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Mindset: How to Find Gratitude for Your Acne

It’s soooo easy to throw yourself a pity party, when an uninvited pimple parade shows up on your face. You’ll hide your face behind pounds of makeup, or even turn down social situations altogether. You get mad at your skin, and cry because it’s frustrating, it’s embarrassing, and hell, it just ain’t fair. You’re an adult after all, not some hormonally-enraged teenager! I know the easy thing to do is to embrace the emotion and allow yourself to be swallowed up by the depression and anxiety that acne can bring on. But sometimes, the easy thing, isn’t always the right [...]

Mindset: How to Find Gratitude for Your Acne2016-11-03T20:45:15-07:00

Face Mapping: What Your Face is Telling You About Your Body

Your body has it’s own ways to communicate to you when something’s wrong. Sometimes you feel it in your gut, hence the term gut feeling. Other times we experience pains in our joints or muscles. And sometimes, according to ancient Chinese practices, imbalances in the body appear as blemishes or discolourations on your face, making face mapping, a handy tool for understanding your stubborn acne. I find it incredibly wild how your face acts as an actual window into what is going on inside of your body! I challenge you today to spend some quality time with your reflection. Use the [...]

Face Mapping: What Your Face is Telling You About Your Body2016-11-09T18:47:08-08:00

Satisfy Your Chocolate Cravings with These

If you’re like me, you have a serious love on for all things chocolate. Throw peanut butter into the mix and you can just shut the front door. The thing is that it’s really easy to demonize this beautiful, sweet treat. I mean, have you ever indulged and then immediately been flooded by guilt or shame? My friend, I’m here to tell you it’s ok. There’s no need to feel badly for having chocolate cravings. I’m here to also give you a heads up that there might be something else going on. Something you’re not even aware of, but [...]

Satisfy Your Chocolate Cravings with These2017-12-20T19:50:10-08:00

Easy Christmas Morning Cranberry Tangerine Smoothie

Christmas morning can be absolutely hectic, regardless of whether you have kids or you’re just a big kid yourself. It’s an exciting day full of tradition, presents and treats, but that doesn’t mean that it has to be devoid of healthy, nourishing foods. One of my biggest pieces of advice to you and all of my clients looking to eat a clean, nourishing diet is to ensure that you make breakfast as healthy as humanly possible. That way if the day gets away from you, you can still rely on the healthy meal you had at the start of your [...]

Easy Christmas Morning Cranberry Tangerine Smoothie2017-12-20T21:43:31-08:00

Venison Stew

I am a huntress. I grew up in a family of hunters, and got my hunting license at the early age of 12. Between 12 and 27 I can’t say I did a lot of hunting, but as I became more interested in holistic health I wanted to gain a deeper understanding for the food I was consuming to fuel my body. If I was going to eat meat, I wanted to ensure it was the healthiest and best quality, like the meat in my venison stew recipe. One thing I quickly learned about hunting is that it is [...]

Venison Stew2017-12-23T02:15:58-08:00

Hemp Pumpkin Porridge

What do you do when you need to make breakfast, but you’re out of eggs, and you’re out of oats? If you're trying to keep your skin clear, you're probably avoiding gluten (so most bread's out) and dairy (forget that bowl of cereal). So what the heck is a girl to eat? I highly recommend always having some hemp hearts in your fridge, so you can make this delicious hemp pumpkin porridge. Let’s take a moment and talk about hemp, and why I love it so much. Not only does it taste delicious due to its mild nutty flavour, [...]

Hemp Pumpkin Porridge2017-12-23T15:48:34-08:00

Brown Butter Ghee

A little bird once told me that a certain Vancouver-based yoga pants company likes to ask challenging and creative questions during their interviews. One of these questions was “Describe a time you experienced a happy accident”. At the time that I heard of this interview question, I’d have had no idea how to answer it, and likely would have cried. Now, however, I totally have the best answer ever, and it’s my discovery of how to make Brown Butter Ghee. I’ll be the first to admit that I can be a lazy cook. I don’t really like measuring, and [...]

Brown Butter Ghee2017-12-23T16:39:08-08:00

Dairy-Free, Vegan Queso Dip Recipe

Those who know me well, know that I am the last person to ever self-identify as a vegan, but going dairy-free to help manage my acne has me up to my eyeballs in vegan recipes on the Internet, trying to find a reprieve for my massive cheese cravings! #cheeseaddict With a few other friends who are dairy-free, and a party to attend, I was inspired to concoct a snack to share that was easy on my skin, but embodied all things CHEESE! Alas, this dairy-free vegan queso dip was born! Dairy, specifically ice cream, has been one of my biggest [...]

Dairy-Free, Vegan Queso Dip Recipe2017-12-23T17:29:29-08:00

Dairy-Free Gingerbread Smoothie

It’s always a challenge to find something quick and easy to eat on days where you're bouncing all over the place - home, school, work, the grocery store - you know the drill. Smoothies are a great option for a nutrition-packed snack, but now that it’s winter time I haven’t felt so keen on my typical berry-banana smoothie concoctions. With Christmas just around the corner, and the cooler weather outside, I whipped up this dairy-free gingerbread smoothie. Filled with warming spices, this smoothie tastes like Christmas in a jar, and doesn't cool your body down the way other smoothies [...]

Dairy-Free Gingerbread Smoothie2017-12-20T20:21:13-08:00

The Benefits of Drinking Water

A few months ago I could not wrap my head around why I was so thirsty. I’d wake up in the morning and guzzle a tall glass of water. I’d get to work, and drain my 32 oz. Nalgene bottle at least 2-3 times, before going home and drinking even MORE water. With all the water I was drinking, you’d think I’d be spending all my time in the bathroom, but the crazy thing was that I wasn’t! What was going on? I decided to ask one of my colleagues, who is a Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioner, if she [...]

The Benefits of Drinking Water2018-01-21T17:17:44-08:00
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