🧺 Laundry chemicals, the walk, pantry reset

Happy Monday my friend,

🎄Earth Conscious Life is taking a pause from our usual Wednesday newsletter this week as we spend Christmas Eve with family.

If you’re celebrating Christmas or honoring any tradition this time of year, I’m wishing you a truly merry holiday, and a season filled with love, peace, and blessings.

🩺 HEALTH HACK
Right after you eat, take a 10-minute walk around the block or even your living room, since this 2025 study on immediate post-meal walking found lower peak glucose compared with doing nothing.

🧭 PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
Pick one change you want this week, then write one sentence in if-then form: “If it’s 7:30am, then I will do 2 minutes of breathwork,” or “If I feel reactive, then I will take one slow exhale before replying.” This simple approach is called implementation intentions and it’s designed to close the gap between good intentions and follow-through.

🤔 DID YOU KNOW?
Each additional hour of daily screen time was linked with about 21% higher odds of myopia in a large evidence review, which makes “eyes up, distance out” a surprisingly powerful habit. Here’s the JAMA Network Open meta-analysis record.

Earth Conscious Poetry

we thought the future would be
chrome and speed,
but it turns out the next era is
clay.

linen.
ink.
instruments.
soil.

it’s the curve of real handwriting.
the creak of a leather book.
the sound of someone working.

humanity is circling back
to itself.

and it feels like medicine.

VICTORIA ERICKSON

🏡 REGENERATIVE HOME
If you still use dryer sheets for that “fresh laundry” scent, you are often coating fabrics with undisclosed fragrance chemicals that can irritate airways and add to indoor pollution. A simple swap is wool dryer balls plus essential oil sceneted detergent, and this EWG guide to chemicals in fabric softeners and dryer sheets shows what to watch for on labels.

🧠 OPTIMIZED MIND
If your mind feels noisy, try five minutes of birdsong or forest audio before deep work, based on this 2025 research on forest soundscapes and restoration.

🏷️ LABEL DECODER
“No added sugar” does not mean “low sugar,” it just means no sugars (or sugar-containing ingredients) were added during processing under specific rules. You can still get a big sugar hit from naturally sweet concentrates or fruit-based products, so always check Total Sugars and Added Sugars on the Nutrition Facts panel. Here’s the legal definition for “no added sugar” labeling requirements.

Pantry Reset

If you’re doing a 2026 pantry reset, here’s a genuinely practical upgrade: Kiki Milk.

I’m friends with the founders, and they’re heart-forward humans who built the kind of non-dairy milk I wish existed years ago – nourishing, simple, and made from organic whole foods instead of the usual “nonsense” (seed oils, gums, emulsifiers, and mystery additives). Kiki blends ingredients like oats, hemp, pumpkin seeds, and coconut, and it’s Certified Organic and No Glyphosate-Residue Certified.

What I love most about Kiki Milk is that it is designed to be nutritionally meaningful, not just flavored water: 5g of plant protein per serving, plus minerals like calcium and magnesium.

It also makes an easy, better-for-you present: a pantry staple that actually gets used in smoothies, coffee, cereal, and baking, in our house weekly.

Use code ROB25 for 25% off at checkout.

GET IT HERE <<<

💬 Poll

⬅️ Last poll’s results

Do you like me including a poem every once in a while?

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Yes, I enjoy poetry (90.7%)

⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ Don't need it (9.3%)

To a healing future,

— Rob