Happy Meets Healthy

This platform is for me to share my business, my passions, and my life. ✌🏼 My brand is health, wellness, & exploration through food, travel, tips, and self-love. At the beginning of the black lives matter movement, I was questioned as to why I would so intensely switch my content on Instagram & step away from “my brand”. 😰

I didn’t even blink when I shared my first InstaStory of George Floyd’s photo. 🖤 After that question I received and the 80+ followers I lost from speaking out, my answer was so clear: although this platform is ultimately a marketing tool for my business, MY PASSION IS PEOPLE. 🤗 And my passion is to chase after the best version of myself & hold space for others to do the same; if I am not learning, teaching, listening, standing up, and speaking out in support of the black community, then I am not being my true authentic self and I would be cat-fishing all of you. 🙃

I feel outraged, guilty, devastated, misinformed, lied to, ignorant, shocked, embarrassed, numb, uneducated, heartbroken, and empowered. 🌟 I will begin to post regularly again, but I will not stop fighting, listening, sharing, reading, educating, expanding, donating, signing, connecting, watching, supporting, diving deep, conversing, and endlessly loving, in my own personal circle and in this one. 🤓

This is not the end of a “fad”, this is the beginning of a revolution. ✊🏻✊🏽✊🏿

What brings you to a place of peace? 🧘🏽‍♀️

Is it an action you take? A place you go to? A person or animal? A mantra? Something you consume? A view? 🌱

What lights up your soul while at the same time, soothes it? What resets your mental rollercoaster & brings you back a sense of grounding? What always eases your feelings when your emotions are spinning? What helps realign your intuition back into a space where it serves you? When your world feels broken, what gently & lovingly reconnects everything back into place?

For me, it’s nature. 🌳 Always. Leave me be on a hike to nowhere so I can navigate with my senses & enliven my connection back from where I came. Art would be my second: music, painting, creating, dancing, cooking. 🎨🎧💃🏼🍲

What brings you back to a place of peace? ✨

🥕CARROT CAKE MUFFINS🥕

These are a staple go-to snack in our house! Filling, healthy & easy to make! 😋

🍌INGREDIENTS🍌

(WET)
🥥2 eggs (or 2 flax eggs)
🥥2 ripe bananas
🥥1/2 cup coconut oil
🥥1/4 cup honey (or sweetener of choice)
🥥1 tsp vanilla extract

(DRY)
🥥1/2 cup whole wheat flour (or flour of choice)
🥥1 cup oat flour
🥥1 tsp baking soda
🥥1/2 tsp sea salt
🥥1 tsp cinnamon
🥥1/4 tsp nutmeg

(OTHER)
🥥1 cup grated carrots
🥥1/2 cup chopped walnuts
🥥1/4 cup shredded coconut
🥥1/3 cup raisins

📖DIRECTIONS📖

👉🏼 Preheat oven to 350 & grease/line bread or muffin tin.
👉🏼 Place all wet ingredients into a food processor or blender & blend until smooth.
👉🏼 Mix all dry ingredients together in a large bowl.
👉🏼 Add the wet to the dry & combine, thoroughly mixing.
👉🏼 Fold into all “other” ingredients.
👉🏼 Place batter in muffin tin or bread tin 3/4 full & bake for 30 minutes (muffins) or 45-55 (loaf)