Hello I’m Joanne!
A Pleasing life exists to provide resources for natural living and health. I want to help you Achieve independent natural living and vitality.
A Pleasing Life is about a life that is pleasing to you, your family and before God. That’s why A Pleasing Life offers resources for natural living and health. I want to share age-old wisdom and up to date information blended together to give you holistic health and living information that honors your Christian faith.
I live on a twenty-something acre plot of land in central Maine where I grow most of my own food, and live as naturally as I can without being rigid about it.
Besides collecting eggs, pulling weeds (and sometimes eating them) or picking apples, I enjoy a hiking up one of the mountains near my home. And, in my spare time, I practice family medicine.
But it didn’t start out that way!
I grew up in a nice suburban home. We had a garden. Mum cooked good meals. But I had a weakness for junk food and made a regular diet of it. I was often sick with whatever was going around and I was tired all the time. I was actually diagnosed with malnutrition when I was in the ninth grade! My mother was pretty embarrassed.
The thing is that I didn’t think I ate that much junk. My parents really didn’t think so either. I already loved gardening and the back-to-nature movement of the seventies. There was a popular song back then called Junk Food Junkie by Larry Groce (1976) and it described me pretty well. Sugar addiction is real as is an addiction to processed food in general.
A Pleasing Life – resources for natural living and health
My interest in good nutrition and health increased when I became a mother. I gave birth to three beautiful children in rapid succession. At the age of twenty-two, I found myself a single mom with children 6 months, 18 months and just barely 2 years.
The very next year I started college and, after many tired years, became a physician assistant.
I thought we ate healthy then, but I cringe when I look back on those years. If only I knew then what I know now.
And that’s exactly what A Pleasing Life is all about.
I want to offer you simple resources for natural living and health.
Over two decades of practicing family medicine has given me insight about just how common the health problems resulting from an exhausting lifestyle deplete of real food and real peace are. I have counseled patients about fatigue, depression, anxiety, chronic pain and other complaints. Some people do require medication but many, many more just need a change of lifestyle. Even those people who require medication benefit from simple changes. That’s why I started A Pleasing Life. A Pleasing Life offers resources for natural living and health so you can live with gusto to the glory of God.
About A Pleasing Life
Resources For Natural Living And Health
On this site you will find a growing body of information about small scale homesteading. I share what I have learned from growing much of my own food.
More importantly you will find information about making small but vital changes to your overall health.
Check out Kickstart To Vitality Here! The Kickstart offers a simple start to easy changes you can make to live with vitality and gusto. The Kickstart To Vitality is the basis for reclaiming vitality. Just click on the image and you’ll be on your way.
I look forward to joining you on your journey.
Blessings,
Joanne
