02Mar

My 10 Day Vipassana Experience

March 2, 2023By

  It was an incredible experience, it was enlightening, and the hardest thing I have ever done, by far the hardest thing I have ever done! Not even the meditating for 11.5 hours a day, or the not sleeping for more than 4 hours per night and of broken sleep for 11 days, or the fasting or the complete silence. What the hardest part for me was, was the lack of communication with my family every evening. I missed my husband so much, he’s my best friend and not being able to chat nightly about our day was excruciatingly hard.…

READ MORE
16Feb

Peace… I’m out.

February 16, 2023By

  As you’re reading this, I am currently on day 1 of a 10 Day Vipassana Retreat.  If you have never heard of a Vipassana, it is a 10 day silent meditation retreat… key word… “Silent” thats right, completely taken away from any distractions and technology, no phones or electronics of any kind.  There is zero talking, no eye contact, and no gesturing, and absolutely zero communication with the outside world. You get to fully focus inward and on yourself.  Learning a specific meditation called Vipassana. You may be wondering why I would want to do this, well I first…

READ MORE
09Feb

Nutritious Valentines Day Snack Recipe

February 9, 2023By

    This is such a fun recipe to do with the kids, and one of the easiest recipes to customize.  It is packed with dense nutrition of course, including the always needing help ~ Colon!  To move old rotting food through the digestive tract, the fruit sugars help the brain and muscles.  And the minerals in dates help the adrenal glands.  And of course the liver! The sesame seeds are incredible for energy, and have a high protein content.  They are high in calcium, iron, zinc and magnesium.  They can help provide relief form migraines, PMS, and anxiety.  Sesame…

READ MORE
02Feb

When You’re Sick of Salad + Recipe

February 2, 2023By

  Are you like me and get sick of salads?  I definitely go through spurts in the winter where its sometimes the last thing that I feel like eating… but… I know it’s super good for me so I eat it anyway. I mean, there’s only so many things you can put into a salad!! But, recently I have re-discovered my spirilizer.  Let me tell you what a difference that has made in my salads.  Now I eat a lot of cucumbers, because cucumbers are one of the most hydrating foods,  they hydrate us on a cellular level, and are…

READ MORE
26Jan

Quick tips for better sleep.

January 26, 2023By

  I used to suffer from mild insomnia when I was a teenager, it took me what felt like forever to fall asleep at night. But after I had my baby I had to learn to fall asleep fast, or I wouldn’t get much sleep between feedings. Since then I had done a bunch of research to see what causes insomnia. I found out that there are unfortunately several different factors, and even foods can be the cause. What we eat before bed and even what we eat that morning can have an effect on our sleeping. And in the…

READ MORE
19Jan

What Makes You Happy?

January 19, 2023By

What makes you happy? I Have a little challenge for you this weekend… starting today.  With the new year in full swing, and some people already falling off their New Years resolutions.  I want to give you a fun little challenge to do for yourself with zero holdbacks!   I don’t want you to think about it too much, just do whatever first comes to mind. Since the pandemic has started, life has been hard for so many of us, and the world and life has not been the same since.   Every single person has been affected.  I was just at…

READ MORE
12Jan

The Best Vegan Lasagna Including Instant Pot Recipe

January 12, 2023By

    (Sorry for the picture, I’m not a great photographer yet)   Lasagna back in the day for me was meat, cheese and noodles… to me that was very unappetizing and lacking nutrients, not to mention the accompanying gut aches that would come after eating a serving. Nowadays you can find some pretty good vegan recipes online for lasagna that are full of veggies, but still most use vegan meats… while we use vegan meats as a treat here and there, they are definitely not a staple in our diet, because they are still a processed food. Vegetables provide…

READ MORE
05Jan

I Need Your Help

January 5, 2023By

  I need your help!   I have been working tirelessly for months on a couple of Gut Health Programs. A 10 Day Smoothie Challenge and a 3 Day Cleanse Challenge. And I am looking for a few people to try these out for free!!  These are going to be paid programs in the near future, but I want to try them out first and work on all the kinks.   So here’s what you will be getting: FREE   All Recipes in an E-Book form that you can either print and or save to your phone in the free…

READ MORE
28Dec

Quick Spaghetti Squash Recipe

December 28, 2022By

  Up until recently, Spaghetti squash used to be my least favourite of all the squashes.  I hated the texture, ( tasted like El Dante noodles) the lack of flavour (which usually I don’t like a ton of flavour, but this was so bland) it was just all around bad. I had been cooking it all wrong when I used to try and force myself to eat them, and It had literally been years since I had eaten a spaghetti squash.  But I finally trusted my gut, and cooked it a little longer, added some flavour and more vegetables to…

READ MORE
22Dec

Christmas Drama?

December 22, 2022By

Christmas Drama? Christmas is one of my favourite times of the year.  I love the magic of it all.  From the fairy tales we tell our kids, like the Santa footprints made out of baby powder on the carpet by the Christmas tree, and the half eaten cookies left on the table in the morning, to the chocolate almond “reindeer poop” left outside by Rudolph, and of course that mischievous Elf on the shelf getting into so much trouble nightly. It can truly be a fun time. Unfortunately, not everyone has the picture perfect family life, that is depicted in…

READ MORE