Eat Pretty {Book Review}

"Eat Pretty" by Jolene Hart is one of those books that you pick up from the shelf and immediately want to call your own. It’s lovely on the outside and the best part is that it’s an actual wealth of knowledge. After reading this book, I was so happy to know that this type of education and information is out there for anyone to have. It reminded me a little bit of why I started this blog and how passionate I am about helping other people, help themselves.

My Breakfast Smoothie

In the world of health blogs, gurus, fanatics, and devotees, breakfast is always a very serious topic of conversation. Whether it be smoothies, bowls, chia puddings, steel cut oats, fruit, your choice of menu is typically one you’ll brag about to your fellow health nuts. I’m not going to lie, the first thing I am thinking when I wake up is coffee. I’m essentially a zombie until I get that first steaming sip. My fellow holistic nutritionists would tell you that this is not exactly healthy. Not the coffee itself, but my reliance on it. I do agree, but we also all have to pick our poison. And coffee will be mine ten times over again. But that’s a whole other topic.

My Winter Essentials

You know that morning when you wake up. It went to -40 the night before and your house is colder than it usually is? You stir in your bed and even your sheets are cold. You know the only thing in the world that will warm you up is a steaming, hot cup of something to counteract that icy chill that’s started in your bones.Well that warm, fuzzy feeling you get just at the thought of your fingers clasping tightly around that cup sums up how I feel about my winter essentials. They’re the things that seem to make that polar vortex not so bad, or at least bearable.

Welcome to The Holistic Darling!

Dear reader,

First off, Happy New Year! I thought it was appropriate to open my blog on the first day of a new year, a fresh start, a new beginning! As I sit here pondering what it is I want to express about myself on the internet, on my new found platform of self expression and inspiration, I'm stuck at what it is I want to say. My priority is to be genuine. I've been questioning how I should explain that my first and foremost passion is to bring glory to God and that by helping others I feel I am able to do just that. My journey to being a holistic nutritionist has been an exciting one to say the least. After graduating high school, I started my college career in Fashion. At the time, this was the right move for me and even though now I find myself in a different industry, I can still say with the utmost confidence that it was all orchestrated in a greater plan for me. I got a dose of confidence in myself and learned things about my body, my health and gained perspective of the bigger picture that is my life.

This is all to say that my education and career in Fashion eventually led me to people and places that led me to where I am now. I was so unhealthy and always felt awful about myself. After seeing the changes in my own health and my body after natural supplementation and a new way of eating, I knew there was proof behind the practice.

My blog is my place to show you helpful and inspiring tips of living holistically. I try my best everyday to make choices that are natural and will best help my body to be balanced. That isn't to say I am a super-human who never makes a slip-up with sweets or other tempting carbs. I mess up and I'm not afraid to admit it. I also have certain things I don't drink or eat because I don't believe in flooding my body with toxins and genetically modified organisms(GMO).

Aside from food and the holistic life, this is also a place for me to post things about daily life that inspire me, encourage me, excite me and sometimes even upset me.  So welcome to The Holistic Darling. Introductions first, for those who don't know me personally, I'm Laura. Most call me Lo. I hope that I can in some way inspire, encourage, excite or stir you to make a change for better health, life and joy!