Category: Self-care
Healthy Holiday Eating, Sticking To Your Goals
Most people overestimate the amount of weight gained during the holidays. According to The New York Times, the average weight gain for a U.S. adult be [...]
The Gift That Keeps On Giving
It’s that time of year when many of us start making our list of who’s been naughty and nice. Then we wrack our brains as to what to get them for the h [...]
Is It Possible to Find the Joy Again?
Reading or hearing about the side effects of prescription medication for depression is enough to make anyone depressed and anxious! And then [...]
How to Cure the Busy Lifestyle Syndrome (BLS)
So what is BLS? Sounds more like bullshit but unfortunately it is not. It’s the real deal and all of us suffer from it, well maybe not all of us, but [...]
Does Your Brain Need a Detox from Overstimulation?
Do you ever forget why you went downstairs? Or have gone into a room and left because you could not remember why you went in? Do you say, “It’s just o [...]
Controversies in Breast Cancer Screening
As October comes to a close, so too does Breast Cancer Awareness Month – 31 days devoted to raising public awareness and funding to combat one of Amer [...]
Natural Breast Health with Manual Therapy to Promote Lymphatic Drainage and Nutritional Wellness
Breast Health
Breast health is an important component of a woman’s health. Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women, regardless of race or [...]
Breast Health Beyond Cancer
A cancer experience is the definitive existential crisis. It shakes us out of a comfortable fog of illusion, which allows us to maintain a more-or-les [...]
Make Not-Getting-Cancer a Hobby
Written by Deborah Percival on behalf of a friend.
If you think staying healthy is complicated, try getting cancer. Suddenly, carving out time to e [...]
The Yin and Yang of Autumn
As the humid days of summer give way to the brittle, dry air of fall, Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioners begin to turn their attention to the [...]
Are You Prepared for a Disaster?
There are so many things in life we prepare for, such as graduations, weddings and the birth of a child. Yet there are other things in life we take n [...]
Luxury. For Your Soul.
Are you ready to change the way you think, create a stress-free, happy, healthy lifestyle, and live a life you love? Do you want to let go of your pas [...]
Transition and Crisis as an Initiation
If you are going through a transition or crisis consider this. As unsettled, chaotic, and perhaps even as hopeless as things are right now there may b [...]
What is Love?
What is love? Love is not an emotion it is the state of your being. -His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
We are [...]
Self-Love, A Touchstone To Rock A Life You Love
I don’t care who you talk to or who you ask, if it’s a ‘she’, there’s a chasm between who she sees herself as and who she wants to see herself as. We, [...]
Transition and Crisis as an Initiation
By Lawrence Ford
If you are going through a transition or crisis consider this. As unsettled, chaotic, and perhaps even as hopeless as things are r [...]
Life Off the Mat: Living a Life of Excellence and Purpose in Five Simple Steps
Ahhh…the sweet aroma of incense fills my senses and my soul. The worries of the day begin to fade. The warm candlelit room deeply calms me and the so [...]
Soul Retrieval: Reclaiming Personal Power Through Shamanic Healing
“It is our birthright to fully express our Souls. Life without meaning equals despair. It is time for all to collect back our lost pieces and rememb [...]
Nurturing Your Relationship While Being a Working Mom
One of the most challenging jobs in the world is being a mom. Factor in being a working mom and that job just got a little harder. It’s easy to lose [...]
Sex, Money, and…Retirement: How to Thrive in the Second Half of Your Marriage
One day we wake up and say, “Where did the time go?” The kids are off and we are retired. Waking up and entering the stage of retirement in a consciou [...]
Bored or Unfulfilled by Your Current Job or Career?
How do you define fulfillment in a career? Are you happy climbing the corporate ladder? Are you fulfilled by income, benefits, opportunities to travel [...]
Can a Horse be Your Best Coach?
"Horses are experts at helping people develop power, focus, balance-in-motion, social intelligence and the physical, mental and emotional collection d [...]
Why Meditate?
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” ~Aristotle
Meditation is so much more than being ‘zenned out.’ It’s a [...]
Tibetan Healing Movement: Release Blocks in Body and Mind
You may feel this is overly simplistic, but I would argue that all problems we experience in our body and mind stem from a blockage. Yes, I mean that [...]