My COVID Experience
Well, it took a full year, but COVID finally caught me. All three of us (my husband, son, and I) woke up feeling sick on Tuesday, March 16. I was suspicious right away that it might be COVID because Matt and I both had that COVID-like cough—dry and unproductive but...
Progress on the journey
Health is a journey. It's a process. Most of us want it and aim for it, but not everyone achieves it. Being well is an ideal. It's a goal. Health is a journey. My journey has had many twists and turns. If you've listened to my story, you already know the beginning of...
Let’s talk about sleep, baby
Insomnia. Ugh! Do you have trouble falling asleep, tossing and turning, feeling like you’ll never fall asleep? Do you feel so tired yet can’t shut your mind off? I used to have that problem…for the first 33 years of my life! That’s a whole lot of years without sleep....
Are you choosing the right kind of beef?
The vegan lifestyle is all the rage these days, but I believe in eating animal products like eggs and meats like chicken, turkey, and beef. Why? Animal products are our only source of naturally-occurring B12 in foods, and B12 is kind of essential to living. You have...
Essential Oils for Aging: 5 Aromatherapy Tips for Older Adults
As we age, things change. We becoming wiser, more grateful and usually develop a greater appreciation for the important things in life. But things happen to our bodies, too. Collagen begins to deplete, our bones and muscles become weaker and we produce fewer brain...
Original Packaging
Remember when you were 18 years old? Ah, to have that body again, right? Over time, it seems that things have caught up to you. Little by little, you bought a bigger pant size and then a bigger pant size until... well, you ended up here. Feeling fat. You look in the...
The Story Behind the Name
When my world was rocked and turned upside down, I started some heavy-duty research on health and wellness. For five years now, I've been reading everything I can find, listening to as many podcasts and summits as I can, and filling my brain with more data than it can...
You Have Options
If you want to make my blood boil, the quickest method is to show me a pharmaceutical commercial of some kind. We all laugh at the absurdity of them. Saturday Night Live parodies them. You know what I'm talking about. Take Lunesta, for example, which is a drug used to...
Compost for Lunch?
As I shared in my last post, we are on a gardening adventure. This adventure has taken me down paths of knowledge that I've never entertained before. One such path is the world of composting. It seems that organic gardening and composting go hand in hand. So off on...
Green Thumb – Part 1
We're going on an adventure. It may not seem very adventurous for some, but for me...it's way out of my comfort zone. This adventure is called gardening. Yep, that's right. We're starting a garden. Let's travel back in time for a moment to see a young Kelly. You'll...