The Healing Gift Contained Within Our Emotional Wounds June 30, 2014 • 0 Comments Don’t let your wounds make you someone you are not. The above thought came to me when I was trying to figure out what exactly I am doing with all this writing and bound up desire to share my story. Sometimes, it seems like such craziness. I mean, I am up against some pretty big odds here and every so…
How Back Pain Mirrors Our Emotional Suffering June 27, 2014 • 0 Comments This week, for the first time in a long while, I was actually able to bend over without grimacing and holding my breath due to lower back pain. This has been troubling me for years, but I have always been able to beat it back to a tolerable place via acupuncture, massage and/or chiropractic care. On my flight to New…
The Language of Emotions: Taking Control of Your Healing June 16, 2014 • 2 Comments This post is from a year ago. Perhaps longer. As much as I hate to admit my own limitations, I am exhausted and in a place where I need to step back a bit and figure out the future. Lately, I cannot find solace in my writing mind. There are just too many things floating around in there. The experience…
Healing Cashew Milk & Chia Seed Pudding Recipes June 9, 2014 • 1 Comment The one marvelous thing about completing the juice cleanse is that I can return to my love of healthy cooking. I am not quite sure how I am going to integrate real food into my life just yet, other than it will be a slow and thoughtful process so I don’t erase the twenty-eight days of effort. I am Over…
The Super Juice Me Cleanse: Reflections on 28 Days of Juicing June 6, 2014 • 10 Comments I am incredibly happy to report that I completed the Super Juice Me cleanse. Twenty-eight days of juice, juice and more juice. In case you decide to embark on this kind of adventure, I thought I would share my experience, which was an interesting and worthwhile way to find out more about the inner workings of my body. I tend to…
Neuroplasticity: A Secret Super Power for Healing June 2, 2014 • 0 Comments I have a collection of indoor + outdoor plants that have traveled along with me from house to house during my last three moves. I am attached to them in an odd way that I haven’t yet been able to define. Perhaps because I had to let go of so much, I needed something to anchor me to a part…
Curating a Collection of Self Healing Practices May 30, 2014 • 0 Comments There is a lot of talk about gratitude these days and I am a big practitioner of bringing it into my life by keeping track of the things that give me pause, make me smile or fill me with a deep sense of reverence. I love this practice because it is a record of the beauty and goodness that I’d…
Healing Trauma and Restoring Balance After Chaos May 28, 2014 • 4 Comments There are days when I don’t want to get out of bed. The residue of the long, restless night seeps into the day and fills my cells with a resistance to facing what is before me. I long to feel normal again — although I’m not sure if there is such a thing anymore — and to know that my…
Dismantling the Construct of Shame May 19, 2014 • 0 Comments One of the most humiliating moments of my young life happened on the morning bus ride as we pulled into the parking lot of intermediate school. I was awkwardly sporting a brand new training bra and vacillating between being extremely proud, though I’ve no idea why since I had no breasts to speak of, and utterly terrified that someone might…
28 Day Juice Cleanse: Super Juicing for Good Health May 12, 2014 • 0 Comments Last week I had the good fortune of seeing the movie Super Juice Me. I’ve often thought of doing a juice cleanse, but veered away because it seemed like an arduous exercise in denial and self-punishment. I don’t really know why I had that impression, but when I started to think about all the things I had to do without,…