HEALTH

So, since launching The Balance Culture, I have gotten a lot of questions about starting my own business. Most questions consist of “did you always know you were an entrepreneur?” to “has it always been your dream to have your own business?” So, the short answer… “no”… longer answer…“not at all, you couldn’t have paid me to make me believe this five years ago”. It’s not that I had anything against being a business owner; I think they are awesome.…

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So, Southeastern University reached out to me about writing a couple of articles for their magazine. I am stoked, of course! For one of the segments, they wanted an easy recipe that was healthy and that students could do in their dorms. I thought a dessert would be fun. But, I knew they were limited, in most cases, to a microwave. So, I hit the Internet to see what I could come up with and landed on this gem. I…

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Let’s talk diet, fat-free, sugar-free, chemical-filled and preservatives, AKA my diet for about ten years. Yum right? Even after graduating treatment from an eating disorder I still had quite a few hang ups. This has nothing to do with Mercy Ministries and everything to do with recovery being a PROCESS. I still had my “foods”, the “good” and the “bad” list and I counted calories like a mad women. I ate pretty much the same things all the time and didn’t…

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