Last month I booked an appointment for a certified yoga instructor to come to my home and guide me through a new method of yoga. If you follow my journey over on Instagram @inspiredbynick, then you may already know that the yoga studio I’ve subscribed to here in Toronto follows the Bikram method. It’s not my preferred approach to yoga if I’m being perfectly honest, but it is effective. It provides the challenging workout I’m looking for, while also leaving me feeling more enlightened, more ...
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Three Holiday Entertaining Ideas for the Health Conscious Friends This Season
On the side of one of our kitchen cabinets is a sort of makeshift “chalkboard wall” if you will, that my heartmate and I built when we moved into our home earlier this year. We jot down some important information like “don’t forget to pay this bill by that date” or “organics disposals on Wednesday”. And, every so often with four tiny cuts of scotch tape, we hang up printable monthly calendars for the next upcoming months. This time, November & December. Oh boy. Holiday season is here, ...
Professional Teeth Whitening At-Home | How To Do-It-Yourself
You may have seen in a recent post, I shared my full teeth-straightening experience with Invisalign. In there I talked about the full process, and whether or not I think Invisalign is worth it. Throughout the treatment, it’s really important to keep things super clean with a brushing and flossing session after every meal. Yes, EVERY meal. But in the end, after the one year process was all wrapped up, I was happy. And it was important for me to have my teeth properly whitened. [ See ...
Golden Mylk Turmeric Lattes | How to Make Them + Health Benefits
One thousand percent, I used to think making turmeric lattes was just about adding a tsp of turmeric to warm, unsweetened almond milk. No wonder I used to not like them. But made correctly.... oh boy. Am I in for trouble this winter. My relationship with turmeric is a funny thing. I can’t tolerate the taste of it alone, yet, I have a teaspoon of it every day with a litre of water. The flavour of it in recipes is completely different, especially in stir ...
Iced Maple Matcha Lattes | Easy Vegan Summer Drink Recipe
This week I was visiting family in Montreal, and if you’ve visited before, you know that Montreal summers can be scorchers! My mom had never tried matcha before, so on a day where even our eyelids were sweating from from the summer burn, I made us some iced matcha lattes to stay cool! While I’m a huuuuuge almond milk lover, Mom’s always been pretty finicky with it. The taste, the texture… something about it just never quite jived with her. So she was a little reluctant to try these iced ...
DIY All Natural + Chemical-Free Surface Cleaner
Here’s a small note from a genuine place in my heart, to yours. For a long time, I didn’t feel healthy. I thought I needed coffee to wake me up in the mornings, a drink (or two, or three) on Fridays as a reward for getting through the week... A time where I thought chips “made with avocado oil” had to be healthier. I mean, right? Where checking my phone and answering emails were my first priority in the mornings. I felt sluggish in the afternoons, my sleep cycles were off balance, and as a ...
New Home Reveal | Meditation + Yoga Room [progress update]
Pinch me, please! It’s hard for me to believe that it’ll be two months since my heartmate and I moved into our home. While most days feel like time is escaping us, looking back today makes me realize that we’ve lived through two full months of weekday morning routines, countless meals over the breakfast counter, and a number of weekend backyard cleanup projects. ...
Life Update: We Bought a House! Now we’re Making it a Home.
In a recent instagram update, you may have seen that I could no longer contain my excitement behind buying a new home with my heartmate! Friends have been asking what life has been like since the move. Old colleagues tell me I’m “living the dream” since I left my full time job in Toronto’s Financial District. Well, as a surprise to some of them I’m sure, I haven’t quite fully adjusted to being a full time content creator. I don’t yet have a fully regimented work day for myself, since ...
Crystal Guide: 10 Crystals for Healing, Positive Energy, and Spiritual Connection
For those of you who know me well, you’ll know that I like to say Frankie (Lily Tomlin’s character) from Netflix’s “Grace & Frankie” is my spirit animal. And for those of you who haven’t (yet) invested in watching Netflix’s funniest original - if you follow me on instagram, you may recall about a month or so ago, I visited a crystal healing shop here in Toronto called Happy Soul. There we talked about how crystals can help cleanse our auras and how we can begin to heal from any ...