Calming Down A Stressed Brain
For those of us with very busy brains, breathing can provide the solution! To reduce your stress, you can do many things – like improving your posture when sitting, standing or moving, accepting what’s happening and not basing...
Longevity Link: How Wine Helps You Live Longer
I love this perspective about drinking red wine in moderation as a part of a healthy lifestyle. As I often tell my clients, we don't have to eat perfect all of the time, rather focus on eating well per the Mediterranean diet mentioned below 80% of the time (which...
Living Like Water
I love this metaphor of water as a way to help us better understand living our lives. I have always been a big fan of waterfalls - this may be one reason why! The journey of water as it flows upon the earth can be a mirror of our own paths through life. Water begins...
If You Want To Know Love, Stop Lying
I am happy to see that being authentic and vulnerable is a growing trend these days. It's time to take off the super hero masks and capes and relate to others as we truly are - at a heart level. “Lies may make people feel better, but they do not help them to know...
Intermittent Fasting: 20 ways It Can Improve Your Life
I recently started intermittent fasting and it has been a super addition for my health. Everyone's body is different so see what works for you, but I'd recommend you give some version of this a try. I do my best to eat as healthy as possible in an 8 hour window...
Pity Party
You can use situations that get you down to help heal patterns from long ago that need to be felt, released and healed. You must often "feel it to heal it" so that you can grow from the experience. Usually not fun - but a part of life. We all have days when the bad...
The Power of Not Knowing
When we don't know things, it opens us up to a world of possibilities. While it sometimes feel more secure to be in the know, there is a certain freedom that comes on the other side. When I was younger, I knew a LOT. The older I get, the less I seem to KNOW. There is...
Let the Tears Flow
Many of us were taught not to cry (especially boys) growing up. As we go through changes and growth in our lives, tears are a necessary part of releasing old patterns and traumas. I have personally been releasing some very long term emotional traumas (40+ years) and...
There is Only Now
Excellent message around living in the Now - the only true reality. One of the best ways to get present is through mindfulness and meditation - quieting the mind and listening to the silence. It can be easy for us to walk through the world and our lives without really...
Why We Eat Too Much, Move Too Little & Feel Stressed All the Time—And What We Can Do to Feel Better!
Love this article that highlights many of the reasons we feel so stressed out - and more importantly things we can do to feel better! When we have to give a talk to a group of people, we feel anxious and experience the bodily fear responses that do not make sense now:...
Learning to Slow Down
We all know that the pace of life has sped up dramatically, and that many of us wear our busyness like badges of honor. Would it make sense to consider the thoughts in this article on slowing down and appreciating the only thing we know for sure in life...the...
What Does It Mean?
Isn't it fascinating how our perspective and past experiences can allow us to weave an entire story from a simple event or circumstance? The stories we tell ourselves have a HUGE impact on our happiness. The meaning we assign to our experiences whether pleasant or...
What Happens When You Drink Tea Every Day
I'm a huge fan of tea - especially white and green (my personal favorites)! There are many health benefits to drinking tea (which is one reason it is the most popular drink on the planet) and this article does a great job of explaining why. Black, green, or herbal, we...
Carcinogens Found In U.S. Tap Water
Water is second only to air in terms of priority for our health. We can only live a few minutes without air, and a few days without water. It is critical that we drink purified water...and lots of it, as most of us are chronically dehydrated! When people ask me if...
Simplifying Your Schedule
Great advice for so many of us who are prone to over-commitment. For many, life is a hodgepodge of never-ending commitments. Yet few of us can be truly healthy or happy without regular periods of downtime. While there is nothing inherently wrong with busyness, those...
The Wisdom of Fear
Love this insight on the role that fear plays in our lives! Anything worth doing will always have some fear attached to it. For example, having a baby, getting married, changing careers--all of these life changes can bring up deep fears. It helps to remember that this...
Higher Cholesterol is Associated with Longer Life
Excellent article/research on the maligned enemy of health - cholesterol! The research now shows that high cholesterol is linked to LONGER life spans! STORY AT-A-GLANCE Cholesterol, the soft, waxy substance found in every cell in your body, is used to produce several...
Anti-inflammatory Food Basics
Excellent overview of the anti-inflammatory foods we can eat to help our body stay balanced and healthy! Chronic inflammation is a hallmark of virtually all disease, including cancer, obesity and heart disease. While inflammation is a perfectly normal and beneficial...
Letting Go of Perfection
As a recovering perfectionist and over-achiever, I still work on this daily. Do your best and accept the results. It is good to remember that one of our goals in life is to not be perfect. We often lose track of this aspiration. When we make mistakes, we think that...
Everything Is Energy And We Control It With The Power Of Our Thoughts
Excellent overview of the impact of energy on...everything! This article also helps better explain at what level we are working with LIFE System Biofeedback. The Nobel Prize awardees in physics, beyond doubt, proved that the physical world is one big ocean of energy...
