January is the month of resolutions and often that entails eating healthier. We start out with great intentions but it is often challenging to keep our goals. Just having a plan when things get tough, can often be the difference between success and failure.
This week’s post is written by my niece, Angie Wickstrom. I asked her if she would write a post about how my generation could be of help to her generation. Raising families has evolved in the past few years. Many grandparents are now watching their grandkids on a regular basis. Studies have actually found this can be advantageous to everyone, grandparents included. We not only can help with the grandkids, but in other ways too, and I will let Angie share about that. Enjoy the read and check out her own blog, too.
Every human has an entire community of bacterial strains that reside in their gut. The challenge is whether this is a healthy and strong community, or if it has been taken over by a number of “bad” strains.
The Standard American Diet (SAD) of processed food, wide spread antibiotic use, and a number of other reasons has negatively affected the community of bacteria in our guts.
Have you wondered how safe your household cleaning products really are? Would you like to find “cleaner” options? Check out this post.
There are 100’s of herbs and spices available with many different flavors, plus they are little power houses of nutrients. I recently taught a class about healing herbs and spices from the kitchen and thought I would share a few things from the class.
This past month my computer has had some “issues” that have become very frustrating. I tried to resolve these issues on my own. Being my strengths are not in the technical world, it was becoming more and more stressful. I kept putting off bringing the computer in to be diagnosed because I didn’t think I could be without it for the 3 to 4 days it would be in for diagnosis and repair.
What is seasonal eating? It is purchasing and eating produce that is in season, pretty simple, right? There are a couple of advantages to seasonal eating:
A little revelation from our painting experience.
There are many ways that we can help our body detoxify naturally, and one of them is by dry skin brushing. Detoxification is a process our body uses to rid itself of unwanted and sometimes harmful toxins. We can help our body with this process by dry skin brushing. It has been used for beauty and health by many historical civilizations including ancient Egyptians, Indians, Greeks, Romans, Chinese, Japanese, Scandinavians, Russians, Turks, and Native Americans.