My life coach says I’m ‘up to big things’ when my mind chatters with self-talk. Until she reframed it like that, my brain was a messed of mixed signals, tangled thoughts, and self-doubt. Instead of calm, peace, and universally loving thoughts about my life, the chatter...
Every time I turn around lately, someone's blaming a healthy food for causing indigestion, bloating, constipation, diarrhea, and probably last week's summer flu. With all the GMOs, antibiotics, hormones, and chemicals in our food, it's an easy conclusion to draw. But I have another theory. And...
Girls, it's time I said it loud and clear, because there is still a lot of confusion around this message: Herbs reduce or completely eliminate peri-menopausal symptoms like night sweats, hot flashes, sleeplessness, hair loss, loss of libido, crazy periods, the whole deal. Are you tired of...
I get summer-itis. Like senior-itis, except I'm not coming to the end of anything so important as my childhood. Around the warmest part of Summer, I lose interest in pushing myself to extremes. Over-achieving is so last season. Everybody has their season. Summer people are the ones...
Why don't more people shop at farmer's markets? Heck, why don't I shop there more often? The only possible answer is this: habit. I'm just not in the habit of stopping at more than one place for groceries. The thing is, the food at neighborhood farmer's markets...
[caption id="attachment_1282" align="alignleft" width="300"] Summer berries eaten in season offer the most health benefits[/caption] My guest blogger, Jen Wilford, shares what she discovered about herself, and primitive man, when she started eating seasonally. For most of my adult life I knew that eating seasonally was a good...
A client brought his 94-year old mother to me, asking for help with her 4 months of bowel incontinence. It was making her miserable and exhausted, not to mention the discouraging loss of dignity that goes with that sort of thing. Her doctors had prescribed all...
Today's guest blog that started as an enthusiastic email from my friend Carolyn, who was tired of being 'stuck' in her old patterns. She found a way to break through after a couple weeks of seasonal cleansing. With some light editing of exclamation points, I'll...