Your Behind-the-Scenes Look at a DIY Blog Post: Or Why You Should LOVE Your DIY Bloggers
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it a million times more. Crunchy Betty is blessed with the best readers ever to grace the earth. Not a day goes by that I don’t receive a sweet, thankful email that melts my heart.
And you guys support and help each other in ways that make me proud to be a part of the human race. Let’s be honest: Not many places like that exist on the internet. We’re pretty drama-free. This is good news. (TAKE THAT AND SHOVE IT.) (Just kidding.)
But recently Stephanie sent me a link to this blog post titled Why Your Readers Hate it When You Make Money. And number 9. Oh, number 9 really hit home. It was: “Because most stuff in our society is mass-produced, people tend to undervalue other people’s time.” (Not that I think any of you don’t want me to make money, but just the exhausting stuff that goes into writing a DIY blog tutorial.)
And you want to know, don’t you? You really want to know what all goes into writing DIY blog posts, and this might explain why sometimes I feel like I’m a little bit too crazy tired to respond to emails and questions on a weekly daily basis. Let me take you into the world of DIY tutorials for a moment. I promise to return you to sanity when we’re done.
Crunchy Angels – Help This Man Heal His Cancer
You’ve been affected by cancer. In some way. Haven’t you?
Maybe it was your mother, or your best friend’s uncle, or you dealt with it personally, undergoing rounds of chemo and wondering when it would end.
None of us are exempt from the experience – whether indirectly or directly – any longer. It’s everywhere. But frighteningly enough, the regimens used to treat cancer can often be as scary as the cancer itself.
Chemotherapy and radiation both, in fact, are a cause of cancer. Your disease is being treated by a very thing that causes it. Add to it the myriad other side effects of mainstream treatment, and you’re not only facing the fear of death via your initial disease, but the potential of a very excruciating life for months (if not forever).
It’s a terrible position to be put in, and from every side of you doctors and medical institutions are screaming, “There is no other way to treat cancer! You MUST do it this way or face certain death!”
So you look to nature, and you wonder. You research, and talk to other people who’ve chosen the alternative. Your mind changes …
But deciding to take a different route, an alternative one, is met with derisive sneers or complete frustration by the doctors who really just want you to be healthy (and I believe most of them really do). Some of your friends and family will be baffled by the choice. Some of them won’t support it. You feel as if maybe you’re a little crazy, in the face of all the decision making.
Reflections On the Grand Experiment: By a Crunchy Betty
If you’ve ever felt frustrated with finding natural solutions to your beauty problems …
If you’ve ever thought about throwing in the towel …
If you’ve ever contemplated how much you wish you weren’t the way you are ..
I want you to read this.
Kylieonwheels has been a member of Crunchy Betty for as long as I can recall, and she consistently has insightful, supportive thoughts to share. But she outdid herself last Monday.
Her comment is so inspiring that it deserves its own post. I will not dilute her wisdom with more of my nattering, so …
Two Stories to Touch Your Heart and Open Up Your Givingness
It is the season of giving, and goodness knows that many of us are looking into a well of empty bank accounts already, but we are fortunate. We are. Look around you. Smile. See all the things you have? The love and support?
It’s probably no coincidence that I’ve run across two stories recently that have touched me very personally – on two different levels. I want to share these stories with you, in the hopes that you’ll be inspired by them, and perhaps even moved to help these two magnificent people.
The first starts way back when I was 5 years old.
Community Question: Are You Happy With What You’ve Given Up?
One of my friends recently brought up an issue so many people have these days:
“How on earth,” she asked me one night, “do you afford to eat organic and grass-fed and make your own skincare stuff out of all these essential oils? I couldn’t possibly afford that.”
And, to my surprise, my answer was “priorities.”
As the conversation, and glasses of wine, went on, she lamented on how much she wanted to start eating more healthily, but she just didn’t think she had the money for it. The more we talked, the more she pointed out how expensive her cell phone and cable bills were. And how she loved to go out to eat twice a week. And she and her husband had two car payments, along with the expensive of dinner-and-a-movie nights twice a month.
You can see the quandary, right?
She was aghast at the choices I’ve made – a $30-a-month cell phone plan that didn’t include a smart phone, the fact that I hadn’t bought any new clothes in the last six months, that I don’t go out to eat more than once a month, and that I didn’t have a car. “Don’t you feel like you’re missing out on SO MUCH? Just so you can eat healthy and buy these things for your skin and your blog?”
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