Discovering Your Truth: What Do You Want? October 21, 2013 • 4 Comments I remember my mother saying to me quite often as a child, “If you don’t have anything nice to say, young lady, don’t say anything at all.” I never figured out why she always threw in the “young lady” part, but I always felt small when she said it. I knew better than to talk back or question her. There…
Awareness & Understanding Quirky Habits October 18, 2013 • 2 Comments “Awareness shines a light through the dark forest of our psyche so we don’t have to keep running headlong into the trees.” When I stand, I have a habit of jutting my left foot out at a ninety-degree angle to my right foot. Sometimes I put my hands on my hips and I look ridiculous, but I can’t help it.…
Healing After Loss: Birthdays, Vulnerability and Blessed Connections October 16, 2013 • 0 Comments This past weekend I had the good fortune to attend the 50th birthday party of a dear friend. She is a rare gem, one of those unique humans who naturally finds the good in people and nurtures friendships with attentive love and care. I had fallen out of orbit the last few years, so it was incredibly healing to reel…
The Healing Benefits of Bone Broth Soup October 14, 2013 • 2 Comments [With the cooler fall weather settling in and seasonal colds on the rise, I thought it’d be a good time to dust off my post on the healing benefits of bone broth soup.] If I had known about bone broth three years ago, I might have saved myself (and my poor stomach) some grief. I know about it now, so…
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…