Summary: <br> <br> 7 FAQS TO CONFIDENTLY ANSWER MY DAUGHTER’S QUESTIONS<br> <br> Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind.<br> –Howard W. Hunter<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <a href="http://www.trishblackwell.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/001.-copy-7.jpg"></a><br> <br> <br> <br> <br> SPONSORSHIP NOTE: <br> <br> <br> This podcast is proudly brought to you by BEAUTYCOUNTER, the only personal care company committed information first, product second, transparency and performance. Their mission is to get safe products in the hands of everyone, because we all deserve better. BEAUTYCOUNTER is a company devoted to progress and to putting the truth back in beauty. Not only do I love their products and the positive change using them has made for wellness, but also I am proud to partner with them. Find out more about BEAUTYCOUNTER at <a href="http://www.trishblackwell.com/beautycounter">www.trishblackwell.com/beautycounter</a>.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> CELEBRATION GIVEAWAY!!!!<br> <br> THE GIVEAWAY DETAILS! <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Steps to enter:<br> <br> <br> <br> * Search for “The Confident Mom” Podcast in iTunes<br> * Subscribe to the show<br> * Post an honest review and use the tagline #confidentmom at the end of your review<br> * Make sure to listen to both podcast shows for the next 4 weeks and I will be randomly choosing winners! There will be three winners, one for each week of the new show who receive FREE access to my Emerge Program [!!!!!} If by November 1st the new show receives over 100 reviews, a major winner will receive access to Emerge AND a beautiful Beautycounter gift of my go-to skin care love, Beautycounter Essentials Face Collection…the collection that is making my skin look radiant, clean and youthful.<br> * If you hear your name announced on the show email me at trish {at} trishblackwell.com so I can contact you with your prize.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> LET’S GET INTO THE CONFIDENT CONTENT: <br> <br> <br> Okay, I tricked you. Ellie can’t talk yet, but these are her anticipated questions. As you heard in episode #5, I am really jamming out on a new area of wellness for my life and for my family that I never anticipated I would care about before.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> 7 FAQS FOR MY DAUGHTER ABOUT CHEMICALS AND THE ENVIRONMENT<br> <br> <br> I am a right-brained person. I love words, I love literature and I love anything creative. I understand math and science, because, well, my mom raised me to be a good student, but I like to forget as much of it as I can unless it is absolutely necessary. My mind simply doesn’t like to dwell on or think about anything that ends in –ology, which contributes to the explanation of my previous lack of involvement in activism for natural wellness. The phrase natural wellness itself bores me and makes me want to run away. Because I value being a good citizen, I have always cared about the environment and about the biology of the eco-system, but, my care never translated to action. I avoided conversations about organic choices, dug in my heels of ignorance about global climate change and certainly wrote off activism of any type, that is, until I realized just how much it all actually did relate to me. Previously my brain had been lost in translation, but as a result of one powerful documentary and one well written book, I was compelled into change…not because I hadn’t cared before, but because I finally understood the implications of what all of that left-brain talk really meant for me, a right-brain girl just trying to be a good wife, a good mom and a good motivator for my community to be physically healthy. A personal trainer by trade,
