My philosophy on dieting and eating is to get married instead of getting divorced. When we focus on breaking up with foods we are passionately in love with, we are setting ourselves up for relapse and heart break. When we allow ourselves to fall deeply, madly in love with foods that we don’t ever have...
Category: <span>Health</span>
Oil Bytes: Cloth Diaper & Stinky Stuff Soak
This #oilbytes video shows you how simple it is to refresh some of those stinky cloth diapers with an essential oils and baking soda soak. This also works well for other stinky stuff like clothes you left in the washer too long or old towels (think summer beach or pool towels that have sat in...
The Ultimate Guide to Gut-Healing Diets
The scientific research these days relating to the importance of gut health is overwhelming. Right now I’m working on a “big gut health related project” and as I compile the scientific evidence relating the gut to all other areas of health, it’s truly exhausting. The emphasis on probiotics in the “mainstream” nutrition, medical and pharmaceutical...
Favorite Things #1: Fit2B Diastasis Recti Workouts
Click here to go to the Fit2B website now. Do you have a mommy pouch? mummy tummy? post-baby bump? Learn why “Fit2B Diastasis Recti Workouts” are one of Real Food Family’s favorite things!
Natural Care and Remedies for the FLU
O LORD my God, I called to you for help and you healed me. Psalm 30:2 Have you seen the news? Influenza is “epidemic” this year. We can blame the faulty vaccine, lack of sunshine, high levels of sugar during the holidays, or the sick kid at church… But the truth is, even the healthiest of...
Real Food Family University Lesson 5: Eliminate ALL The Bad Stuff
Welcome to Real Food Family University, Lesson 5: Eliminate ALL The Bad Stuff. As you continue to become a Real Food Family®, you should be consuming more nutrient-dense whole foods every day, especially everything on the list from Lesson 1: 5 Simple Foods to Add to Your Diet TODAY. By now you should have also...
Meet Kaci: Raising Four Kids, Homeschooling & Battling Chronic Eczema
This week I’ve had the absolute honor to interview my good friend Kaci. She is a seriously inspiring mama. Kaci is a homeschooling mom of 4 kids, and one of her kids struggles with chronic eczema. I hope you are encouraged by her story… How would you describe your life? My life cannot be described...
Essential Recipes for Fertility, Pregnancy and Lactation!
Commit everything you do to the Lord. Trust Him, and He will help you. Be still in the presence of the Lord, and wait patiently for Him to act. Psalm 37:5,7 In his travels and research around the world, Dr. Weston Price found that all traditional cultures emphasized a very specific diet for reproducing...
Can We Cure Our Kid’s Tooth Decay Naturally?
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. Ephesians 2:10 I’m a “traditional foodie”. I’m a Weston A. Price Foundation member AND local chapter leader. I have a Bachelor’s Degree in Health Arts and Sciences, a certification as a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, I’m about to...
An Important No-Nonsense Message About Essential Oils
If you’re into natural health and nutrition blogs, you’ve problem heard of a little something called ESSENTIAL OILS. You may be thinking, “Why the heck is everyone suddenly pushing their essential oils businesses?” I was hanging out with some mom friends of mine recently and an interesting conversation suddenly started about essential oils. Heather at...