"Jacynthe, why are you wearing a borrowed necklace?" "Are you going to talk about diet and lifestyle again, or just beauty?" "I have oily skin, can I use your serum?" "I bought Jacynthe's book and it's so perfect." "How do you navigate wheat and gluten-free?"... ... ... I get hundreds of questions every week, and sometimes it's good to set the record straight.
And with all that, I'm the mother of a baby, a boy, and a teenager. I'm shooting a film. I'm starting my speaking tour across Quebec. And yes, I also launched a natural makeup line 3 weeks ago (that's no small feat!) because you asked me to!
But let's get back to basics. This Jmagazine (or MaisonJacynthe as I now like to call it, because I'm opening the doors to my universe to you) is above all a webzine, a destination with more than 200 gluten-free Vegan recipes, more than 400 articles that cover many questions about this lifestyle, from permaculture to alternative schools, from natural beauty to invigorating food, tips galore have been offered to you for 3 and a half years. My boyfriend woke me up this morning congratulating me: there were nearly 1/2 million page views in the last month for 120,000 users. Wow yes. And wow, it's free and wow for our equally invested community and for the circle of scientific experts who write here. So if right now you want more texts on food, well-being, family, Permaculture, please browse!
Wow, also for the bookzine! It had to be done, to publish a recycled paper book in 2016 on this lifestyle parallel to what we distribute en masse. A great success, write the distributor to us. Thank you for being there (and I forgot in my preamble as a mother on maternity leave that we are finishing the second one which will be on newsstands on November 3 and we will offer you the subscription soon).
If I can live and surround myself with 7 full-time employees now and a larger number part-time, excluding my lover and me, wow too (it was just us just a few months ago), it is because I have an exceptional gift of life, a beautiful natural products company, only good, only quality at the best prices we can find in the world. This was my wish for 13 years, to offer these potions at affordable prices. Because I too had it difficult once, not so long ago. That's why I asked Luc for the purifying formula, because I only bought used, in involuntary simplicity mode.
Not a day went by without you all asking me for natural makeup. Another gift of life, the encounter with a master in the art (there are not many of them, look around you at the infinite "smallness" of proposals for natural products that do the work of ultra hd chemicals...). We launched it 3 weeks ago, I must present it, tell you about it because who does it in Quebec and elsewhere? 10 years ago, the David Suzuki organization asked me to take this place, I am there with immense pleasure because only good things, once again. And exciting to have this palette, these textures, perfumes, pigments on one side and on the other rituals that make us beautiful, naturally. Allow me to tell you about it again and again. First, it allows me to offer you our island of happiness and well-being that is maisonjacynthe.ca and second, by doing only good, to our skin, our beauties, the animals, the planet, the seabed, our children (whom we want to protect from all chemicals). A customer thanked us this morning because she gets her natural skin products from a European multinational and finds better with us at better prices. Happiness.
Of course I'll continue to post about food and my lifestyle. I'm just getting started. I'm also looking forward to talking to you about life with a baby and how our instincts never fail us (according to the businesswoman and farmer, two aspects of my life for which I'm nominated).
Two final points. We have the honor of receiving Ms. Starenkyj's texts. I will not censor her! She eats wheat. I don't. Wheat when she published "The Happiness of Vegetarianism" was not what it is 40 years later. I know how to read her text and take it for myself without getting lost. Let's return to our truth, each for himself. Let's take what suits us. Let's leave what we don't like! No model fits everyone. I stopped eating gluten because it took away my energy. Period. I thus regained my vitality. Period. Let everyone try for themselves what suits them. This is my way of sharing life. Hence the hundreds of inspirations spread here and through my works. We take what speaks to us and the change works for our well-being. And each day is thus better. We don't do everything at once! and not everything is for us! A title about calories is scary, I who no longer count them, I had a battle with them that Mrs. Starenkyj may not have had, but she had others! I read her text and I say to myself, yes to my juices and my vitamins combined with my gluten-free grains, to my healthy homemade gluten-free whole-grain bread, to my Okinawan quinoa which calms me deeply... and so on. Obviously we can only live on carrots. But I'm not going to censor Mrs. Starenkyj! Our two worlds come together. And we find ourselves in each other, with immense joy.
And here's what I want to say in closing: I'm far from perfect. I'm doing what I can, like a radio interview between two scenes with a baby in my arms. And I've come a long way, which allows me to understand. I've come a long way, and there's hope for everyone, believe me. And if you want to know more, now's the time to come and listen to me. I'm starting my tour; just click on conferences.
With baby, what do I do? Moment by moment. He is important to me, his well-being is mine. I take him as much as I can and he is right there, always, night and day. If he is comfortable and calm, I am... If I am comfortable and calm, he is!
With that, I'm writing to you with one hand, baby in the other arm, and I'm leaving with wet hair for my second conference out of 5 this week!
Alleluia.
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