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How Air Purifying Plants Help Me Remove Toxins!

I never knew plants could clean the air in my home! As I continue on my nontoxic journey, I am eager to reach another phase of my journey. I am at the point where I am focusing on detoxing the air in my home. Most of us spend most of our time indoors, whether that’s home, school, work or a business. Until recently, I wasn’t aware how polluted our indoor air was. The EPA estimates that indoor air is 2-5x more polluted than outside air! Thank goodness for air purifying plants! Indoor air pollution is due to several particles like mold spores, bacteria[...]

Faith, Lifestyle

2020: Positive Mindset & Intentional Living Goals

Learning to set goals that will actually change your life. With the new year here, most people typically make resolutions/goals centered around weight loss. What they find is that within a month or so they're unable to keep up with it and get discouraged. I think a reason for this is because the goal is to "lose weight", as opposed to deciding to live a healthier life. Hear me out! When you make a decision to live healthier and better, there are a sequence of things you plan to improve and start to do, without necessarily setting numbers and deadlines, tha[...]

Lifestyle, Nontoxic

Why I transitioned to nontoxic products

Transitioning to nontoxic products was an important move for me... While in the process of looking for alternative treatment options for my oldest son who is diagnosed with Autism, I came across articles talking about removing toxins from the body. At the time of that search, I was coming across the terms “clean beauty”, "safer beauty", "nontoxic beauty" etc. This sparked curiosity because I always assumed that our personal care items were safe because they’re on the market. Girl was I wrong!!! There’s basically no regulation when it comes to our p[...]

Lifestyle, Nontoxic

Dirty Dozen & Clean Fifteen: The Safest Fruits & Vegetables

I took a poll in my Instagram stories, and was shocked to learn how many people don’t know about the Dirty Dozen & Clean Fifteen. I used this method to help in buying fruits and vegetables before transitioning to a more natural and non-toxic lifestyle. Unfortunately, buying ALL organic was too expensive for our budget at that time. We have switched to mostly organic now. So, I like to tell people to put the Dirty Dozen/Clean Fifteen into practice if they're not ready yet either. So what is the Dirty Dozen & Clean Fifteen? This is an annual li[...]

Lifestyle

5 Ways to Practice Self Care

5 Ways I Practice Better Self Care Last post I talked about why self care is important. This is something I'm trying to work on continuously, because life constantly throws curve balls our way and it's easy to become stressed and anxious. This post I’ll cover my favorite ways of practicing self care which includes physical, emotional, and spiritual ways. Now there are a number of ways one can do this, but these are the top 5 that are working the best for me consistently right now. They've helped in minimizing my stress and anxiety and will hopefully do the sam[...]