After fulfilling our dream of traveling across the US and Canada with our 5 kids, we are finally saying goodbye to our beloved bus. We lived in the bus full-time for 18 months and had so many adventures. But now that the kids are getting older (and bigger) we have new plans in the works. […]
This birth story is an excerpt from book I am writing to document my surrogacy journey. It is raw and graphic as is it real and beautiful. You have been warned. At our 40 week prenatal appointment I asked Traci what options we had to “help things along”. I was 40 weeks and 4 days, […]
Essential oils are nothing new, but I was introduced to these particular essential oils by kindred mama (who also has 4 boys and one girl and homeschools!), Kirsten. She has such a passion for educating people on the quality and purity of essential oils and teaches mamas everywhere how to use them to keep their […]
Welcome to the Happy Hormone Email course! I am so excited you have decided to invest in your health and hormones by educating and empowering yourself! You should receive your first course email within 24 hours. If for some reason you don’t, first check your spam and junk mail folders. If it’s not there, please […]
Balancing Hormones. Let’s do a quick lesson. Our hormones are controlled by our endocrine systems. Most people know they need to support their immune systems and their respiratory and digestive systems, but have NO idea how to care for their endocrine system. And SO many things in our environments are disrupting our endocrine systems, even […]
I am familiar with making Body Butter, but I never took the extra time to whip it, but boy is it worth it! This recipe is as fluffy and delightful as it looks. And while there is a waiting period in the middle while the melted ingredient chill, it isn’t any more difficult […]
The more I learn about harmful chemicals and how they affect our health… and how they are EVERYWHERE, the more I knew I needed to share what I was learning. Detoxing my home of nasty chemicals has been a slow steady process for me over the last 7 years. I definitely did NOT do everything […]
I’m going to go out on a limb and sound like the grinch here, but I don’t want my kids to get everything they want for Christmas. I have seen so many posts in facebook of parents desperately scrambling to fill last minute requests to Santa. Kids getting every wish fulfilled. Christmas magic at its […]
When teaching people how to remove toxic chemicals from their home and cleaning products I always directing them to the environmental working group website and their healthy living app, since labeling and reading ingredients can be tricky and lots of companies use “greenwashing” to make them seem safer and more natural than they really are. I […]
When you are paying attention, pets will communicate complex emotions and feelings. They love deeply and can feel overwhelmed, fearful, confronted, angry, aggressive, trauma, grief, tired, alert and stressed… just like you. And just like you, their emotions can affect their health and well being in a real way. Fortunutely, you don’t have to be […]
