22Oct

Live Beautiful: The Ins and Outs of Recycling and Composting

It’s all about saving our planet. Unfortunately, our current climate crisis puts us in a situation where we must find a way to reduce the pollutants that fossil fuel companies are releasing into the atmosphere as well as limiting our personal contributions to our landfills. As our population continues to grow, the implication of every individual carbon footprint is impacting the future of our planet. Luckily, we are continually educating ourselves about earth-friendly methods of responsible sustainability where we can adjust our lifestyles and contribute to a more environmentally conscious society. Recycling and composting are great ways we can contribute to the healing and future growth of our planet.

24Sep

What Are You Willing To Do To Save Our Planet?

Today officially starts Autumn, but it feels more like a humid summer. Our planet is warming up at an alarming rate and, the truth is, we can’t just say climate change is happening and leave it at that and not do anything about it and go on with our lives as if it doesn’t affect us. Failing to act to save our planet, even when we believe in climate change, does not make us any different from someone who is denying this fact. At the end of the day, the consequences are the same. Ever since the beginning, our planet has gone through a few climate changes, only that the last time was 7,000 years ago. The current climate change we are experiencing right now is happing at an unprecedented rate, and 95% is as a result of human activities. What are you willing to do to preserve our planet? What steps are you taking to reduce your footprint in our ecosystem? If as mothers, we can’t even answer our children’s questions about why our planet is changing, how are we ever going to face them in the future if we fail to act?

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Evidence reveals that current warming is occurring roughly ten times faster than the average rate of ice-age-recovery warming… Global sea levels rose about 8 inches in the last century. The rate in the last two decades, however, is nearly double that of the previous century and is accelerating slightly every year… source.

23Aug

The Amazon is burning: what we can do

I had a very chic post for today as part as my new series “A Fashionable Life,” but honestly with this international crisis happening in the world, it’s a little silly to talk about anything else. The Amazon produces 20% of our planet’s oxygen, and it’s on fire. On fire! Without any sign of interest from Brazil’s new elected president, Jair Bolsonaro to stop it. The saddest of all is that this is no accident; this burning of the Amazon is set by cattle ranchers and loggers who want to clear and utilize the land for cattle. This horrendous crime to our environment is encouraged by the country’s populist president and backed by a so-called group “beef-caucus.” No CNN didn’t make that up!

What can we do? Stop eating meat or eat less. Brazil is the world’s largest exporter of beef. I really hope that countries that import meat from Brasil ban all beef from Brazil.

Emmanuel Macron
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Our house is burning. Literally. The Amazon rain forest – the lungs which produces 20% of our planet’s oxygen – is on fire. It is an international crisis. Members of the G7 Summit, let’s discuss this emergency first order in two days! #ActForTheAmazon pic.twitter.com/dogOJj9…

NASA
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Smoke from wildfires in the #AmazonRainforest spreads across several Brazilian states in this natural-color image taken by a @NASAEarth instrument on the Suomi NPP satellite. Although it is fire season in Brazil, the number of fires may be record-setting: go.nasa.gov/2zbdf9f pic.twitter.com/4JTcBz9…

Photo via Independent

11Mar

Ways To Protect Your Child From An Abuser

In the wake of the reemerging wave of celebrity child sex abuse allegations, it is difficult as a parent not to be shaken. The people who were the juvenile victims of stars such as R. Kelly and the late Michael Jackson are refusing to stay silent and have bravely been coming forward with their stories. Hoora to Oprah and HBO for giving these two men who allegedly were sexually assaulted by Michael Jackson a platform. It is only human to put yourself in various perspectives of those situations. Questions like, “What would I have done if I were the victim?”, “Could someone have stopped this?”, And eventually “What would I do someone abused my child? How would I even know?” start to come up. While it is impossible to create total protection for your child 100% of the time without isolating them and completely removing them from society altogether, there are things you can do to help prevent abuse in your child’s life and to help keep them from engaging in abusive relationships. Ways to protect your child from an abuser.

ways to protect your child from an abuser

19Feb

Best Nontoxic Nail polish For Better, Healthier You

Traditional nail polish is one of the most toxic beauty products on the market. It is packed full of chemicals that are harmful to breathe and harmful for fingernails. Chemicals like formaldehyde (a known carcinogen), dibutyl phthalate (known to cause reproductive issues), toluene (known to cause dizziness), and many others. These chemicals are especially harmful to pregnant women and children, and quite frankly I wouldn’t want them on my fingernails either. The EPA actually classifies nail polish as hazardous waste! Thankfully there are a variety of nontoxic options available. I put together a list below of some of the best nontoxic nail polishes available.

Nontoxic nail polish

24Jan

5 Books To Read When A Loved One Is Passing

Losing a loved one is soul crushing. We recently lost my mother-in-law to cancer. Her funeral was last Tuesday, and even when we were expecting it, it’s excruciating when it happens. When she was put under hospice care at her home about three months ago, I purchased a couple of books about near-death experiences to find some spiritual comfort. I have always been fascinated by spiritual subjects and have read these types of books since I was a teenager, maybe as an attempt to find answers to something that is so mysterious.

Many, if not all, of the NDE books I’ve read, share many similarities and all point to the source of light and joy and how our souls eventually become one with it. Many who have experienced it say they didn’t want to leave that perfect peaceful state, but they had to return because their time on earth wasn’t complete. The stories are compelling, hopeful and give certainty of life after death and not any life, but one full of joy and light. A perfect state that most of these individuals can’t find the right human words to describe. If you are dealing with a lost of a loved one, give yourself a chance and try reading one of these books below. They may be more comforting than you think.

Category: Wellness

Live Beautiful: The Ins and Outs of Recycling and Composting

What Are You Willing To Do To Save Our Planet?

The Amazon is burning: what we can do

Ways To Protect Your Child From An Abuser

Best Nontoxic Nail polish For Better, Healthier You

5 Books To Read When A Loved One Is Passing

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