Celeste’s Story Part 3: The Healing Process

If you missed parts 1 and 2 of Celeste’s Journey of Adrenal Recovery, you can find them here and here.
So now I was suffering the repercussions of the unfortunate combination of events that led me to this place.  My choice to not go the conventional route in treating this condition was met by incredulous reactions [...]

Celeste’s Story of Adrenal Recovery: Part 2

If you missed Part 1 of Celeste’s Story, you can find it here.
VISIT TO THE DOCTOR
                 After the first month of my disturbing symptoms and in response to my husband’s pleas to see a professional, I went to a women’s wellness clinic 2 1/2 hours away that specialized in hormone balancing.  A blood test revealed [...]

Finding a Holistic Health Practitioner

In my recent post on Fertility, one of my commenters asked about where to fine find a functional, holistic nutritional practitioner.  I quickly realized that the response would be best put into a blog post, since I know many other readers might value this information.  What follows is by no means a comprehensive list, but [...]

Transitioning a Child to a Gluten Free/Sugar Free Diet

Recently I’ve gotten several questions in this regard, so I thought I should share some of the tips that have worked for us in our transition to a gluten free (grain free, really) and sugar free diet.  For our situation, it was really a medical necessity and I had no real choice but to go [...]

Life Update: An Explanation for my Blog Slackerness

I know that keeping and maintaining a blog is such a presumptive venture: it assumes you both have something to say and someone who might actually find your content interesting enough to follow. I hope on some level, I meet those minimal requirements. Yet, the funny thing about blogging is that you kinda have to walk [...]

Success Begins at Home

My original inspiration for becoming Organic & Thrifty was and remains my husband (he especially appreciates the thrifty part). The health issues that he encountered about 7 years ago set me on the journey to health and nutrition that led me to where I am today.  The past several years he hasn’t always bought in [...]

Postpartum Weight Loss with Real Food

A reader recently wrote me to ask for tips on Postpartum weight loss. As I was replying to her, I realized the response had promise as a blog post, knowing that there are probably others out there with the same question!

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Jonathan’s Story: How Real Food Healed My Son

The picture above was taken September 17, 2007 when my son, Jonathan, was 3 months old. It’s hard to believe that the face above is the same face as that of my smiling, chubby, 20 month old. Many people don’t believe me when I show them his early baby pictures. How did this sallow-faced, acid-reflux, [...]

Of Milk and Mason Jars: My Journey to Real Food

For a long time I’ve wanted to write about my journey to “Real Food” or Traditional Nutrition. I’ve hesitated because it seems like a rather long story, and a journey that quite frankly I’m still on. It’s been a pretty amazing journey, spiritually speaking, in that it has empowered me as a woman to realize [...]

Gaps Update

Well, the past 2 weeks have been a total paradigm shift for me and my cooking, but since I posted a few weeks ago that I felt “God was leading us to Gaps” I have felt totally confirmed in that! It’s so hard to believe that I was so blind to what I needed to [...]

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