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10/20/2025

Have you ever heard of the concept of focusing on systems not just goals? I started reading the book Atomic Habits recently, and I realized that while I LOVE goals. I need more systems in place to make my goals more attainable. When setting goals, I always noticed that I'd make progress toward them, but not always hit my goals. I was comfortable with progress, but I love the concept of systems that make progress solidified and goals more like check points.

What do health, fertility, and parenting systems look like?

Personal health systems are ways you live your life to increase your health. A system utilizes regular habits to propel your motion. Examples:

Weekly meal planning with weekly grocery shopping trips

Daily routine of supplements

Scheduled exercise routine - 5 minutes, then 10, then more

Outdoor time like clockwork - soak in the D

For fertility, the systems are a little different. Sometimes, a system is ways NOT to do something that would poorly affect fertility. Examples:

If you have a regular habit of filling your glass of wine at 6 PM every night when you get home, then fill your glass with a favorite alternative instead. Make a new habit that you still enjoy.

Create a list of relaxation methods that do not involve alcohol. Pick one out a night until you decide on your favorites.

Go for a walk each night at 6 PM. Changing your routine sometimes helps you break past habits.

For parenting, establishing a nighttime routine for your children can be a huge help in meeting family goals.

What is your favorite habit that helps you thrive as a mom?

10/09/2025

I love spicy foods. I definitely have felt my mood lift as I consumed the fiery treat. Have you experienced the therapeutic benefits of spice?

Spicy foods don’t just burn your tongue—they soothe your soul. This poetic deep dive explores how capsaicin triggers endorphins, relieves anxiety, and turns pain into pleasure. It’s therapy in a bowl of chili.

10/09/2025

Where are you in your health journey?

10/06/2025

True? I’m not entirely sure. Is this worth researching? 100%.

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09/26/2025

Let’s promote liver health, not destroy our livers with medicine known to cause liver failure.

No matter what agenda you do not agree with in the world, your job is to protect your body and the body of your unborn baby. There is no political view worth endangering yourself and your baby.

I will be posting ideas for headache relief and pain relief for pregnancy in some future posts as well as ways to take care of your liver. Many women already have liver damage due to medicine and alcohol, so instead of making it worse, we can actually promote healing and restore our livers.

Take care of your body, your liver, and your baby. You are beautiful and so is your baby.

09/16/2025

Boholistic Mom has moved to Virginia! If you are looking for a birth coach, parenting coach, or postpartum doula who is focused on Christ, nurturing the family, and nutrition, reach out! In addition to these services, I sit down with mamas to go over their diet, their family's diet, and help remove toxins from both the diet and home.

I hope to talk to you soon if you are in this area! Let's connect!

06/07/2025

Good advice. Don’t stress yourself out feeding your freezer. Feed that sweet baby! 💕

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We hear people say all the time that they are making sure they have enough milk in their freezer just in case. I definitely can understand the thought process behind this because what if..

The truth is baby should always get the breast milk first in the freezer is just extra. I recently had a mom tell me that she was supplementing with formula so that she could make sure she had enough breast milk in her freezer.🤯🤯🤯

05/15/2025

If you are a young mother, friend of a young mother, or at the point in your life where you are about to get Noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT) testing for your baby, be informed. Increased risk is not a diagnosis. Do not allow medical staff to pressure you to make a "right now" decision based on a screening that is NOT DEFINITIVE. The screening cannot provide a diagnosis and should not be considered as concrete.

"Noninvasive prenatal testing, sometimes known as NIPT or NIPS, is a blood test frequently done early in pregnancy. It analyzes small fragments of free-floating DNA from the placenta that are found along with the mother's own DNA in her blood. Since DNA from placental cells is usually identical to the baby's DNA, analyzing the DNA from the placenta allows for a look at the genetic makeup of the baby without potentially causing harm to the unborn child (hence the term noninvasive). However this method is only a screening, which means it does NOT give a definitive answer as to whether a child does or does not have a particular genetic condition. The test only estimates whether the risk for certain conditions is increased or decreased."

"Noninvasive prenatal testing is NOT a diagnostic tool. NIPT alone can give both false negative and false positive results."

According to one mother, "The genetic counselor initiated the conversation of abortion at the same time she delivered my NIPT results. This haunts me. I wonder how many younger mothers (more likely to have a false positive NIPT) choose to terminate their pregnancies, not realizing that bloodwork is not a diagnosis."

Source: From Diagnosis to Delivery from Beverly Jacobson

02/28/2025

I love this post! Never be ashamed of your baby! If your baby has battle scars from birth, a condition, or surgery, this is your babies story! Do not deprive your baby of pictures showing what he or she has made it through in life. Your baby is beautiful just the way they are even with scars.

Show them you are proud of who they are, regardless of things the world considers as "imperfections." Always let them know they are your PERFECT kid exactly how they are with scars, undulations, birth marks and all.

02/20/2025

So you can purchase one 4 pound chicken for $10-12 dollars, or you can buy a 10 pound bag of leg quarters for less than $10 at most supermarkets. Is it organic? No, but when food prices are this high, many people cannot afford nutritious groceries at all. This is a great budget aid for all families! Broth made from conventional chickens is a good option if you don’t have access to pastured birds.

The video below shows 6 out of the 10 leg quarters included in the package.

Grab the 10 pound bag, take four of the leg quarters and make a fantastic pot of broth. Pull the chicken off the bone after 1.5-2 hours at a simmer, and use the meat for chicken salad, layering on top of your baked potato with somee barbeque sauce, or mixing into a soup/dish. Keep simmeringg the broth another two to four hours, and pour it into glass storage jars.

You can use the other leg quarters for chicken barbeque, frying up on the grill, or a second pot of broth later!

For less than $10, you have upwards of 4 to 6 meals for the average family. Nutritious meals!

02/15/2025

If you’re like me… you can rarely think of a remedy when you’re in the midst of an issue. Especially for yourself. That’s why sometime ago I started keeping remedies for reference.

What would you add to this list?

02/15/2025

I've updated my Elderberry Syrup Recipe migrating it my new website. Eventually, I hope to move all of my older blog posts to the new website!

https://boholisticmom.com/2025/02/15/elderberry-syrup-recipe/