(If you're reading via email, click here to listen to the audio version of today's post.) I recently had a dental procedure and the doctor told me to stop using my current mouthwash and to instead do warm salt rinses 3 times a day until my mouth is healed. He went on to explain that the wound in my mouth would benefit from 3 main characteristics of salt. Salt has antibacterial properties and can therefore minimize the risk for infection. Salt is abrasive. A warm salt solution is gentle Continue Reading

(For the audio version of this blog post, click here.) I used to pick up my daughters and swing them in the air with no problem. I used to give them piggy back rides to bed and swoop them up in car seats with ease. Now, we play tag, they walk to bed, and they hop in the car by themselves. Because, one, they are physically capable. And two, they are now heavy. What changed? Their weight changed. They grew. The force pulling them towards the center of the Earth, namely gravity, is stronger Continue Reading

(For the audio version of this blog post, visit christywilliams.org) One of the perks of nursing a baby is potentially burning an average of 500 extra calories a day. The mistake I made while nursing was not taking in extra calories to make up for the ones I burned. This resulted in significant weight loss. I noticed how uncomfortable it became to sit for even short periods of time. Then I realized I had a callus on my tailbone area. I went to the doctor who sent me to a specialist convinced it Continue Reading