Welcome to this week’s Weekend Reading! Here are a handful of things I think are worth sharing. In June, I read The Plant Paradox by Dr. Steven Gundry and it changed my life. Last September, I started eating pumpkin seeds every day as a snack and in my daily lunch salad. Around the same time, […]
My Journey Through Anxiety
During the last half of 2018, and for the first time in my life, I experienced overwhelming anxiety and panic attacks. In a nutshell, here’s how it happened: Aging + sending my firstborn to college + perimenopause + being sick multiple times + taking antibiotics three times in three months + too much time Googling […]
Getting Off Our Phones
Is it just me or is everyone on their phone? Everywhere I look lately, people are head down, staring at their phones. When they’re alone or with people. At restaurants, beaches, and malls. On sidewalks, bikes and mountaintops. Now that I’ve noticed this, I can’t stop thinking about it. I mean, it’s crazy…isn’t it? The other […]
19 Ways to Make Your Life Easier
One of my favorite “truth bombs” from Danielle LaPorte is “Be generous. Seek freedom. Let it be easy.” Luckily, letting “it” be easy can be pretty easy to do. :) 19 Ways to Make Your Life Easier 1. Wear a uniform All the cool kids are doing it. And you already wear 20% of your clothes 80% of […]
Meal Planning Simplified
I’m going to be honest here. If I never had to make dinner again, it would be too soon. LOL. After 25 years of marriage and 19 years of motherhood, I’m totally over cooking. Buuuut, it’s important to me to make healthy meals for my husband and kiddos. That’s why I came up with a […]
The Gift Binoculars Gave Me
My husband bought me a pair of binoculars for Christmas so I could watch the birds out my window. At first, I wasn’t sure if I was going to keep them. I didn’t think I’d use them enough and didn’t want his gift to go to waste. And then I tried them and saw robins, bluejays, […]
