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You’re in the thick of it– working all day and then coming home to care for your family, running on coffee fumes. You long to have the energy and ability to keep pace with your kiddos. Recently you were told you need to “make some lifestyle changes”. But what does that even mean? Do you have time to learn about how and what changes to make? How complicated is this going to be? So you start with Google and pretty soon your head is spinning from all the info out there.
Well you’re in just the right place.
We are a mother-daughter team, joining forces to help spread our enthusiasm for healthy living! We look at ways to make a healthy vegan lifestyle more accessible and try out new kitchen gadgets that make whole food plant-based eating easier.
Browse recipes, focusing on plant-based cooking that is anything but boring. We hope our website is a good resource for new and experienced plant-based eaters, and those just looking for some new recipes for “Meatless Mondays”! We strive to create a positive space for sharing and collaboration.
So grab a beverage of choice, and get comfortable; we hope you’ll stay a while!
We’ll educate you on the benefits of consistent, healthy habits and empower you to feel your healthiest. And to help you to make the transition more easily than we did so that you can faster experience the perks of this approach. We aim to show you how accessible a healthy vegan diet and healthy lifestyle habits are.
Hello- I’m Sara. A Registered Nurse by day, specializing in Cardiac nursing for the past 13 years.
This has made me all too aware that heart disease is truly a food-based illness. I’ve earned the Plant-Based Nutrition Certification from the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies and eCornell. Meaning, I have an extensive understanding of the health effects which the Standard American Diet has, and the benefits a whole food, plant based diet offers, including reducing risk of many chronic health conditions.
Being an example for my patients is important to me, so they can see it is possible, and easier than they would think to live their happiest life. I want to encourage those who wish to avoid being chronically ill in their golden years to fall in love with healthful habits to prevent this. Hopefully sharing my journey can encourage others to be the healthiest versions of themselves, and pack more life into their years. I invite you all to join us on this journey, and hope you stop by often to our little corner of the internet!
I am Sara’s mother, Patricia. Retired for the most part from the scrum of life outside the home. Last year, I experienced a couple of minor(now) health scares that turned out to be nothing at all. From day to day, I struggle with life with hypothyroidism. And then in the beginning of last year, I had a major setback in my personal war against arthritis.
That combined with changes I was making in my life before any of that started
ultimately led to my decision to go plant-based. I had been mostly vegetarian
for several months and began toying with the idea of becoming fully vegan after
some reading and seeing increasingly more references to this diet in the news,
and tons of tips and recipes online.
When Sara and her husband decided they were going vegan, it seemed like a lightbulb moment. Why not make the change myself, availing myself of the knowledge that Sara had already acquired? Hopefully, it was going to be easier if I had some backup. For me, health is my priority with ethical and environmental concerns sharing second place in my concerns. So far, I have done pretty well, but sometimes there have been circumstances that interfered with my goals. I’m really close, that is what is important.
Have you ever marveled at how quickly time flies past, the seasons melting into each other as they appear and then fade away? Sometimes at the speed of light! Those of us located on the further end of our personal timeline have noticed long ago how the seasons have increased their pace, marching with a rhythm and a certain resolve.
But that’s OK, since we, ourselves share that same resolve, as we travel through the seasons of our own lives. We, too, have our own pace, and hopefully, dance to our own tune along the way.
Looking ahead, are there tweaks to be made in each day? Of course. What changes can we enact that will enhance our health and happiness? And yes, each of us will march to our own personal rhythm and we will have ups and downs. But we are in pursuit of a better us. Mind, body, world.
Please join us as we celebrate the highs, power through the lows, and enjoy each season’s bounty. Have you thought about going vegan yourself or have you done so recently? What were the things you struggled with or perhaps still struggle with? For me, there are certain restrictions diet-wise that can be frustrating.
Plus, there are things I simply do not like or ingredients that seem out of place in a vegan diet. What is it that keeps your eye on the goal? What motivates or inspires you? We want to hear from you, maybe we will have a suggestion or even better perhaps you will have an answer to a question we may have. By which I mean me, since Sara is further ahead in her veganism.
Excited to learn more? Find some inspiration on the blog!
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We help women who are interested in implementing lifestyle changes to improve their health and vitality. We focus on whole food, plant-based nutrition patterns in conjunction with exercise, stress reduction, restorative sleep, and social connection.
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