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Making Cottage Life Easier With Arm + Hammer

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This is my happy place. I am one of the lucky people who married into an amazing family who also happen own a cottage up in Muskoka, north of Toronto. I’ve spent a good part of every summer up there for 12 years now, loving the company of family and friends, enjoying the lake and the woods we’re surrounded by, and just generally appreciating something I never had access to, growing up. Honestly, this is a place, a privilege, I never want to take for granted. This is the view I’ve had, …

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Making Mother’s Day Count at The Keg

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Growing up, I used to use Mother’s Day as an excuse to make my dad buy something pretty for my mom, on behalf of me. One year, it was a porcelain carousel horse, another year it was body lotion scented with her favourite perfume. Swarovski figurines, a pendant, a decorative teapot. In more recent years, I would make my mother-in-law and my own mom matching pairs of earrings, because I had a jewellery business. This is nothing unusual. Mother’s Day has long been a kind of second Christmas for …

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10 Books You Need to Go Back and Read NOW

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Image source: BNW Movie Production It feels, increasingly, as though we’re living in a time that will go down in the history books as the defining moment of the century. Regardless of where you currently live, there are challenges we couldn’t imagine we would face, back when we were studying history and reading classic literature in high school. But really, who knew we were studying playbooks for  our future, back when we were analyzing dystopian novels? Turns out, there are a fair …

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Transforming Myself With Orangetheory Fitness

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When I first started working out at Orangetheory Fitness in Whitby, I anticipated big changes to take place, physically. I used to be pretty fit, but I’ve been getting more and more out of shape since popping out baby number two, more than two years ago. I figured it would be a reasonably straightforward process; I’ve always gotten back into shape pretty quickly, and I have this subconscious weight cap that’ve always kind of kept myself under, as long as there isn’t a baby inside me.   It …

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My Journey to Body Positivity With Orangetheory Fitness

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Throughout my 30s, I was happy with myself. I made time to exercise, even after my first child was born, and I ate well. I weighed myself occasionally, but not obsessively, and I focused mostly on being a healthy human. One of the important parts about being the mom to two daughters is, for me, the choice to teach them about body positivity. I have tried my best to impress upon them that they are beautiful no matter what they wear or how they look, that beauty comes from within and how a person …

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