Archive for January 2015
Midweek Pause—Choose
“If you have embarked on this journey of self-reflection, you may be at a place that everyone, sooner or later, experiences on the spiritual path. After a while it seems like almost every moment of your life you’re there, where you realize you have a choice. You have a choice whether to open or close,…
Read MoreLauren’s Kitchen: Simple Carrot Soup
Last week I brought home a gorgeous bunch of freshly picked carrots from Boggy Creek Farms and knew they had to go into Heidi Swanson’s Simple Carrot Soup immediately. It was divine. The slightly sweet carrots were warmed to just the right degree with the addition of red curry paste and blended velvety smooth with coconut milk. I think…
Read MoreWhy Don’t I Feel Better Yet?
So you have done all the right things—rested, drank ridiculous amounts of healthy fluids, taken your gemmos, even made yourself miso soup—and yet you STILL feel terrible. What’s the deal? Or maybe your problem is slightly different. It’s like this… you seriously just got over the last virus and now three weeks later here you…
Read MoreMidweek Pause—Nourish
“Breathe in such a way that you are nourished.” — Thich Nhat Hanh, How to Eat Consider: The act of breathing. It is so automatic that we rarely stop to consider what the breath is doing for our body. The thought that it is actually nourishing is profound. Thich Nhat Hanh goes onward with this simple quote…
Read MoreLauren’s Kitchen: Hearty Dinner Salad
Hearty Seasonal Dinner Salad anyone? Bring it on! There are so many good things to say about this delicious salad created by Choosing Raw author Gena Hamshaw I don’t know where to begin. Here’s hopefully enough teasers that should inspire you to add these ingredients to your next shopping list: make ahead, meal-sized, yummy tamarind vinaigrette. Need tamarind?…
Read MoreYikes! It is SO the flu season!
Everyone is either getting over it, coming down with it or trying to avoid it like, well, the plague. Whichever category you fall into I’d like to share my insider tip and why it works. In my practice, gemmotherapy extracts play a primary role in client protocols for both acute and chronic symptoms. Because gemmotherapy…
Read MoreMidweek Pause—Shift
“Every mindful moment in which generosity displaces greed, compassion takes the place of hatred, and insight dislodges delusion is a moment in which we are awake.” — Andrew Olendzki, “A Tough But Not Impossible Act to Follow” Consider: What a beautiful world this would be if we would each choose to do our part replacing the negative…
Read MoreLauren’s Kitchen: Stuffed Savoy Cabbage
It’s gray and it’s cold and we all are craving something warm and hearty for dinner, right? Here’s the perfect solution that uses the gorgeous, in season, and locally grown savoy cabbage. Sweeter and milder than other cabbage varieties, savoy is quite family-friendly. Steaming and filling these bundles is not as time consuming as one would…
Read MoreStart Living Well in 2015
If you already feel the weight of your New Year’s resolution, how about trying something a bit more sustainable? Simply consider experimenting with one new idea each month that would support your overall health and well being. Need some ideas? Here’s just a few to prompt your own creativity: Be… …kind to yourself and start…
Read MoreMidweek Pause—Embrace
“Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.” — Deepak Chopra Consider: Applying the lesson in this quote on a daily basis by acknowledging each morning that all the highly structured plans that lay before you are just that and in…
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