Raised’ Mean? Deciphering Meat Labels
I’ve been in this business for nearly 15 years now and during that time, I’ve worked to raise awareness about what’s in our food, how to read nutrition…
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Is Plant-Based Milk Healthy: Oatly, NotMilk, Ripple and More
Several weeks ago, I received a text from a friend asking me if I’d heard of a product called ‘NotMilk’ – and what I thought about it. I’m…
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