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Every year the EWG comes out with their list of safer sunscreens. Personally, I'm worried a little bit about inadequate protection but I'm worried a lot about putting unsafe ingredients on my skin or the skin of my children. As you know, your skin is your body's largest organ and as much as 60% of what you put on your skin is absorbed into your body.

Let's take a minute to talk about a part of your body that doesn't get much attention. Frankly, I'd say it doesn't get nearly enough attention! This is your lymphatic system

If you’ve followed my social media at all in the last few months you know that we recently moved across the country from the East Coast back to the California coast. To say it was a peaceful experience would be a joke. There’s a massive global pandemic going on and it was especially severe right when we had to list our house for sale. The whole thing was tricky to say the least. But once we hit the road it was just us four (plus our dog Cali) and about 4000 miles of open highway.

We loved it. All of us.

Here are my tips for navigating that open road while staying safe and healthy in a pandemic.

Nearly 70% of the fresh produce sold in the US contains residues of potentially harmful chemical pesticides. This is according to EWG’s analysis of the latest test data from the federal Department of Agriculture.

You’ve heard about eating a rainbow - you eat fruits and vegetables from each color of the rainbow to get a variety of important vitamins and nutrients.

These essential nutrients can help prevent illness and disease. For example, when you eat red foods you help your heart, orange helps prevent cancer and yellow helps your skin. Green detoxifies, purple improves memory and white supports immunity. Each color does more than that but this gives you an example.

But eating a diet rich in colorful foods, spices and herbs also helps fight inflammation. And research strongly suggests that inflammation is an underlying cause of depression.

I had the funniest text conversation with friends a few minutes ago.

Here it is…..

So why do we as women stand at the sink doing it all while we watch our family relax? Because we feel called to service? Maybe. But if that’s the case, then the resentment has no place and serves no purpose. And yet it’s almost always there.

But it doesn’t have to be!

Here’s how to get out of the resentment cyclone in 5 easy steps:

…Here’s the thing about transitions - they take flexibility and grace to do them well. If Ryan and I had sat in the front seats of that car grumbling and complaining you can bet that our kids would have done the same.

Flexibility, Simplicity, and Priority - these are a few keys to moving through life’s transitions without losing your mind or your sense of self.

Self Care is a mindful way of taking care of you; making sure your needs are being met so you can show up as your best self for others.

Each day choose one option from each category.

There has been a lot of activity lately around going vegan, vegetarian or shifting toward a plant-based diet. But with that comes confusion, naturally. Going vegan, after all, can be a massive lifestyle shift. It means eating no foods of an animal origin including fish, milk, butter, honey, eggs, etc. Vegetarian means no steaks or salmon.

But a WFPB diet…what’s that?