Wanna Love Your Body? Start With Loving Mine
As a life and wellness coach who works with women to improve self-esteem and body image, some people wonder how I became comfortable with my body. Did it come naturally or did I have to work at it?...
View ArticleMaking Friends With Reality and Zooey Deschanel
If there's any kind of blog post you'll want to stop reading immediately, it's the one that starts with the question, "What is reality, anyway?" Let me ask you people a different question. So ......
View ArticleThe Crunchy Day of Gift Giving and Radio Listening
I really questioned whether or not it was a good idea to run a coupon code for the "sales" days coming up here, mainly because we've been so busy with orders already, we have a hard time keeping up...
View ArticleDo You Have Shopping Cart Anxiety? — Part 1
It was 4 o'clock in the afternoon when Amanda Worthington lay her life bare for all to see. "It was the worst day ever," she whispered tensely. "I was about to start my period, my boyfriend and I broke...
View ArticleDo You Have Cart Anxiety? (Deal With It) – Part 2
It's of utmost importance that I be transparent with you all right now, and not just about the pair of parachute pants I still own from 1987. No, the truth you should know is this: If there was one...
View ArticleWhat’s All This Crunchy Betty Stuff, Anyway?
The very first entry in Crunchy Betty's Food On Your Face category was written on May 9, 2010. It was called "Five Good Reasons To Put Food On Your Face." At the time, I was fumbling around in the...
View ArticleWe Are Delicious
It's dark-thirty, midnight, the house is silent. And I just had a conversation with a lump of sourdough. It may not have been as much me conversing with the dough, but the dough working magic - some...
View Article3 Days of Silence
So, well, um ... if you haven't heard, there's quite a bit of buzz going around about our privacy (and not just the privacy of American's, but that of the world). It's a slight bit unsettling,...
View Article… And That’s the Story of That
I noticed that the world would go on without me. It would change despite my input; it’s always changing, it doesn’t need me as much as I thought it did. I realized that all of my worries – every single...
View ArticleFor-Giving & Forgiveness: Food For Your Soul
'Tis the season of giving. Giving, buying, making, giving, giving, giving. We get so caught up in the giving (and in the stress of finding the right giving to give) that we forget about the other kind...
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