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December is my favorite time of year. I love the holiday season, the arrival of cold weather (and dare I say it? Snowfall!), sweaters, cute boots, and holiday decorations. I celebrate Christmas, but regardless of the holiday you celebrate, I love the overall change in attitude I see in the vast majority of people duringContinue reading “Can You Survive the Holiday Season?”

This is a super easy single bowl cookie recipe that is gluten free and also free of oil, eggs, and butter. Ingredients: 2 cups almond flour (alternative option: 1 cup almond flour + 4 tablespoons teff flour) 6 tablespoons coconut sugar 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/8 teaspoon fine sea salt 4 tablespoons of water (or moreContinue reading “Almond Flour Drop Cookies”

Ingredients: 1 stick (4 oz) softened butter 1/2 cup brown sugar 1/4 cup coconut sugar 1 3/4 cups almond flour 1 1/2 cups old-fashioned oats 1 cup chocolate chips 1 egg 2 tablespoons raw honey 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon salt Directions: Preheat the oven toContinue reading “Oatmeal Cookies”

With our first snow rapidly approaching, I thought it a good time to cover a few safety tips for shoveling snow. Shoveling, while incredibly inconvenient, can also be a great workout, especially on a day when driving to the gym may not be ideal or particularly worth the risk of driving in bad weather. Unfortunately,Continue reading “Snow Shoveling Safety”

Your fur (scaley or feather) babies have no control over your choices and to the best of our knowledge, they can’t read. Therefore you may understand the warning label attached to the electric cord, but they don’t. Also, unless you’re Doctor Doolittle, you can’t exactly have a conversation with them in order to talk aboutContinue reading “Pet Safety in the Home”

Ingredients: 2 cups of organic pumpkin puree 2 eggs 1 cup almond flour (alternative option: 1/2 cup almond flour + 1/8 cup teff flour) 1 1/2 tsp baking powder 3 tbsp natural raw honey 1/4 tsp salt 1/4 cup water 1 tsp vanilla 2 tbsp flaxseed 1 tbsp cinnamon 1 tbsp pumpkin spice OPTIONAL: dark chocolateContinue reading “Easy Pumpkin Muffins”

Squalene is a “natural organic compound originally obtained for commercial purposes primarily from shark liver oil, although plant sources are now used as well.” What should you care what squalene is? It’s found in a lot of beauty products because because it mimics our body’s natural oils and therefore is absorbed easily without leaving behindContinue reading “What the heck is squalene?”

Building on my earlier post about sleep, I thought I’d share a short (approximately 20 minutes or longer depending on your customizations) restorative yoga routine that you can do prior to bedtime to prepare your body and mind for sleep. There are a few props I’d recommend having in your arsenal before practicing: a bolsterContinue reading “Short Restorative Yoga Sequence to Add to Your Bedtime Routine”

Sleep is something that tends to fall by the wayside when we are pressed for time and often is viewed more as a luxury than a necessity. However, sleep is more than just an activity that we do when we lie in our beds (or on our couches while streaming Netflix). Sleep has an enormousContinue reading “Improve Your Sleep”

We all sweat. It’s a fact of life. Some of us more than others. Often, where sweat collects (i.e. our armpits), body odor follows. This tends to give sweat the bad reputation of making us stinky. However, it’s not sweat that makes us stinky, but the bacteria that grows naturally on our skin. When weContinue reading “Why You Should Switch to Natural Deodorant”