Eat Your Seasons

It's being said that February is the worst month in the whole year for seasonal depression, lack of motivation, and self-confidence. Makes sense, considering most people abandon their resolutions by February 1st and usually get pretty self-loathing afterward. And for those who don’t subscribe to resolutions, we still can’t escape the winter funk either because somehow winter has lasted 87 mon...

Whether you're dealing with the winter blues, spring sads, summer bummers, or fall frustrations- this episode is here to help!  There are a plethora of foods and snacks we can intentionally mix into our existing diets that can help boost our moods and fuel positive activities and feelings to keep us a little perkier as we trudge through the thick of winter. Because while the days may technica...

In this episode, we are digging into the root causes of our overwhelm and how to diagnose your reasons for feeling overwhelmed, stressed out, and loaded down.   Research shows that a good chunk- and in some cases the majority of our stress and overwhelm is self-inflicted. Whether it be the product of perspective, poor boundaries, or perfectionism- a lot of it can be avoided with the proper plan in...

It’s so easy to set intentions for the year and feel like this will be “your year!” and you’re going to make all of these lifestyle changes and be a totally different person at the end of this year. While I don’t subscribe to huge lifestyle overhauls and trying to completely change who you are as a human, I absolutely love small actions to improve the person you are, and the life you have.  In thi...

Have you ever felt like your life is happening TO you and not with you? Like even when you’re feeling good and happy, they are muted down, duller versions of what you want to be feeling? Like those around you are enjoying your life more than you are? In this episode I share my own struggles with feeling like I wasn’t in control of anything in my life and how I was able to overcome those feelings a...

 It can be tough to drown out the noise and get quiet with ourselves long enough to recover from the socializing, spending, and sacrificing that we tend to do this time of year, let alone finding the time to make the most of winter and enjoy this season.  In this episode, I am sharing some of my own personal strategies for keeping seasonal depression, as well as cabin fever at bay in hopes that yo...

A couple of years ago I was stuck in a vicious cycle of overwhelm, constant guilt, and discontentment with myself. I needed to make a change that would allow me more simplicity, peace, and joy in the life I already had. I started allowing my productivity, recreation, and expectations for myself to ebb and flow with the seasons and gave myself the permission and grace to slow down.  Today we are go...

This one is for my science-loving, earth-conscious girlies.  In this episode I am diving into how we can all be more intentional and conscious about our carbon footprints by carefully selecting and utilizing the food that we’re eating. I share so many different ways that seasonal eating can help simplify your life, as well as ways it can make you feel happier, more fulfilled, and productive- but t...

If you’re looking to take a deeper dive into sustainable lifestyle shifts that could really help you cut the chaos and prioritize simple, slow, and stress-free; this episode is for you. In today’s episode I will be covering 6 ways that seasonal living has helped me live a simpler, less stressed life as a busy working mom.  You don't have to subscribe to minimalism or homesteading to implement...

In this episode I am taking you through SIMPLE ways you can make the regular shmegular fruits and veggies you are already eating every single day super cool and exciting! While I totally appreciate the health benefits and nutritional value of produce, (again- especially from a seasonal approach) I don’t actually love them because they’re good for me. I love them because they’re so diverse- just li...

sunshine or curled up by a fire with your favorite? Maybe seasonal living is for you! Our bodies are as brilliantly and divinely designed as the Earth is, and in honoring the Earth’s seasons, we can also honor our own.  In this episode we are exploring the concept of seasonal living and how our experiences as cyclical beings can help us to create a lifestyle that makes us happier with less, and he...

When it comes to your inner dialogue and the way you are thinking and speaking: how kind are you being to your food and too yourself? The thing about toxic speech around food is that it’s never about the food itself. It’s not even about us EATING the food.  It’s about how we have been conditioned to see “good” food and “bad” food, and “healthy” behaviors as well as unhealthy ones. In this episode...

This episode is for my parent friends. You know how they say it takes a village to raise a family? Sometimes that village is a little bit more quiet and distant than we wish it would be, and with life looking SO dang different now than it did when we were growing up, our parenting methods have had to change significantly from what our parents practiced when we were young.  In this episode, I am sh...

Did you know that including just a few seasonal ingredients a week will make a huge difference in how you feel? You’ll be shocked to see how much you eat seasonally already without even trying! With the changing of the seasons our habits and tastes change, and nature often influences our choices so much more than we realize.  In this episode we are diving head first into exactly WHAT seasonal eati...

There is so much shame around food and eating. Food is a gift and it’s meant to not only nourish our bodies- which are also gifts- but give us energy to do the things that we need and want to do. There are all of these food-related buzz words that create so much grief and turmoil inside of us like “clean” “whole” “processed” “organic” “real” “junk” “healthy” “good” “bad”. If these terms are creati...