April :: Inspiration, Newness + Highlights

April 30, 2012 By TheOrganicSister 2 Comments

I haven’t done a post like this since October, which should be an indication of either how much fun we’ve been having or how poor of a memory I have. I’ll let you determine which.

April’s Highlights

Oh man, April both rocked my face off and threatened to overwhelm me.

♥ I started a new weekly series where I take some of the quotes I place on Facebook and expand on them on the blog every Friday. You can find more here.

♥ The Great Blog Comment Debate Everyone has an opinion that really only fits themselves. This one is mine.

♥ Anxiety, Overwhelm, Sorrow :: And All I Heard Was Love It was one intense, exhausting, heartbreaking, beautiful and wonderful weekend.

♥ Feeling Too Drained to Take Care of You? Yeah, I got there this month. Below is the video that got me back.

April’s Newness

♥ I can add headline speaker to my resume. Just sayin. It was scary and intimidating and I loved almost every minute of it (except those moments where I wanted to turn and flee).

♥ Organic Home Health Justin and I have fallen in love with essential oils for the incredible things they’ve done for our health lately and have begin to promote the uses of essential oils on Sustainable Baby Steps.

♥ I’m working on several new projects right now for the coming months and am not sure which to focus on first. I’d love to hear from you on what you’d most love to see. Can you let me know here?

April’s Inspiration

♥ Unschooling on Mothering.com A great article on unschooling. And it was a funny little surprise that I got quoted in it!

♥ Your Child Does NOT Thrive on Routine One of my clients, Patti, is totally inspiring me with her words on parenting this month. Must read.

♥ I’ve Gotta Be Me This just makes me smile.

♥ And the song below is already a fave but this version is just so good.

♥ And this one below by Passion Pit, I can’t even explain how much I love it.

♥ Your 5 Customers For my entrepreneur sistahs out there, I love Naomi’s insights like whoa.

♥ Confidence Coin Necklace Love! In fact, I love just about everything they offer.

♥ Behind the Blog Doh! I think I forgot to share this with you. Or I forgot to delete it from my Must Share list. Either way make sure you check out Erin’s podcast here.

♥ Releasing Relationships A sweet mama friend, Kate, just released her very first ebook and it’s gorgeous and powerful.

♥ Are you a hot woman? Mm, this was just yummy.

♥ Metta in Mantras* And I’m still loving all over this meditation from Jenn. So much so that that’s an affiliate link. Oh yes it is.

What’s Been Inspiring You This Month?

Filed Under: Inspiration Tagged With: links, videos

Feeling Too Drained To Take Care of You? (Video)

April 23, 2012 By TheOrganicSister 3 Comments

Sometimes you just need to lay in the grass and listen to what your heart is whispering.

And it’s always good. (Truth speaks through stillness, after all.)

So in a quiet moment in the sun, here are the words that I needed to hear myself say.

Filed Under: Organic Health, Organic Parenting, Organic Wisdom Tagged With: filling your cup, HSP, self-care, videos, ways to love yourself

Our Elimination Diet – 3 Weeks In (Video)

March 21, 2012 By TheOrganicSister

Hey all! Justin and I did another (goofy) video on our process through the elimination diet. We’re almost three weeks in and have just begun to add in foods.

P.S. I was wrong in the video. It’s not all meats we are waiting on, just red meats. We just looked at our food list and can start adding back in chicken and turkey (although we might wait just a bit longer).

Links for you:

Starting the elimination diet (our first video): This talks about our reasons and how we’re planning to do it, starting with the smoothie fast.

Phase One (our second video): Talking about how the smoothie detox went for us and moving onto phase one.

Downloadable food lists: We’re using these as our general guidelines, and leaning heavily on our own intuition.

Blueberry Cucumber Smoothie: This is the smoothie I’m drinking in the video and also is my favorite.

Herb Sunflower Dressing: This is the dressing that attacked me.

(If you’re coming to this post later you can access all our elimination diet posts here.)

Filed Under: Organic Health Tagged With: elimination diet, recipes, videos

Starting the Elimination Diet :: Um, what have I gotten myself into? (Video)

March 2, 2012 By TheOrganicSister

Justin and I got a wild hair to do an elimination diet.

Here’s our video on what it is, what we’re hoping for, how we’re starting, how we intend to make fun of it and an invitation for you to join us.

(P.S. The wind dies down and the audio syncs a few moments into the video. And if anyone can fix this dang iMovie out-of-sync thing once and for all I’ll kiss you.)

Links:
Downloadable PDFs on which foods to eat when.
Some recipes for the elimination diet

Filed Under: Organic Health Tagged With: elimination diet, gluten-free, Justin, smoothies, videos

Full Moon Gathering with the EcoWomb (Video)

January 23, 2012 By TheOrganicSister

We spent the first full moon of 2012 camping and eating, laughing and talking, playing music and connecting with the EcoWomb family and many new friends. It was also when I burned my dreads and the first week I had to play with my new phone and it’s many awesome apps.

It’s funny; I recently remembered I set the intention to create some fun home videos over two years ago.

It makes me smile to realize yet another forgotten intention came to fruition in its own timing. Mmm…the things I used to stress over I’ve learned to trust and allow. That feels good (now to learn how to apply it to other areas).

P.S. Apparently, YouTube censored my video because of the song I used to show our videos and pictures. Ironically, it was the song “One Love” by Bob Marley…you know, the guy all for love and gratitude, instead of greed. Apparently, the record company didn’t get the memo. I wish I had time to redo it but I don’t – and I’m leaving it up because I can still watch it. But I’ve included our photos of our time below as a lame alternative to an otherwise great video.