Category: Natural Living
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Oatstraw Infusion for Calm & Stability

Panic and burn-out have no place in your life. Nourish your mind and body with this 2 ingredient infusion.
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Healthy Indoor Plants

I love this. Almost everyone I know is obsessed with having indoor plants now. Being a “plant parent” or being surrounded by your “plant babies” is suddenly cool and I’m totally down with that. However, as much as you love your plant babies, if you’re like me, you may have a few issues with keeping…
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Yoga Mat Spray
Sticky mat…..Or maybe stinky mat? Either way, when I put my hands down on my yoga mat today, it was not good. Yesterday I did a row and yoga and realized that my yoga cleaning had been lacking. My hands were slipping and I was not chaturanga-ing with all that. So I made some Mat…
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Parenting, Naturally (Part 1): ADHD and What did I do wrong?

I like to think of our son’s first 9 years of public education and his subsequent pre-school years as character building.
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Mom Guiltisms: Parenting and ADHD (Part 2)
A dear friend shared a link to an outstanding article from ADDitude Magazine today and whew, mama, did it strike a chord. The title of the article is “If You Love Me, Please Take This Seriously”. And from just those words, the emotions were a-flowin’.* I DO. I do take this seriously. I take it…
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I’m Famous!

Just kidding, I’m not. However, how fun is this? Way back at the beginning of this whole PandemicCovidQuarantineWhatIsHappening in the early spring, Heidi over at Regatta Fitness PR reached out to me about an upcoming article on rowing as medicine. I regularly posted over on the Uncouth Herbalista Instagram about rowing and tagged my favorite…
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Easter Painting

For Good Friday, I thought I’d give back towards the greater good in whatever aspect I can. Since I’m not fighting on the frontlines as a medical worker and I’m taking the orders seriously to stay at home, I thought a simple practice in art therapy may bring some brightness to a few people. And…
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Parenting, naturally.
I’m going to change it up here for a second and talk about parenting naturally and – yes – how it can be done. I’m going to talk about how he is proof of that. At 7, our son was diagnosed with ADHD which, unfortunately, is not uncommon anymore. However, even just 7 years ago,…
