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What is the biggest challenge in pregnancy? The weight gain? The mental games? The issues with body image? While all of those can be issues, they were in mine, it is not the biggest challenge. The biggest challenge for almost any pregnancy boils down to proper nutrition. Yep, that is it. Nutrition.
In the standard American diet (SAD) today, proper nutrition is really difficult to come by. Our food tends to be highly processed and void of key vitamins, minerals, and enzymes. Eating healthy takes on a very intentional lifestyle choice. When you are pregnant, that choice is even more difficult, but more important.
Quick easy to fill carbs are abundant and cheap, but protein, fresh fruits and vegetables are not. During pregnancy, your body needs extra protein. All the cells and DNA your baby is forming, requires amino acids, which comes from protein. Your body needs protein to build your own blood supply as your baby needs more blood. The vitamin and minerals from food are the most readily absorbed form for you to ingest. These are needed to help your body continue to function, stay healthy, and clear debris that builds up in your own system.
Eating a proper diet during pregnancy can also help prevent other complications like preeclampsia, PUPPS, gestational diabetes, and strengthen the uterus, reducing the risk of hemorrhaging. There are many other conditions a proper diet can prevent as well, I just haven't needed to look further yet.
So what can you do? No matter where you are, you can start choosing to eat healthy. I highly recommend sticking as close to a whole food diet as possible. This cuts many of the quick easy, but highly processed meals out. Sorry, Hamburger Helper. But the benefits quickly outweigh the convenience.
What are some good guidelines? The Brewer’s diet is huge and you can look up more on their website here. The simplified version I have made as a quick and easy to print off guide for you. It does come from their website, but saves you trying to print and format it for your fridge. You can get that guide for FREE here.
What diet changes are you making? Are you already following the Brewer’s Diet? How is it going? Let me know!
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What is a belief that grounds you? One that not only defines you, but governs your life decisions? Most of my core beliefs center around God and what He has said, about life.
I’ll share two of those with you. The first is that life is precious. God has a high value of human life. As you read through the Bible you can begin to see how many of the laws He set in place in the Old Testament center around the value of life. Some of these are consequences for ending life, some are consequences for harming another person. But they center around God guiding us on how to love and respect each other.
The second belief, I want to share with you, is one I have come to learn little by little in my own journey. God designed our bodies beautifully. They are intricately woven together and function beautifully. Sometimes things go wrong. We live in a fallen and sinful world. Our perfect design is now flawed by sin. However, God still designed the body to preserve and heal itself, if it is given what it needs.
Sometimes this is eliminating things from your life that are slowly poisoning or disrupting your body. Sometimes it is adding key nutrients in, to let the body rebuild. Sometimes it is using nature to simply rebalance the body, giving it what it needs to clean itself. Sometimes it is specific exercises or movements to help the body do what it is designed to do.
There are many different ways to promote the body and care for it. Most of the time it can be accomplished with things God already gave us in nature. The key, as it was for me, is learning how and what to use. And believe me it is a continuing learning process. That is why digging to the root cause is so important. Have I found all the WHYs? No, but I’m still digging and learning. Because for me, just letting something unnatural or not normal go, is not ok.
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We have all heard about priorities right? Why are they so important?
It goes back to life balance. When our priorities are out of alignment, our focus is on things that are not helping us with our balance, but possibly even contributing to the unbalance. Take some time this week to evaluate your priorities. Do your actions reflect what you say your priorities are?
I have found it is easy for me to say my priorities are first- God, second- family, third- fun, fourth- business. But do my actions actually reflect that order? Am I daily spending time with God? Am I really putting my family before my work in time spent? I challenge you to be honest with yourself here.
Write down your priorities, number them. Then go through your day. Is your time reflecting those priorities? This is very difficult if you are a working parent. I’ve been there and the guilt is real. Give yourself grace. Look at the time at home, what is that showing you? Go through your expenses, what categories do they fall in? Are they lining up with your priorities, or are they off balance?
Going through my day, I don’t always make the quiet time to read and connect to God like I used to. In 2020, I became better at confining work to specific hours, but I still tend to ignore my kids. This year I am scheduling play time with them (I realize I have no idea how to play with them). When we are working around the house, which happens a lot in the summer, am I including them? Or just trying to get the task done?
Fun? That doesn’t happen much, if I’m honest. I tend to put everything else ahead of fun. Is my work done? No, then you can’t do x,y,z. Truth is I need to make time for fun, even if the work isn’t done yet. Fun is part of life balance and if you are withholding fun, you are out of balance.
Where are your priorities lining up.
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The new year is here! What are you envisioning for you this year? What are you wanting to accomplish for your health, finance, family, career, faith, friends, and fun? As the year begins, I challenge you to talk some time this week and take a deep look if you haven’t already. Create in each of those categories.
For me this year I will have more peace in my life and less stress. How am I going to do that? I am going to focus on each of those 7 areas and set goals specific to them. This will bring balance to my life.
Health: First I am going to make time to go on walks and enjoy my horses again. Both of these help with my health and stress levels.
Finance: My husband and I are going to secure ample funding for our business together. We are going to stick to our business financial plan and stick to our personal budget. We are going to invest wisely with new opportunities as well.
Family: I am going to play with my kids more and not work as much. I am going to get back to taking twice the time to complete the task, just so they can help me and learn beside me in the garden.
Career: I am growing my personal side business and sticking to 2 hours of work a day and no more. I am focusing on my people and serving them in my work.
Faith: I am making Bible study a priority again. Not just listening to the word, but actually reading it.
Friends: I am taking more girls nights and more play dates in 2021.
Fun: I am committing to more fun, by scheduling date nights, and fun getaways, with the whole family.
By balancing life areas, you are able to have peace and reduce stress. Everything really wants balance, but it requires work to get there. Sometimes you just need a little direction on where to start.
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Prevent vs React, sounds strange. How about offence vs defense? Sounds more familiar? What does this have to do with your health? Turns out a lot. Our bodies and nature are in constant motion. Laws of nature dictate that energy is required to maintain order. If you let nature happen, without inputting any energy, life or your body will decay.
If you think about it in sports terms, is it easier to be on the offense side, commanding the game, or on the defense side, working to get to the offense? The offense of course! So why do we not do this with our own health? Perhaps because you do not know where to start. Let me help you! Take charge of your health, move your life to thriving, and decrease illness. Build your body up.
Step one in building your body up is to feed your body well. If you give your body what it needs, most of the time it is very good at healing and defending itself. Make sure you are consuming the proper amount of vitamins and minerals (this includes the trace minerals). Many people are actually deficient in many trace minerals, even in wealthy countries. Our processed food is lacking in many of these trace minerals, and the vitamins are also lacking. Our store bought food is also lacking enzymes it naturally has fresh that help our bodies break food down for better digestion. Unless you are eating it straight out of the garden. Enzymes are very fragile and easily destroyed. It Is well worth investing in an enzyme supplement and vitamin/mineral supplement. If you need help finding an effective supplement message me, I’d be glad to help you. I talked more about food earlier in You are What you Eat.
Step two, decrease your sugar! I have talked about this one a lot. I will also be the first to admit I need to decrease my sugar intake. I am good at minimizing my kid’s sugar intake, but my own? HA! After they go to sleep, I take my peanut butter, and some vanilla, a heaping scoop of sugar, and maybe a handful of chocolate chips and enjoy my mini-flourless helping of cookie dough. In all seriousness though, sugar fights the immune system and increases inflammation in the body.
Step three, use nature to aid your body when needed. Herbal teas and blends do wonders for the body when it needs the extra boost. This is especially easy if you like hot teas. Plus a hot tea, with a little honey when you feel ill, is extremely soothing.
Step four, piggy-backs off step three. If you are not a big tea drinker, you can use essential oils. I apply these daily to myself and my kids. CAUTION you must know your source to ensure they are truly pure and have the correct properties and are the correct frequency to give the desired results. Again, contact me if you would like some help here. Essential oils are much like herbs, except much more concentrated. This means you need less to do the same job as the herbs would do. I have an entire group to help you learn how to use essential oils and how to dilute for SAFE use with children.
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One of the jobs of being a parent is to train and prepare your children for their future. There are hundreds of books out there on bring up children and each has a little different take on what is best. The truth is ever y kid is different, even siblings. You must do what works best for each child.
I personally want my children to grow up to be willingly helpful. To see a need and meet it. One of the ways I encourage them to help is by letting them. Yes the job will take at least 2x as long, but in the end they will be able to do it themselves someday, without prompting.
Please hear me here. I am not perfect and have my fair share of just let me do it, and we don’t have time. But when I stop my hustle I remember they are wanting to help, and deep down I want them to help now and in the future. When I slow down and enjoy their help, they want to help more. I want my kids to see our life on the farm as one they were included in, one they dream of coming back to. Besides, as I grow older, I’m going to want someone else to care for my critters when it’s cold (hehe).
In all honesty though I had a very good reminder of this a few weeks back. We had been on the go most of the day and were finally home and both kids wanted to help with supper. All I wanted was peace and the kitchen to myself. The oldest was determined she was going to help (God bless her determination). She went to the dining room and a brought a chair back, since I was not getting the step stool out for her. She and her brother proceeded to stand at the kitchen sink. It took me a while to figure out what was going on. I thought they were just playing in the sink with the water. I finally realized what was going on when I saw the dish soap moving. They were washing the dishes. Over and over. There wasn’t much in the sink to wash, but she was so proud. She even soaked the coffee cups to get the stains out! You should have seen her beam when I thanked her with a hug and praised her.
This particular event reminded me of three things. Number one, they are always watching. I had never actually taught her to wash dishes. She had stood next to me and rinsed before, but I had always washed.
The second, was how happy kids are to help and serve. It had been a busy few weeeks and I honestly had just been dragging the kids along most of the time, just trying to get through the day. My kids needed me to slow down and engage them.
Third, my kids are capable of way more than I often think they are. My oldest does this to me a lot. She decides she’s going to help and she exceeds my expectations. Occasionally I’ll give her a task that I know will be difficult for her, not to be mean, but to help her grow. She has learned to ask for help when she needs it, and we work together to finish the task. It’s moments like this that I remember how much she rises to my expectations. If I set the bar low she doesn’t stretch or grow.
The youngest is quickly following his sister, determined to keep up and do whatever she is doing. He insists he can help dip up feed, nd hold the bottles. He tries to catch chickens lik his sister and leads the horses (with mom or sis holding the other end).
Kids rise to the standard you, as the adult, set. Set the bar reasonable and teach them the thrill of reaching the bar and exceeding it. The joy of accomplishing something they thought they couldn’t. And when they come short, help them get up and go again. That it is ok to find ways that a task didn’t work well. This helps them build resilience and grit. Both of these will help them immensely in the future.
Go raise up strong resilient adults. After all the kids of today are tomorrow’s adults.
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I grew up loving animals, kittens, then dogs, then sheep, then horse. But really all animals! Once when I was in elementary, my family was eating at a restaurant with beautifully stuffed wild animals. I ordered spaghetti, it was familiar and I liked it. But the longer I sat there, the more the animals got to me. We moved outside to eat our food, because I couldn’t eat my spaghetti, because the sauce looked like blood to me. Silly, I know, but made complete sense in my elementary age mind. Don’t get me wrong, I have always loved meat. But if there is hid and or head on the meat, forget it. I’m out.
Anyway...I am now raising a mini-me. She loves all her animals and forces them to like her as only a 3 year old can. She loves her cats and hauls them around everywhere, if they let her catch them. The dogs are her favorite playmates most days, and has trained Duke to help her dig wherever she desires. Cinch just tattles on them when they leave the boundary. She has her chickens she needs to catch every day to love, even when they don’t want to be caught. According to her she was sad after the last bottle calves left, so her dad got her another one and she is 3 so she has 3 calves. Really they were orphans, from young cows who didn’t have milk for them. She has also stolen my horse and will tell you outright that she did. She also has her very own ewe now thanks to her Grandpa letting her keep the bottle lamb she helped raise.
The beauty of this is she is learning at a very young age the love and respect for animals. She understands the cycle of life, and that you don’t always save them all, no matter how hard you try. She loves deeply and has learned responsibility for taking care of her animals. Last week she found a fuzzy caterpillar that she wanted to bring inside. She found a jar for it, leaves for it to eat, sticks to climb on, and asked me to put water in the jar. She knows all animals need food, water, and shelter.
Pets are great for kids to learn responsibility, my kids are privileged to have many pets and animals to learn responsibility from. It is also a great way to learn the cycle of life. If you have the means, I highly encourage you to get a pet, even a fish. The joy of watching kids with their pets is the best therapy ever.
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We’ve all heard the phrase ‘find your tribe’, but what does it actually mean? Is it really that important? It means finding the people who understand you, the people you can be real and raw with, the people who support you and lift you up. Yes it is that important for you to find your tribe. Why? Simple answer support. Let me share a story with you, then I’ll give you some tips on finding your tribe.
There was a church with several young new couples who had started to attend. One of those couples decided they wanted to get to know the other couples better and maybe start a small group study. Five couples began meeting, at first for game night, then bible study. It took about a year of meeting together, but those couples began to be comfortable enough with each other, they could be vulnerable. What that group didn’t realize in the winter of 2015, was how much they would need each other in the following year.
After one tearful night when hearts were laid open over the topic of pregnancy and the frustrations with people asking “WHEN”? Those women bonded. In the course of the next year, each of those couples would have a child, there would be 3 miscarriages, and one very scary NICU stay. After each of those miscarriages, those women leaned into each other, prayed with each other, supported each other, loved each other, and kept pointing them back. They celebrated with each pregnancy and birth. They cared for and prayed hard and visited during that NICU stay.
Those families grew even closer, during that time. Without those women in my life I would have crumbled that year and the year following. The years 2016/2017 proved to be some of the most emotionally difficult years for me to date. Did I grow? Oh yes! But not without the help of those women who have become my tribe. We still lean on each other, pray for each other, fight FOR each other, love each other, and do life together. 2020 has not been an easy year for any of us either.
So how do you find your tribe? First get out there and meet people! Find groups with similar interests and get to know the people in them. Facebook is an excellent place to meet people with similar interests. Just search Facebook for a hobby or interest. I have a group for women working towards internal healing, called Empowered Healing Women. Once you find people you understand and they understand you, continue to meet with them, start doing life with them. Pray for each other, ask how each other is doing. Finally, do not hide. Be vulnerable. Ask the hard questions, and answer them too!
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Growing up, harvest is one of my favorite times of year. Didn’t matter the kind, I loved it! I would time my week long sewing trip to Colorado, so I would be there at the same time as the wheat harvest. Fall in Nebraska meant corn harvest and Nebraska football games. I loved those rides sitting on the bucket in the old red Massy combine with Grandpa, or later on the new green JohnDeere tractor with Great Grandpa. I don’t remember much of those conversations, but I’m sure my Grandpa does. What I do remember was the fun of just being with them during the harvest.
Now as an adult, I have come to cherish those memories. I cherish every moment I have with my family. As I have grown older, I have started to watch my grandparents age. What seemed impossible in my young mind, Grandma and Grandpa won’t grow old, I’m beginning to see as an adult. Time takes its toll on everything.
My children are blessed to be raised on the farm. They now are making their own memories in the harvest field. From the combine rides, to grain cart rides, to rides in the trucks. I am pretty sure the oldest believes she can drive the trucks and grain cart, and will tell you if you are not doing it correctly. She has an opinion, and will tell you where she is riding, which could change round to round. But the Grandpa’s all love it, completely entertained with her conversation, and drop her off or switch her to wherever she wants to ride next. The youngest is bound and determined to push every button or lever possible and thinks he can steer and open the traps.
Both of them have learned to entertain themselves quite well. They are also learning safety and perfecting the listening skills, like why ear muffs are important. But they aren’t going to remember the lessons they have learned, or probably even the conversations. They are going to remember how they felt. They will remember the playing in the corn pile that was spilled. They will remember how they felt loved and included. How their presence and time were enjoyed. For me I’m using this time to slow down. Enjoy the time with each of my Grandparents and watch my kids with them. You had better believe I am taking pictures.
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Having a medical provider that matches your lifestyle and goals is imperative for a good long term relationship. Do you expect to live at their office? NO, but having an understanding with your provider on what you expect and your preferred choices will make the times when you need to see them (like with ill children) so much easier.
#1 Remember you are paying them. They work for you. They may be a professional, but it is called medical practice for a reason. The field is ever changing as new information is discovered. Some providers keep up on this way more than others. If what you are told doesn’t sit quite right, get another opinion.
#2 Do not walk into the office expecting a fight or disagreement over something. Expecting to be at odds makes everyone tense, and means you should really find someone else. If everyone is tense, no one is doing their best.
#3 Interview! Remember the ‘they work for you’? If you were to have someone to life coach you, you would interview them, right? Why do we not do this with our medical providers! It is totally ok to shop around! Come up with a list of questions and ask them all. Write the answers down and then compare away from the offices. I did this when I was pregnant with my second. Made a huge difference in the overall pregnancy and birth.
#4 Research. Yep I said it. Go to google. BUT select your sources wisely and find creditable sources for all sides. If I’m digging deep into research pick scholar.google. You get scientific journal resources, not a random sight. Look at the entire picture, not just pick lines out of the articles. Doctors cannot keep up with everything. Even if you agree with your provider sometimes it is good to ask questions.
#5 Compare different professionals. There is more than just modern medicine. There are chiropractors, massage therapists, naturopaths, homeopathic, or alternative medicine as well. Depending on what you are dealing, and your personal choices, with which provider might be best.
#6 Listen and ask questions. Never stop learning, never stop advocating. If your provider says something that contradicts what they said earlier, ASK about it. If they say something that you don’t agree with ASK about it, politely of course. Just ask for more clarification. Open the door for discussion and education.
Now you are ready to make the best of your provider relationships and find the one that is right for you.
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