Monthly Archives December 2014

Lifestyle

Happy New Year

Happy New Year

Whether you’re getting ready to welcome the New Year in style, or even if you’re a bit like me, and don’t enjoy big parties or crowded places, I just wanted to wish you all an amazing 2015. May all your wishes come true. Let’s all make this new year the best one yet!

Here’s to being true to ourselves and being honest with the ones around us. Here’s to being more compassionate. Here’s to celebrating the little things. Here’s to living in the present. Here’s to self-love and cutting ourselves some slack. Here’s to crazy, hectic days and to duvet days as well. Here’s to balance. Here’s to love and fulfillment. Here’s to 2015.

Happy New Year!

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Food, Lifestyle

Why I Stopped Being Vegan

Oh my days. This post has been long overdue, it’s been sitting in my drafts folder for nearly 2 months now. For most people, the reason behind this may come off a little bit silly, but truth is I was sort of afraid to share this on the blog as many of my readers follow a vegan lifestyle. This wasn’t because I feel guilty about my personal choices but because unfortunately, there’s so much hatred in the world that I deliberately chose to delay any possible backlashing.

Both me and my husband were vegan for 2.5 years. We wholeheartedly committed to the lifestyle, so much that we even opened a vegan business. We learned a lot about where our food comes from, health, animals, the environment and read a awful lot of dietary labels. We loved being vegan until it didn’t make as much sense as it once did. Here’s why we decided to transition away from it…