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Community Question: How Do You Simplify Your Life? 1

Community Question: How Do You Simplify Your Life?

by Crunchy Betty

On a steamy summer day, you're sitting at a table in front of this orange. You're going to eat it. It's one of the most simple things on the planet, receiving sustenance from food. The air is still and nothing exists but …

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How to Win Happiness and Influence Yourself 1

How to Win Happiness and Influence Yourself

by Crunchy Betty

Something you want. What is it? What do you want? Choose one thing.

Write it down. (I'm not kidding. Write it down.) We'll get to why you're doing this soon.

In the meantime, have you ever read Dale Carnegie's How to …

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I Don't Care Who Made This Mess ... YOU Clean It Up 1

I Don’t Care Who Made This Mess … YOU Clean It Up

by Crunchy Betty

You're a 5-year-old kid.

Yes, you. Right now. You're 5 years old and you're playing quietly with your chalk, and Johnny snot-nose next to you has blocks out, which he's throwing all over the ground. It doesn't even look …

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Food For Your Soul: How to Fall Apart With Grace 4

Food For Your Soul: How to Fall Apart With Grace

by Crunchy Betty

There is a tension belt in your head. At optimal levels, it's stretched just tight enough to keep everything running smoothly, with a tiny bit of slack for moments of stress. The tension you feel on a daily basis - the one …

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Trust Yourself and Change the World

Trust Yourself and Change the World

by Crunchy Betty

Let's talk about trust.

And money.

And stuff.

In the olden days of yore, money served one purpose: To exchange your time for goods or services. It was pretty honest, you know? "Hey, Octavius, can I buy that gold …

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How to Turn Your Daughters (Back) Into Witches

How to Turn Your Daughters (Back) Into Witches

by Crunchy Betty

Traditionally witches were those folks, mostly poor &/or older women, who just didn't fit in with their medieval neighbors. Their crimes included healing with herbs, having pets & helping birth babies. Oh, & …

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Synchronicities and Happy Coincidences: Have You Noticed the Magic Lately? 1

Synchronicities and Happy Coincidences: Have You Noticed the Magic Lately?

by Crunchy Betty

Claire, if you're reading this, please continue to pay attention. You, especially, will enjoy this story.

"According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that a transformation is …

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The Womanly Ideal: Then and Now in 10 Comparative Photos 10

The Womanly Ideal: Then and Now in 10 Comparative Photos

by Crunchy Betty

WARNING: This post contains artistic nude paintings and sculptures from historically famous artists. If this kind of thing upsets or offends you, please read no further. There is no vulgarity; just depictions of the female …

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Reflections On the Grand Experiment: By a Crunchy Betty 1

Reflections On the Grand Experiment: By a Crunchy Betty

by Crunchy Betty

If you've ever felt frustrated with finding natural solutions to your beauty problems ...

If you've ever thought about throwing in the towel ...

If you've ever contemplated how much you wish you weren't the way you are …

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Two Stories to Touch Your Heart and Open Up Your Givingness 1

Two Stories to Touch Your Heart and Open Up Your Givingness

by Crunchy Betty

It is the season of giving, and goodness knows that many of us are looking into a well of empty bank accounts already, but we are fortunate. We are. Look around you. Smile. See all the things you have? The love and …

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Tired and Stressed About the Holidays? College Finals? 5 Quick Fixes to Get You Back on Track 3

Tired and Stressed About the Holidays? College Finals? 5 Quick Fixes to Get You Back on Track

by Crunchy Betty

No-Doz.

It got me through college finals and then, later, through five-night-a-week holiday parties, baking, and present wrapping. Those were the days, long ago. Back when I had little regard for my health - or for the …

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Community Question: Are You Happy With What You've Given Up? 1

Community Question: Are You Happy With What You’ve Given Up?

by Crunchy Betty

One of my friends recently brought up an issue so many people have these days:

"How on earth," she asked me one night, "do you afford to eat organic and grass-fed and make your own skincare stuff out of all these …

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Should We Give the FDA MORE Power? Safe Cosmetics Act 2011

Should We Give the FDA MORE Power? Safe Cosmetics Act 2011

by Crunchy Betty

This was not on my agenda today, writing this post. But I have to. (I HAVE to.) Because it not only affects something we care about very deeply, but because it dances on my foundational beliefs in freedom of choice.

I'd …

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#occupymystreet

#occupymystreet

by Crunchy Betty

Mine is a quiet revolution.

As the world takes to the streets in defiance, I take to my life in peace.

Mine is a quiet revolution.

As the world has days of rage, so I have days of self-discovery.

Mine is a quiet …

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The FOYF Day Has Come - Buy Crunchy Betty's Food on Your Face for Acne and Oily Skin N-O-W

Fall Through the Ghost

by Crunchy Betty

This book has me terrified. I'm not exaggerating.

I keep telling myself, "More people read the blog you post to several times a week than will ever read this book."

Like that's supposed to make me feel better.

It …

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This Month, You INTEND to ... !!!

This Month, You INTEND to … !!!

by Crunchy Betty

I really want to ...

I keep meaning to ...

I'll do it tomorrow ...

I'm so curious about this, but ...

BANNED.

Those statements are banned from your vocabulary for the month of September. Got it? You're …

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The Heart-Changing Letter Exercise: Part 2

The Heart-Changing Letter Exercise: Part 2

by Crunchy Betty

Hello, lovelies.

If you have not written your letter to a loved one yet, I highly suggest you do so now. Before reading any further.

Because I'm about to reveal the purpose of this, and it will be far more meaningful …

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The Heart-Changing Letter Exercise: Part 1

The Heart-Changing Letter Exercise: Part 1

by Crunchy Betty

Today we're going to do something wholly different.

It's a two-parter, which is why I'm getting a jump on things. The second part of this exercise will happen Monday afternoon at some point.

It will be the moment when …

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So I Ask the Tribe, "What Does Crunchy Mean?"

So I Ask the Tribe, “What Does Crunchy Mean?”

by Crunchy Betty

What does "crunchy" mean to you?

While you're reading, ponder this.

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You belong to a tribe. If you're reading this, if you've ever commented on this site, if this reaches your email inbox, if you've sent me an …

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Food For Your Soul: What Binky and Your Brain Have in Common 4

Food For Your Soul: What Binky and Your Brain Have in Common

by Crunchy Betty

Meet Binky. She’s a good robot, as far as robots go. She’s a little immodest, but we won’t hold that against her. Binky serves two purposes. She gives and she gets. When she gives, it is good. What she …

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The Challenge Within a Challenge: Think of the Bees 1

The Challenge Within a Challenge: Think of the Bees

by Crunchy Betty

There is more to being crunchy than mushing food about your facial region.

There is the other side. The reasons we make these new and sometimes seemingly radical choices.

Whether it's to stay away from synthetic …

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Food For Your Soul: Be a Little More Pro Today 1

Food For Your Soul: Be a Little More Pro Today

by Crunchy Betty

Such a small distinction, that between anti and pro, but it makes a world of difference in the way you approach life.

You first need to ask yourself: What brings me more joy? What allows me to grow fully into a caring, …

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Food For Your Soul: The Day You Stopped Slowing Me Down and Made Me See 1

Food For Your Soul: The Day You Stopped Slowing Me Down and Made Me See

by Crunchy Betty

You people drive me insane, with your slow walking and your taking up the sidewalks and your labored, unpredictable weaving and bobbing. And that's just the lot of you that aren't drunk.

You do this, and the walk to the …

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Food For Your Soul: Giving vs. Lending 1

Food For Your Soul: Giving vs. Lending

by Crunchy Betty

I will never lend you a book.

Ever.

Bank on that.

I will, however, gladly give you any one of the books I have. Freely, and without expectation that you'll return it. If you do, that's awesome and you win.

If you …

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