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Life on and off the matWhen Life Goes Awry
This isn’t the post I had scheduled for this weekend. I generally plan my posts several weeks in advance and schedule them out. This one started in my head this morning and continued to grow, so here it is. Raw and uncensored. Today marks the...
read moreJust Say Maybe to Drugs
This post is going to be controversial. So, I am going to start by giving you my intent. My intent is to incite thought. I am not attempting to change anyone’s opinion, nor, as you will find, do I have a particularly strong opinion one way or another on some of the...
read moreFilling My Cup in New Orleans
How do you fill your cup? What fills your soul? We all need to take time to fill ourselves up. There are so many ways we can do this. Standing on top of a mountain seeing views for miles, listening to the ocean waves crashing, holding a child’s...
read moreI’m Sorry, Did I Make You Uncomfortable? On Living An Authentic Life.
I don’t care if you like me. I’d like you to like me. I’d prefer you to like me. I enjoy being liked, and loved, as much as anyone. But, in the end, it is more important to me to to live and speak my truth, than to be liked. And that means not...
read moreThe Music’s in Me – Discovering a Lost Part of Myself
Disclaimer: This post contains nothing directly related to yoga, Ayurveda or health. But, if you’re willing to look under the surface, you’ll see that it’s about something that is part of my yoga. And maybe you’ll be prompted to look more deeply into what is your...
read moreCaring for Your Five Bodies
If you’re one of my readers, I assume that you are interested in taking care of your body. Most of my blogs are related to health, in some way, shape or form. I'm sure you've probably also heard the overused phrase about taking care of our mind, body and spirit as...
read moreIt’s Not Spring Without a Detox Post
Every Spring (and some Autumns) I write a post about detoxing. You can read last year’s post on my blog. As a student and teacher of Ayurveda, I have a lot of experience with seasonal cleanses and detoxes. Ayurveda generally recommends a cleanse/detox/reset twice a...
read more2018 Book Roundup
At the beginning of 2018, I set an intention to read 50 books in the year. That's essentially a book a week. I had read numerous articles about how all the most successful people in the world, Bill Gates & Mark Zuckerberg, to name two, read 50 books a year. I'd read...
read moreSweetness
At this time of year, I often remind my yoga students to take some down time; to intentionally carve out some time for quiet, rest and reflection. We can so easily get stressed and out of balance during the holidays. We get very busy. Parties, shopping, school...
read moreWhy I’m Partnering with Beautycounter
Being someone who's all about health and wellness, and with a background in sales, I'm often approached by direct-selling companies about representing their products. I've been asked to represent supplements, ketones, CDB oil, cosmetics, essential oils etc. I am...
read moreFacts & Beliefs
"You are entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts." ~Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Former New York State Senator In the current climate of fake news, political discourse, he saids-she saids, what's a...
read more#MidlifeExistentialCrisis
I'm not sure if what I'm experiencing is a midlife crisis. It's not what I usually think of as one. I don't want to buy a sports car or date a 20 year-old or neglect my adult duties of parenting and working. But, something is shifting in me. There's an underlying...
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