What’s standing in the way of a healthier life for you and your family? Is it… Having a limited budget when you’d like to shop at health food stores? Feeling overwhelming by all the changes you’ll need to make? Wondering how to fit all the healthy tasks into your day (when you’re barely squeezing in…
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Why Do We Procrastinate?
Procrastination. A word I have been familiar with almost my entire life… as soon as I learned what it meant. 😉 As much as I dislike that word, it hasn’t kept me from practicing it every day, in multiple ways. I’ve always wondered what it is about some people who don’t procrastinate. My…
20 Real Food Homemade Ice Cream Recipes
20 Real Food Homemade Ice Cream Recipes Yum! Summer’s not quite over – especially for us here in Arizona! But I figure homemade ice cream recipes are good year-round. 🙂 Sometimes we think of ice cream as an unhealthy, sugar-filled, fat-laden overindulgent treat with no merits. But I really feel differently! Sure, most store-bought…
How to Make Water Kefir / Water Kefir Tutorial
How do I tell you about water kefir? Water kefir sort of changed my life. Does that sound unbelievable? It’s true; if I could pinpoint one change we made that made the most difference in our lives, I would chalk it up to water kefir. That fizzy, bubbly, tingly, probiotic vitamin powerhouse. It was…
Healthy Root Vegetable Bake – try it tonight!
I’ve felt maxxed out on recipes lately. By that I mean, I just never feel like cooking anything – and I always feel like I am making the same exact things over and over. Bleh. So strangely, I decided to throw some things together, and they turned out pretty good. This…
How to Dehydrate Watermelon (yes, you really can!)
Have you ever dehydrated watermelon? Did you even know you could dehydrate watermelon? As much as we love to dehydrate various foods, it wasn’t until this year that my husband decided to dehydrate some watermelon, when we were overflowing with it one evening. Turned out, it was a success, much like…
22 Healthy Gummy Snacks Recipes
Gummy snacks are really a quick and easy way to make your own healthy snacks at home. They’re fun and the kids can join in, too! All you need are a few key ingredients. You can use silicone molds or even ice cube trays. The great thing about gummies – there are…
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DIY Eye Makeup Remover Tutorial [VIDEO]
Who wants an easy, fast way to nourish their eyelashes AND remove stubborn eye makeup? Did I mention this is ALL NATURAL? This DIY eye makeup remover recipe uses coconut oil, apricot kernel oil, and castor oil to nourish your eyelids and eyelashes, encouraging healthy, thicker, longer eyelashes. YAY. COCONUT…
How to Make Homemade Broth Cubes for Instant Broth
Broth, once something that I used to be intimidated to try, has become a staple in our home. (Here’s a simple homemade broth tutorial I recently wrote if you’re interested in learning how to make it easily at home.) After the process of making broth, there is only really one minor drawback as far…
Chocolate Protein Smoothie – Dairy-Free
Have you ever thought that in order to have a healthy protein shake, you’d have to buy some expensive meal-replacement shake or pre-made powder mix? I know I used to think that too. Now, there’s nothing wrong with pre-made protein mixes if they contain healthy ingredients, but you can easily make your own…
How to Make Bone Broth
I’ll just go ahead and say it. Bone broth used to scare me. Sounds silly, I know, but I had been reading Nourishing Traditions, my favorite cookbook, for a long time before I was brave enough to start incorporating it into our family kitchen. Why? I don’t know. I guess bone broth intimidated me. I…
The Ultimate Natural Dog Care Directory
After years of believing we could never own a dog (due to allergy issues), I started really getting puppy fever. It began with a little twinge, and after a few months of that, I could barely scroll down my Instagram feed without feeling intense feelings of longing for a furry canine friend. It made me…
The Ultimate Work-at-Home Resource!
Hi, dear readers. You want to know something? The one question I get asked the most is not about growing hair faster, or the GAPS diet. It’s, “How do I start my own blog/business?” My dear friends and readers know they have a message, and want to be a light into this world. Several of…
9 Healthy Coffee Alternatives
Coffee. Hey, let me make one thing clear: I adore coffee. I’m a coffee adorer. I don’t think there’s another beverage our country has quite an obsession with like coffee. (Don’t judge my sentence structure, because I am probably in need of coffee right now.) However… Sometimes people don’t react well to coffee. Or sometimes…
13 Simple Hacks to Boost Your Hair Growth!
Looking to grow your hair longer? Here’s a collection of 13 different methods you can try to get your hair as healthy and long as you want it to be! To some degree, how fast your hair grows is determined by your own genetics. But many environmental factors can drag that rate of…
