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Healing my gut and finding my bliss

March 9, 2011 by Jessica 1 Comment

Read more about Real Food at Kelly the Kitchen Kop who hosts a great Real Food Wednesdays blog carnival each week! I’m looking for my inner “healing junkie.” Have you found her? She seems to run and hide the second the baby wakes up, like right now. (A day later…) But it’s not the baby’s…

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Filed Under: Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: food, GAPS diet, gluten-free, health, mental health, nutrition, SCD, wellness

Top 10 Natural Strategies for Conception (aka How to Get Pregnant!)

March 8, 2011 by Jessica 38 Comments

Welcome to the March Carnival of Natural Parenting: Natural Parenting Top 10 Lists 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 Top 10 lists on a wide variety of aspects of attachment parenting and natural living….

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Filed Under: Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: acupuncutre, alternative medicine, birth, chiropractic, conception, craniosacral therapy, energy work, health, hormone testing, pregnancy, TTC, yoga

Writing while mothering, and writing without Mothering (the magazine)

March 1, 2011 by Jessica 1 Comment

By now, most readers have probably heard the sad news that Mothering magazine is going to cease publication. If not, read Peggy O’Mara’s explanation here. I found out in an email from the web editor regarding a piece I was writing for Mothering.com, which is still going strong, she said. I was happy to have…

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Filed Under: The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: childcare, community, working mother, writing, writing mother

Foundation airs its criticisms of USDA and presents alternative guidelines

February 17, 2011 by Jessica 2 Comments

Read more about Real Food at Kelly the Kitchen Kop’s Real Food Wednesdays Blog Carnival! On Monday, February 14, the Weston A. Price Foundation made its criticisms of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s dietary guidelines crystal clear. For anyone who had assumed the governmental agency must be doing its best to ensure the health of…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, D.C. Metro, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: food, health, Healthy 4 Life, nutrition, real food, Sally Fallon Morell, school lunch, USDA, Weston A. Price Foundation

Hirshhorn nurse-in a huge success!

February 14, 2011 by Jessica Leave a Comment

At least I got in some lactivism this weekend! It has been a long string of days with a dramatic, exuberant, clingy, whiny and non-stop-talking almost-five-year-old and a not-much-sleeping, perennially-teething (but happy!) six-month old. So I will save the full report on yesterday’s nurse-in at the Hirshhorn Museum for another time (will link if it…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, D.C. Metro, Holistic Health, The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: activism, breastfeeding, community, feminism

WAPF to release alternatives to USDA guidelines

February 14, 2011 by Jessica 1 Comment

At 9 a.m. on Monday, February 14, the Weston A. Price Foundation is holding a press conference to explain its concerns about USDA dietary guidelines and to offer its alternative. WAPF’s Healthy 4 Life guidelines can been viewed in this pdf or ordered in a $10 booklet. I’m so excited that this information is finally…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, D.C. Metro, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: food, nutrition, school lunch, Weston A. Price Foundation

SteveSongs talks to Crunchy-Chewy Mama!

February 11, 2011 by Jessica 2 Comments

One week after I had my baby girl this past August, I padded groggily out of the bedroom late in the morning and found my son looking out our bay window and listening to a SteveSongs CD. With his knees tucked underneath him in the chair that sat where the birth tub had been, my…

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Filed Under: D.C. Metro, The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: beauty, home, interview, music, PBS, priorities, siblings, SteveSongs, Wolf Trap

I’m no one with out my sling

February 8, 2011 by Jessica 27 Comments

Welcome to the February Carnival of Natural Parenting: Parenting Essentials This post was written for inclusion in the monthly Carnival of Natural Parenting hosted by Code Name: Mama and Hobo Mama. This month our participants have shared the parenting essentials that they could not live without. Please read to the end to find a list…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, Uncategorized Tagged With: attachment parenting, baby carriers, babywearing, Beco, Carnival of Natural Parenting, Ergo, Hotsling, Maya Wrap, Mei Tai, priorities, slings

Saved by DIY beauty products

February 6, 2011 by Jessica Leave a Comment

Prior to having snow cancel 2.5 days off of school (and all local evening activities) the week before last, I got to attend a wonderful Moms Night Out with my chapter of Holistic Moms Network, starring special guest beauty mixologist Amy Fromm of Interlaken Soak Company. I met Amy back in the spring when my…

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Filed Under: D.C. Metro, Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: detox, health, Holistic Moms, skin, skin care

New food labels tell only part of the story

January 28, 2011 by Jessica Leave a Comment

If the food industry has its way, shoppers will soon see an at-a-glance view of a product’s nutritional profile on the front of the package, separate from the complete nutritional information. The mini-profile will list the calories, fat grams, milligrams of sodium, and grams of sugar in big numbers (sometimes with a highlighted important “nutrient”…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: FDA, food, Grocery Manufacturers Association, labels, nutrition, Smart Choices, USDA

When a friend gets cancer

January 23, 2011 by Jessica 6 Comments

I didn’t even know what the term lymphedema meant when Susan Niebur of Toddler Planet blog told me she was working out a deal to have compression sleeves made available to women who can’t afford them. I hadn’t ever met Susan, but I knew she was in a rough place with a recurrence of cancer;…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, D.C. Metro, Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: birth, breast cancer, breastfeeding, cancer, health, homebirth, priorities, relationships

Thyroids of a feather…

January 21, 2011 by Jessica 1 Comment

When I wrote an essay titled “Attemptus Interruptus” about having to postpone conception to deal with Graves’ Disease, autoimmune hyperthyroidism, I had no idea that the woman I referenced in the second-to-last paragraph would face the same disease. I was best friends with S in eighth grade and spent most of the summer of 1987 on her…

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Filed Under: Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: acupuncture, Facebook, fertility, gluten-free, Graves' Disease, health, mental health, nostalgia, nutrition, supplements, thyroid, wellness

Feelin’ the Holistic Moms love

January 20, 2011 by Jessica Leave a Comment

What a surprise I got tonight when my Holistic Moms co-leaders and members presented me with flowers and a (gluten-free, dairy-free, soy-free, refined-sugar-free) cake at our monthly meeting! We decided not to do a huge anniversary party again this year after last year’s blow out, and I wasn’t really missing all the stress! But they…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, D.C. Metro, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: childcare, community, family, food, Holistic Moms, marriage, priorities, relationships, working mother

Spreading the gluten-free gospel

January 20, 2011 by Jessica 1 Comment

I’m so excited for tonight’s Holistic Moms meeting on Special Diets! Going GF (and also dairy-free, soy-free, and corn-free) has made such a difference in my physical and mental health! Cheryl Harris of Harris Whole Health will be speaking on the reasoning behind gluten-free diets, dairy-free diets, the GAPS diet, the Specific Carbohydrate Diet, and…

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Filed Under: D.C. Metro, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: food, gluten-free, Holistic Moms, nutrition, real food

Imitation crab meat – scary!

January 19, 2011 by Jessica 2 Comments

Check out more posts about real food at Kelly the Kitchen Kop’s Real Food Wednesdays blog carnival! I noticed my son’s cheeks were red when he got home from Whole Foods, but I hoped it was just from being in a warm car. He announced that he got sushi with shrimp in it, but when…

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“Lunch Line” documentary tells important story of school lunch

January 17, 2011 by Jessica Leave a Comment

When I learned from the DC Urban Moms calendar that the documentary Lunch Line was going to be screened downtown at Busboys & Poets last Sunday night, I could hardly contain my excitement. School lunch is an issue I’ve been getting very interested in, especially with the passage of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act in…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, D.C. Metro, Healthy Eating, Uncategorized Tagged With: Lunch Line, school lunch

Tears on my yoga mat

January 16, 2011 by Jessica 3 Comments

Yesterday I went to a yoga class for the first time since the baby was born five months ago. And I cried. It was a big deal to get out the door. For weeks, nay, months, I had been looking up schedules at all the local studios to see when they might have a class…

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Filed Under: Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: communication, depression, family, health, marriage, mental health, priorities, relationship, yoga

Cloth Diaper store comes to Manassas!

January 15, 2011 by Jessica 2 Comments

I’m excited to share that Abby’s Lane now has a brick and mortar store in Manassas. The grand opening is tomorrow, January 15, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 7730 Donegan Drive, Manassas, VA 20109. Check out the store website for more details and for information about Cloth 101 info sessions. In the Del Ray…

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My child is my mirror – January Carnival of Natural Parenting

January 11, 2011 by Jessica 20 Comments

Welcome to the January Carnival of Natural Parenting: Learning from children 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 the many lessons their children have taught them. Please read to the end to find a list…

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Filed Under: Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: craniosacral therapy, family, home, joy, organization, priorities, toddler talk, writing mother

Playing hooky

January 10, 2011 by Jessica 1 Comment

I haven’t done anything. I’ve done way too much. The last few weeks have been a blur. No, wait, all five months of my daughter’s life have been a blur. Tonight was the first parent meeting at my son’s school since we started going there in fall 2008 that we have missed. My son has…

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