Posts by Peas and Hoppiness
Shedding and Keeping: An Alternative to Traditional New Year’s Resolutions
How to set a goal you’ll keep and avoid resolutions which usually fail You know one of the most frustrating things about changing habits? It takes time. Habits are like a well-worn trail in your brain. That’s why changing them is so hard: you not only have to break ground on a completely new path,…
Read MoreNew Year, New Decade
Sometime during this last decade I made up a game I call “The Where-Were-You-a-Year-Ago Game.” It’s exactly what the title suggests: a reflection on where I was last year at this time and how I was feeling. I like to play this game with myself to help me remember where I’ve been, realize what I’ve…
Read MoreShe’s All In.
Oh, hey there! Did you think I had forgotten about you? I haven’t. It’s just that you, like my dear sourdough starter Merv, had to be pushed to the back [of the refrigerator] while I tried to survive my life these last few months. Luckily after I fed Merv a couple of times last week…
Read MoreBig Rocks: Prioritizing what Matters Most
Friendsgiving 2018 in our new home! Use this analogy of big, medium, and small rocks to identify what matters most to you in life so you can live joyfully every day. With a new year around the corner, I’ve been thinking recently about happiness. How does one pursue it? And even more importantly, how does…
Read MoreRe-Balance
A year ago I wrote a post called Balance. In it I offered productive solutions to care for mind, body, and soul. During this last year, I’ve attempted to follow my own recommendations. I’ve been incorporating yoga into my exercise, practicing meditation, and trying to sort out which social engagements I should pursue. And during…
Read MoreDream Big & Shop Small
This year I’m participating for the first-time-ever as a seller next week on Small Business Saturday. If you haven’t heard of it, this is the holiday squeezed in between Black Friday and Cyber Monday. It’s a time for you, the Almighty Consumer, to support me, the tiny, hobby-like wannabe entrepreneur. See what the front of this…
Read MoreWanderlust
I arrived home a few weeks ago from an almost-two-week vacay in Europe. Not really a vacation; as my brother would say, I took a trip not a vacation. A vacation is when you go lay on a beach somewhere and relax. We did anything BUT relax on this trip. View from Hohentwiel Castle in Singen,…
Read MoreEvery Purchase Matters: Slow Fashion and Ethically Made Clothing
Fairly made coat, thrift store snow pants, Craigslist snowshoes, and friend-gifted scarf We live in a global society. In fact, you’re probably using a device right now whose components were manufactured in six of the seven continents on our planet. In our modern society, the surplus harvest in Russia affects the US wheat markets and…
Read MoreChocolate Peanut Butter Oatmeal
I’m a weird breakfast food eater. As in, I’m the kind of person who doesn’t mind eating leftover Chinese food for breakfast. In fact, my breakfast on most mornings is a cheese quesadilla melted to perfection in the toaster oven. If you’re a regular reader, I’m sure you’re not surprised (see: Dietitian Eats). Thus, today…
Read MoreGluten-Free Pumpkin Bars
While in search of a different, delicious breakfast one morning this fall, I accidentally created a new breakfast bar recipe. And because it’s fall – and because I’m a white middle class millennial woman – this means it includes pumpkin. Despite my love for breaking clichés, I have to admit that I, too, succumb to the…
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