Today is Easter and I am experiencing my own renewal... what I am privately (well not if I'm writing about it..) referring to as my Resurrection Cleanse. Yes, it's juice time again. 3 days of just juice, then juice with one ... Read More
When you’re in emotional pain, get back in your body!
Get out of your head and into your body... I didn't wake up feeling happy this morning- I woke up feeling afraid. That's been one byproduct of so much change (with a big heap of loss) in such a short period of time. ... Read More
Ending emotional eating…are you eating stress?
There is so much good information around how our minds and bodies talk to each other. (I love Dr. Lissa Rankin's new book, Mind Over Medicine). Our body hears everything we say... feels the impact of every thought we have. ... Read More
Creating Tiny Moments of Beauty (photos!)
Creating beauty and tiny altars in your home can nourish you in ways that soothe you and leave you less vulnerable to using food. I love attending to my surroundings. I love the placing and considering of objects.. the adding ... Read More
Winter Blues-Come Home to Pleasure
Something I know right now..I need to look to some sensual pleasures beyond a chocolate party in my mouth when it's this cold (it's been below zero or single digits for a LOT of days in a row now) and we still have a LOT of ... Read More
What’s harder- Changing a belief or a behavior?
Something I know about making personal changes...It's so much easier to change our way of thinking, believing, acting, reacting and such when we are not in the thick of it. When something is triggering the hell out of us, ... Read More
This new year, don’t make changes from fear
First things first... I am wishing you all love and beauty and all blessings for the new year. Of course. And.. I've been paying a lot of attention to my own fears. The ways I talk to myself, how that gets hardened into ... Read More
What I Know About Green Juice
It always amuses me that the most "hits" on my blog are from the spring that I did a little green-juice cleanse. I am not an expert on green juice, or on juicing. (That's my huge green goblet, with some of our home-grown ... Read More
Playing Possum and Making Ourselves “Wrong”
This is the second part of a two-part essay on trusting your guidance, and why we so often don't. Why trusting our intuitive knowing can make us uncomfortable and how that may cost us. You can read part 1 here. Why do we ... Read More
You Know What You Know- Intuition as Survival
Lately I have been thinking about our intuitive knowing, not as a mystical "gift" or special talent, as some people may think of it, but simply as a survival instinct. Every animal species has intuition, although with animals ... Read More
