Helping Moms Raise Kids With Special Needs
More than 5 years ago, I set out on a journey to detox my family. While most detox makes you think of eating cleaner foods, after a while it occurred to me that maybe food wasn’t the only problem. Could I need to also detox my house? Here are my thoughts from February, 2012, more than a year after we’d healed my daughter of her sleep
As much as possible, we try to live a non-toxic life as a family. And most of the time that means buying cleaner foods or chemical free products. But did you know there is another danger, lurking everywhere you go these days? It’s in your child’s libraries and your coffee shops, your home, your vehicle, their school and it follows your family when you travel
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #OneStopKittyShop #CollectiveBias Our indoor cat LOVES the outdoors. When we had a warm spell in October, he looked at me like I was crazy for not letting him out and the minute I opened the door to put my kid on the bus, he ran out to enjoy the
I detoxed my kitchen cleaners by replacing them with Aunt Fannie’s Cleaning Vinegar and Aunt Fannie’s Flypunch! as part of a sponsored post for Aunt Fannie’s. #HealthierHousekeeping Cleaning. It’s the last refuge of moms, and the first thing to go by the wayside when you discover your child has very intensive special needs, allergies or disabilities. I mean, let’s be real – who the heck has
If you use cosmetics, deodorant, shampoo, body wash, and feminine items, you may be exposing yourselves to pinkwashing – and dangerous toxins. What is pinkwashing? It’s actually a marketing ploy that brands use to sell more products by branding things with the color pink, even – not kidding here – fracking drill heads. Pinkwashing is generally done with a blind eye turned to the fact
This summer, Boiron offered me a seat at Rachel Pontillo’s class, Herbal Skincare Preparations class at the Rodale Institute in Kutztown, PA. We had a lovely day and I learned a lot, especially as someone new to DIY herbalism. This class is designed for those who wish to grow their own herbs and prepare them for skincare products. I’m not at that level yet, but I did learn a lot and wanted
Most dentists will tell you that fluoride is a necessary part of tooth care, that it prevents cavities and that it’s perfectly safe. But a visit to the dentist some years ago had me rethinking the safety of fluoride. We had changed dentists to one who practices both traditional Western dentistry and holistic dental care. He told us that my daughter had fluoride poisoning, thanks to
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #ScotchBriteSponges #CollectiveBias Years ago, when we rid our family of foods that my children were reacting to and stopped buying plastic items, we thought we were done. I had not considered that there was another danger lurking in my kitchen: toxic cookware. Here are the 4 main types that
So after all this summer’s scandal about Robert De Niro, the TriBeCa Film Festival and the movie “VAXXED: From Cover Up to Catastrophe” being bounced from its lineup, then bounced in Houston’s WorldFest and THEN on to make a big splash in other venues including AutismOne, with De Niro making his own documentary about the controversy, I wanted to share with you how I got to my
We all know that cooking with olive oil has lots of great health benefits, from being good for your heart to help you reduce the risk of certain cancers. You can read in-depth on the benefits of olive oil, what the different kinds of labeling on them mean, how to store it, and how to buy GMO-free olive oil in the article I wrote for
