Posts by Molly Patrick
Using Our Time and Money to Support Our Health
What we deem worthy of spending money on differs for everyone, but I’ve noticed a pattern. The stuff we tell ourselves we can’t afford is usually the stuff that helps our overall health and well-being. When it comes to fleeting pleasures that don’t add to the quality of our lives, we typically don’t think twice…
Read MoreBeginner’s Guide to a Whole-Food Plant-Based Diet
If you’re new to eating a whole-food plant-based diet, or if you’re just curious, you came to the right spot. It’s worth mentioning that neither whole-food plant-based eating, diet nor a vegan diet are “diets” in the sense of restricting calories. The term is used here as a description of how someone eats on a…
Read MoreMy Plant Based France Adventure: Part Two, Corsica
During my epic 2½ months in France, my girlfriend and I hopped a plane to the beautiful island of Corsica (or Corse in French) in the stunning Mediterranean Sea. We rented a car and had a two-week adventure around the island. Corsica is the fourth largest island in the Mediterranean and is situated southeast of…
Read MoreBecoming 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 Clean Food Dirty Girl
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…
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