Nutrient Rich Life

Do you feel like you've failed when it comes to feeding your kid optimally for his or her health? Man. I do. My sweet boy has struggled with vomiting since shortly after introducing solid foods. It took us forever to identify food allergies and finally stop the daily puke fest. I have battled a ton of "mom guilt" all along the way. Yes, before conceiving this beautiful child, my husband and I did a gut microbiome restoring diet called GAPS for two years. I did a series of detox therapies to remedy hormonal imbalances, involving fasting and lots of enemas one weekend every month for a year. After this, I started grinding my own flour for sourdough bread and we transitioned to a 95% organic diet where most all of our animal products came exclusively from local sustainable Amish farms. If there was more I could have done to prepare for a healthy child, I would have done it if I had known about it. You may say I am a bit gung ho. At times.   But for whatever reason, and I...

Listen to your body. If I ever write a book it will be about respecting and honoring our bodies as temples of the Holy Spirit. You know how intricate the design of the Jewish Temple is? There were so many details to how it would be laid out and each piece of construction and adornment had purpose and meaning and symbolism. And our bodies are like this too. Certain things happen at certain times and in precise perfection in order to sustain life. This is how our Designer God is. He's so cool. Wow. I'm a female, and I'm 32 years old. So my body is on a cycle every 28 days (ok for me it is more like 32 days, but you get it). I can do the same workout every day, eat the same food every day, sleep the same amount, but the reality is that my body will still be on this cycle. It will behave differently each week of the month. I think we, as women, try to escape this in our post-modern world as if we have control over everything. But why? Why escape what God has pe...