Health

Always Playing Catch-Up? Stay on Task!

February 4, 2012
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I’m notorious for always playing catch-up. If it’s not on work, it’s on sleep, bills, exercise…you name it. I even have to play catch-up with my book club sometimes! Argh. It’s aggravating and stressful. But with the new year, I made a commitment to get my catch-up pile caught-up and to make it a new [...]

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The Mommy Files: Coping with “The Sickness”

February 3, 2012
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Cold and flu season is definitely upon us. And while I’m no doctor, I try to believe that my methods of getting rid of germs are pretty effective. It goes something like this: Quarantine sick person Fill them with over-the-counter meds to alleviate discomfort Provide a cooler full of popsicles and juice on ice to [...]

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Transform, Even Little Things

January 27, 2012
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OK, time for a mental health break. A good friend once tried to convince me that the bad things that happen in life are just information. Information. Simple really. Something to allow you to think on and then decide which way to go. Where I get all tight and anxious, she sees the opportunity to [...]

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How Our Body Image Is Ruining Our Girls

January 24, 2012
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Note: As much as I’d like this post to be a tangent on a certain television show that exploits children’s self-images for the sake of beauty pageants, I won’t. But that might be coming later down the line…now back to your previously scheduled programming. ********************** I like to think that I’ve got a pretty healthy [...]

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Your Child’s First Dentist Visit

January 23, 2012
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Another milestone has passed – proof that you can’t keep your baby from growing up: the first dental exam. I don’t know if we were early or late with it, but we scheduled our younger daughter’s first visit to the dentist just after her 2nd birthday. We’ve been brushing her teeth (I should really say [...]

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Dealing with the Prickly Angries

January 13, 2012
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I used to think that the definition of insanity was doing things over and over and expecting a different result. Come to find out I was wrong. Actually, it’s the definition of parenting. See, I keep having these expectations. That’s my down fall. I expect in terms of outcomes. I expect that my older daughter [...]

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In Case You Missed It

December 29, 2011

Murmuration from Sophie Windsor Clive on Vimeo. Marvelous. Each time I see this I get lost in the magic of it. The sense of something bigger than us guiding us, en masse. A silent, collective knowing of which way to turn. So as we end this year – and for some, myself included, this time [...]

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Organic Skin Care for Athletes

December 9, 2011
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All of a sudden, people around me have been talking about running. Like marathon running. I’m in awe. One friend I know (hi Susan!) seriously completed 2 half marathons in November and aside from pulling her hamstring trying to save a falling bowl in the kitchen, is training for more. So when I heard of [...]

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Omyst All Natural Antiseptic Spray

December 2, 2011
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I’m mostly a western medicine type of mom. I mean, I get my girls vaccinated, I give them ibuprofen when they have fevers and, in general, rely on my pediatrician’s advice for any and all health related matters. I mention this because I’ve been using an all natural antiseptic spray that I actually think is [...]

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Taking A Mental Health Moment: Meditation

November 23, 2011
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I’m not going to get all woo woo on you, don’t worry. That said, I am finding a new found love/need for meditation, something that very few mainstream people talk about and even fewer do. Boil it down to the essentials and it sounds like something everyone – and especially moms! – should be doing, [...]

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Vapur: The Anti Bottle Review

November 22, 2011
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Do you like the thought of carrying a water bottle but don’t like the bulk/weight of it? Sometimes that’s what I think and my internal whiney voice says “oohh, I need to bring some water with me but it’s too heavy. It’s too bulky.” Truly, it’s a lame excuse, one that I know is lame [...]

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Top 10 Weird Things That Happen To Your Body After Having a Baby

November 17, 2011
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For all you new mommies out there researching baby names, what to pack in your diaper bag for the first time and all sorts of other new mom kernels of wisdom, here’s something you may not have thought about. A lot of these things took me by surprise, but most of all was the knowledge [...]

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Colored Tampons?!

November 9, 2011
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Who says your vajayjay (as Oprah calls it) can’t have style? I mean, if all the rest of you is decked out, looking fly why not your pooty? Nothing like adding a little color down there, even if you are going to just throw that applicator/paper away. I sooo get this. I soooo get the [...]

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