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Are Beans Really that Good for You?

Are Beans Really that Good for You?

I get the question a lot – are beans good for you? Yes, yes and yes. And they’re the closest thing to a ‘superfood’ you’ll ever hear me talking about. Before we get started though, I’ll just mention that I’m

Angela Hubbard, RD November 21, 2019November 21, 2019 General nutrition Read more

Meal Planning on a Budget: Healthy Ideas and Free Template

Meal Planning on a Budget: Healthy Ideas and Free Template

“When it’s summer, fruits and vegetables are the cheapest they’ll be all year. How can I keep up this way of eating during the winter?” No matter what nutrition thing I’m helping someone with, the question of meal planning on a

Angela Hubbard, RD August 20, 2019September 30, 2019 General nutrition No Comments Read more

Caring for Aging Parents: Why won’t they just eat?

Caring for Aging Parents: Why won’t they just eat?

If you’re caring for aging parents, you know how deeply it affects you when they’re not eating well. There’s a domino effect … and it can feel like a scary one. It’s easy to find yourself wondering, “Why won’t she

Angela Hubbard, RD July 24, 2019 Uncategorized No Comments Read more

Man Food: 5 Tips to Help your Husband’s Health

Man Food: 5 Tips to Help your Husband’s Health

It’s a perfect summer evening, meant for drinks on the deck and supper on the grill. You’re filling your plate with a crisp salad and secretly watching (and dreading) as your husband piles on the meat. “Honey, don’t you think

Angela Hubbard, RD June 16, 2019July 24, 2019 Nutrition for Heart Health Read more

The DASH Eating Plan for High Blood Pressure

The DASH Eating Plan for High Blood Pressure

You’ve just found out you have high blood pressure. After the initial shock wears off, you may wonder, “now what?” Your doctor may have told you to lose weight, to change your eating and that you’d need to start medication.

Angela Hubbard, RD May 28, 2019July 23, 2019 Nutrition for Heart Health Read more

Crackin’ the Latest Egg Debate

Crackin’ the Latest Egg Debate

Myth of the Month: Cholesterol in eggs causes heart disease.   Here we go again with the great egg debate! Today they’re good, the next they’re bad. With the latest egg study, headlines will have you believe that the cholesterol

Angela Hubbard, RD May 17, 2019June 5, 2019 Nutrition for Heart Health Read more

Basics of Stocking your Pantry

Basics of Stocking your Pantry

Reader Q&A: I’m trying to cook more at home since I had my heart attack. Since it’s just me and my husband, I don’t want to be buying hundreds of ingredients that I’ll only use once. Do you have any

Angela Hubbard, RD May 8, 2019July 23, 2019 Uncategorized Read more

Oral Health and Aging

Oral Health and Aging

Myth of the Month: Kids are the most at risk of having unhealthy teeth, right?   Wrong.   April is Oral Health Month and in this article I’ll be laying out some reasons why and how paying attention to your

Angela Hubbard, RD April 23, 2019June 12, 2019 Uncategorized Read more

Food can help HEAL

Food can help HEAL

But can we actually think of food as medicine?   “An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” Maybe it used to, but unfortunately, it doesn’t feel that simple anymore. Or perhaps fortunately, we know a whole lot more about

Angela Hubbard, RD March 29, 2019August 7, 2019 Food for healing Read more

Free course: Spring Clean your Eating

Free course: Spring Clean your Eating

Thanks for stopping by to find out more about this FREE course! It has passed for this year but you can keep up-to-date with insider info on future courses, recipes and other free things I create by joining my email

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These words. Wow.

“Self-care should not be something we resort to because we are so absolutely exhausted that we need some reprieve from our own relentless internal pressure”

“True self-care is not salt baths and chocolate cake, it is making the choice to build a life you don’t need to regularly need to escape from.”

#selfcare“Self-care is often a very unbeautiful thing.

It is making a spreadsheet of your debt and enforcing a morning routine and cooking yourself healthy meals and no longer just running from your problems and calling the distraction a solution.

It is often doing the ugliest thing that you have to do, like sweat through another workout or tell a toxic friend you don’t want to see them anymore or get a second job so you can have a savings account or figure out a way to accept yourself so that you’re not constantly exhausted from trying to be everything, all the time and then needing to take deliberate, mandated breaks from living to do basic things like drop some oil into a bath and read Marie Claire and turn your phone off for the day.

A world in which self-care has to be such a trendy topic is a world that is sick. Self-care should not be something we resort to because we are so absolutely exhausted that we need some reprieve from our own relentless internal pressure.

True self-care is not salt baths and chocolate cake, it is making the choice to build a life you don’t need to regularly escape from.

And that often takes doing the thing you least want to do.

It often means looking your failures and disappointments square in the eye and re-strategizing. It is not satiating your immediate desires. It is letting go. It is choosing new. It is disappointing some people. It is making sacrifices for others. It is living a way that other people won’t, so maybe you can live in a way that other people can’t.

It is letting yourself be normal. Regular. Unexceptional. It is sometimes having a dirty kitchen and deciding your ultimate goal in life isn’t going to be having abs and keeping up with your fake friends. It is deciding how much of your anxiety comes from not actualizing your latent potential, and how much comes from the way you were being trained to think before you even knew what was happening.

If you find yourself having to regularly indulge in consumer self-care, it’s because you are disconnected from actual self-care, which has very little to do with “treating yourself” and a whole lot do with parenting yourself and making choices for your long-term wellness.

It is no longer using your hectic and unreasonable life as justification for self-sabotage in the form of liquor and procrastination. It is learning how to stop trying to “fix yourself” and start trying to take care of yourself... and maybe finding that taking care lovingly attends to a lot of the problems you were trying to fix in the first place.

It means being the hero of your life, not the victim. It means rewiring what you have until your everyday life isn’t something you need therapy to recover from. It is no longer choosing a life that looks good over a life that feels good. It is giving the hell up on some goals so you can care about others. It is being honest even if that means you aren’t universally liked. It is meeting your own needs so you aren’t anxious and dependent on other people.

It is becoming the person you know you want and are meant to be. Someone who knows that salt baths and chocolate cake are ways to enjoy life – not escape from it.”
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