I will strive to improve upon my future actions….
As promised, I am here, again, this week! I am striving to get better about being HERE more, because I am slowly realizing that THIS is something that I should hold in much higher regard than I do. This blog that I created so many years ago, that has been my journal, my therapist and on some of the really bad days, seemingly my only friend deserves to be one of my top priorities. I started with that focus back before the start of the new year, just after I published my book, I thought my next step would be to finalize the overhaul I had begun and finish making it all clean and pretty and ready to showcase my journey, our adventures and our growing but then the holidays, pimping my book, our trip to Colorado and other shit got me off track. But I’m working a lot on balance and focus in my #tryingtoactuallydothisyogathing thing and I am now trying to apply that to my work and writing and the channels we choose to share our journey.
There is SO much to learn and share. –
cannabis and growing
exercise and yoga
food as medicine…
It’s really pretty amazing how much my life has changed for the better over the past two years,
But it is also amazing how much more there is to learn!
When my kids were little, I would get so sick and tired of hearing them say “SORRY” I loathed the word. It made me cringe and go into grumpy, pissed off momma, and so to try and lighten the situation, I taught my kids to say “my apologies mother, I will strive to improve upon my future actions.” Instead of pissing me off, it cracked me up every time I watched them struggle to remember the right words. BUT I got them to think about how often they were saying sorry and I like to think they said it a little bit less. They stopped making excuses and started just getting shit done.
I have been thinking about that story of my children’s younger lives lately and it has become one of the mantras that I run through my head when I am struggling to stay outside of the fog as it rolls in – as I am trying to remain focused and balanced.
EACH DAY I WILL STRIVE TO IMPROVE
UPON MY FUTURE ACTIONS
Translation- I’m just going to keep doing all of the shit that is making me better, over and over again and I am going to keep searching for other new natural ways to help my body and my disease heal.
So here is a “quick” post with my recipe for my
PB AND POT MEDICATED SMOOTHIE
(peanut butter and banana cannabis smoothie, but I added coffee and cocoa so I guess it’s the
MORE THAN PB AND POT MEDICATED SMOOTHIE????
WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL IT – IT’S GOOD!!!
1 frozen organic banana
1 tbsp organic peanut butter
1 tbsp almond butter
1 cup pea-protein milk
1/4 cup coffee dairy free “ice-cream”
1 tsp maca powder (energy booster)
1 tbsp hemp protein
1/2 tsp chai seeds (helps clean out the pipes)
2 tbps flax seeds (helps clean out the pipes)
1 tbsp cocoa powder (may boost energy??)
1 *tbsp **cannabis**
**HOW TO DECARBOXYLATE CANNABIS**
- Take dried flower and grind it up into as fine a powder as possible
- Spread into a thin layer onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, or an old cracked ceramic pie dish, *depending on who you ask
- Leave uncovered, or wrap tightly in tin-foil, *depending on who you ask.
- Heat in a 200-250 degree oven
- For or 25-60 min, again *depending on who you ask.
My point with all the “depending on who you ask’s” is – there are plenty of techniques, traditions, and random shit that people do to decarboxylate flower, but really it comes down to applying heat to the flower to activate the THC. OR if you don’t want the THC activated – meaning NO sensation of being high or stoned but still getting some of the medicinal benefits of the plant (ie the cannabinoids and the terpenes along with a whole bunch of other good shit) then skip this step and just blend your dried flower into a powder and blend away.
I personally am doing about 30 min at 225 wrapped tightly in tinfoil – to keep terpenes in. I let it cool for about 45 minutes to let them settle, unless I am in a hurry to just get done to make a smoothie because I have run out – which is about 99% of the time, but I would totally let it settle if I had the time. I support settling:)
*NOTE ON CANNABIS DOSING*
THIS cannabis dosage is based on my body and my disease. Everyone’s dose will be different according to their bodies needs*
Weather forecast looks decent for Sunday – so hoping to get out on the boat, It’s been way too long, between the trip and the snow and then the wind. I need my ocean fix for sure!
Hope everyone has a wonderfully wild weekend!
**This is my personal blog and all opinions are my own. I am not a doctor, nor do I play one here on my blog. The content here is for informational and entertainment purposes only and is solely intended to inform people of what is working for my body and my disease. Everyone is different and everyone needs to go on their own journey with this disease. THIS IS MY JOURNEY**