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Declaring my love…for essential oils

May 28, 2016 by Jessica Leave a Comment

Here is the post where I share that I am getting serious about incorporating essential oils into my family’s healing regimen. This time, it’s for real. I’ve been using essential oils for a long time and have been ordering them through a distributor since 2003! For a while, I built up a supply, loved some…

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Filed Under: Featured, Holistic Health Tagged With: advocacy, business, education, essential oils, priorities, sharing

What I’ve Been Up To!

May 12, 2016 by Jessica Leave a Comment

It was February the last time I wrote, in the wake of a Femworking meeting after which two members challenged me to think about what success means to me. Things have been moving a lot since then! I was also getting some coaching and working with a therapist, both of which helped me to integrate…

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Filed Under: Featured, Holistic Health, The Arts Tagged With: accoplishments, business, health, priorities, writing

Interviewing a local leader – D.C.’s lil omm yoga studio owner Pleasance Silicki

November 20, 2015 by Jessica Leave a Comment

My blog work today was to post an interview with a local – and national – leader in the children and family yoga scene here in Metro DC, Pleasance Silicki, owner of lil omm yoga studio. Mom of two Pleasance shared with me how she made the difficult decision to close her studio and how she…

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Filed Under: D.C. Metro, Holistic Health, The Arts Tagged With: business, interview, leadership, yoga

Slippage

November 18, 2015 by Jessica Leave a Comment

Whew, this month is kicking my behind. Or at least this week is. So much stuff to attend and cover, so much school stuff – all-day field trip Monday, two health committee meetings today. Business-building phone calls and interviews… Trying to build a team… I am waking early and exercising and writing. But I’m also…

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Filed Under: Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: balance, blogging, business, health, priorities, writing

Failure to thrive in motherhood

April 30, 2014 by Jessica 5 Comments

The moment I realized I could no longer handle teaching high school, I was sitting in a Teaching for Change-organized class with Enid Lee, one of the authors of Beyond Heroes and Holidays: A Practical Guide to K-12 Anti-Racist, Multicultural Education and Staff Development and a huge force in the area of critical literacy, which was…

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Filed Under: Featured, Holistic Health, The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: adrenal health, Arianna Huffington, balance, breathing, business, career, depression, family, health, Holistic Health, life purpose, Mindful Healthy Life, mindfulness, passion, priorities, tai chi, teaching, Thrive, thyroid, work, working mother, yoga

Believing in work (and parenting): Femworking conference interview and reflections

September 30, 2013 by Jessica 4 Comments

What a delightful conversation I had last week with Kelley Sanabria, founder of Femworking, LLC and Nicole Dash, author of Tiny Steps Mommy blog and the co-chair with Kelley of the upcoming Blogger and Small Business Conference taking place in Arlington on October 26. They offered a discount for covering the conference for TheDCMoms.com, and…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, D.C. Metro, Featured, Holistic Health, The Arts Tagged With: blog, blogging, business, Femworking, health, Holistic Health, small business, working mother, writing mama, writing mother

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Welcome to Crunchy-Chewy Mama, where the wilderness meets the sidewalk. Around here, I do my best to live as healthfully as possible. But compromises abound.

I also publish the resource blog Mindful Healthy Life of Metro DC. To learn about my writing and appearances and for details about the writing, editing and consulting services I offer, visit JessicaClaireHaney.com.

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