Resources

Real Food Resources:

Tropical Traditions- My source for Coconut Oil, coconut flour, shredded coconut (and all things coconut) as well as maple syrup, organic sugar, olive and sesame oil, freeze fried fruit, organic dark chocolate and more. The highest quality coconut products I’ve found.

Cultures for Health- Where I get my supplies for Water Kefir Soda, Kombucha Soda, Raw Cheese Making and More!

Mountain Rose Herbs: My source for herbs, spices, real salt, elderberries, essential oils, cocoa butter, shea butter, natural soap and lotion making supplies and teas.

US Wellness Meats – Where we get our grassfed beef, free range poultry and wild caught seafood (unless we can get them locally), they have great prices on organic beef liver, organic beef jerky, tallow, and more!

Amazon: Many of the grocery and food products that we can’t find locally, we order from Amazon. Our preferred brands are found under the “Food and Drink” tab at my Amazon Store.

Gnowfglins Resources- If you’re new to fermented and natural foods, Wardeh has some great online classes and eBooks to make your transition easier!

Healthy Life Resources:

OraWellness: Our source for oral health and hygiene. We order our toothbrushes and brushing mix from OraWellness and use in combination with my Remineralizing Toothpaste. We’ve been cavity free since we started this regimen.

Healthy Cleaning Supplies: Tropical Traditions also carries healthy dishwasher detergent, oxygen bleach, laundry detergent, and all purpose-cleaner if you don’t want to make your own.

Mountain Rose Herbs: Where we get the ingredients for our homemade lotion, sugar scrubs, soaps, and more. Also where I get teas in bulk and fun things like old-fashioned tea pots, glass spices containers, essential oils and more.

Supplements: We don’t take many supplements, but do take a handful of really important ones! All the supplements and brands we use are available in my Amazon Store, or can be found at most local healthy food stores.

Fitness Resources:

Kettlebells: As a kettlebell Junkie, DragonDoor is my source for Kettlebells and kettlebell workout equipment. They even have kettlebell workouts specificially for women and pregnant moms! This is the bulk of my fitness routine, and it fits into less than a square foot of space under my bed. Talk about a portable gym!

EpLifeFit – If having a personal trainer helps you stay motivated, this is the best of both worlds! Two of the best trainers I know train you on your computer each day!

Books:

The list of great health-related books is ever-growing, but I try to keep up with my favorite books under the “books” tab at my Amazon Store. I’ve also highlighted a few of my favorites in this post.

Blogging:

Web Design, SEO and Marketing Services- I highly recommend this marketing and design company that has helped me move from a self-designed blogger blog to a highly functional WordPress design and store. They were patient with me through three re-designs and even helped me create my own app! (how cool is that!)

Theme and Framework- I use StudioPress premium designs for WordPress and couldn’t be happier with them. I’ve used 3 of their themes over the time I’ve been blogging, and they have an amazing forum/support community for non-techies like me icon smile Resources

Web Hosting: After a very frustrating experience with another hosting company, I’m very happy with Host Gator.

Back-up & Security- If you are blogging and have more than 5 posts, I can’t recommend Back-Up Buddy enough. I once lost over 30 posts and this is my insurance policy to make sure it doesn’t happen again…

Dropbox- A free service that lets you store files in the cloud and access them from multiple computers and devices.

Gravity Forms- Allows you to create detailed and conditional forms that go beyond the normal “Contact Me” form.

Email Auto Responder and Mailing Service- I use Aweber  to host my email list and send out my newsletters and emails. They integrate with many other services and are very easy to use while still being fully customizable.

Video Creation -  For creating videos with background music. I use Animoto for any non-headshot videos.

Domains- If you’re just starting out, this is where I buy domains.

WP-101- If you’re new to WordPress, this video tutorial is great for helping you understand and use all of the functionality.