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Pulling the plug on BlogHer14

July 17, 2014 by Jessica 2 Comments

It is with an ache in my gut — literally — that I have to come to terms with the fact that I am not going to BlogHer ’14. I had to believe the trip was possible when I bought the ticket. We’d had two snow days that week (including my birthday. What a rockin’…

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Filed Under: Featured, The Arts Tagged With: BlogHer, BlogHer'14, digestion, dreams, family, gut, health, illness, priorities, travel, work, writing

Morning with a high-maintenance mama

March 30, 2013 by Jessica 5 Comments

If “high-maintenance” means “requiring a lot of attention,” put my picture by the definition. With all the things I’m having to do these days just to make my body function (or to figure out what that even means in this shifting landscape of health), I feel like my children’s lives are passing me by, and…

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Filed Under: Featured, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: Alfie Kohn, Ayurveda, Claudia Welch, constipation, cortisol, digestion, Donna Jackson Nakazawa, green smoothies, health, Holistic Health, homeopathy, hormone, juice, juicing, Katrina Kenison, magnesium, meditation, mindfulness, raw foods, stress, The Last Best Cure, Vata, yoga

A retreat and a reboot

February 25, 2013 by Jessica Leave a Comment

Parenting really does make you tired. That’s the conclusion I reached after being away from my family for 32 hours and returned full of pep. For someone who’s had one of the toughest emotional months in her adult life recently and some physical challenges, it’s saying a lot to feel so good about the weekend….

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Filed Under: D.C. Metro, Featured, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: Bay to Ocean Writers Conference, digestion, EMFs, fatigue, Fisherman's Inn, health, Healthy Eating, nutrition, priorities, Twelve Tribes of Hattie, WiFi, writing, writing mama, writing mother

Chameleon season, in weather and in health

February 4, 2013 by Jessica Leave a Comment

Something bizarre this way comes. And goes. Last week was the most bizarre week in the atmosphere outside my windows — and also the one in my body and heart. It went from a chilly Sunday to a rainy Monday (after the school system made a super snafu and called for a snow day) to…

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Filed Under: Featured, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: 10-day yoga challenge, Alfie Kohn, Ayurveda, Claudia Welch, constipation, digestion, dosha, GAPS, GAPS diet, healing, health, IBS, imbalance, Katrina, priorities, purpose, Vata, Wanderlust, yoga

Taking care of myself: GAPS diet update

April 2, 2011 by Jessica 16 Comments

Spring hasn’t fully registered here in chilly but blossom-filled Northern Virginia, but I think my stomach is finally on the mend. I started the GAPS diet on February 6, and I am still in a modified introductory stage. I’m only just now even considering trying to eat any raw foods (besides juice, and avocado). It…

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Filed Under: Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: digestion, family, food, GAPS, gluten, health, home, mental health, nutrition, postpartum, priorities, real food, wellness

Experimenting with Quail Eggs

March 4, 2009 by Jessica Leave a Comment

Last week at Whole Foods, we spent some time looking at the fresh, loose eggs, which I’d never purchased there. (We get our chicken eggs through a farm share, and I just placed my first order through Joel Salatin’s Polyface farms). Quail was a new word for us, thanks to the one bit of TV…

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Filed Under: Healthy Eating Tagged With: digestion, food

Giving up the Goat

September 17, 2008 by Jessica 5 Comments

I really hoped we could tolerate some goat cheese, my son and I. We bought some of the same kind we were eating a year ago until the chiropractic neurologist muscle-tested us and said “Absolutely not,” literally tossing the morsel I’d brought aside. “I just adjusted him!” she exclaimed, as though eating something his body…

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Filed Under: Healthy Eating Tagged With: dairy, digestion, food

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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.

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