Believe it or not we are one month from the official start to spring and now is the time to get moving! As we transition seasons, please find below eight helpful hints to “spring into wellness” Wake early to exercise – The mornings are warming up and spring means the sun rises earlier each day. Take advantage of this. Get…
My dad laughs at me when I refer to food as “processed”. To him, most foods we eat are processed in some way. Oranges are cut from trees, ground beef has been ground in a machine and butter is cream that has been separated from the milk and churned. There is however, a difference between mechanical processing and chemical processing. …
My husband loves to call me his “tree hugging, nuts & berry eating, California hippie”. It’s true. I did grow up in Berkeley, CA where my mom wore no make up, I wasn’t allowed to eat meat and meditation was part of our daily practice. Once I turned 18, I flipped a switch and rebelled against my ‘wackadoo’ upbringing. I…
It’s easy to be ungrateful these days, isn’t it? It’s easy to want things that we don’t have. I may even go so far as to say that being ungrateful is stitched into the very fabric of our society. Social media, television, magazines, radio are constant reminders of how little we do have rather than how much we should be…
We need to consume healthy fats in order to have a healthy body. Fat is a nutrient, and just like we need a certain amount of carbohydrates and protein, we also need to eat fat in order to have energy, to absorb vitamins and to support brain and heart health. I am a Health Coach, not a doctor, so you…
I compare sugar to cocaine. How is that for an opening? When you pay attention to the devastation caused by the effects that sugar has on our bodies AND how it impacts our health, it’s not hard to look at this similar white substance and compare it to another. If there was one, single health tip I could share with you…
Detoxing is vital to do in this toxic world. For so many years as a health coach, I focused simply on digestion because I do believe that good digestion leads to a healthy life. But then one day I realized that in order to have good digestion, you must be detoxing properly. The light went off in my head. Detox…
If you are in the northeast like I am, your body may feel tricked into thinking it is still summer with these 80 degree sunny days – but your brain knows better. Today marks our official, first day of Autumn (my favorite season btw). We are in what I call that “in between stage”. You know the new season is…
Many people have asked me about composting. I know I seem like the kind of person that would do this, but it’s just not in my blood. I am however, super mindful of the amount of waste we produce each day. Over the summer my daughter and I visited my best friends farm in upstate NY that is completely “off…
Summer seems to be flying by, as it does every year. Many of us are looking to the start of school, getting back to the grind and living with a routine again. It is easy to look to the next season to make some of the changes you know you need to make to feel your healthiest. “In the fall…