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Vegan Olive Oil Quick Bread Recipe (World’s Best Anti-Inflammatory Dessert)

April 15, 2025 by Molly Beauchemin 3 Comments

Olive oil cake is all the rage in the baking world right now. This vegan olive oil quick bread is versatile and moist enough to moonlight as an olive oil cake (if you want to bake it in a cake pan) or as olive oil cake muffins. We love it best as an understated olive […]

Filed Under: Mood Recipes Tagged With: brain diet, brain food, dessert, fatigue, gluten free, recipe, vegan

How Weighted Blankets Improve Sleep, Stress, and Anxiety (& The Best Ones to Buy)

March 1, 2025 by Molly Beauchemin 5 Comments

The health benefits of sleeping under heavy blankets have been documented throughout history, but the trend has emerged again in the digital age as an antidote to insomnia, stress, anxiety. As it turns out, sleeping under a weighted blanket is a particularly effective treatment for people who find themselves struggling with an inability to “wind […]

Filed Under: Anxiety Hacks Tagged With: anxiety relief, fatigue, gift guide, insomnia, insomnia relief, self care, sleep, sleep hacks, stress, winter blues

DIY Lemon Balm “Sleep Gummy” Recipe (For Better Sleep)

February 12, 2025 by Molly Beauchemin Leave a Comment

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Gummy vitamins have taken off as an overwhelming trend among adults in recent years. The enthusiasm is shared and seemingly ubiquitous, addled in part by endorsements from major pop culture figures, tech companies, and athletes. Reese Witherspoon, for instance, recently shared a meme on Instagram that said: “Those Who Say You Can’t Mix Business With […]

Filed Under: Mood Recipes Tagged With: calming, DIY, fatigue, herbs for sleep, insomnia, recipe, sleep, sleep hacks

The 11 Safest, Most Effective Herbal Remedies For Insomnia

December 7, 2024 by Molly Beauchemin Leave a Comment

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“People say, ‘I’m going to sleep now,’ as if it were nothing,” George Carlin once said. “But it’s really a bizarre activity. ‘For the next several hours, while the sun is gone, I’m going to become unconscious, temporarily losing command over everything I know and understand. When the sun returns, I will resume my life.’” […]

Filed Under: Anxiety Hacks Tagged With: burnout, calming, exhaustion, fatigue, herbal remedies, insomnia, sleep, sleep hacks, winter blues

Try This Vegan Pine Pollen Pesto Recipe (Stress-Reducing)

May 2, 2024 by Molly Beauchemin 1 Comment

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Looking for ways to cook with pine pollen? This easy vegan pesto recipe should be a staple in any health nerd’s repertoire. Much like bee pollen, pine pollen is an increasingly popular adaptogen that’s full of beneficial enzymes, amino acids, minerals, antioxidants, vitamins A, B, D, E, and phytosterols.  Research even shows that consuming raw […]

Filed Under: Mood Recipes Tagged With: adaptogens, fatigue, recipe, vegan

Easy Homemade Chicken Liver Pâté Recipe (For Iron + B Vitamins)

February 3, 2024 by Molly Beauchemin Leave a Comment

Looking for some new and intriguing ways to cook chicken liver? This high-iron chicken liver pate recipe is just the thing.  Pâté– also more casually written as pate— is a French meat spread that’s traditionally served with crackers or bread. In recent decades, it’s come to be associated with fine dining and general epicurean fancy-ness, […]

Filed Under: Mood Recipes Tagged With: fatigue, mood diet, recipe, seasonal affective disorder

Easy Wagyu Meatballs with Sweet & Tangy Dipping Sauce (High in Iron)

February 1, 2024 by Molly Beauchemin Leave a Comment

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This easy wagyu beef meatball recipe is one of my favorite meatball recipes of all time! I’m always tinkering to create tasty, healthy, high-iron recipes, and this is one of the best. I try not to eat beef too often (mostly for environmental reasons) but when I do, I make sure it’s super high quality […]

Filed Under: Mood Recipes Tagged With: comfort food, fatigue, recipe

Gut Health Strongly Linked To Anxiety, Research Finds

January 1, 2024 by Molly Beauchemin 1 Comment

Gut health and mental health may be more strongly associated than scientists previously suspected, new research suggests. According to recent meta-analyses published in the medical journal General Psychiatry, anxiety might be alleviated by regulating gut bacteria.  This is a massive finding considering that as much as a third of the global population experiences anxiety, and […]

Filed Under: Anxiety Hacks Tagged With: anxiety, anxiety relief, brain diet, brain fog, brain food, brain health, fatigue, gut health, mood diet

Butternut Squash, Shallot & Steak Tacos (For Low Iron Folks)

May 4, 2022 by Molly Beauchemin 4 Comments

In my opinion, there are only three ingredients that you need to make a really good taco: super flavorful meat, citrus, and avocado. This easy steak taco recipe highlights these flavors along with sweet butternut squash and buttery shallots– and notably grass-fed steak from Arrowhead Beef. (Their beef is pasture-raised, grass-fed, and grass-finished, and ships […]

Filed Under: Mood Recipes Tagged With: dairy free, fatigue, gluten free, recipe

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