Are you one of the countless women who has suffered from infertility or miscarriages, and is looking for natural help with conceiving or carrying a baby to term? Or are you currently pregnant or planning for future children, and wanting to know how to best prepare your body and give your baby the very best…
Yesterday I shared about what the GAPS diet is. If you missed it, I would suggest going back and reading that post first. If you try to eat so well, why does your family need to do the GAPS diet? No one has asked me this yet, but I can well imagine that this is…
This is the first of several posts (about 6 or 7, I believe) in which I am attempting to get caught up on all of the great questions that have been sitting in my inbox this spring!!! I'll be answering them according to theme, so some of the upcoming posts will be focused on Nutrition,…
I was just doing my laundry the other day and was reminded of how much I have loved using these nifty dryer balls! For starters, why would I not simply use dryer sheets? They may contain ingredients such as: benzyl acetate (linked to pancreatic cancer), benzyl alcohol (an upper respiratory tract irritant), ethanol (linked to…
I love reading. And I always have wayyyy too many books on the go. This month is no exception. 🙂 Here are the latest ones that I've been really into: Real Food for Mother and Baby by Nina Planck I actually just received a copy of this (literally, yesterday afternoon) for the purpose of reviewing…
So, I've been plotting and thinking of how to announce this little bit of news for weeks, and now that my chance is here, my creativity seems to be much more lacking than it is when I am lying awake at 3am with insomnia. I wonder if it would help to go and get some…
So… my hubby and I finally made the decision we've been considering for the past month or two. We bit the bullet and joined a gym! Actually, I've been a member of several different gyms in the past, but we haven't done this since our first year of marriage, before the sweet kiddos started arriving….
Whew… the next time I start a series with such a loooong title, can someone just email me and say "Steph, seriously, what are you thinking?" 🙂 This series will be drawing to a close fairly quickly, and not a moment too soon, as I have other series ideas just bursting at the seams, but…
Whenever I come across a new blog with a concept that I just really love and think will serve my readers, I want to let you know about it. I’ve “known” (you know, through our blogs) Donielle for quite a while now through her other blog, Raising Peanuts. She began this second blog, Naturally Knocked…
Mildly travel weary, surrounded by laundry, yet so happy to be home and full of wonderful memories made together, we're back from vacation! I promise I'll tell you all about it and share some pictures from our trip next week! For now, Lindsay of Passionate Homemaking has so generously agreed to host the Living Simply…
Would you be willing to share your thoughts on birth control? Thanks, Carrie When this question arrived in my inbox, I was both excited and nervous. Excited because I love to share with others our passion for having children, our belief that they are a blessing, and our desire to have as many as we…
(This post has been a while in coming, since I first mentioned our introduction to eating raw meat- it’s taken a while to research and write, and it’s quite long, so I’ll post it in a few segments. Enjoy!) This is completely new territory for me. Though I have been promoting raw dairy products for…
I don't know about the rest of you, but there is only so much of Nourishing Traditions that I can incorporate into my cooking style at once. We were already very on-board regarding the quality of our foods (ie. natural, free range meats, some wild fish, organic dairy, raw cheese, organic or unsprayed produce, a…
; If I could pick one theme that seems to be recurring on my blog, throughout the comments and the wonderful emails I receive, it is that so many women really, truly want to make changes for the better in their lifestyle. They want to eat more nutritiously, make more of their food from scratch,…
All of that hard work and restricting what I ate these past couple of months was worth it! This morning I went to see my Naturopath for a food sensitivity re-test, as well as to get the results of my general health screen (blood tests), and discuss where to go from here. I was so…