Pine Needle Tea For Cold & Flu Season

Pine needle tea has amazing immune boosting benefits for the body and is also a great mood lifter.  Here in Georgia we have no shortage of pine needles to go around!

Here is a great tutorial on how to make it.  Enjoy <3

Pine Needle Tea

Hard to Find Organic Clothing

This is just such a great site to find organic clothing that I just had to share.  You can even find organic bras and underwear here (which are so hard to find)!  Check them out.

www.Faeriesdance.com

VLOG 21 - Fun With the New Zip Line

Good morning, everyone!  Yesterday we had the awesome experience of putting up a new zip line in our back yard for our boys.  We all had so much fun playing on it.  Here is a video of the very first trips down the line! 

Hope you enjoy!

Yummy Dehydrator Cracker Recipes

I just love the website www.MyNewRoots.blogspot.com.  I was cruising the web this morning and came across her dehydrator crackers recipe and immediately wanted to make some and then wanted to share the information with you! 

I am definitely going to get my dehydrator cranking and try a rosemary garlic version of her base cracker! Yummmmmy!

Let me know if you try out any of these recipes and how they work out for you.  Much love to you all and thank you for being here <3

My New Roots - Happy Crackers

Top 10 Awesome Daily Habits

It was hard to narrow down the daily habits to share in this video down to just 10, but I did it just for you!

In this video I am sharing 10 habits that I try to incorporate into my life on a daily basis.  All of these habits are things that I consider cornerstone practices that keep me clear mentally, feeling good physically and stable emotionally.

Here they are in no particular order:

1. Juicing - Rocket fuel for the body, Baby!  Just get some fruits and vegetables and juice the crap out of them!  Let's don't over think this or get any stress over it - Just Juice!  I find juicing helps with any cravings that I may have, helps with my energy and overall mental focus.
2. Living Foods Diet - The higher my diet content is of living fruits and vegetables the better I feel.  I can tell a huge difference in the amount of physical energy, mental energy and clarity of life that I have when I am consuming a diet high in living foods.
3. Scripture - Scripture speaks my soul language.  It speaks into who I am in my core.  I begin every day in the Word.  It is a light unto my path.
4. Journaling - I love the practice of journaling.  I love to be able to look back over the past years and see how much I've grown or where I may be repeating patterns that aren't serving me well.  Journaling is such a wonderful outlet for my emotions and creativity.
5. Breathwork - Every day I set aside time for breathwork.  Quiet breathing time to oxygenate my body, pay attention to what is going on inside of my physical body and still my mind of any disordered thoughts.  It is such a wonderful practice that I would recommend to anyone.
6. Exercise - Just move your body!  Expend all of that pent up physical and emotional energy and get your flow going so that you will have more energy in the bank!
7. Get Outside - Every day I try to get outdoors.  I love to connect with nature and remind myself that this world is so big and is so vast and we are a part of it.  We have a tendency to get so narrowly focused on our lives around work and home that we forget that there is so much more.
8. Goals - I set goals and I keep them consistently in front of me to remind me of what I am trying to create or be in this life and to also make sure that I keep moving forward.  I have short term goals and long term goals.  This is just a practice to be sure that when I am launching arrows I am actually shooting towards the bullseye instead of off in left field somewhere.
9. Gratitude - Practicing gratitude is a beautiful reminder of all that we do have.  I work in every situation to try and find something to be thankful for.  I try to start and end my day reminding myself of all the things in my life that have already come or are coming that I can be grateful for.  It does my heart good.
10. EFT - I literally tap every day.  Tapping is a great way to deal with the thoughts and emotions that seem to get us "stuck". 

So there you have it.  My top 10 daily habits.  I hope that some of what I have shared is a blessing to you.  Let me know, what are the habits that you do that keep you groovin'? 

When You and Your Spouse Eat Differently

The subject of how to handle it when you and your spouse or your household have different eating styles comes up so often in my Wellness Center that I made a video about it.  Here are some of my thoughts and experiences about how to handle it when this situation arises.

It is so easy to get so identified in our minds with our diets and we forget that what we eat is not who we are, and conversely what our spouse eats or doesn't eat isn't an indicator of who they are as a person.  I hope that you enjoy the video and that if you are in this situation that something here resonates within your heart and is a blessing to you. 

VLOG 20 A Fun Morning at the Park!

A quick peek at us heading out to the park to hike some trails and play in the river. 

Remember to get outside today!  It is guaranteed to help keep you smiling!