Healthy Happy Loving Life: Favorite Food Blogs

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In the last several days, I was asked both what I do in my “spare” time, and what my favorite blogs are.  And it just so happens that my favorite fun is creating delicious foods.  And two fantastic blogs definitely involve cooking, baking and often chocolate!  As a writer, I have seen hundreds of blogs, and for me, these two stand out as the most fun:  Gluten Free Homestead and Chocolate Covered Katie.

For me as a cook, I need to be able to prepare treats and meals that fit a lot of different diets and sensitivities, especially gluten-free.  These two favorite blogs are both about cooking and baking and treating for whatever factors.  I love that!

Today’s email from Gluten Free Homestead is, of course, another outstanding one.  Labeled simply, “New Recipe For You”, it offers an Easy Creamy Broccoli Cheddar Soup, with video.  Created by Barbara Bianchi, this blog is also now offering  an ebook cookbook, with 50 low-carb and gluten-free recipes.  You can find the Gluten Free Homestead on Facebook and Instagram.  And you may want to subscribe.

My other favorite blog is Chocolate Covered Katie.  Katie is a baking genius who never stops experimenting.  She creates delicious treat recipes, most often chocolate, and often in small batches.  So you don’t have to have dozens of those gooey chocolate almond cream-filled cupcakes with something rich topping them…in your kitchen, tempting you until you’ve gained many pounds.  You can make a few.  Katie is kind.  She also gives you options with every recipe: which fat or oil works best, when to substitute in avocado or applesauce, what flour gives what results with this recipe, what “milk” to use, or whether this matters.  Today’s email features Low Fat Chocolate Muffins, together with links to recipes for Banana Muffins, Applesauce Muffins, Oatmeal Muffins, and Pineapple Muffins.  You can find this blog through her eponymous Facebook page, or through her website, http://www.chocolatecoveredkatie.com .

It’s important to have pleasure and fun in life, and I have fun just reading through these recipes, then pleasure eating my results!  I hope you’re having fun and pleasure, too.  I hope you’re entirely:  Healthy Happy Loving Loving Life^sm!

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Kebba Buckley Button is a stress management expert and award-winning author who celebrates life.  She also has a longtime natural healing practice and is an ordained minister. Among her books are: Discover The Secret Energized You (http://tinyurl.com/b44v3br), Inspirations for Peace Within:  Quotes and Images to Uplift and Inspire, and Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine.  The books are available on Amazon and through Kebba’s office.   To email us, kebba@kebba.com .

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: Your Theme Song

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© 2020 Kebba Buckley Button, M.S., O.M.  World Rights Reserved. 

I have heard this question a few times in recent years:  if you, or your business, had a theme song, what would it be?  I was totally stumped the first time I got the question. In fact, I was terrified, because we were going around the table, with a group of authors, and the moderator wanted each of us to give forth about our theme song.  She thought anyone who didn’t know their theme song was, basically, a doofus.

She had a point.  Shouldn’t we be able to encapsulate our business goals and qualities briefly? But do most of us have the talent to do that in verse, then make it a song?  Hey, I don’t even enjoy picking songs for weddings or other theme parties.  But finally, I realized there are a couple of songs that might represent me and my practice.  First, I teach people specific ways to dissolve and finish with their pain: physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual.  I teach people how exactly to find their inner gratitude and to move into joy.  I say we are in/joy/meant.  Second, I teach people to develop a strong core of Peace Within, so that stressors don’t bother them.  Then, I encourage people to take that into their relationships and into the World.  But more on that in a moment.

Victor Hugo, the author of Les Miserables, said,

Music expresses that which cannot be said on on which it is impossible to be silent.

And actress Zooey Deschanel has said,

Everyone should have a theme song!  It should make you feel like a million dollars.

 

Finally, one day, I was walking along, feeling great, when a song started playing in my head:  “Something’s been happening to me/I can’t believe it myself/suddenly I’m up on top of the World…never thought I could feel so free/flying away on a wing and a prayer…could it be me?”  This turned out to be, “Believe It or Not” by Joey Scarbury. I realized, that’s the feeling I want my clients to have: free, at choice, feeling great.

Photo by Francine Masterson

My other theme song would be about peace, for the individual, leading to peace with others and peace for the Planet.  If a  billion people all had Peace Within, and a desire for peaceful relationships, how could there be rioting and war?  Fortunately for me, someone has already written that song: Jill Jackson and Sy Miller wrote, Let There Be Peace on Earth (And Let it Begin With Me), and Vince Gill performed it in a Christmas album of the same name, released in 1993.

Do you have a theme song?  Or have you thought of developing one?  I would love to hear about it. I would love to hear that you, too, are living in the state I call:  Healthy Happy Loving Loving Life^sm!

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Kebba Buckley Button is a stress management expert and award-winning author who celebrates life.  She also has a longtime natural healing practice and is an ordained minister. Among her books are: Discover The Secret Energized You (http://tinyurl.com/b44v3br), Inspirations for Peace Within:  Quotes and Images to Uplift and Inspire, and Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine.  The books are available on Amazon and through Kebba’s office.   To email us, kebba@kebba.com .

Books by Kebba Buckley Button