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.
Read MoreLet'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
Read MoreIf 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.
Read MoreNearly 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.
Read MoreYou’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.
Read MoreI 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 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.
Read MoreSelf 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.
Read MoreThere 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?
Read MoreIt’s no wonder the baking isles are stripped bare. Way too many people are stress baking and stress eating. But when it comes to protecting our immunity, this is exactly the opposite of what we should be doing.
So what exactly makes you stress eat and how can you control it?
Read MoreSelf compassion is like a special kind of magic. It’s a gift we give not just to ourselves but also to others.
Every day each of us has the capacity to change another person’s life through compassion.
But if we don’t first take care of ourselves - nurturing, loving, caring for ourselves - every relationship we have can turn quickly to resentment and conflict.
Read MoreWhat if I told you that you could relieve anxiety, fear, anger, sadness and nervousness by using your own two hands…and nothing else? It sounds a little too easy, right?
It’s a part of an ancient Japanese method called Jin Shin Jyutsu - the art of releasing tensions. This particular method will take you as little as 5 minutes. And especially during this time of unusual stress and discomfort, that is time well spent.
Read MoreAs I talk to women across the country, sleep is something that comes up again and again. As in, I try but I just can’t get enough sleep each night.
In this article I highlight the two main problems and offer five non-pharmaceutical sleep aids.
Read MoreWhen I was first told I needed to start meditating I was 6 years into a 7-year “unexplained infertility” journey.
If you’re new to meditation like I was then, here are three meditation styles to get you started.
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