Posts by Molly Patrick
How My 79-Year-Old Mom Became Our Gardener
Well, it’s happened. My 79-year-old mom is our new gardener. She lives in a condo without much garden space, and she’s been wanting to get her hands in the dirt. We have some outside areas at our house that need some love, so we offered to pay her to help. She said, “Yes! I will…
Read MoreWhen We Let Our Wants Guide Our Food Choices
I used to drink way more than is healthy for one human. When I was finally ready to make a change, I decided to never put alcohol in my mouth again. I’ve done this for over seven years, and it’s worked beautifully. I don’t have to think about whether to drink or how much. That…
Read MoreDon’t Worry About Healthiest
I’m here with a loving reminder for your beautiful self. There is nothing wrong with healthiER when healthiEST isn’t realistic. There could be many reasons why healthiest won’t work for you right now: Or maybe your once stable-feeling life is all upside down, backward, sideways, squiggly, and twirly whirly. I don’t know all the things,…
Read MoreThe Next Time Someone Puts Down Your Eating
If you’re gearing up for a holiday dinner and feeling a certain kind of way about, read on. Maybe you’re nervous about people looking at your food like it’s an alien on a plate. Maybe you’re not stoked to explain, for the umpteenth time, why you’re not putting meat in your mouth. Maybe you’re not…
Read MoreExpand and Evolve During the 2023 Plant Fueled Reset
I believe that the point of life is to evolve. Life is always giving us opportunities to grow, stretch, and expand so that we have room to hold all it has to offer. These opportunities often take the form of challenging shit because we grow the most when we’re challenged. If life was a steady…
Read MoreIf you’re head first in a bag of potato chips, read this
So you’re at the starting line with whole food plant based eating. Maybe eating this way is brand new to you.Maybe you’ve eaten this way before, but you took a hard left a few miles back, and you’ve been elbow-deep in potato chips and boxed mac and cheese ever since. Either way, we’ve all been…
Read MoreHow I Save Money with Plant Based Batching
A while back, I was super sick for about 2 weeks. Normally, I do most of the cooking in our house, but I didn’t cook at all during this time. The first week, my wife Luanne made Miso Soup and baked tofu. A friend also made us rice and beans, and my mom made Mac…
Read MoreSeven Things that Make Life Harder than it Has to Be
Life can be pretty hard. For all the people. It’s hard for different reasons but, categorically, to be human is to experience challenges and the emotions that go along with them. We might very much want to control the stuff that makes life hard, but we can’t. And yet. There are some things we can…
Read MoreHow a Plant Based Diet Helped Decrease My Dad’s PSA (Prostate-Specific Antigen) Level
Last year, my dad’s PSA number was on the rise. PSA, in this context, means prostate-specific antigen. Doctors use PSA numbers primarily to screen for prostate cancer. High levels of PSA might indicate prostate cancer, but not always. My dad’s PSA climbed incrementally for a year until it reached 7 back in July of 2021…
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