Baking Soda is Abrasive – True or False
After answering this question in a comment over on my soap alternatives post –> here, I realized that the topic of baking soda abrasivity deserved a post of its own. I have heard so many times that baking soda is abrasive and will cause damage to our tooth enamel. However, have we ever seen proof of this tooth enamel damage? Where are they getting this information about baking soda? The truth about baking soda will …Read More »
What Does the Bible Say about Modesty?
This post is actually a troubleshooting post for my post titled “What Does the Bible Say about Boobs? over at Blissful Moments Doula. You can find that post >here<. I know many ladies will have so many questions about the assertions that I made, but many of those have to do with modesty rather than the Biblical passages on breasts. So I decided I would continue the discussion here on my blog. What Does the Bible …Read More »
Kombucha 101 – Fermented Sweet Tea
If you have found my Kombucha 101 page, you may have heard me talking about the concept of making fermented sweet tea with a SCOBY (Symbiotic Colony of Bacteria and Yeast). Kombucha tends to come up in many of my conversations with my friends, because I am excited about it! Most people do not ferment their beverages anymore. However, for centuries, traditional cultures have fermented their drinks and their food in order to increase the …Read More »
Digital Doula – Finding Pregnancy Support Online
As a woman who serves other women as a doula for fertility, pregnancy, childbirth, and post partum support, I have been able to support women in my local community with their tangible needs. However, many women live far away from where my local businesses exists and still would like doula pregnancy support. In order to meet these needs, I offer digital doula services. What is a Digital Doula? A digital doula is available by e-mail …Read More »
Revolutionary Resolutions – New Years Goals
While much of the time, I have tried to keep Boholistic Mom professional than the average blog and present it more like a website, as I write and share I’m learning how I can’t share with others about real food, bohemian style, natural lifestyle, and holistic faith without getting personal. I can’t really let you know how special this transformation has been in my life without opening up some doors and using a few “me” and …Read More »
Why are my pads a medical device according to the FDA?
Our Common Thread Every woman over the age of 14 has something in common. We all have monthly cycles. Most of us wouldn’t consider it glamorous, but most of us also wouldn’t describe it as a medical problem. Our bodies are not malfunctioning when they begin their cycle each month with a cleansing. We aren’t broken and medically in need of a fix. Or are we? Medical Problem? According to the FDA of the United …Read More »
Companies Who Do and Don’t Ship FPO/APO/DPO
In 2012, my address was an FPO address. I am a Boholistic Mom, but my husband wears a uniform. He serves his country in the United States Navy. I am a military spouse and I am proud to serve my husband as he serves the United States of America. Many military members and military families become stationed overseas while they are a part of the military community. Before we leave our home country to move overseas, we know …Read More »
The Unsettled Mom
Settling. What an interesting word, right? Settling down, to settle, unsettling, or settling up. As American’s we are even familiar with the term “settler”; the American pioneers who settled in the land west of the original colonies. The original German work setle was literally a place to sit, a seat. Yet with all these perfectly adequate definitions of the word settle, we have a definite malaise when we think of someone settling for something. Such …Read More »
No Veggies for Me: Guide to Children and Vegetables
As a health coach for families and mothers, I hear one common problem that appears in most families and at most dinner tables. Aversion to vegetables. “No Mommy!!! I won’t eat my ________!!!” Fill-in-the-blank with your choice of vegetable. It’s always the vegetables, rarely the mashed potatoes, the macaroni and cheese, or the cookie. If it is colorful and vibrant in flavor naturally, an alarm goes of in their little brains with a warning, “WARNING: …Read More »
The Faint Line on the Pregnancy Test
Many times I have brushed this experience off as wishful thinking. Only who would ever wish the pain that I have felt over the years remembering that day? Just a Faint Line I lived in Gulfport, MS at the time. I had a three year old beautiful boy. I had an internship at a wonderful church. I had a husband who went to work and hurried to come home to me each day. It was …Read More »
Decreasing Inches: 5 Focus Points
This June my family moved 3+ states North East. In addition, my youngest son who was our foster son for 21 months went home to be with his family in late May. There has been so much change and I chose not to pay close attention to our diet during this time. I did not add on an extra 20 pounds, but my pants are snug and uncomfortable. In the Spring, I focused on loving my …Read More »
My Real Food Timeline – How It All Started
My Real Food Timeline I started this Boholistic Mom website in 2013 to reach out to my friends, family, and any of those who were interested in real food like I was. Yet my real food timeline and journey started many years before that point. So many people get bogged down and frustrated when they think about all the different changes they could made and maybe should make, but when you realize that life is a process it isn’t …Read More »
Natural Baby Registry Products
Making a baby registry is hard, but making a natural baby registry is harder! Even though our skin is the largest organ of our sweet little baby’s body, companies have filled so many baby products with harmful chemicals and even hormone disruptors. Below is a list of natural baby products that are great to add to your natural baby registry that will keep your sweetie smiling and healthy! Natural Baby Registry for Amazon Care Products …Read More »
Natural Beauty Options: What Do I Use?
Natural Beauty Routine: What Do I Use? Let’s face it. Being holistic and natural about external beauty is difficult. So many products say that they are “organic” and “natural,” but for products that are not being consumed many of these claims are false. False is probably too soft of a word. Really . . . these products straight up lie. Some of them have nothing natural about them, but perhaps they contain a drop …Read More »
Cloth Diapers 101: Prefolds
Cloth Diapers 101: Prefolds Though the world of cloth diapers can seem overwhelming, I’ll try to make my explanation as simple as possible. Tons of information exists about diapering with prefold cloth diapers, but I am going to cover the basics that will help you to get started. Still, I will try not to miss anything helpful! Please post a comment asking questions if I missed something. Keep reading in this post to discover: diaper sites, when to start, which prefold …Read More »
3rd Grade Homeschool Curriculum for 2017
Throughout our time homeschooling, I have met many kinds of homeschooling families. Some mothers in those families hate choosing curriculum avoiding the process as if it were their most fearful nightmare and some mothers swim in curriculum as if they were surfing the waves in Hawaii. I am neither of those mothers. While I do enjoy looking for my curriculum, I do not like looking through ALL of the millions of choices out there. It can …Read More »
Body Odor – Get Rid of BO in 6 Easy Steps
I’m not sure about you, but I hate BO. You know what BO means, right? *whispers quietly* body odor . . . It’s smelly. It makes you feel like you have to keep taking a shower all the time. Whether you are a stinky onion type or an overall yuck kind of gal, we all have one desire . . . to get rid of body odor!!! Enough is enough. Soap doesn’t get rid …Read More »
Squatty Potty Review by Boholistic Mom
Alright, let’s face it ladies. We all do it. While many of us prefer to do our business at home or at least do it in private, we all have to take care of it. Some of us try to hurry our business along by eating a little more fiber or trying a magnesium supplement, but it all comes out in the end. If you haven’t figured out the topic of this post . . . …Read More »
Soap Alternatives that keep you clean
In this day and age, we have come to believe that a magical clean is only achieved with soap. Soap being whatever the store sells as soap. It may not even be soap, but if the store calls it soap then it must clean and we are safe. Safe from the nasty obnoxious germs we all fear. These evil creature must be fought with foaming cleaners (sodium lauryl sulfate), antibacterial cleansers, and if that …Read More »
Fertility Health Check – How healthy are you?
As I have studied and explored the world of fertility health, one thing I have realized is that many women have no idea what factors in their lives could impact their fertility. Many times when we realize that we are having fertility difficulties, we run to the doctor to be officially diagnosed as “infertile.” What if before the two year point, women had the opportunity to take an objective look at their fertility health and begin to intentionally make …Read More »
