Articles: wellness
Homemade Bone Broth: A Healthy Diet Staple
Looking for a soup that tastes good AND is good for you? Consider adding this nutrient-rich, immune system boosting bone broth into your daily diet! The following…
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Mastering the Actions of Herbs
Want to become a master in medicinal herbs? The first step to using these herbs successfully is understanding the actions of each one and how they work…
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10 Herbs for Family Health
Growing your own herbs is a great alternative to over-the-counter medicine. Not only do these plants help with general wellness, they’re also an easy fix for small…
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How to Decipher and Soothe Coughs: A Guide to Getting Through Cold & Flu Season
During cold and flu season, finding an alternative way to soothe coughs could save you an unnecessary trip to the doctor’s office. Understanding different kinds of coughs…
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Facing the Beast: Practicing Courage and Reflection
What does facing the beast mean? In this time of uncertainty, we must practice regular reflection to achieve optimal happiness and health. The metaphor below gives insight into confronting and…
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The Recipe for Achieving Optimal Health and Wellness
Changing our diet is one of the most difficult, but arguably the single most important thing to do to achieve optimal health. But often times people don’t…
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Car Survival Tips for Severe Winter Weather
Now that temperatures have started to dip below freezing, it’s time to get serious about winter preparedness — especially when it comes to driving! Here are some…
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Fire Cider: A Healing, Warm Tonic
“It is more important to know what kind of person has a disease than to know what kind of disease a person has.” —Hippocrates Drawing on her decades…
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Chelsea Green’s Guide to a Healthy Year: New Year, New You
Did you start the new year off with a health-inspired resolution? Are you trying to eat better and exercise more? Or looking to improve your digestive health…
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Are You Getting Enough Sleep?
If you’ve been feeling drained and running ragged from lack of sleep, you are not alone. The average adult gets around 6.5 hours of sleep every night…
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Autoimmune Diets: Six Principles to Follow When Starting
Inspired by a combination of his work treating patients with autoimmune disease and working in his garden, Dr. Cowan has developed six principles to help patients create…
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Resiliency: Becoming an Adaptive Human
They say history is bound to repeat itself if we don’t take the time to learn from the past. Our decision-making skills and resiliency are essential for…
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How to Get Your Kids in the Kitchen
If you’re following a strict diet for health reasons, have picky eaters, or are simply looking for tips on how to get your kids involved in the…
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RECIPE: How to Make Three Kinds of Kimchi
If I may be graphic for a moment—my mouth is watering, literally, as I type this. I have a new food passion, and its name is kimchi.…
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The Low-Tech Medicine Cabinet
The following is an excerpt from When Disaster Strikes (November 2011) by Matthew Stein. It has been adapted for the web. This post offers practical information about…
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The Science Behind Food Preferences: More Than a Matter of Taste
You might remember being a little kid and refusing to eat the broccoli that was put on your plate. But now you can’t get enough of the…
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We Become More Human as We Become More Mindful
Connections drive our society forward. When we connect with others we come to a better understanding of what it means to be human. It’s important to take…
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Conscious Eating: What Our Bodies Are Trying to Tell Us
When our stomachs growl, we eat. When we feel like we’re about to burst, we stop eating. These are just two examples of our bodies’ incredible ability…
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Miracle Crackers: Grain-Free, Low-Carb, and Keto-Friendly
If you’re anything like me, you know how hard it can be to resist the delectable crunch and pure happiness that comes from enjoying your favorite snack…
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A Guide to Sourcing Food: Quality Matters
Living a healthy lifestyle can be challenging, especially when it comes to buying and sourcing food. You want to keep a budget but don’t want to sacrifice…
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The Revolution in Performance
In the past decade, there’s been more time and research dedicated to understanding athlete’s health and working to implement safety measures to ensure their well being on…
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Grain-Free Diets: When Crisis Compels Transformation
As the rate of chronic illness skyrockets, more and more parents are faced with the sobering reality of restrictive diets. And because everyone is busy, many families…
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Sugar, Fructose, and Fructophobia
We’ve always known that if you sit around all day eating candy, you will get fat. Conversely, cutting down on sugar, which is a carbohydrate, will contribute…
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How to Approach the GAPS Diet
Most of us are not mindful of the importance of gut health, or just how far we in the modern world have been distanced from it. Many…
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Breakfast: Keto-Style and Kid-Approved
If you’ve been following a ketogenic diet for a while now you probably have a few hacks of your own when it comes to cooking up delicious…
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