Carrie Saum

Nothing says fall to me like a pumpkin treat, and I love the combination of cloud-like cookies and frosting. It’s like an Oreo and a birthday cake had a baby during pumpkin spice season and created a true joy of autumnal desserts.

This is by no means a comprehensive list of internalized toxic beliefs, but it’s a start. Keep fighting the good fight, friends.

We are tired and hurting and don't know what else to do.

Many years ago, I became pretty alarmist about all of the chemicals I was coming into contact with on a daily basis.

Recipe Notice: These are tricky.

Can we talk about self-care for a hot minute?

I kind of hate it.

When I have difficult life decisions or conflict with people who are close to me, I now have the working understanding of what peace truly looks like for me. It looks like freedom to be fully who I am.

Almond butter blondies are an easy and delicious (and easy) breakfast treat.

Okay, so the world feels like it’s ending. I know it does because I have facebook and I read the news and I’m on this planet.

I also kind of feel like whatever I do eventually put in my body needs to be quality and filling and full of nutritious goodness. This is hard on mornings when it literally feels like all I can do to make toast. Sometimes I look at it, contemplate it fresh out of the toaster and briefly wonder if I really need to spread the almond butter on it. Because effort.