I workout at home nearly exclusively. I love gyms and group classes, a LOT, but they aren’t in the budget tim-wise or financially right now. So? At home! A lot of people struggle to feel motivated or even like trying a home workout. The accountability isn’t there in the same way it is at the…
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No-Poo FAQ
“I haven’t washed my hair in 6 years.” sounds. . . intense. But the reality, is far less extreme. And much less gross than you’re imagining. No-Poo is just a sick sounding catch-phase for No-Shampoo. It’s a big umbrella term that can actually end up meaning and referencing a whole lot of different techniques. But the main…
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At 10am I looked at the clock, deep in labor and my birth tub, I looked at Charlie and my midwife. Pleaded with my eyes and said “I cannot make it till 4pm.” “I don’t think you’ll have to” my midwife replied. I didn’t believe her. My first daughter was born at 4pm. I was…
Goal Setting- Getting Woo Woo with the Universe
I’ve been really feeling inspired by so many books and podcasts I’ve been listening to. The self-help and empowerment genre are really having a moment, and I’m ripe to eat it up (my babies growing up, newfound free-time, and that mid-life crisis feels looming). But in all this forward thinking, positivity focusing, thought-swap proponing comes a lot…
5 Natural Total Body Skin Care Tips
I’m a skin care lover. I used to have a medicine cabinet just over flowing with every weird, random, new, drug store skin care item. Self Care and Face Mask are virtually synonymous in my book (I even wrote a whole post of my fave masks!). Over the past few years I’ve slowly weaned from random…
Cycle Syncing: My Period and My Fitness
I was compensated by U by Kotex®, but thoughts and opinions are my own. Cycle-Syncing is a new’ish concept to me – I’d read about it a few years ago but it didn’t really resonate. After I had my first daughter, I didn’t get my period back for 18 months, I had one cycle and…
Tool Box; What’s in my Kit.
Having a toolbox full of options to pull from when days are hard, or workouts seem impossible, healthy eating feels…dumb, and connecting with your children seems impossible, is paramount to feeling like I can pull out of those trenches. I’ve tried a lot (A LOT) of tools. And keeping all of them fresh and in…
Guilt Games; How to Stop Playing
Disordered eating thoughts and guilt games that my brain uses as an excuse to restrict calories are deeply rooted. Noticing where they are prevalent, what makes them flare and burn bright, and then acknowledging them deeply and disabling them every time, is what saves me from falling into a thought pattern that I know leads…
Book Review: 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl
We’ve begun to embrace a weekly Library day. It started at the behest of my bookworm children and has become one of my favorite parts of the week. One of our local libraries is just beautiful. Huge bright windows, low shelves that leave the space feeling open and sunny, and a ‘new release’ and ‘staff…
15 Things Every Woman Should Do
Own underwear that fits your current body, really comfortably. Or just don’t wear any. Either, totally cool. Know, or be learning, or take a moment now, to know some of your personal boundaries. Enforce them without guilt or shame. Read up on Gaslighting. Know it. Refute it. Take a few deep breaths. Have a morning…