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Friday Favorites: Fuchsia Pants, Fall Décor, & The Health Benefits of Coffee

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Emily Blasik
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September 30, 2016

friday favorites: fuchsia pants, fall decor, & the health benefits of coffee

What are you up to this weekend? Saturday kicks off the best month of the year, folks, and we can’t wait to celebrate with all the October-y things… Like Hocus Pocus viewing parties and apple cider cocktails! Regardless of what you have planned, we hope it’s filled with cool temps and warm cuddles. And if you find yourself needing a dose of inspiration, here are a few things we’re loving around the web this week:

Speaking of apple cider cocktails, I can’t wait to make this one!

We should all participate in #TotalHonestyTuesday. 

Have you seen this movie trailer? 

One journalist tried Hillary Clinton’s diet for a week, and this is what happened.

Mary’s fuchsia pants are on my fall wish list.

5 reasons to feel good about your daily cup of joe. (Happy belated National Coffee Day!)

On how to find your voice in the workplace.

Get moving because you love your body, not because you want to see it shrink.

This fall-decorated home is what dreams are made of.

Download The Blog Market‘s cute October calendar desktop!

Have a lovely weekend,

The HSG Team

 

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  • “think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.” - Anne Frankname one beautiful thing that's making you happy today. for me, it is my neighbors' fall decorations on full display outside. 🍁 it's not Salem, but it still makes my heart skip a beat.
  • coffee with old friends. 🖤 the perfect afternoon.
  • have you ever seen a cuter bookstore? it's Halloween themed! 💀speaking of which, what are you reading right now? i just finished The Woman in the Window (loved the suspense!) and am looking for some more spooky recommendations to round out my October. horror lovers, let me have 'em!
  • TOP 3 REASONS WHY I ❤️ MY AVA FERTILITY TRACKER.1️⃣ ACCURACY: @avawomen tracks ovulation while you sleep using five physiological signals of fertility, including body temp, resting pulse rate, breathing rate, sleep patterns, & heart rate variability ratio. 2️⃣ EASE OF USE: with Ava, there's no fumbling around with a thermometer first thing in the early hours, when you're super groggy & trying not to wake your spouse. all that's required is slipping the bracelet on before bed & syncing it to your phone when you wake up the next morning. easy peasy lemon squeezy! 3️⃣ VALUABLE INFO & NICE AESTHETICS: even though the Ava isn't made specifically for women with irregular cycles or PCOS (both of which i had), it still offered so much valuable insight into my health—like, for example, how well i was sleeping each night & signs of stress (love the HRV ratio!). regardless of your situation, Ava provides a minefield of useful info at your fingertips. to top it off, the app is well organized & aesthetically pleasing, a small but critical detail that sets it apart from many digital fertility trackers on the market.i'm not exaggerating when i say that the #avabracelet played a huge role in my becoming pregnant naturally. for years, i'd been charting my cycles based on cervical mucus observations, but it wasn't until i invested in the Ava that i knew for certain if and when i was ovulating. only two months into using it, Ava could pinpoint my fertile window—which was confirmed by a positive pregnancy test a few weeks later! pretty amazing for someone with irregular cycles, & easily the best $300 i've ever spent. plus, since Ava also tracks pregnancy, it's still proving itself useful! #PCOSandpregnantto learn more about this handy dandy contraption, click the link in my bio or send me a quick DM! i'm always happy to sing its praises or answer any questions! ⚠️ DISCLAIMER: if you're trying to avoid pregnancy, i would not recommend relying solely on a fertility tracker (as they can be prone to mistakes). it's best to combine digital tracking with another form of fertility awareness or birth control, like observing your cervical mucus changes or using barrier methods.
  • gotta love a warm & cozy bowl of oats.
  • New England autumn sky, circa 2017. ✨ (more of my favorite Salem snapshots to come, just in time for Halloween. i'd go back tomorrow if i could. 😭)
  • all the October feels. 👻
  • COFFEE + FEMALE HORMONES = DISASTER?if you've followed my feed for any length of time, you know that i adore everything about coffee. the smell, the taste, the ritual, the immediate jolt of energy—it's all heaven in my book. but ask anyone in the hormonal health sphere, & they'll tell you that ☕ (or, more specifically, the caffeine in coffee) is a giant no-no for women who struggle with hormonal imbalances. unfortunately, they're not wrong: caffeine has been proven to exacerbate conditions like PMS, PCOS, fibroids, endometriosis, & infertility—a fact that, when you consider how this powerful substance boosts your body's production of cortisol (the result of which is that lovely little mental high we busy bodies can't get enough of), is difficult to argue. most of us with hormonal conditions are walking bouncy balls of adrenaline WITHOUT the added stimulation of caffeine. so what's a coffee lover to do?for a while, when i was serious about balancing my hormones & conceiving naturally, coffee took a backseat in my life. as sad as i was to forego my favorite AM ritual, i knew that i had to get my stress under control in order for my body to properly heal—& this was a sacrifice i was willing to make... for the short term, anyway. now that i have a much better handle on my health, i've started to incorporate a little bit of caffeine into my daily routine again, but i'm always careful not to overdo it. (@nespresso's half-caff pods are my go-to at the moment.) at the first sign of frazzled nerves, however, i back off the caffeine altogether. frying my adrenals is simply not worth it to me anymore. ⚡if your body is sending you uncomfortable signals whenever you have a cup of joe—think headaches, a fast pulse, feelings of anxiety, or loss of focus—OR if you find that you can't function without a cup, it may be time to give it a rest. my recommendation? make the switch to organic decaf or herbal 🍵 for a week or so (i love @yogitea's chai rooibos!) & see how you feel. i'm not in favor of swearing off the things we love forever, but taking a break from caffeine might be just what you need to reset your hormones once & for all.
  • the cottage of my dreams. 👩🏻💭 blame it on the fact that i'm preparing to be couch-bound for pretty much the next 3-6 months, but i've been in a seriously nostalgic mood when it comes to my former escapades. (plus, i've recently undertaken the time-consuming project of transferring all of my personal photographs from my Mac to Google Photos for storage reasons—& y'all, the urge to reminisce has been real). so hopefully you won't mind seeing a bit more travel shots around these parts!i'll only share my most picturesque moments, starting with this one: my friends & i stumbled upon this charming cottage on a walk through the English countryside. it was 2012 & we were studying abroad as part of UT's Oxford program—my first trip overseas & still to this day my most missed travel adventure of all time. 🇬🇧 #travelwithcandor

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