WellBeing Clare

This is the best French Canadian pea soup recipe you will ever try.  Even better? Okay, well, just as good is the fact that it is extremely easy to make.  How I Got My Great-Grandmother's French Canadian Pea Soup Recipe   I never met my great-grandmother. In fact, I never met most of my father's side of the family. We didn't live close, and it just didn't happen. Families, right? That said, as things played out, I ended up with a recipe box full of yellowed, often-stained recipe cards with handwritten recipes. This beautiful gift has become a key tool along my WellBeing journey . The writing is hard to read and sometimes the measurements are a little odd - or completely missing - but I'm determined to try as many of them as I can and to share the ones I've enjoyed, even if I've tweaked them a little bit to make them more modern. For instance, while a traditional French Canadian pea soup recipe is very appealing to me, most of the recipes involving gelatin wi...

If you’re anything like me, then when you picture a wellbeing journey, the first thing that pops to mind likely isn’t putting lotion on your hands before bed or choosing the right gentle cleanser that is perfect for your skin type.   It’s just not the first – or second – image for me. I usually think about superfoods and yoga.     Healthy Skin is Important to Overall Physical Wellness   The thing is, skin care is a very important part of self care. A good healthy skin care routine isn’t just about trying to look good or some quest to stay young looking. Perfect skin just doesn’t exist. Perfect-looking skin is covered in makeup or digitally altered. Healthy skin, on the other hand, is more achievable.     Considering that your skin is the biggest organ in your body – and it’s right on the outside exposed to absolutely everything from sunlight to air pollution and from excess oils to the toxins in fabric softeners. Taking good care of your ski...