Food Swaps to Avoid High Intolerance Foods
As I listened to several speakers at the Menopause Summit a few weeks ago, the idea that certain foods cause inflammation kept coming up again and again. These were medical doctors who moved to functi
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A Memorable Conversation
After visiting a friend who lives everyday from her hospital bed at home, I can't get our conversation out of my head. Everyday is a fight to stay alive for her. She has a timer that goes off to r
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Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins
It can be tricky to navigate baking for our family. We have to avoid gluten, corn, soy, eggs, peanuts, dairy, and nightshades as we minimize sugars and grains. We lean heavily on coconut, nuts, meat a
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Coconut Chicken Curry with Veggies
My goals with food are to increase our vegetable intake, incorporate a variety of nutrients by including lots of colourful veggies, to balance our blood sugars by replacing grains with vegetables, eli
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Burn Treated With Calendula & Lavender
July 30, 2017Last week I had a moving-quickly-in-a-distracted-haze kind of moment. I was washing dishes with quick efficiency, determined to re-find my countertop. I turned to see what was left to be
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What Superpower Would You Choose?
At a Camp Staff Event I asked the Wilderness Leaders what superpower they would like to have? This is a question I have often found intriguing and have heard many great responses. Some would choose su
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Resolving Conflict
It's ironic that I was asked to prepare a session for our camp leaders in training on conflict resolution. I hate conflict and would rather absorb discomfort than confront social awkwardness and t
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Navigating the Shopping Aisles
Essential Oils are not regulated in North America. This means that as long as there is some essential oil in a bottle, it can be labelled 100% pure essential oil - even if there is only 5% oil and som
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Problem Solving For Health
September 2018We have been fighting a cough around here since Nate and James came home from camp. Camp is awesome, but lack of sleep and changes in environment and diet can do that. James' cough c
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How to Find a Therapeutic Grade Essential Oil
Essential oils are distilled from shrubs, flowers, trees, roots, brushes, fruit, rinds, resins and herbs."The power of an essential oil lies in its constituents. Each oil is composed of 200-500 d
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