I discovered yoga twenty years ago when I picked up a VHS tape of yoga and pilates to get myself into shape for my upcoming wedding. (Not realizing that at 28 years old, I was in shape!) What I noticed is that my natural kyphosis (a slight hump in my back) started to decrease. I’d…
Category: Beauty/Health
Farmgirl’s Guide to Great Skin
I was a very pretty child who came from a very pretty family. I had a rough go there during my tweens (yikes) but pulled out of it by my teens and landed my first modeling contract when I was eighteen. I had great skin, three years of braces, and my height and natural weight…
Envision Your Future (Your Best Life, day 7 and recap)
A few years ago I organized a group of witchy, like-minded women. We post memes and prayer requests and encouragement and meet every few months over coffee or pottery or wine to catch up. Yesterday, my daughter, Shyanne hosted our second annual Vision Board event. Everyone came baring old magazines, scissors, markers, stickers, glue, and…
Honor Your Spirituality (Your Best Life, day 6)
There are similarities amongst the places in the world where the people have the most longevity. They move, walk, and are active most of the day. They eat little to no meat. They have large familial ties and close friends. They consume a little alcohol each day (usually with said friends and family). They have…
Change Your Perspective (Your Best Life, Day 5)
It does seem that our refrigerator always goes out shortly after we move into a new place. So, there we were at Lowe’s last night picking out a refrigerator. I was telling the sales associate that I will never move again! “You know how we always say that?” I laughed, and looked at him. “No,…
Improving Your Relationships (Your Best Life, day 4)
I went around to each of my neighbors who border my land or live near and invited them all over for an impromptu dinner to get to know each other. I made a few different soups earlier in the afternoon and some biscuits, so when the neighbors arrived, I only had to pour a glass…
Plant Based (Your Best Life, day 3)
A fellow blogger and friend of mine used to write about butchering deer on her kitchen table. She was the quintessential farmer’s wife. She wrote often about her life with autoimmune issues. It practically paralyzed her. She was very ill. One day she got upset about something she read and set out to prove that…
Be Your Own Pharmacist (Your Best Life, day 2)
“There’s an herb for that!” my students and I used to joke. There is, quite literally, an herb for every single ailment known to man. (Hint: it’s not marijuana.) When men wanted profit, they mimicked constituents in plants in a lab, changing their genetic form so that they could be patented. Along with greed though,…
Guard Your Mind (Your Best Life, day 1)
This subject was set to be written towards the end of the week, but after the nightmare I had last night, it jumped to today! Guard Your Mind When I was a teenager, it was exasperating for me and my friends that I was not allowed to watch anything over PG. Our television watching at…
7 Days, 7 Ways to Your Best Life (Intro)
Be the Change You Want to See in the World. Gandhi I have nothing to sell you. (Heck, I don’t even use ads on my blog.) I write to inspire. I write to help others who are even quasi interested in how we live, to use it to make their life better. In the next…
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