Quick and Easy Green Smoothie
Sometimes you need a reminder that healthy habits can begin quite simply. It doesn’t need to be about spending confusing hours in the kitchen, experimenting with ingredients you’ve never heard of. To make it really work for you and start you on the journey to learning what works best for your body, you start with the healthy foods that you know you love. Here’s one of my favorite ways to boost my energy mid-afternoon, when we tend to get tired and reach for those vending machine sugary snacks. While the last smoothie recipe I...
read moreQuick and Easy Way to Ditch the Toxins
For years I’d been thinking about it but it always seemed like it would be so complicated, so overwhelming. As with most things, all it took was the push to finally take action to help me realize how simple it could be to reduce the toxins in my home even more. You’re here, so let me share with you how 20 minutes saved me time, money and stress. When I go to the store to buy deodorant or toothpaste, it can sometimes take a while. I know exactly what I want to avoid in my products but it still takes me time to scan the labels for...
read moreTop 3 Reasons You Should Be Thinking about Your Pre Pregnancy Diet
Once you get pregnant, you often start paying more attention to food, but what should you be doing while you are preparing for pregnancy? I’m not a strong believer in getting caught up in all the little details of how many grams of this and that you need. I did that for a while and it was a huge pain and took the fun out of eating for me. Eating needs to be fun! Of course, if you have reason to believe that you have specific deficiencies or needs, you increase those nutrients and I can help you figure out how. As a general rule, it is...
read moreToxins and Getting Pregnant
Did you know that the average woman uses 12 different personal care products on a daily basis? Tweet this! Did you know that there are over 80,000 chemicals in the products we use again and again and again but only about 100 of them have actually been tested for safety? Tweet this! The chemicals that we are exposed to by putting them in, on, and around our bodies have the potential to impact our health in many ways and have been connected: Infertility ADHD Autism spectrum disorders Diabetes Cancer Hormonal...
read moreLife lessons when you’ve got babies on the brain
When you are wondering what to do before pregnancy, you can learn many lessons from your daily life. Today, I’m sharing one example of this and the important role it plays as you prepare yourself for this amazing time. We compare. We pull others and ourselves down as we do this. “I am having trouble getting moving today. I only got 6 hours of sleep.” “That’s twice as much as me.” “I’m hungry, I haven’t eaten in 5 hours.” “I’ve got you beat.” “Yes, but I’m nursing.” “I’m not where I...
read moreMotherhood Starts with a Vision
In the first week of Creating Fertile Ground, we will be setting the foundation and vision for our time together. You will set intentions and begin to create the vision of what you want for your future. One way that you will do this, if you join us, will be by writing a letter to your future baby. This is a powerful practice that can help you to release what is holding you back, become more realistic with your expectations, and help you to create a road map to a healthy and empowered experience that is perfect for you and...
read moreListen to Your Body…
The other night, I was asleep by 8 o’clock. I woke a few times, briefly, for the things that hadn’t gotten done before my body chose rest — I fed the cats, put on my pajamas, slipped under the covers. At any of those moments I could have decided that it was too early, that there were other things I could do, that although I aim for 10, 8 just didn’t feel like bedtime. That night, it did. I wasn’t hungry. I didn’t feel the need or desire to clean, to work, to write or to read. My body...
read moreThe Power of the Full Moon as Catalyst for Change
The power of last night’s full moon was incredibly intense for me. I could feel the shift into my power, into my ability to create change in my life. I recognized clearly that I am the one who has the ability to let go of the pieces of the past that are holding me back, and that I am in control with what I do with my future. This may seem like a simple message but it is one that we often miss, or that we often have difficulty integrating into our lives. One area that you may feel wildly out of control but where you really hold...
read moreIt Goes Far Beyond Folic Acid…
It Goes Far Beyond Folic Acid… If you are like I was, you may know long before you are ready to conceive that you want to be a mama. With these feelings in your heart, perhaps you have started to ask some questions and to seek some answers. If you brought it up to your health care provider, or if you searched the internet, there is one thing you were likely to find – take a folic acid supplement. You may have also read that while you are preparing for pregnancy, it is a good idea to quit smoking, reduce...
read moreStarting with the Why
Women have always been having babies, and this will always continue. This is the beauty of the community that grows around motherhood – we have an infinite well of wisdom to dip into and learn from. We are the bridge between generations and we have the power to support each other in a most unique way. In conversations that I have had with women over the last two years and in a recent survey that I did of moms, the same theme keeps coming up – most of them believe that preconception is an incredibly important time,...
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Hello! I’m Xandra.
I’m a preconception, fertility and prenatal health and wellness coach who supports women as they find peace and ease on their journeys towards mamahood. More about me...
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