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No expiration date on learning or growing

November 7, 2015 by Jessica Leave a Comment

Today I led a meditation at a health & wellness fair at my children’s school! This happened because last year, after I attended the first National Kids Yoga Conference, I suggested to the principal that mindfulness activities at school be considered, in general and in particular using the wetlands learning lab we built three years ago….

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Filed Under: D.C. Metro, Featured, Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: acceptance, calm, challenge, children, meditation, meltdown, mindfulness, modeling, National Kids Yoga Conference, peace, practice, priorities, school, yoga, zumba

Writing To-Do List: Making it Public for #NaBloPoMo

November 1, 2015 by Jessica Leave a Comment

Since the start of November means the start of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) and NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month), I feel the need to make my Writing – and my writing support – To-Do list public: for accountability and to show the whole picture. I have come to understand that I can’t just say I will write every…

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Filed Under: D.C. Metro, Featured, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: beauty, blogging, creativity, fiction, health, novel, priorities, writing, writing mama, writing mother

Bring it, Fall!

September 20, 2015 by Jessica Leave a Comment

In the past two days, I’ve actually done two things I really wanted to do and done them with joy. I spent the day at the Natural Products Expo East where I talked with some truly inspirational people about amazing products. And I talked with moms and other local leaders in the holistic parenting community…

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Filed Under: D.C. Metro, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health Tagged With: happiness, health, Holistic Health, joy, Natural Products Expo, optimism

Take Back Your Health Conference returns

September 1, 2015 by Jessica Leave a Comment

I’ve attended every Take Back Your Health conference since it launched in 2011 and am so pleased that it is back again this year in Arlington, October 3-4, 2015. I wanted to be sure to share that ticket prices go up tonight, Tuesday, September 1. Buy your ticket here through our affiliate link and support…

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End of summer, with grief and relief

August 27, 2015 by Jessica Leave a Comment

As summer 2015 draws to a close, I am filled alternately with grief and with relief. Now, it’s pretty typical for me to flip-flop from one extreme to another in my emotions in the space of about two minutes. I remember one fall day I took my children to Ticonderoga Farms by myself and thought…

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Filed Under: D.C. Metro, Featured, Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: broken leg, community, family, grandparents, health, parents, priorities, regrets, summer, support, travel, vacation

Spring Break at The Crayola Experience

June 25, 2015 by Jessica Leave a Comment

The Crayola Experience in Easton, Pennsylvania is a wonderfully fun and creative spot to spend the day, or more! We’ve been for the past two years during Spring Break, and when a friend asked for recommendations for a her toddler, I realized I’d never put together a post about our trip. So here goes! I…

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My BlogU

June 17, 2015 by Jessica 1 Comment

It was after Mother’s Day passed with nary an acknowledgement — other than my daughter adding me to her dad’s birthday card and saying, “We should do something for you for Mother’s Day” — that I decided to register for the BlogU Conference in Baltimore in early June. My husband, who’d been playing in Ultimate Frisbee tournaments…

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Circling back, or life as Spirograph

June 5, 2015 by Jessica Leave a Comment

As the BlogU conference drew nearer, I began to feel more and more excited but less and less prepared. There was a huge attendee Facebook group I failed to figure out until about a week before. What rock had I been living under? It was filled with so much activity! So many people to follow!…

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Identifying the good

May 30, 2015 by Jessica 2 Comments

It seems a little surprising that I’m feeling so calm on such a full day. It sure feels different to be trying to figure out why instead of figuring out why I don’t feel well, which is a lot more common! I woke this morning with a sore throat and tight chest thinking, “Oh, maybe…

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Filed Under: D.C. Metro, Holistic Health, The Arts Tagged With: breath, calm, health, mental health, mental wellness, mindfulness, priorities, yoga

5 Things I wished I’d know before my c-section (and VBAC)

April 30, 2015 by Jessica 1 Comment

Today is the last day of Cesarean Awareness Month, something I would not have expected would apply to me when I first got pregnant a little more than 10 years ago. But it does. After my 2006 c-section, I went on to have a homebirth with my second child, thanks in no small part to…

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Filed Under: D.C. Metro, Featured, Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: birth, c-section, Cesarean Awareness Network, HBAC, healing from c-section, ICAN, ICAN of NoVA, International Cesarean Awareness Network, VBAC

Why clean air matters to my family

February 20, 2015 by Jessica 2 Comments

After I’d attended the summer Moms Clean Air Force play-ins and had learned more about the organization‘s important work, I was honored to be invited me to speak at the Virginia Mama Summit at the Virginia General Assembly building. At first, I thought that since my children don’t have full-on asthma and I don’t work as a…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, D.C. Metro, Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: allergies, clean air, environment, Mama Summit, MamaSummitVA, Moms Clean Air Force, toxicity, toxins

Grounding in fall

November 21, 2014 by Jessica Leave a Comment

This fall I have noticed the leaves without trying so hard and have immersed myself in a lot of interesting activities that seemed to land in my lap. I have been so many great talks and events, and I’ve wanted to write thoughtful and helpful recaps of all of them for my website, Mindful Healthy…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, D.C. Metro, Holistic Health, The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: community, Freedom for Family Wellness summit, health, Holistic Moms Network, inspiration, mind-body connection, mindfulness, positive thinking, priorities, volunteerism, wellness, working mom, working mother, writing, writing mama, writing mother

Author Dav Pilkey shares history of learning challenges

August 30, 2014 by Jessica 1 Comment

A few hours ago, my eight-year-old son and I popped back on the Metro from the Library of Congress National Book Festival at the DC Convention Center after sampling just a fraction of what the event had to offer in this, its first year taking place inside. The key attraction that got us there by 11…

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Filed Under: D.C. Metro, Featured, The Arts Tagged With: authors, books, Dav Pilkey, mother-son, National Book festival, reading, writing

Activist, educator, mother: spin the dial

July 31, 2014 by Jessica 1 Comment

What words would you use to describe yourself? How do those words change when you become a parent? What do your choices look like with the glasses of parenthood on? This week I felt like some of my many identities came together outside the Federal Triangle Metro station at the Moms Clean Air Force-organized rally…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, D.C. Metro, Featured, Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: activism, advocacy, clean air, climate change, engagement, environment, identity, Moms Clean Air Force, Play-In for Climate Action, policy, politics, priorities, roles

Conviction and compromise on the road

July 7, 2014 by Jessica 13 Comments

Welcome to the July 2014 Carnival of Natural Parenting: Family Vacation This post was written for inclusion in the monthly Carnival of Natural Parenting hosted by Hobo Mama and Code Name: Mama. This month our participants have shared their family-travel tips, challenges, and delights. Please read to the end to find a list of links…

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Filed Under: D.C. Metro, Featured, Holistic Health Tagged With: Carnival of Natural Parenting, family, Healthy Eating, priorities, travel, vacation

Anatomy of a spring “break”

April 22, 2014 by Jessica Leave a Comment

When I was a teacher, I considered spring break a reprieve from grading and early morning wake-ups and dealing with adolescent angst in 120 flavors. But now that I am a mom with school-aged children, spring “break” is a misnomer. It is a week when I feel the weight of responsibility of keeping to a…

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Filed Under: D.C. Metro, Featured, Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: family, priorities, spring break, vacation

Traffic choked the cherry tree

April 13, 2014 by Jessica 2 Comments

After my last post whined about the tough time I’ve been having, I really intended to write something more uplifting the following day when I was feeling better. My friend who has been teaching herself energy medicine did a phone consult with me that really turned things around Thursday night. The biggest issue she identified…

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Filed Under: D.C. Metro, Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: adrenal health, blood sugar, cherry blossoms, DC, photography, priorities, sightseeing, writing, writing mama, writing mother

Getting my children – and myself – outside

February 24, 2014 by Jessica Leave a Comment

With a background in environmental education and an avowed interest in connecting to nature, you’d think my children would be outside all the time. Well, at least I’d like to think that I could have little adventure explorers who would never ask to watch anything on a screen. Not so. I blame it partly on…

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Filed Under: D.C. Metro, Healthy Eating, Uncategorized Tagged With: nature, outdoor education

Happier at home … by staying at home?

January 8, 2014 by Jessica 9 Comments

The more I channeled Happier at Home author Gretchen Rubin this morning, straightening up and dealing with clutter, the more I started thinking about ditching the chance to see her speak tonight. Talk about shooting the messenger. She didn’t exactly say the words “don’t do anything that doesn’t make you feel joyful” in what I read…

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Filed Under: D.C. Metro, Holistic Health, The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: balance, cleaning, clutter, domestic life, family, Gretchen Rubin, Happier at Home, happiness, home, joy, marriage, organization, priorities, wellness privilege, work, writing

Under a January sky: Welcoming 2014

January 2, 2014 by Jessica 2 Comments

It didn’t look like it was going to go well, this New Year’s Day. I had been eating pancakes all morning (sugar-free and GF but not GAPS-legal) and was wearing the world’s frumpiest sweatpant/pajama combo. My daughter was reaching up to the counter to help herself to the sausage she didn’t eat at breakfast while…

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Filed Under: D.C. Metro, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: family, health, hiking, nature, outdoors, priorities, tradition, wellness, Zoolights

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