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Hellooo, best friends! I’m back! I didn’t post last week because we just got back from our trip to Santa Barbara and mom was devastated. It was one of those moments when I had to ask myself: what can’t I do this week to find my balance? So I had to take a step back from some things, and that has served me well because I’m now recharged and feeling like myself again. 🙂
Let’s get into this week’s 12 things on Tuesday!! We have so much to catch up on! & next week I really want to make a concentrate subject for the 12 things, so let me know again below what topic you’d like it to be about – products, spirituality, motherhood, astrology, being an HSP…?!
12 things Tuesday!
1. First of all, formatting this article gave me an amazing flashback to middle school and even elementary school when I was blogging on AOL discussion boards and giving advice, creating my own fonts , which I was doing backend coding to make my fonts a bunch of different pastel colors , I did the damn thing. It’s amazing to look back and think that there really couldn’t be a more suitable job for me than this. I’ve always loved getting online and found the internet to be such a cool place to do it. The fact that we can reach people all over the world and so immediately?!?! I will never get over it.
2. Speaking of which, did you see the pic I posted to my stories the other day of me in college doing a photo shoot in the mall (in front of a Ben & Jerry’s, no less! 😂) to show you that the blogger life runs deep in my veins?! I would post on my Xanga every weekend my weekend, my thoughts and give advice. It was so much fun. Having a major flashback moment right now and feeling so grateful for this little space on the internet and everyone here in our community. <3 I'm a lucky girl. Here is the picture in question!!!
3. Ok soooo, many of you have been asking about my DUTCH hormone test results. I want to take a deep dive on this, but the bottom line is that my estrogen was extremely high. Like, off the top charts. Which is so wild because I eat so clean, I don’t drink plastic, I’ve been working on my hormones/health for so long…but postpartum life can really do a doozy on our bodies. And that’s definitely the case with mine. So I started taking a supplement called FemGuard + Balance, and it has a bunch of amazing things that help balance hormones like DIM, chasteberry extract, broccoli seed, resveratrol and more. I will update you guys on how it works for me… Hope for the best.
4. The rest of my DUTCH test was pretty much normal, which seems like such a blessing after the long health journey I’ve been on, but I’m also confused because I still have so much inflammation in my my body. I know MCAS is going off the charts right now, hence the funny rashes I have all over my face again. We’re figuring it all out, but sometimes this shit gets really tiring. To anyone else struggling with an autoimmune disease, I see you. <3
5. Yesterday we did a super fun mother and baby photoshoot with an amazing studio photographer and I’m so excited to see the pics. I did everything and got a spray tan, got my hair and makeup done, and Attie had a nice, long 3 hour nap before the shoot, which was just perfect how it worked out. Time flies so fast these days that I just want to bottle it all up, and I really wanted to make sure we captured some extra special shots at this age. 1.5 is the cutest age yet. He listened to photographers so well and we were so natural, my mom and I kept saying he had to be a model!! We’ll see if I can ever convince Jonathan that it’s a good idea. 😉
6. The last few weeks of podcasts have been really special!! Are you listening? We had Kenzie Burke to discuss the topic of friendship ebb and flow (and our own history of friendship ebb and flow), and I loved sharing this topic because I feel like it’s considered very taboo and not talked about enough. We also had a bonus episode with the founders of Fatty15, an amazing C15 supplement created for longevity and discovered working with dolphins in the Navy!! It was fascinating. And then we had my dear friend Samantha Demarkles to discuss single motherhood – she has 3 boys under 6. I highly recommend it. She is incredible.
7. Annnndd Tomorrow EP is with Ainslie MacLeod – the talented psychic and past life psychic who’s been featured on Oprah, Ellen Degeneres, and more! He’s been there forever. Having him was like a dream come true. Who intends to listen? !
8. Jonathan gave me all these adorable Bravo stickers for my Stanley and now every time I look at it I laugh out loud. Highlights are Kathy Hilton saying “who’s hunky dory?” & Vicki Gunvalson screaming about a small family van. The best stickers I’ve ever had. If you understand these references you must tell me below because we are cut from the same cloth if so and I am OBSESSED.
9. I am currently sipping my TBB View it mug, and I just have to say that I feel like these mugs haven’t gotten enough hype. They are a viiiibe and I use mine every day. Perfect gift for a spiritual friend in your life or a coffee lover. Right now I’m drinking my decaf with almond milk and it’s the BEST.
10. My favorite decaf right now is the Canyon Coffee brand. It is by far the best I have tasted and it is not bitter at all. For all my caffeine free mates, you have to check it out!
11. Speaking of hormones, I’m also doing another hormone test right now… Veracity’s saliva test!! You can go to veracityselfcare.com/balanced to get 20% off your hormone test kit and their amazing hormone-friendly skincare. I’m obsessed with this brand right now. Not sponsored, just want to share the love. Doing this and the DUTCH test will give you an incredible base of information to take care of any hormonal imbalance.
12. I’m reading a new fiction book right now that I LOVE. It is happy place by Emily Henry. I wasn’t sure if this was going to be too much beach reading for me, but I really like it and flew through it. Highly recommend.
13. Did you watch TBB podcast on my YouTube?! We released episodes about two weeks after the audio release and it’s a super fun way to engage if you’re more of a videographer!!
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