Posts by Molly Patrick
Becoming That Person
Do you want to write a book, make pottery, stop smoking, run a marathon, start a business, eat plant based, learn a new language, quit eating sugar, or move to a farm and raise 34 baby goats? In order to do the thing you want to do, you must become the person who does that…
Read MoreAnnouncing Recipe Vault Access in Plant Fueled Life
No matter its size or shape, the human body is a beautiful, miraculous, stunning, complex, highly intelligent organism made up of trillions of cells. TRILLIONS of cells. 🤯 My brain doesn’t know what to do with that information. It’s like when I visited the Musée de Cluny, the medieval museum in Paris, and saw a…
Read MoreMy Plant Based France Adventure: Part One
I’ve been to Europe several times and France has always seemed like the kind of place I would have stopped and explored at some point. But surprisingly, I’ve never been before. This all changed in March of this year when I decided to do a plant based tour of Paris. My girlfriend is Parisian and…
Read MoreSix Things That Helped Me Get and Stay Sober
I knew I was finally ready to get and stay sober when I felt an exhaustion so deep that it was beyond physical. It was an emotional and spiritual depletion that left me feeling so weak that it was hard to make it through a normal day. If an average day was hard to get…
Read More21-Day Dry Challenge Guided Meditation
Getting Through a Craving Without Acting on It Meditation
A Simple Method to Quit Sugar
We all know processed sugar isn’t great for our bodies, but many struggle to go without it. This isn’t surprising, considering it’s addictive, expected in social gatherings, and widely available. Whether your sweet fix is ice cream, candy, or soda, refined sugar can be beeeeee-yatch to quit. I’m not saying you should quit sugar because that…
Read MoreAmanda’s Story of Cancer Remission and a Plant Based Diet
I sat down with Plant Fueled Life member Amanda Meuleners to hear her story of cancer remission and a plant based diet. Amanda was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in 2017 at the age of 34. The diagnosis was a huge surprise, as was the news that there weren’t any non-invasive treatment options. She began…
Read MoreHow 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…
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