It’s been 24 hours since I took all social media apps (except Instagram) off my phone. You know that urge to check your phone every few minutes? Turns out that goes away when there is nothing to check. So far, it feels really good. And I know I said I would only be blogging once a week, but I had to tell you about a movie that is coming out…
I’m sitting here in the middle of a messy living room. Toys and coloring pages all around me. Shelves begging to be dusted. Ironing board in the corner, clothes piled high. When life looks like this I get the unshakable urge to simplify. To purge. To toss anything and everything we don’t absolutely need. And while it’s good and important to declutter once in a while, I’m learning that this…
Fall is my favorite. I love curling up on the couch with my sweetheart to share a bowl of popcorn, a bottle of Pinot, and an episode of Parenthood. We typically go for a little coconut oil and nooch (nutritional yeast) on our corn, but sometimes it’s fun to switch it up. I headed to Pinterest and found a few new ways to jazz up our popcorn this fall. I’m…
Jeff just returned from a 15-day trip to Malawi, Africa. He met the kids that you helped feed through our Advent Conspiracy coffee stand, and even drank water out of the new boreholes you helped fund. The team he was with also helped over 700 people see clearly for the first time by running multiple vision clinics. I’ll let him share more about his trip soon, but for now we…
What exercises will really work to fix a Diastasis Recti gap? As promised I am giving you 5 of my very favorite exercises for healing, reconnecting and restoring your core. As I explained in my last post, Diastasis Recti is a symptom of excessive pressure inside the abdomen and pelvis. If you can reverse and minimize this pressure, the outward symptoms (diastasis, hernia, or even mild pelvic organ prolapse) can…
Did you carve Halloween pumpkins this year? I couldn’t wait to dig into ours so I could start roasting the seeds. As usual, Leila stuck her hand right in the goop while Joe was a bit hesitant. We had fun scooping out the guts, and the kids did a great job separating out the seeds. I usually do a sweet and spicy blend with roasted seeds, but I wanted to…
It’s almost Halloween which means CANDY! And honestly the stressful part of the candy situation doesn’t even happen on Halloween Day. What gets me is the Halloween candy lurking in the pantry, singing sweet siren songs luring me in for JUST ONE MORE BITE. And weeks of the kids asking for candy ALL DAY LONG. But what can you do? You can’t just throw it away, right? Um, actually you…