All in Mindfullness
Five years ago today Mr Beer came out of a coma following a widow maker heart attack that left him dead for more than 15 minutes, and the resulting anoxic TBI, entirely his usual snarky (and loving) self, defying all of the odds with what was nothing short of a miracle. (If you haven’t seen me talk about that before, well, it was a lot and the takeaway is, learn CPR. He wouldn’t be here if I didn’t know what to do that night).
You're in the midst of pulling together a meal and low and behold, you realize that the crucial piece of your meal has a few spots of mold on it. Whatever. You just cut around it right? We've all done it at one point or another and figured it's probably fine. But the reality may be a little surprising...
It’s been a week, hasn’t it? We’re feeling tired, worn out, and a bit emotional. So while in some ways self-care has become a bit cliché and a brand unto itself we recognize the virtue of regularly stopping and carving out some time to slow down, reconnect with ourselves, and take some time for renewal.
We’ve found baths to be the perfect, low-cost way to create a little ‘relaxation cave’ and slow the heck down. We don’t need any special equipment, and most of the ingredients we’ve found to create the most lux baths have actually come straight out of our pantry or bathroom closet.
So read on, and we hope you’re inspired to create a little me-time this week. (Oh who are we kidding… Do it today.)
You want, no you need a ‘detox’; you want to eat healthier, feel better and decrease the toxins you are exposed to. Your first step, you might think, is to embark on a clean food regime- an organic, colorful, superfood filled diet. But, hold on there. In order to have a truly clean meal you need to take a look at where your meal is prepared: the kitchen. Does your kitchen support you in your non-toxic living journey? If it doesn’t , your kitchen and the items you use to prepare your meals, could essentially be contaminating your healthy food and exposing you to harmful chemicals. This is why detoxing your kitchen is just as important as detoxing your diet.
Americans have an unhealthy relationship with food. A large share of the burden falls squarely on the shoulders of corporations, but one could argue that we wouldn’t be so susceptible to such influences if we had a healthier, more stable food foundation to begin with.
Most natural deodorants are the pits.
To varying degrees, the consistency is off and sometimes you have to dig them out of little pots and the stuff gets under your fingernails and it’s gross. Some of the fragrances are a little weird; they stop working within minutes, hours, or weeks of use. Most leave a mightily unattractive, oily stain under the arms.
Every single one of Goddess Garden’s sunscreen lotions earns a score of 1 (the safest you can get), from the Environmental Working Group (EWG) — that means the sunscreens are ranked as the top choice for UVA protection, and they’ve been shown to provide a good balance of UVA protection in relation to SPF.
If it’s a vegetable, it’ll biodegrade in the trash, right? Wrong. Due to the anaerobic environment of the modern city dump, it takes an average of 20 years for a single head of lettuce to decompose. That means the salad you throw away now won’t return to the earth until 2038. Babies who are born today will have graduated college by then. There is a better way, even for apartment dwellers: Composting. It’s easier than you think, it won’t take any extra time out of your life, and the scraps you save from the trash will actually make a huge impact on the planet.
Americans recycle about 66 million tons of garbage every year, but more of it is going into landfills than one might expect. This is because more of it goes to China than we realize, and China recently implemented a massive scale back (and, in some cases, an outright ban) on what they’ll accept.
Over the last decade, wellness has taken a turn from associations with being “hippy” and “crunchy” to luxury. How did we get here and is there any value left to be had in wellness now that it’s become so closely associated with wealth?
