How We Flourish

Creating healthier people and a healthier planet, one step at a time

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What I Learned: I Love Autoimmunity!

I may receive a commission if you purchase something mentioned in this post. See more details here.Actually, no I don’t. I hate autoimmunity. But I love learning about it! Autoimmunity is something I have been aware of for a while, since I started combating my eczema with food and since my mom was diagnosed with […]

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Clean Eating Update

I started my elimination diet at the end of May and completed it about 60 days later. For a few weeks, I did a very good job of only eating real food with clean ingredients. Towards the end of the summer, though, things started to go down hill. I returned to school with a determination […]

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Dorm Eating: “Kitchen” Space

Today I thought it would be fun to show you my “kitchen space” in my dorm room. When you are as restricted in space and equipment as a dorm room, you have to get creative! Here is my “pantry.” We have the same type of desk in most of the dorms, so I have made […]

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The Importance of Friendship

I’ve struggled my whole life to maintain friendships. It is something that is very hard for me to talk about and acknowledge, but I have been dealing with it since I was 12. I have had 5 best friends leave my life and three friend groups that I have just fallen away from. After enough […]

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What I Learned: More Latin Poetry

What can I say? I’m taking a Latin Lyric class. We have now moved on to reading Horace, and Thursday in class, the poem adjacent to the one we were translating had my name in it. This caught my eye, as well as my professor’s. There are 9 people in this class, I have him […]