I’ve always loved spring. As a person from the Nordic Countries, Finland to be exact, I feel the shift in seasons very deep in my bones. After the long, dark winter—especially in the North—the sun feels like a miracle every time it returns. Now living in California for the past 9 years or so, I […]
Nutrition
My Top 5 Foods & Supplements for a Plant-Based Diet
I sometimes hear people saying (like all the time) that if they’d go plant-based “there’d be nothing left to eat”. But the truth is, by removing chicken, beef, pork and fish (that’s four items) there’s still about a couple of hundred thousand things to eat. For example, there’s over 25 000 different types of tomatoes! […]
Spring Clean Your Health
Spring is the time of the year when I feel most inspired to make changes in my life. I’m motivated to learn new things, meet new people, start living healthier, make improvements in all areas of my life. I start going for walks, bike rides, do more yoga (especially now that I have a private […]
How I Food Prep for a Healthy Week with 5 Things
I believe that planning is THE KEY to eating healthy and staying on a healthy track. At least once per week you see our kitchen filled with bowls that have different kinds of beans soaking overnight, our fridge filled with two gigantic mason jars of green smoothies, and our freezer full of washed and cut […]
6 Tips for Healthy Hair
I was not blessed with the luscious locks gene, nor such healthy hair and scalp. Typical for us Nordic people, my hair is fine, thin, flat, brittle and overall pain in the butt to style. So I try my best to give my hair nutrition it needs to regain some volume and shine. When we moved […]