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Good things coming (from the ground up)

May 9, 2014 by Jessica Leave a Comment

I may have had to pay someone to help me plant my garden, but the good news is that it actually happened, and things are growing. Maybe a little late, but they’re growing. Sometimes you have to throw out “perfect” for “done.” That doesn’t mean I’m doing the greatest job weeding or tending things, but…

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Filed Under: Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: clearing, EFT, energy work, Katrina Kenison, priorites, wisdom

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

Yoga as birthday gift

March 9, 2013 by Jessica 3 Comments

I turned 40 on Monday. On my birthday eve — last Sunday — I had the most beautiful yoga class with a small group of friends. I walked in anxious and grumpy and walked out grateful and open-hearted. This weekend, I am off on a retreat through Beloved Yoga at the lovely Kent Manor Inn….

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Filed Under: D.C. Metro, Featured, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: Beloved Yoga, Donna Jackson Nakazawa, healing, health, Holistic Health, Karen Maezen Miller, Katrina Kenison, Lil Omm, nutrition, yoga

The short and long view

November 20, 2012 by Jessica Leave a Comment

It’s now been over three months since I started reading Katrina Kenison’s The Gift of an Ordinary Day. I’d picked it up even before that, but three months ago I devoured as much as I could while away from my kids at a conference. Since I’ve been back, time has been scarce amid getting unpacked,…

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: family, future, Katrina Kenison, mindfulness, NaBloPoMo, nostalgia, parenting, poetry, priorities

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