mom • parenting • lifestyle • health-wellness
Let’s go back in time a moment, shall we?
Growing Up With Epilepsy
I’m 14. One day I’m watching an after-school special with my classmates about a kid with Epilepsy. He has a seizure during a basketball game. Isn’t that funny? We’re laughing. We don’t understand. We all join in on the laughter.
It’s a month later and now I’m having a seizure.
A week after that, I’m on medication that makes me fall asleep in the middle of …
Healthy Eating: How To Become a Vegetarianme • health & fitness • lifestyle • health-wellness
Creating healthy eating habits for everyone in your family might be important to you. Teaching your kids the importance of vegetables and nutrition… might be of interest to you. Becoming a vegetarian might be a big priority for you. It was for me.
Being a vegetarian is not all about
Healthy Living: Dealing With Epilepsy and Toxemia During Pregnancyme • health & fitness • parenting • education
I played a lot of things when I was a child. School. I was always the teacher. Hospital. I was always the nurse. And family. I was always the mom…. Sense a theme here? Yes! I loved to be in charge. And being in charge meant that
Healthy Lifestyle: Steps for a Longer and Healthier Lifeme • health & fitness • lifestyle • health-wellness
As another birthday is upon me (funny how they sneak up on you), I wanted to write about some steps that we can take to help us live a longer and healthier life…. It would be nice if we could come up with a magic pill to help us
9 Tips to Parenting a Child With Mental Illnessme • health & fitness • lifestyle • health-wellness
My son was diagnosed with paranoid Schizophrenia when he was 17 years old.
I didn’t have any friends who were dealing with similar parenting issues and I, personally, knew almost nothing about Schizophrenia or any other mental illness kids face…. When I tried to surface discussions about it, friends
Healthy Living: The Health Benefits of a Gluten-Free Dietme • health & fitness • lifestyle • health-wellness
…Like many moms I know, I have “suffered” from an inability to lose those last 10 pounds from my pregnancy. Granted, it has been five years since the birth of my daughter, so I figured something else might be going on with my body. I really couldn’t figure out why
Me Time: How To Develop Positive Self-Care Habitsme • time management • lifestyle • health-wellness
Time for the whole me? The better question to ask yourself is: how do I NOT have time for the whole me?Wellness is a time investment. I know what you are thinking! “But I have four children, a husband, a job, a business, social obligations, and a house to clean.…
Women’s Health: How To Understand and Overcome PremenopauseI first heard about premenopause in my early thirties when we were trying to get pregnant and found I suffered from pretty severe endometriosis, chocolate cysts, and fibroids. You could say I was bit of a mess really! My nutritionist recommended a fantastic book by John R. Lee, M.D., called…
Picky Eaters: 10 Ways to Help Your Family Eat HealthyEating healthy is a common challenge, but one that has great short-term and long-term benefits. There are lots of resources out there to tell you what you should be doing, what foods you should eat, how much you should exercise, etc. It’s up to you to make it enjoyable. During…
Creative Development: 3 Ways to Get Kids More Play Time at Schoolmy world • bettering communities
…Much ado is made about the dismal state of school lunches, and for good reason. Daily helpings of tater tots and frozen pizza certainly aren’t giving our children the nutrients they need.
But there is another, equally damaging threat to our children’s health that we also need to address: the
Offer to babysit a friend's child while they get some "me" time.
Date: Wed., February 29
Time: 2-3 p.m. ET
Book: 365 Manners Kids Should Know
