Ideas, reviews, and thoughts on simple living in the REAL world.
I've been struggling with adrenal fatigue for a few years, and then just about complete adrenal depletion to the point of my cortisol dropping for the last year. It's been hard. Vomiting in the mornings and any time I get stressed hard. MRI's because my hormones are so messed up that we needed to check for... Continue Reading →
One of the things I commonly (AKA all the time) see, is people wasting time with how they do business work online. Everything from counting hundreds of contest entries to writing the same response of information to someone over and over and over. What is it costing you? A tremendous amount of time. Time that you aren't... Continue Reading →
Taking time...it's a concept that floats around us in our busy lives. Taking time to stop. Taking time to listen. Taking time. It means we are being intentional. Purposeful. Focused. Right? It's also a phrase that conveys action. We are taking--seizing--time. Why does this matter? It matters because if we are not intentional, purposed, and... Continue Reading →
I took my youngest to the doctor this morning for recurrent fevers and headaches...no other complaints...and then out of nowhere, she developed croup an hour later. I moved her from the couch to my bed. A noise woke her at one point, and in a croupy-whisper-panicked sort of way, she asked me to stay... Continue Reading →
I got really excited a few months ago when a grocery store came into the town 30-minutes from me--the town I have to travel to if I don't want to buy groceries at Dollar General (I didn't know that was even a thing until I moved here). Walmart and one other grocery store was all... Continue Reading →
With today's society, most of direct sales marketing information is geared toward reaching a crowd on Facebook. You've probably also noticed that Facebook is THE place where all of your friends (on Facebook, anyway) seem to be marketing THEIR businesses! (Probably unsuccessfully, but the instructions on how to properly do that will have to be in... Continue Reading →
As a Recreation Therapist and mom to a child with intense emotional challenges, I am a huge advocate of using play based tools to help children understand, process, and appropriately respond to their emotions. Not only is this helpful for the child and those surrounding that child, but it also goes hand in hand with... Continue Reading →
I have such a passion for birth and postpartum. I've had the privilege of giving birth to my own children, two via waterbirths where I was able to catch my babies myself, and the last via a home birth, and I have also been able to be the lone person assisting two mothers during their births... Continue Reading →
Black Drawing Salve is a must have for your home First Aid kit. It's an awesome herbal product that has a rich history of being used to "draw" things out of the body. The ingredients give it detoxification properties, so it can be used any time that you feel the need to detoxify or draw... Continue Reading →
It took a few disastrous tries to perfect my bath bomb recipe. I had bomb explosions as my bombs grew...and grew...and grew...in the hours that I left them to try. A few recipes and my own tweeks later (plus a few hours invested in bath time chemistry), *I've got it.* An all natural, big, luxurious... Continue Reading →
