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Good morning ✨🍳 The first topic I want to div

Good morning ✨🍳
The first topic I want to dive into is something that has grown increasingly important to me in the last year. Estrogen dominance is one of the most common hormone imbalances of our time. Estrogen and progesterone work in a specific ratio, so estrogen dominance can be due to low progesterone, elevated estrogen, or a combination of both.
The most common cause is elevated estrogen due to chemical exposures called xenoestrogens. (zee·no·eh·struh·jnz) Xenoestrogens are stored in fat tissue, and can remain there for up to 10 years. Xenoestrogens are endocrine disruptors that mimic estrogen in the body. The body cannot naturally detox xenoestrogens efficiently because they travel under the guise of a regular guest rather than an intruder. To date, we know of at least 70,000 chemicals that are xenoestrogens.
🙅🏻‍♀️ Common Sources of Xenoestrogens
😾 Chlorine in tampons, toilet paper and coffee filters.
😾 Plastic wrap.
😾 Plastic lining in canned goods. (BPA-free cans and bottles are not proven to be any safer, BPS, BPB, BPF are just as dangerous)
😾 Plastic water bottles.
😾 Skincare products, ex: phthalates, “fragrance”, parabens (Ethylparaben, Butylparaben, Methylparaben), Triclosan, Triclocarban.
😾 Nail polish: formaldehyde, toluene, and dibutyl phthalate (DBP). These chemicals are known as the "Toxic Trio"
😾 Building Supplies
😾 Pesticides
😾 Teflon or other non-stick cookware (Re: Documentary, The Devil We Know)
If you haven’t started detoxing your home, this list can look overwhelming. It took me years to remove all of the chemicals from my cleaning supplies and beauty products. The trick is to go through it one item at a time. The next time you run out of XYZ product, look into a green alternative instead of trying to overhaul your entire house at once. On my next instagram post I will recommend non-toxic alternatives for the products listed in the image.
#estrogendominance #hormonehealth #allgenders #xenoestrogens #nontoxicbeauty

I don’t need to explain to anyone how difficult

I don’t need to explain to anyone how difficult the last year+ has been. Somewhere along the way I lost my drive to get out of bed, shower, brush my hair, sometimes cook. 🥱🛌
I kicked my nutrition business to the side trying to chase this elusive financial stability. 💸 But worst of all, I stopped creating. I was an artist long before I was the face of a company. Consuming content was beginning to make me feel nauseous every time I looked at a screen so I made space between myself and the constant conversation distracting me from the reality that I have not seen my family or been home in 2 years. I connected to my roots, I learned our traditions and regained an appreciation and gratitude for life. I understood that I was never really alone when I felt all the generations that came before me cheering me on. For them, I want to leave my waking life every day a little bit better than the day before. Helping people with their health and creating content that teaches people about their health in an accessible way is a passion of mine. Head to my updated website (thank you @mammothstock) and join my email list. I have written loads of content about holistic health and recipes that will be sent to everyone on that list. Don’t worry, I’ll still be on the gram, but the emails are more detailed. Also check out the new services page 😏. Coming sooooon.
🥂 Cheers to all my friends that have always been there, learning with me all along.

Gratitude journaling became a staple in my routine

Gratitude journaling became a staple in my routine last year and I think the main reason it never “worked” until last year was that I was doing it wrong.
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I bought a gratitude journal a few years ago and after about a week I found it to be very repetitive. I mean, how many times can you be grateful for your friends and family? I had to look around the room and be like, “uhhh grateful that my apartment is west facing?” 😅 I definitely wasn’t getting it. 😂
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The right way:
BE SPECIFIC & THINK VERY RECENT
Be grateful for individual moments that spark joy. Think of a moment in the last 24 hours that made you smile. Grateful that you see a spruce tree out your window wiggling in the wind, grateful that your partner made breakfast, grateful that your coworker was cracking jokes at work and it was fun, grateful for your brief conversation with the cashier at the grocery store. Once I started being grateful for specific & recent moments, there were actually too many things to be grateful for! I couldn’t fit them into the 3 slots and I never repeated any of them.
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Shy away from being grateful for materialistic things. Being grateful for having the latest (insert thing here) is counter productive because it’s an ephemeral type of joy that leaves you wanting more. Try to be grateful outside of the realm of capitalism, if that makes sense? Nature and community are truly an endless bounty to tap into.
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This has benefited me immensely (YUGE). I get into a funk some days, especially in 2020. I woke up on the wrong side of the bed probably a hundred times, but I would go write my gratitude list and my mood would be completely reconfigured. Back to stock. 🚗 It changed my mood so easily that I started to crave it every time I accidentally fell into a hole while reading the news.
Exercise:
Write down 3 moments, right now, that happened today that you appreciated that may have otherwise been overlooked. Let me know how you feel. 😊💗
(Grateful for that time we pulled over on highway 16 and threw the canoe onto the lake, we snacked on cattail stems and played with pond lillies) ☀️🌊🌱 📷 @mammothstock

A gentle reminder that politics won’t matter whe

A gentle reminder that politics won’t matter when our planet becomes uninhabitable.
1. Keep buying canadian products, local food, supporting local farmers.
2. Keep reusing jars and containers.
3. Keep dismantling white supremacy.
4. Keep taking care of yourself, mind body and spirit.
5. Don’t let the news ruin your joie de vivre. It is an honour to live on this planet in this incarnation and remember to treat it as so. Earth deserves your gratitude more than your sorrow.
#learning #permaculture #shoplocal #recycle #reuse #upcycle #drinkwater #eatveggies #begrateful #sustainable #andsober 😎

Vegan Raw-ish Pumpkin Cheezecake 🎃 Glad I fina

Vegan Raw-ish Pumpkin Cheezecake 🎃
Glad I finally got some time to have a little bit of fun in the kitchen last night with Brett. I just want to quickly say holy shit. I did not think my kombucha would be such a hit 😂 My lack of confidence kept telling me that people are going to think sober-curiosity is stupid and that I’m being overly sensitive about the cause, I know, it’s silly. But I am totally overwhelmed right now and not sure where to go from here which is why I haven’t been posting or sharing as often.
🎃 Back to the pumpkin talk. I found a vegan pumpkin cheezecake recipe on Pinterest, couldn’t afford half of the ridiculous ingredients, subbed out a bunch of stuff, took out a bunch of sugar and added calendula flowers and now the recipe resembles the original in no way, and I did not write anything down so you can just imagine what it tastes like. 😂 Part of the reason I stopped food blogging on @loveofmangoes was because I hated writing down recipes so so so much and it felt dumb to continue doing something that brings me no joy every day. I much rather put a bunch of stuff in a blender and somehow it always tastes good and can never be replicated. 😅😂 This recipe is almost entirely raw except that I obviously had to roast the pumpkin. The filling is pumpkin, coconut cream, cashews, lemon and spices. The shell is walnuts and dates smushed together to make a raw crust. I didn’t make it myself though, my boyfriend is my sous-chef and is always right behind me asking what I need next and it makes cooking together so fun and easy! And then we get pie!
Happy Saturday 💗🌸

Me, immortalizing nature every chance I get. 😂

Me, immortalizing nature every chance I get. 😂 Sometimes I purposely don’t take a picture because I want to be the only one to enjoy it, but most of the time I want everyone to see it the way I saw it.
Who else is in awe of nature every time they go outside? I find since I started getting into making teas and learning so much about local plant species, going for a stroll feels like hanging out with thousands of friends, and we’re all at music festival together just vibin’.
This pic was a few weeks ago, and it currently feels like -1 in Prince George 😂 so we are bundling up and heading deep into the yard to harvest some chaga. We have to get through a huge patch of devils club to get to the birch trees so this will be fun. You harvest chaga in fall/winter when the trees have lost their leaves, because the energy of the tree is no longer being taken up by the leaves and starts to move back down toward to roots. Perfect time for collecting no more than 30% of the chaga from any given chunk. You chop down vertically and leave enough that it will still protect the tree and grow back next year. #yum #merrychristmas

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