What’s the Plan Kelly?
I have been trying for a few months to slowly change some of my habits and adopt better, healthier ones. It started with a speaker who came to one of our local mom’s group meetings. She talked to the group about natural cleaning methods. I missed that meeting, but was party to the flurry of excited emails from my friends that followed as well as a handout citing cancer rates and other reasons to remove potentially harmful chemicals from our daily lives as well as a few recipes to start us on the path to healthier homes.
I was intrigued.
This spring, my dad was diagnosed with prostate cancer and while we were still absorbing that bit of information, he had chest pains and ended up getting four arterial stints! He was always a healthy man, he loves to hike and golf, he keeps active rehabbing houses (painting, building…lots of manual labor) he didn’t smoke and he ate a decent diet. This was unexpected and made me think.
Personally, I have been suffering from chronic (24/7) headaches since my late teens. That is 25 years of never ending headaches. Between the headaches, my weight issues, depression and my fibromyalgia, I know that making healthier choices, real choices, in multiple areas of my life is a good idea. A whole life, whole body approach.
I want to take better care of myself, but it can’t be hard. I don’t have the energy or patience for difficult. I need to attack these changes slowly, I tend to get overwhelmed and quickly revert to previous behaviors. In addition to taking care of myself I am concerned with taking care of this planet. It is our only home, now and forever, and we have been abusing it. It is past time for us to take care of it. The last and least important reason I want to make some of these changes is money, homemade cleaning products and skin care products can be a lot cheaper than the commercial brands.
So far I have cleaned up, or greened up, 70% of the household cleaners and am ready to start making more changes.
This blog is going to be my journey: tips, tricks, research, recipes, information, along with my trials and errors. I plan to continue to make changes with household cleaning, with taking care of my body on the outside and possibly on the inside with food and diet changes as well as supplements. I also want to work on the mind-body-spirit connection. Exercise might come up, but if you don’t let that scare you, I will try not to let it scare me either! With my headaches, changes need to be simple and real. The bottom line it that I need to like what I’m doing or the changes won’t stick.
I am really excited about this project, I want it to be fun and educational.
Do ya wanna go “Green” (healthier, simpler, happier?) with me??
