Did you know it’s possible to accidentally lose 50 pounds? I did. My family and I dieted for years and it never worked, at least not for long. We experienced that wretched dieting yo-yo effect in which we regained more than we lost. We would get so hopeful and motivated, then when we ended […]
Healthy Hedonism Carrot Cake (or Cupcakes) with Faux “Cream Cheese” Icing
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 […]
Part 1: Healthy Hedonism on the Road: Food Tips for Your Trips
We will get you your inspired healthy hedonism food tips for your trips, but first things first. What the heck do we mean by “healthy hedonism”? Skya defined it beautifully in our last post, “What is healthy hedonism?” Basically, it’s the antidote to the popular lie that we have to give up pleasure to be healthy. […]
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 […]
Part 2: Is Social Pressure Keeping You Sick? How to Work, Play and up Your Food Game In an Age of Chronic Illness
Do you feel like you have to choose between having a social life and having your health? You don’t. You can have it all! Let’s be real. We are social creatures. It’s in our DNA to want to share food and food culture with each other. However, what happens when whole societies’ ways of eating are […]
“Natural” Part 2: Navigating Marketing Tricks That Rob Nature of Its Meaning
First of all, we think it’s unnatural to have to think so hard about what’s natural. Geez… When we started our healing journey, we didn’t know each other yet, but we each saw an undeniable pattern in which the more raw materials from the earth were processed—the more they were manipulated genetically and in a […]