Tips to Help You Stop Stress Eating

Tips to Help You Stop Stress Eating - ideas to stop emotional eating

Someone very wise told me that I had to stop stress eating. So I thought about it…. And I went back through my food/exercise log. I spent a lot of time thinking about this. Stress eating is a real thing, not an excuse. Some people drink a beer when they’re stressed out…I eat..maybe you’re guilty of stress…

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Homemade Body Butter with Coconut Oil

Michigan is growing on me, but there are times (like this morning) when I really miss the humidity of Houston. I’m tired of having dry cracked skin. I mean, I’ve always had a love affair with lotion, but it was definitely not a daily requirement for my whole body living on the Gulf. Skip to…

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How to Get Better Sleep as an Exhausted Mom

As a new mom, your life is basically a rollercoaster of every emotion known to humankind. One hour can be full of laughter and incomparable joy, the next tears, and sheer terror. It can be hard to get good sleep, trust me, I know. But you need to get better sleep! How to Get Better…

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Foot-Softening DIY Lotion with Lemongrass

This is embarrassing…but I’m just gonna say it. I have ugly feet. Which sucked when we lived in Houston, but was more of a problem now that I’m wearing slippers and socks constantly. Rough feet get caught on these things. Weird, but true. Skip to the directions to make your own Foot-Softening DIY Lotion with…

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Healthy Habits Everyone Should Do

Being a mom of two boys, a wife, an entrepreneur…I get a little stressed out sometimes.  Okay, more like on the daily. But yesterday, I found myself saying no more.  I’m tired of having panic attacks. I’m tired of the anxiety. I’m just tired. I need healthy habits in my life. Healthy Habits Everyone Should…

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My Mommy Trip to Disney World Parks

I shared my paleo experience from my time in Florida a couple weeks ago…but I had a number of people who emailed me wondering why on earth I would do Disney by myself. For starters, the trip wasn’t all about Disney. I had to fly to Orlando for work, and Kissimmee is just a few…

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Daily Habits for Winter Wellness

Daily Habits for Winter Wellness

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Emergen-C for IZEA. All opinions are 100% mine. It’s inevitable. The cold is here and it’s here to STAY! WHY ME?!? As you can tell I’m not adjusting very well to the weather but there has to be a way to beat the cold.…

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Non-Traditional Self-Care Practices to Help you Survive Winter

I was talking to a friend yesterday…and we were laughing about the ridiculousness of the new “self-care” trend (read this as the working out all the time trend). This friend (who totally rocks, BTW) had posted a rant on Facebook (I mean, isn’t that what Facebook is for?) calling out the self-care trend that is…

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How to Survive a Snow Day with Your Sanity Intact

Let me start off by saying that I love my boys. All of them. But. It’s hard to survive a snow day. Seriously. This past week we experienced our very first snow day, and let me tell you. I had to take a LOT of deep breaths and mommy timeouts. You know exactly what I’m…

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How to Stress Less

When we moved, I did not expect to still be stressed out…3 months later. But I am. I mean…I feel like it’s just STRESS on top of STRESS on top of STRESS!!! The stressors are different now…it’s more about being stuck in the house (literally…there’s 18 inches of snow outside today and it’s 10 degrees!) and…

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