“Food and Love are the essence of the soul and the moderator of personality.” I said something similar to that to a friend the other day, and I’ve been reflecting on it since. Hunger and want for love and food drives many to illness, depression, and violence where as fulfillment of those needs seems to Read More …
In 2008 I moved in with my now Husband Michael and our friend Keil, and we all lived with each other until 2011. During that time period, we had dubbed ourselves the ‘McAwesomes’ and our place became the gathering hole for many of our friends quite often. Just prior to my Celiac Disease Diagnosis we Read More …
Celiac Disease: Top 10 MythsHere is another article, this one from Media Planet’s Autoimmune Awareness, which highlights some common myths and misconceptions about Celiac Disease. I know these get redundant but I love seeing people setting the record straight in what ever way they can. How Do I Lose Weight on a Gluten Free Diet?This Read More …
So, it’s a new month and with that Celiac Disease Awareness Month 2013 has drawn to a close. A lot took place during the month to spread awareness about and advocate for Celiac Disease (and of course gluten free living). In the blogger world, NFCA and Udi’s Gluten Free asked bloggers and other writers to share their Read More …
In the last two Gluten Free Self-Advocacy Tools we talked about advocacy in your personal life, and advocacy in regards to meeting your shopping and dining needs. These might have seemed more about spreading awareness than self-advocacy, but I assure you advocating at a personal level is still advocacy. The broader areas of legislative and Read More …
When I introduced Celiac Awareness this Month this year, a big piece of my suggests on how to raise awareness revolved around the aspect of advocating for yourself. In a three piece series I am going to discuss tools that can help you self advocate, but first let’s talk advocacy. As a social worker, advocacy and self-advocacy Read More …
Today marks Celtic Celiac’s 3 year Anniversary. In my first post I wrote “I hope that I can make this journey valuable to the Celiac and gluten intolerance internet community” and I truly believe I have. However, I can always do better in helping to spread Read More …
I missed last week so I would rather be late than never with this week, especially since there are some interesting articles that I’d like to share with you. First and foremost however, be sure to check out my most recent giveaway, where you will have a chance to win a Rudi’s sponsored Summer BBQ Picnic Set Read More …
Happy Celiac Awareness Month! As a social worker I find awareness months difficult, as I feel they bring light to differences rather than similarities (Think Black History Month or Women’s History Month) but for diseases I think they are a very important contributor to public awareness. This is especially true for a disease such as Celiac Disease, Read More …
This is the second to last installment of our gluten free travels through Colorado and New Mexico. I was originally going to have one full review and two short reviews to share below, but as I was writing the one full review just got too long for me to feel comfortable posting everything in one post. Coquette’s Read More …
