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Healthy Travel Tips: Key Strategies For Healthy Holidays
As we get more and more engaged in this healthy vibrant lifestyle, things we used to take at face value and accept as the norm, may no longer be normal or okay enough for us. While there are a growing number of options when traveling, it can still be a challenge to maintain health in…
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All the culinary nutrition
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Top 17 Healthy Halloween Treats
Like so many other holidays, Halloween is one of those times when it’s easy to throw caution to the…
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Healthy Thanksgiving Recipes and Inspiration
It’s a long weekend coming up here in Canada, and a time for people to gather and celebrate the…
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Sun Protection: Safe Sunscreens, Best Foods, Healthy Sun Exposure Tips
I make no secret or excuses about my love for the sunshine. I gladly escape cold Toronto winters in…
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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…
Inspiration For The Heart + Mind
Why Are We Afraid To Create?
My son, now four years old, loves drawing people with really long necks, long oval eyes, a dot for a nose, a jagged line for a mouth and…
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?…
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,…
Healthy Home
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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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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…
Recipes
The Best Pumpkin Spice Latte Recipe
Pumpkin recipes abound this time of year. I’ve put up a few myself. So many of them call for pumpkin puree and most of us then hop over to the store and buy a can of pumpkin. But see, pumpkin doesn’t grow in cans. It grows from the ground and grows a-plenty locally and it really isn’t that much trouble to do the right thing by your pumpkin and make your own pumpkin puree from scratch.
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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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
Food Packaging Tricks That Fool Us
These days, we need to be amateur detectives in order to figure out the truth behind products and whether they are good for us. Recently my mom told…
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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