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One Easy Way to Keep Your Cortisol in Check
I’ve been well-acquainted with stress for about as long as I can remember. There was one time, shortly after Christmas, when I was eight, when my family went on vacation to Colorado. Just before...
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The Green Smoothie
This is a follow up to my post from a couple of weeks ago on the relationship between our main stress hormone, cortisol, and what you eat (or don’t eat) for breakfast. I promised that I would share...
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How I’ve Learned to See My Body
Snow is falling at a rapid pace. It blurs my field of vision. It seeps into the inner corners of my eyes. I stand there, still as the landscape, and watch as it sinks tree limbs and collects in...
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Creating Vibrant Health
“Vibrant health is beauty.”~Christiane Northrup In my last post, I talked about my struggle with body image, and how social pressures to make my body look a certain way have hovered over me since...
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Fever Thoughts
A couple of weeks ago, I was hit hard by the flu. For three days, I was bed ridden, my body temperature fluctuating between chills and sweats. There was a bottle of Advil on my bedside table. It had a...
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Low-Glycemic Blueberry Cashew Smoothie
Last week, in the spirit of rest, I went away with my family to the mountains of Vermont. We had gone there to ski, and when we arrived, we expected to find end-of-the-season conditions—last year,...
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Creating Balance at the Gut Level
Gut flora, otherwise known as intestinal flora, are the bacteria that reside within the slim hollows of the digestive tract. There are billions upon billions of them, and together they form an...
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Vegan Cookies and a Kind of Solace
I am sitting on my bed with the comforters askew, my back propped up with a pile of pillows. Our calico has curled itself into a tight purring ball at my feet. I watch her curved back rise and fall as...
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Peace Cookies
Outside my window a rich golden sunlight glitters through the branches of a maple with its leaves half fallen. When I squint slightly, the light looks as if it were being filtered, shot at me through a...
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Mint Chocolate Chip Green Smoothie
This recipe has been the answer for what to do with the overwhelming amount of mint in my garden. It’s perfect for summer, cool and refreshing, but it’s also extremely filling, a meal in itself. Also...
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