This past weekend I took one full Sunday off and completely rested. I didn’t think about work, I didn’t look at work, I didn’t open or respond to emails, customers, my team or partners. I watched three movies, napped with our dogs, and got a glitter blue pedicure plus a greens drink at Nekter Juice Bar and sat relaxing by myself in silence. I …
How to Be More Mindful in a Mindless World
A blaring alarm wakes us early – always too early. We hurry through the morning getting ready for work or getting kids ready for school. Our days are filled with meetings, supervisors and coworkers needing project tasks done, all of this with the undercurrent of emails, texts and endless sitting at a desk before a screen. Then after an already …
Why Transformational Healing Begins with Creating Space
I wrote this for you a few months ago, and I’m just getting to share this with you now. It’s a topic of conversation that’s dear to my heart for many reasons related to the steps we need to take in our minds and hearts to become successful at producing greater healing in our lives. At a pivotal crossroads in …
Our Greatest Disease Today: The Psychology of Sickness
We have become a world of human beings that don’t know who we are anymore or our own personal identity unless we have an illness, addiction or dis-ease to attach to our name. We are deathly subconsciously afraid of NOT living with a label. We are decades removed from what the well, balanced experience of the human mind and body …
6 Tips That Stop Your Mind from Bullying Your Body
We women particularly struggle with this mind battle and let it halt our progress when we’re trying to take care of ourselves or our own health and body goals. Here are 6 Tips That Stop Your Mind from Bullying Your Body.
What To Do When People Try To Sabotage Your Nutrition
I can’t tell you how many emails & comments I get from women weekly about how hard it is to commit to eating the way they want to sometimes when they go visit other family, eat in social situations and people comment on what they’re eating, or family members try to block their renewed food choices. Do they sabotage your …
Why you need to lose the word “deserve” from your vocabulary
Dear society, advertising campaigns, mass media, and evolving mental perspectives that are really teaching inaccurate belief systems and failing people sadly, …let’s get clear on use of the term “I deserve” …we deserve what we work for and earn for ourselves. This is what was taught in my gen and those before and it worked out quite well. We don’t …
Are Your Life Choices Creating Vibrant Energy In Your Body?
There are more aspects to creating health energetically in the human body than just movement and nutrition. Are you living with integrity? You could be consuming an amazing nutrient-dense food profile, and still not absorbing the nutrients properly in the gut if you’re stressed, if you’re moving too much or multi-tasking while you’re eating, if you’re not masticating your food …
Food Psychology: Energy Imbalance & Eating Disorders
I am a total goofball for food photography! I love this behind the scenes shot from a food photography shoot for Experience Life Magazine. [see picture below] When I worked in the agriculture business managing an US national nutrition marketing in-store consumer education program on fruit and vegetable consumption, I would handle food photography shoots for recipe cards and other consumer marketing …
3 Steps To Build Better Body Intuition
As I turn 39 in a week or so, I find my pensive moments increasing, my search for wisdom growing & I’m considering more often the gifts of time, life, and our mind & body that we are given to explore & experience on our path. It saddens me how few consider this “journey” as a part of their lifes …