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As I sit here past noon and still in my pajamas, so incredibly sad for the future of our country, I struggle to find something to say to inspire you to be more healthy in body, mind and spirit. This particular struggle is about the spirit part of the equation. Eat your greens and take […]
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I’m super excited to be interviewed next week on the Gratitude Café Radio Show with Sue Lundquist (1150AM KKNW on Tuesday, November 15th at 8:00am). Tune in and listen! I’ll be giving away a copy of my book! Gratitude was a big focus of my cancer healing journey and I’m excited to talk with Sue […]
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I got to go to an event last weekend at a fabulous home in my area on the edge of a forest with an expansive view of the Puget Sound, hosted by a local CSA called Snoqualmie Valley Farmer’s Cooperative, aimed at boosting their enrollment. Since our previous CSA farm has stopped offering weekly vegetables, […]
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I’m a big fan of kale. I use it in my daily smoothies to create instant super nutrition and in the evenings for hearty salads. Dark leafy greens are nutritionally very high in calcium, magnesium, iron, potassium, phosphorous, zinc and vitamins A, C, E and K. They also are crammed with fiber, folic acid, chlorophyll […]
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One Halloween, BC (before cancer) but AD (after dairy allergy diagnosis) I decided to throw caution to the dairy allergy wind and eat one of my daughter’s bite-sized Halloween Snickers candies that she had collected trick or treating. I used to like Snickers so I popped it in my mouth, bit down and immediately felt […]
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Only going back a year to bring this post on the Lymph System up to the front. But when I got a call from a friend of a friend who unfortunately has cancer in her lymph nodes, I thought this post might be good to revisit. It is so important to keep your Lymph System […]
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Did you know October is National Apple Month? We have a little orchard of 10 espaliered organic apple trees with a variety chosen by my wish-I-was-a-farmer husband. He likes tart apples so most of the trees he’s planted are “pie apples” and too tart to eat. Only a few are tart/sweet and are good for eating. […]
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With my birthday this week, I am reminded of a question that I get asked fairly frequently from health coaching clients and friends alike: “Laren, do you eat dessert?” You may be surprised to know that yes. Yes, I do. Albeit rarely. If you’ve read my book or my blogs or my Facebook posts, you know […]
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For Flashback Friday, bringing up to the front an old post from 2012. I thought with October upon us, and pumpkin spice everything, the canned pumpkin will start hitting the grocery store shelves soon if it hasn’t already. Here’s how to easily make your own from little pie pumpkins if you have a food processor. […]
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So I’m kind of a Trader Joe’s addict, I shop there almost exclusively. Seriously, 75% of our food comes from there. The other 25% is Costco and our co-op which has the best local organic produce. I created this recipe one evening as I wandered the aisles desperately looking for an idea for dinner. It came from […]
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