Winter is a wonderful time of year, bringing with it white snow, frosty mornings, hot mugs of steaming favorite drinks (the boys love our GAPS hot chocolate; I love anything that comes in a mug!), sledding, and rosy cheeks. Unfortunately, winter also brings with it crowded stores filled with sick shoppers coughing on cart handles, …
When It is Just Too Hard
“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next." ~ Gilda Radner I …
Chamomile Gummies
Being on the early stages of Intro is rough. If you need the GAPS Program and gut healing (which most of us do these days), rough may be an understatement. It can be especially tough on kids. Besides the symptoms of die-off that they may experience (feeling fatigued, flu-like, and generally cranky), there is also …
Stay Healthy This Flu Season – Naturally!
When it comes to discussing natural solutions and treatments to common ailments like the cold and the flu (and general wellness and illness prevention), there are many differing opinions: some supporting modern medicine with its frequent antibiotic use, over-the-counter medications, and other treatments; some who avoid conventional medicine at all cost and instead turn to …
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Essential Oils and Allergic Reactions
Photo credit: comment-economiser.fr via Visual hunt / CC BY Can you be allergic to essential oils? I wanted to address this question today as it has often come up at my seminars or has been posed among people interested in using essential oils but concerned because they have allergies to certain things …
