Green Healing Goodness: Matcha Tea Benefits September 19, 2014 • 1 Comment Caffeine and adrenaline don’t play very well together, at least not in my body. I discovered this in the throes of adjusting to my new life as a widow and single parent, as I attempted to drag some of my old habits right along with me. The caffeinated jolt from my morning coffee, the one I love to drink as…
A Healing & Delicious Vegetable Smoothie Recipe August 4, 2014 • 0 Comments It is hard to imagine that one can put the words vegetable and smoothie together and expect anything delicious to emerge, but I have recently found this to be absolutely true. My discovery was the lucky result of perusing my self-help laden bookshelf last week while trying to find inspiration (and trying to decide if I really need all these…
Summer Days + Gluten-Free Blueberry Crisp Recipe July 4, 2014 • 3 Comments I ran this post about this time last year and I felt it necessary to break it out again because the lazy days of Summer are upon us and they go well with this delicious gluten-free Blueberry Crisp. As I tweak some of my favorite recipes to accommodate a healthier diet, I have to admit that I hanker for the…
Healing Cashew Milk & Chia Seed Pudding Recipes June 9, 2014 • 1 Comment The one marvelous thing about completing the juice cleanse is that I can return to my love of healthy cooking. I am not quite sure how I am going to integrate real food into my life just yet, other than it will be a slow and thoughtful process so I don’t erase the twenty-eight days of effort. I am Over…
The Super Juice Me Cleanse: Reflections on 28 Days of Juicing June 6, 2014 • 10 Comments I am incredibly happy to report that I completed the Super Juice Me cleanse. Twenty-eight days of juice, juice and more juice. In case you decide to embark on this kind of adventure, I thought I would share my experience, which was an interesting and worthwhile way to find out more about the inner workings of my body. I tend to…
28 Day Juice Cleanse: Super Juicing for Good Health May 12, 2014 • 0 Comments Last week I had the good fortune of seeing the movie Super Juice Me. I’ve often thought of doing a juice cleanse, but veered away because it seemed like an arduous exercise in denial and self-punishment. I don’t really know why I had that impression, but when I started to think about all the things I had to do without,…
Homemade Samoas: Chocolate Coconut Cookies Recipe April 25, 2014 • 8 Comments As a kid, I hated coconut. In fact, I would say that most of the food I eat today I hated as a kid. Oh, how I struggled with broccoli, which I think was due in large part to my mother cooking it until the previously vibrant and green, cruciferous vegetable resembled, and smelled, like yellow diarrhea. Now I eat…
Forgiveness & Gluten-Free Almond Butter Cookies April 11, 2014 • 0 Comments I am struggling with back pain due to a compromised area that didn’t do well with being seated on airplanes and hard seminar chairs for a week. I don’t think hoisting luggage up into the overhead bin helped either. The pain is interfering with my ability to do just about everything, including cleaning up after my dogs on the morning…
An Out Of This World Maple Syrup Candied Bacon Recipe April 4, 2014 • 0 Comments Sometimes ideas come to me in a flash for this blog. I will see an article or hear something that triggers a stream of consciousness and — viola — a post is born. This week however, after days of dodging my sick children, I have fallen prey to a rather nasty cold/flu bug that rendered my brain useless. Which is…
Dreamy, Soul Satisfying Dairy-Free Chocolate Pudding Recipe March 31, 2014 • 3 Comments When all else fails, there’s Chocolate. And, what could be better than a dairy- and gluten-free treat when your healing efforts have stalled? Even if they are sailing along nicely, there is something very soul soothing about a comfort food like pudding.