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A Fermenting Goddess’ Guide to kick-butt Kombucha

After almost three months of making kombucha, I feel like I’ve morphed dozens of recipes and blog posts online into a routine of my own for making my own kombucha. My friends (and I) have even called me a fermenting goddess. So even though you aren’t asking for it, here’s my guide for making ‘bucha

  Supplies:

Large Jar (at least one gallon, I use a 2.5 gallon jar)

Hand Towel

Rubber Band

Glass…

I Make Kombucha and There’s Too Much of It

If you’re up-to-date on healthy trends, you’ve probably heard about kombucha. Kombucha isn’t just an expensive drink in the produce section, it’s actually the name of a SCOBY (Symbiotic Culture Of Bacteria and Yeast). This SCOBY is placed in sweet tea and over the course of 7 days (or up to a month) it consumes the sugar in the sweet tea and grows. This turns the sweet tea into a less sweet,…

I often find myself confused by other people’s contentment. There are people hurting. There are parts of this world that are broken. There is pain. How can you sit there in your own bliss like nobody’s crying out in pain around you? The answer people so often give is, “I’m content. Why can’t you be content?” When I am angered I’m told I’m not happy for what I have. When I fight I am told that I…

My Enneagram and What I’ve Learned from It

If you don’t know what enneagram is, it’s a personality test that focuses on strategies for how we relate to ourselves and the world in how we think, feel, and act. It would probably be best to take the test before reading this so that this all makes sense, but in this I’m only talking about my own enneagram type, and how I learned to grow through it.

I’m 2w1. Twos are helpers who often meet…

Reconciling My Political Views as a Christian

  If you haven’t caught on by now, I’m an advocate for equal rights for all. Even more obviously, I am passionate about my faith. Many times I have received questions from peers along the lines of, “How do you reconcile being a liberal feminist with your faith?” But for me, it’s simple. I try to mirror my Lord, Jesus Christ, and that has led me to my position as both a liberal and a feminist.

A…

The Red Flags I Didn’t Know I Needed to Know

This is not my usual blog post, but I think it’s possible that someone could benefit from this. I’m no expert on relationships by any means, but I do know a thing or two about being in bad ones. Here are all the things I wish I would’ve known before I started dating ❤

  Love is withheld as punishment

  This can lead to a lifetime of abuse and feeling like you deserve the abuse. Being loved…

My God Works Through Dreamcatchers

I’m one of those people who keeps a couple crystals in my backpack. Sometimes I hold them over my stomach when my ovaries hurt, on my chest when I’m anxious, or to my temples when I have a migraine. I allow the coolness of the crystals to make me aware of what’s here and what’s real. I let the weight of the crystals sink into me and still the moving muscles. I permit the crystals to slow my…

I didn’t post today, though I have been posting every Monday and Wednesday. It’s spring break! So I let myself take a break from blogging and I’ve been making bread, kefir, kombucha, and basically anything to procrastinate my homework. But I’ll be back with regularly (hopefully) scheduled (hopefully) content soon (hopefully)!

Much love,

Asher 😉

There are people on campus I refer to as “Jesus People.” You probably know them. They walk around with long hair or bare feet or Bible in hand. They are the ones who drag you to Sanctuary when you’ve convinced yourself you don’t have time for worship. They dance with you on the front lawn to Christian music when you need some Jesus time. But being a Christian is a lot more than sanctuary and…

My name is Asher Elaine Henderson, and I was born and raised here in Arkansas. I am 20, and I have seven siblings (five older than me and two younger than me).

I went to a private school for high school after being homeschooled for elementary, but the four years there were the worst of my life. I experienced a lot of bullying from other students and a couple teachers there, and despite many…

In a recent class, my teacher meandered onto the topic of rebellion. As we studied Hebrew poetry in Proverbs, we approached passages on parenting. Our teacher read, “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.” From there, my professor tumbled down a rabbit hole about good parents with bad children and prodigal sons returning home. He said,

“I’ve seen…

I Am More Than: My Past Diagnoses

Trauma.

Maybe it’s an overused word. I don’t blame you if you think so.

One time a therapist told me, “everyone goes through trauma. Whether it’s really big trauma like an accident or an assault, or little traumas like being scared once or someone being mean to you.” Everyone goes through trauma.

Trauma is familiar to me. Much of my life has warped itself into one of four categories:

Trauma

Suppr…

God didn’t make me to be pleasing to men. He made me to be a fisher of men.

   I was one of many siblings, consisting of all girls except one boy. It was a house where the children were encouraged to learn. We were taught to love, share, forgive, befriend, and be fishers of men. We were Christians whose greatest mission was to show Jesus’ love and grace to everyone we met. The sisters taught each other; they led each other. My baby sister would come home from preschool…

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