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Surviving Early Pregnancy With a Houseful of Littles

August 11, 2011

I remember when I was pregnant with my first. I was working full time as an ESL teacher, but during my time off? I could put my feet up, take a nap when I was tired, make whatever food I was craving (or not make food at all if my stomach was off), go for [...]

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Training Kids to Help in the Kitchen

July 28, 2011

Knowing how to prepare real, whole foods is an absolutely necessary life skill that every child should learn. Children who are not taught the basics of food preparation will end up defaulting to processed, packaged foods, simply because they haven't learned to make anything better.
If we don't take the time to teach them, how will [...]

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Q&A Video Blog: Eating Healthy During Summer Travels and in Other’s Homes

June 30, 2011

In today's video, I'm answering this question from a reader:
How do you handle situations where you know you will be eating at someone else's home... and the home you are eating at does not eat whole foods? I am trying to get my family on a more whole food/healthy food diet but when we [...]

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Adrenal Fatigue: Help and Resources for Healing

February 4, 2011

Earlier this week I introduced the topic of adrenal fatigue. Before reading this post, you may want to go back and read the first part in this series to understand what exactly adrenal fatigue is and learn more about many of the symptoms associated with it.
What Can I Do About It?
It's time to get more [...]

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Routines to Help the Weary Mom

January 28, 2011

Written by Beth Corcoran, Contributing Writer
I know a lot about exhaustion. In fact, as I write this, my family is on the mend from the flu. While I may not have the fever and chills anymore, two weeks of the flu spreading through our family has left me one tired Momma!
But you don’t need to [...]

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Panel Discussion on Burnout and Fatigue: 3 Women Get Real About Their Struggles, Part 2

January 17, 2011

In the first part of this panel discussion, we focused on what led to a situation of burnout and fatigue, how the panelists recognized it, their signs and symptoms and more.
This time, I wanted to focus on the hopefulness that exists, even when we find that we've come to the end of our rope. Winter [...]

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Panel Discussion on Burnout and Fatigue: 3 Women Get Real About Their Struggles

January 13, 2011

The response to this month's honest discussions of burnout, fatigue, depression and general health and wellness has been so tremendous. Thank you all for sharing in such real and vulnerable ways. I'm humbled that you would share so much of yourselves and these very personal experiences.
I think that it's so important that we as women [...]

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Treating Depression Naturally: Supplements, Herbs and Foods for Feeling Better

January 10, 2011

Dealing with depression is a touchy subject.
When I first began to admit to people in my life that I was struggling with depression, I got a lot of different recommendations. Most were shocked that I hadn't been to see a doctor, some supported my desire to try to deal with it naturally but expressed concern [...]

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Cooking With Kids: Ways to Involve Young Children in the Kitchen

September 13, 2010

One of the themes this month at Keeper of the Home is cooking with little ones... whether it means learning to include them in your cooking endeavours, or finding creative solutions to be able to cook from scratch with the time constraints of caring for your children!
I love to involve my children in the [...]

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At Simple Organic: A Natural Approach to Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome

September 2, 2010

Today I'm over at Simple Organic, sharing about my journey with PCOS and natural ways to treat it through lifestyle changes.
Call me naive. I didn’t know that there was something terribly wrong about going 6 months without a cycle.
I was 20 years old and in my last year of university. My health was far from [...]

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