Tag: holidays

• It’s the Holidays: Survive, Thrive, and Remember What Counts

  What are the holidays are meant to be: relaxing, celebratory, inclusive, social (but not stereotypical – families are made up of all different kinds of groups and people), generous, full of gratitude, delicious, joyful, cozy, and fun! What the holidays aren’t meant to be: stressful, expensive, a wallop to your digestive system, annoying, full of old anger-inducing…

  Emily Joldersma RHN

  December 24, 2014

  Self-Love, Uncategorized

  Aunt Doris, being present, christmas, gratitude, holidays, making the most of the holiday season, simple living, survive and thrive, vitality, winter

• 23 Delicious and Indulgent Clean Eating Dessert Recipes for the Holiday Season

  If you are anything like me, you spend a good deal of time in December planning what to bake (or non-bake, for my raw friends) for the holiday season. You want recipes that are straightforward, healthy, simple, delicious, and produce results that are pretty, because, heck, if it’s ugly, no one wants to eat it.…

  Emily Joldersma RHN

  December 14, 2014

  Desserts & Snacks, Healthy Recipes, Uncategorized

  clean eating, coconut milk, coconut oil, Dark chocolate, desserts, gluten-free, holidays, naturally-sweetened, vegan, vitality, winter

• Festive Apple Cider Scones (v, gf)

  I think it’s fair to start a countdown to Christmas now, no? I mean, we are almost exactly a month away. And these scones definitely communicate a festive, cinnamon-y, “I love winter” kind of feeling, which is what one certainly wants to cultivate in the weeks before Christmas. And in the weeks after Christmas, come…

  Emily Joldersma RHN

  November 23, 2014

  Desserts & Snacks, Healthy Recipes

  apple cider, apples, breakfast, breakfast ideas, brown rice flour, brunch ideas, cinnamon, coconut oil, gluten-free, holidays, naturally-sweetened, scones, vegan, winter

• Pretty Packages: ideas for eco-friendly gift wrapping

  Images of the holidays often include a bounty of presents under a beautifully decorated Christmas tree. The gifts are tastefully wrapped, with colour-coordinated festive paper and impeccably-tied ribbons and bows. What the images never show, however, is the gift-opening aftermath: piles of ripped paper, discarded bows, and torn packaging, all used once and then sent…

  Emily Joldersma RHN

  December 14, 2013

  Managing Stress

  DIY, gift tags, gift wrap, holidays, ribbons and bows

• Meaningful Gift Giving: Part Two – Some Ideas

  “Connecting with friends, nurturing intimate relationships, socializing at parties, consuming art, music, and literature, learning new languages and skills, honing talents, and volunteering at our neighbourhood hospital, church, or animal shelter. Tellingly, these are precisely the activities that people on the brink of death…wish they would have spent more time doing in their everyday lives.”…

  Emily Joldersma RHN

  November 30, 2013

  Managing Stress, Self-Love

  acts of kindness, celebrating the holidays, gift giving, gift ideas, holidays, how to be happy, meaningful gift giving, Sonja Lyubomirsky, the myths of happiness

• What’s in a Gift? A Guide to Meaningful Gift Giving

  It really is beginning to look a lot like Christmas. We’ve already had our second snowstorm of the season and it isn’t even December. The first snowstorm left a good several inches of snow on the ground. By comparison, this snowstorm makes the previous snowstorm look like child’s play. This is the real deal.  We’re…

  Emily Joldersma RHN

  November 24, 2013

  Managing Stress

  gift giving, happiness, holidays, winter