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Gallon of Water a Day Challenge
Do you remember the dad in the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding, yep, the dude with the obsession with Windex? Gus Portokalos believed that “every ailment from psoriasis to poison ivy can be cured with Windex.” We had a Gus in our family, Great Grandpa W, and his magic cure-all was water. According to […]
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Strawberry Lemon Water
My extended family has had a decades long debate over what a carbonated drink should be called. The California side says “soda” and the mountain fam says “pop” then add in my Texan sister who calls all of it “Coke” and you’ve got a real lively conversation. Soda… Pop… Coke… Beverage…Whatever you call it, I […]
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Easy Raw Granola
*After 6 years of dark old photos and no real recipe card, I finally got around to updating this post. You can find it HERE. I am addicted to granola. I’m pretty sure that there isn’t a granola out there that I wouldn’t love. A few years ago one of my closest friends, KYNDRA, gave […]
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For National Eating Disorder Week & Elle
On Monday, my darling cousin posted this to Facebook along with a link to the NATIONAL EATING DISORDERS ASSOCIATION: “Hey everyone guess what?! It’s National Eating Disorder Awareness Week!!! *Throws confetti* About 6 years ago I started my battle with anorexia nervosa, an extremely dangerous eating disorder. In those 6 years I’ve had ups and […]
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Friday Favorites #9: Health Helpers
This month I have been working hard trying to get a little healthier. Things sort of fell apart for me after my ACCIDENT and I decided on the year marker of that MESS that I deserved to feel good again. I never had a clue how much snapping your clavicle or ripping parts of your […]
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Bottles
The last two weeks I have done a lot of self reflection. I had a conversation with a loved one, and I surprised myself with what I said. It really bothered me. Like I said before, I’m a bottler and I’m trying to learn to overcome that this year. Well, I finally opened the lid […]
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Roll on Along
When I was growing up, one of my family’s favorite bands was ALABAMA. Anytime we headed off on an adventure you could pretty much bet your shirt that dad would play a little Mountain Music. A couple of my brothers may deny it now, but we used to belt those songs at the top of […]
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