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Keto Survival Kits: Planning to Thrive, not Survive

carrie — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 15:28:49 +0000

Emergencies are part of life, and something we should all be prepared for. Earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes flooding or disease pandemics can leave you in a dire situation if you do not have supplies. Waiting until an emergency happens to try and stock up on supplies can leave you in a vulnerable situation where you may […]

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The Truth about Xylitol and Your Pets: How to keep them safe

carrie — Sun, 15 Sep 2019 06:00:19 +0000

Hello! Jennifer here, with some thoughts on the use of xylitol around our furry friends. I see so many posts contain something like “what can I use in place of xylitol, I have dogs and don’t want to risk it?”. In some recipes like Carrie’s Ice Cream, there is no substitute that gets the same […]

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Show Me The Money!

carrie — Mon, 05 Sep 2016 00:20:22 +0000

I thought I’d share some interesting financial data with you today. Yes! It’s show me the money day – a pretty compelling look at the difference in my healthcare costs before and after I fired my traditional doctor and my psychiatrist. Instead, I went to see a Naturopathic Doctor and a Doctor who treats his […]

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Cats: If You Don’t Have One There’s Nothing To See Here

carrie — Fri, 19 Aug 2016 06:24:37 +0000

This is a tale about happy, healthy cat litter, so if you don’t have a cat(s) or don’t know anyone who does, this post is probably going to be of absolutely no use to you whatsoever. I suspect it will also bore the pants off you. Cats: if you don’t have one there’s nothing to […]

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Context: What You See Is Not Always What You Get

carrie — Sun, 14 Aug 2016 01:41:36 +0000

Context might be my favorite word these days. Because context has the potential to change everything. And context often saves us from a whole bunch of angst and work. I love anything that does that. Why is context so awesome? Because what you see is not always what you get. After spending the last lifetime […]

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Does Eating Meat Cause Diabetes?

carrie — Sun, 10 Jul 2016 06:16:30 +0000

To eat *meat or to not eat *meat – that is one of the burning questions out in The Land of Health Food right now. Does eating *meat cause diabetes? The amount of stuff out there on the interwebs about this very topic is plentiful. The arguments back and forth would take you a year […]

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Stinky ‘pits And Other Things I Don’t Miss

carrie — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 09:00:39 +0000

I’ve started a file in my brain labeled ‘Awesome Things That Have Happened Since I Started Detoxing My Body’. This (fingers crossed) short post comes from that file, because it’s been a while since I gave you a progress report. As I was lying in bed at some ridiculous hour this morning not sleeping I […]

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All-or-Nothing

carrie — Mon, 04 Jul 2016 06:04:08 +0000

What is this madness?? That’s right, kids: another post just a week after the last one. And while I am thinking about last week’s post I want to say, “You’re awesome”, and “Thank you”, and “I am here because of you”, to everyone who commented and emailed and otherwise connected with me after reading it. […]

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Hello. Hello!

carrie — Mon, 27 Jun 2016 04:29:33 +0000

If my brain was fitted with a Bluetooth device that could send all my thoughts to my blog without me having to type them, there would have been a new post every single day for the last 3½ 5 months that I’ve been MIA, because while there may have been zero typing around here, there’s […]

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My Diet Is Better Than Yours. Or is it?

carrie — Sun, 31 Jan 2016 05:00:39 +0000

You may – like a lot of America – have been enthralled watching the stunning metamorphosis of two of the contestants on My Diet is Better Than Yours, which crowned it’s winner this week. I didn’t watch the series because I’ve been living in a TV-free zone since I was 20-something, but I do hang […]

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Progress Update! (WTF is Wrong with Me?)

carrie — Sat, 30 Jan 2016 07:20:52 +0000

Mornin’! You know how you start writing a blog post and then one of your favorite people on earth wants to Skype so you do and 3 hours of exciting chatter later… Afternoon! I thought I’d stop in and give you a progress update as I have heard from so many of you asking how […]

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STOP

carrie — Mon, 11 Jan 2016 01:19:41 +0000

As the start of a new year approached I started to think about what I wanted it to be like, and then my thoughts turned to resolutions. The resolutions part lasted about 8 minutes, because over the last few years as I have been working out WTF is wrong with me? I had already determined […]

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Take A Breath

carrie — Sun, 08 Nov 2015 06:55:52 +0000

Howdy Gang. I am fully aware that I have slung an awful lot of data at you over the last 6 weeks and especially the 10 days. I thought it might be nice to curl up on the couch in front of the fire for a few minutes, take a breath, and step off the […]

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Three Strikes And You’re Out (WTF Is Wrong With Me? #7)

carrie — Sun, 08 Nov 2015 03:26:17 +0000

Getting intimate with my DNA has turned out to be the most important thing I have ever done. Poking around in amongst all those bits of genetic information has ended the enduring mystery of my Bi-polar disorder and a lifetime of anguish – which I made invisible to the outside world. What I’ve gleaned from […]

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M*THF**R! (WTF is wrong with me? #6)

carrie — Sat, 07 Nov 2015 22:33:46 +0000

How many pieces of duct tape does it take to entirely block out all the light from the little LED clock on a microwave? I am not quite sure but I do know it’s more than two. I’ll provide an update tomorrow morning. In other news, it’s raining. It’s rather lovely if you ask my […]

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Dropping A Bomb (WTF is wrong with me? #5)

carrie — Sat, 07 Nov 2015 06:42:05 +0000

I am still on the couch! And apparently I am still writing! I have just finished ripping little bits of duct tape off it’s roll and pressing them over the multitudinous little lights emanating from the various gadgetry dotted around the studio. The TV, the microwave, the VCR, the CD, the I-don’t-even-know-what-that-thing-is, the carbon monoxide […]

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Stop And Start

carrie — Sat, 07 Nov 2015 00:18:13 +0000

I’ve run away. Not very far though, and in reality there was no actual running involved. I slung a bag of sweat pants, a stash of supplements, 9 cans of smoked herrings, and my laptop in the car, pointed the hood in a northerly direction and put my foot on the gas. A little under […]

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Quit Bugging Me! (WTF is wrong with me? #4)

carrie — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 02:29:38 +0000

Well, after sharing these, these, and these test results I am left with one final test result to share. Yes! The not-so-fluid bodily fluid. Let’s talk about my poop! Because poop truly is fascinating – as long as you’re not the one who actually has to do the disseminating and testing part. Getting it in […]

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Call The Plumber! (WTF is wrong with me? #3)

carrie — Sun, 01 Nov 2015 22:24:41 +0000

After my tests came back declaring that just about every food that I had ever even thought about eating made my blood sad, it didn’t take any further testing for my Naturopath to announce that I have Leaky Gut. It’s proper name is Permeable Gut, but that sounds so scientific and, well, dull. If I […]

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Spit It Out (WTF is wrong with me? #2)

carrie — Sat, 31 Oct 2015 21:35:09 +0000

In my quest to uncover “WTF is wrong with me?” I undertook a bunch of tests involving bodily fluids (or in some cases not-so-fluids), because it makes so much sense to me to look at what is actually there rather than just looking at the symptoms and trying to figure out what is causing them. […]

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Written in Blood (WTF is wrong with me? #1)

carrie — Sat, 31 Oct 2015 04:39:13 +0000

Lovely, patient readers: I am perhaps almost as frustrated as you are at the time it is taking me to get all these “WTF is wrong with me?” posts written. How best to deliver the flood of results and discoveries and accompanying abundance of awesomeness has been a constantly changing landscape in my mind for […]

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Testing! Testing!

carrie — Tue, 27 Oct 2015 05:00:58 +0000

Back in July when I had to raise my hand and wave the flag of surrender, I really had no clue where to start in trying to untangle what was happening in my body that was making me unable to function. I think it’s probably fairly typical for peeps with brain dysfunctions to assume that […]

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Slim ≠ Healthy

carrie — Sun, 25 Oct 2015 04:41:40 +0000

Hey gang, Just a short drive-by while I am working on the next exciting installment of my “WTF is wrong with me? Series”. With any luck that’ll be ready tomorrow. I couldn’t wait to share this little bit of insight though. It’s something that has always secretly irked me because I couldn’t fully get behind […]

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Science Schmience

carrie — Sun, 18 Oct 2015 22:58:21 +0000

I remember when the precursor to “The Calorie Myth” launched onto the diet book scene in 2012 and the kudos and comments started flying in. All the research! All the science! A diet that was science-based! No woo-woo hocus-pocus! Everything backed up by science! Wheeeeeeeeeeee! It was all so exciting. People were clamoring for a […]

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It’s All In The Genes

carrie — Wed, 07 Oct 2015 23:51:59 +0000

Shortly after I was diagnosed with Bi-polar II disorder some 2½ years ago I have been pushing against everything about it. At first I was all, “Oh, hey! Cool! I get something to hang my hat on now! I know what is wrong with me so I can do something about it! I can stop […]

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Something’s Going On

carrie — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 18:11:40 +0000

I’m in my pj’s and a rather delightful pair of black and white dotted socks, sitting in front of a lovely log fire in a cabin by the side of the North American continent’s largest volcano. I’m mighty glad I didn’t get up for the sunrise, because there wasn’t one. That’s not to say that […]

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I Blame The Peanut

carrie — Thu, 24 Sep 2015 05:55:02 +0000

A year ago after I lobbed a blog post at you and ran for cover, having thrown caution to the wind and introduced you to the elephant in the room, I got a lot of feedback. The vast majority of it came in the form of joyful whoops and hollers, love, gratitude, and understanding. “This […]

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We Have Liftoff!

carrie — Mon, 21 Sep 2015 04:48:05 +0000

In my experience, when life convenes to prevent you from doing things you absolutely love to do, it’s usually because you aren’t listening to the little whisperings from The Universe telling you there is something else more important that you need to be focused on. If you continue to not listen or are simply being […]

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Getting Unstuck

carrie — Sun, 28 Jun 2015 22:21:35 +0000

Wake up calls or large, unexpected life events – hey, even large and expected life events – have the magical ability to force a human reboot, like doing a CTRL-ALT-DEL on one’s brain. Then again, oftentimes there’s no dramatic incident but a gradually increasing and unsettling sense that you’ve lost your way, are struggling to […]

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Whistler in Summer. Who knew?

carrie — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 02:46:03 +0000

When I think ‘Whistler’, images of deep powdery glistening snow, gondolas filled with colorfully clad, be-goggled skiers, and snowboarders hurling themselves down mountain sides are what parade through my mind. Or that was what paraded through my mind until a week ago when an invitation came to escape from the office to the Great White […]

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Drink Up!

carrie — Sun, 31 May 2015 19:50:07 +0000

Hi, friends! I may have been missing from here for a little while, but I have glad tidings of great joy. I have been heads-down, very busily engaged in Cookbook #4. Woohoo! As publishing day bears down on us (***it’s now published!***) I couldn’t wait any longer to give you a little preview. It’s not […]

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The Case of the Disappearing Eczema. Or Was it Psoriasis?

carrie — Sun, 01 Feb 2015 01:07:49 +0000

I just wanted to pop in for a few minutes and tell you how wildly excited I am that after 38 years of embarrassing, itchy, red, flaky horribleness, I have got rid of my eczema. Or psoriasis. The doctors and skin specialists could never agree on what it was, but they were all certain that it […]

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Don’t Smash Your Cookie

carrie — Sat, 31 Jan 2015 02:40:41 +0000

Many years ago I had a huge Aha! moment while I was reading a story in one of Stephen Covey’s books. The lesson that I learned from it has stayed with me since that day, and I have used it countless times to remind myself to keep things in perspective, especially when things aren’t going the way I had […]

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Resolutions. Really?

carrie — Sun, 04 Jan 2015 00:39:33 +0000

Hello, friends! An exceedingly Happy New Year to you! How are your 2015 resolutions coming along? I’d love to hear about the things that you are going to focus on in 2015 and the things that are important to you. Ah, yes. I forgot. New Year resolution-making isn’t terribly cool and trendy these days is […]

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Get Yourself A Pedicure

carrie — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 00:33:05 +0000

Yesterday was the most glorious day up here in Seattle. Blue, sunny, and warm enough to wear a t-shirt if you were out doing something energetic like leaf-blowing, hiking to a pretty lake, or lugging 30lb tubs of cat litter from your car to the garage. I wasn’t doing any of those things, but if I […]

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I Took Another Drive, Or Two

carrie — Sun, 12 Oct 2014 04:15:57 +0000

I do like a good drive. Driving is so much more to me than merely getting from A to B. It is my nirvana; the only thing that quiets my brain other than yoga. I can drive for hours and hours on end and experience deep peace and happiness. It’s pretty darn beautiful. I’ll road […]

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