Healing Leaky Gut & Restoring Intuition: Leaky Gut Diet, Resources, More October 11, 2013 • 0 Comments “Most people, including many physicians, do not realize that 80 percent of your immune system is located in your digestive system, making a healthy gut a major focal point if you want to maintain optimal health.” Dr. Joseph Mercola, MD I continue to be fascinated by my self-created connection between leaky gut and diminished intuition. I wrote about this in…
Duality: Holding Opposite Emotions Within You October 9, 2013 • 0 Comments “If we never experience the chill of a dark winter, it is very unlikely that we will ever cherish the warmth of a bright summer’s day. Nothing stimulates our appetite for the simple joys of life more than the starvation caused by sadness or desperation. In order to complete our amazing life journey successfully, it is vital that we turn…
On Body Image and Being Enough October 7, 2013 • 2 Comments When I was an impressionable young girl my mother was larger than life, thin as a rail and favored cigarettes to eating. She subsisted on cottage cheese, See’s candy and vodka, and she looked damn good in clothes. While her contemporaries fell victim to the vagaries of middle age weight gain, she managed to defy it. I was never quite…
Ithaka: May Your Spirit Be Touched by Emotion October 2, 2013 • 0 Comments I loved this poem when I first read it while studying at UC Berkeley, although I look back now and wonder what it truly meant to me at the tender age of twenty. My grandfather and I discussed it once and he told me to always remember that living is in the journey and that one day all the events…
The Healing Process: It’s a Marathon September 30, 2013 • 2 Comments “If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.” Thomas A. Edison Fifteen years ago I ran a marathon with the Leukemia Society’s Team in Training program. The spark for this adventure began when a friend of mine was in training for a marathon and I made the comment that there was no…
Fish Oil and Curcumin: Natural Remedies for Joint Pain September 27, 2013 • 2 Comments I attended an incredibly eye opening retreat last week with Jack Canfield, and I am in the process of writing about it, but so many amazing shifts occurred that I have to wrap my brain around all the information. I was explaining my story, blog and book to Jack and he referred to me as an “aggregator,” which I thought…
Befriending Stress and Creating Resiliency September 25, 2013 • 2 Comments I recently saw a TED talk by Kelly McGonigal on befriending stress. It is worth watching because she outlines a deceptively simple concept: changing the way we think about something can alter our body’s response to it. My favorite part of her talk is the idea that how you think and act creates the “biology of courage.” In other words,…
A Poem About Kindness by Naomi Shihab Nye September 23, 2013 • 0 Comments This has been one of my most popular posts over the past year, so I thought I would repost it for my newer readers. Enjoy. I love the poem “Kindness,” by Naomi Shihab Nye. I thought I would share it because kindness is something that settles deeper and deeper into my being each day. It is a light that connects…
Healing Resources: Sit. Stay. Heal. September 20, 2013 • 0 Comments I am a big fan of Pema Chödrön and I adore her book The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times. I opened the pages many times during the last three years and found myself guided and comforted by the simple, yet profound wisdom on the pages. One of my favorite passages: “How are we going…
Unearthing Hidden Trauma and Beginning to Heal September 18, 2013 • 3 Comments Life exposes both her beauty and her cruel underbelly to us at the moment of birth, as we take our first breath in and the umbilical cord is severed. As we exchange the life giving connection to our mother for the life force of oxygen, the universe whispers to us that this is an invitation to embark on a journey,…