Anyone who knows me well knows that I am the most loyal and dedicated thrift store shopper. Whether I need a basic item for the kitchen or a staple item to complete an outfit, I check out my thrift store first. If I could find everything I needed second hand, I’d never shop anywhere else…but this is not the reality. Even so, your local thrift store is an amazing resource for many reasons.
What do you think when you hear the word “dance”? Chances are, you think of dancing at a dub-step heavy club, or perhaps taking your children to their ballet lesson.
Omega-3 fatty acids are vital to our health. Keeping the heart healthy, the nervous system in check, and our cholesterol levels down, Omega-3s are a friend to the body. One of the best sources known for Omega-3 is fish. If you are vegetarian and vegan, however, this presents a problem. As someone who has primarily a vegetarian diet, I myself have had to be conscious of knowing where my Omegas are coming from.
I have a shocking confession to make.
I have dreaded yoga and meditation a thousand times. Surprising words from a dedicated yoga teacher? Yes, I have dreaded yoga and meditation a thousand times, but I have never once regretted it. Resistance to the practice is something we might not expect, and when it arises it can really pull us off the mat or meditation cushion if we aren’t ready for it.
Want to reduce your carbon footprint? How about saving some of that gas, meaning fuel!
While I was living in San Diego, I fell in love with delicious, savory Thai curry. A vegetarian/vegan Thai restaurant there, Plumeria, had me sold (literally) on its red curry. Now, this is a big deal coming from someone who was certain that she despised any and all things coconut.
I am an incredibly sensitive person and when I started using crystals, my whole life was thrown into a loop. I wasn’t able to sleep, my dreams were crazy, I felt…weird — then I realized that I was using the wrong crystals.
Recent technological advances have paved the way for extracting oil from grape seeds that were once thought merely a useless byproduct by wine makers. While the benefits and uses of grapes have been touted for centuries, the lesser known benefits of grapeseed oil are also worthy of note. Today grapeseed oil is used in a number of beauty products, including hair care products, sunscreen, and moisturizing cream.
You might be pooping wrong. That is, you’re probably pooping wrong if you aren’t using a squatty potty on your traditional toilet. These are big claims, especially if you’ve been pooping your whole life (which you have).
Traditional toilets cramp our intestines, making it harder for our stool to pass through. Squatty potties, on the other hand, allow our insides to straighten out–which is how we’ve been pooping since the beginning of humanity: by squatting.
The essence of the human enterprise is encapsulated in the pursuit of meaning.
We must live with a sense of meaning, otherwise our lives become greatly chaotic. There must be a deep and abiding sense of purpose in our lives, for without which we slip into trends of banality, triviality, and perhaps even crookedness.
When meaning is lost, we can grow dark. We might capitulate to our more deviant and destructive tendencies. We may give way to warfare and strife. We might even generate sorrow – both within and without.