Learn how to modify a recipe to reproduce this amazing dessert! Traci here! It was my birthday last month. My dear friend and fellow healhty hedonist, Nicole Holley (aka The Conscious Cake Queen) asked me if I wanted one of her cakes for my birthday. Is that even a question? Of course I wanted a Nicole […]
Podcast: The Myths of Aging Workshop Preview
Our culture has a lot of confusion around aging and the treatment of elders. We shame aging and our taught our value diminishes with age (unlike many cultures). At the same time, so many of us live a lifestyle that accelerates metabolic/ cellular aging (which makes us feel “old” at a relatively young age) […]
Coconut Whipped Cream: You won’t believe it’s not dairy!
Are you looking for a literal spoonful of paradise experience? Then, dip a spoon into some of this! I was sitting down to serve it at Thanksgiving one year, I saw my friend taste it, then overheard him telling his girlfriend not to eat it since she had a dairy sensitivity. I told him that […]
What is Healthy Hedonism?
Traci and I have been considering dropping, or at least reframing, words like health and wellness from the vocabulary we use to describe what we’re all about. In our experience, people often associate these words with renunciation of worldly pleasures, extreme diets (often vegan) and a whole lot of hard work and self-restraint. This attitude […]
Oat Flour Pancakes: Gluten Free Gluttony
Personally, we love this recipe just for the taste of it! However, it is very adaptable for people with special dietary requirements, such as gluten free and casein/ lactose free (see note about oats below). What’s more, this recipe is super yummy with no sugar. The carbohydrates are balanced with protein from the eggs and […]
Is Social Pressure Keeping You Sick? One Woman’s Journey out of Chronic Illness
Welcome to our third podcast! Can you think of moments in your life when you were struggling with your health and happiness? Did you notice situations where concerns about fitting in or societal expectations got in the way of you making the right decisions that will really help you heal? If we’re honest, we all […]
Throw out old ideas about exercise, and get into the groove when you move!
Redefining Fitness Most people who know me are aware that at the peak of my swimming career, I was diagnosed with an “incurable” autoimmune disease of the liver called Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis (PSC). If you’ve ever read up on that one, you know the prognosis ain’t pretty. I was able to heal myself by radically […]