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Greetings from Le Thillot, France, nestled in the Vosges Mountains! We have just arrived here after a four hour journey by car from Joachim’s home town of Oehringen, Germany. The drive itself has been successful in moving us into a different time and place. Life is about to slow way down for my busy family…

Ready to take your plant based kitchen to the next level? Consider a spiralizer. In this final post to my Building Your Plant Based Kitchen series, we take a close look at spiralizers. After a month of tool talk that included insight into owning a Vitamix, an immersion blender, a pressure cooker, and the right…

Yes, you can run a highly efficient plant based kitchen without a Vitamix but having one does make the prep of everything from smoothies to sauces to soups just that much easier. It was our commitment to morning smoothies that pushed the decision to purchase one and we have literally used it every morning that…

I’ve been cooking family dinners a long time, like since I was ten years old and until a year ago pressure cookers were a mystical tool that definitely seemed out of my league. Because I now know that we need to get curious and comfortable with what scares us, especially regarding our passions, I took…

There are a handful of tools I put to work everyday in my kitchen. While my Vitamix is put to test for every morning meal, the immersion blender rules each evening. I use it for every salad dressing, soup, and most sauces I make. It’s a brilliant tool, cleans in seconds, stows away easily in…

The past four weeks leading into 2016, I shared my thoughts and suggestions on intentions that could serve the body, mind, and soul in order to tap into your true self. The reward in discovering your true self is the ability to live out your destiny, who you were born to be, and deliver the…

Cleaning out and organizing my kitchen is a task I take on each New Year and again when I return from my summer weeks in Europe. Both times present an opportunity for a fresh look at what fills my shelves and drawers. In addition to cleaning through my pantry staples, I assess the tools I…

The last three weeks I have shared some intentions to consider for 2016 that will guide you to your true self. Accessing your true self is the necessary step to lead an authentic life, one in which you achieve all you were destined to achieve. You will get there by loving and nurturing your physical…

As 2016 moves closer in, we can all benefit from a few moments of quiet reflection considering how to deepen the connection to our true self. That connection only occurs by doing activities that nurture your body, your mind, and/or your soul. What positive activities could you consider adding that will do just that next…

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit. —Aristotle Last week I made the suggestion that in the weeks leading up to 2016 you consider some intentions for your Body, Mind and Soul that will lead to the discovery of your true self. But who is that true…

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.  ― Lao Tzu What if you welcomed the New Year with a quest to deepen your relationship with yourself? Just imagine where you might be next year at this time. Over these final weeks of…

It’s no coincidence that I see more acute flu, bronchial infections, digestive disturbances, and UTIs the ten weeks between Halloween and the first week of January than the next ten months all put together. This, according to my colleagues, plays out in their practices as well, aligning perfectly with the high season of parties at…