Healthy & Balanced Wellness Education

  It's officially spring! Time to open up the house and give everything a good cleaning. I love using all these cleaners because they are healthy for my family and the environment - Win-Win! They are also very easy to make and much less expensive than buying ready-made from the store. But first, a little education about why we should be cleaning with natural ingredients. Did you know the air you breathe inside your home can be anywhere from 2 - 5  times more polluted than outside air? So every product you use in your home, stays in your home for you to inhale when you breathe, or absorb through your skin through surfaces.  The worst culprits for indoor air pollution are:  Household Air Fresheners, (including candles, plug ins, wax burners and sprays) Cleaning Products Fabric Softeners Dryer Sheets A recent NRDC analysis identified 45 chemicals commonly found in U.S. indoor dust. In the study, 10 different phthalates , fragrances, flame retardants , and pheno...

  Holistic Living . Living a Holistic Lifestyle . Living Holistically . Have you heard these phrases and wondered, what is this “Holistic” thing people are talking about? What does Holistic mean? Holistic is defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary as “relating to or concerned with wholes or with complete systems rather than with the analysis of, treatment of, or dissection into parts.” So what does that translate to if we’re trying to live a Holistic Lifestyle? Living a Holistic Lifestyle means taking our entire being -  our mind, our body, and our spirit/soul - and living in such a way that we are nourishing and doing everything for the benefit of our entire being. Confused yet? Don’t be!  How can we nourish our Physical Body through Holistic Living?  We can take care of our body by  exercising  our muscles to keep our body in correct balance. Muscle imbalances are the main reason why people have back or joint pain.  We can also take ca...