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The Importance of Being Mindful and How to Begin.
I grazed a car with my tire as I pulled up to my daughter’s school this morning. Let me set
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Making the Writing Clear
My mission is to create a community of those who care about good writing, including the beginner and the seasoned
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Mindful Eating for Better Health
Are you eating on the fly, in your car, at your computer, while answering e-mails, making phone calls or finishing
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Changing Impossible to I’m-Possible
This year, it is my intention to source out an energy field that alchemizes negative thoughts into love. Everywhere I
Conscious at Work
Exploring What’s Possible?
How often do we bring an empowering mindset to the challenges before us? It’s so easy to stay within our
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Optimistic Beliefs Can Change Eating and Weight Problems
With so much focus on weight and dieting, food binge issues aren’t rare these days. Yet those who suffer from
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Courage-The Stepping Stone of Possibilities
“We can do it, we can do it. We can help our Cinderelly. We can make her dress so pretty.
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Fit Thoughts = Fit Actions = Fit Bodies. It’s Possible
Is it possible to cultivate fit thoughts, actions, and bodies? YES. I’m not saying it doesn’t take discipline and focus,
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Top 5 Signs You Are Malnourished
Did you know that according to the American Health Association, 90% of health conditions that exist today are diet related
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When Possibility Takes Over
Does impossible exist? Certainly we could have a lifelong philosophical discussion about this topic. But what if we just look
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What Do Your Thoughts Weigh?
Successful weight management requires a good attitude, and a good attitude requires positive and logical thinking. Humans have fascinating minds.
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I Dare You
It started as just one deliberate decision. If you had been in the airport with me this day you would
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Living Your Life in High Resolution
In January, many people make New Year’s resolutions. Comes February and these already start to dissipate a little. By March,
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Stepping into Your Grandest Vision
The decision to step into your grandest vision is the most important decision you will ever make in your life.
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Whats Your Missing Piece?
“Be the change you want to see in the world.” This famous quote by Mahatma Ghandi summarizes this month’s focus
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Ordering Pizza at McDonald’s
“Hello Anger. I love you.” What Anger Tells Us Anger is our friend. Yes, a friend we don’t want to
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Is Your Lifestyle Getting in the Way of Your Health?
You hear a lot of advice about lifestyle change for weight management these days, but what does it mean? Everyone
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What is Your Definition of Success?
What is your definition of Success? The best definition I have heard states that, “Success is a progressive realisation of
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Being Whole
What and how much should I eat? What types of exercises should I do? What is the fastest way
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Movement Along the Emotional Scale
What does transformation mean to you? Is it perceived as living another way because you are not happy with the
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The Secret Ingredient to Setting Effective Goals: It’s Not What You Think
Welcome to February! Technically it’s the last month of winter in the Northern hemisphere. For most, the darkness of the
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Goals:Are You Purposeful or Panicked?
Before you go scratching off those goals on a piece of paper or tapping furiously on your keyboard, consider this:
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Door One or Door Two?
The end of one year and the beginning of another is a great time to think about what’s not working
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Lack or Plenty – What Will You Choose in 2015?
Abundance is our natural state. It expresses itself by creating plenty of whatever our energy is focused upon. So the
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Are You Setting Yourself Up with New Year’s Resolutions About Weight?
People get tons of messages at year’s end that making resolutions to lose weight is a worthwhile endeavor. If the
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Be A Threat
I’m not sure how this last year was for you. Was it pretty good or do you prefer to forget
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Find Your Inspiration
The Most Powerful Sense to Find Your Inspiration… Your Gut Intuition. Intuition is defined as “a natural ability or power
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Changeback Pressures
“All is connected … no one thing can change by itself.” Paul Hawken “Natural Capitalism”, Yoga Journal, October 1994 After the
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Skip the Resolutions and Make 2015 Your Best Year Ever
Welcome to 2015! The beginning of the New Year is full of possibilities and promise. Now is the opportunity to
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Finding Intrinsic Motivation for Lasting Change
The year 2014 is coming to an end. The excitement for change is in the air. How we set ourselves up for success in the
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Resolutions vs. Goals
My very best wishes to you for 2015. With the New Year comes resolutions, many of which usually sound like:
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Who Would You Be…
The holiday season is not always a time of candy canes and festive gatherings. For many, it’s a time of
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Celebration! Your Year-End Leadership Practice Awaits
It seems fitting that the last column of the year be dedicated to the topic of celebration. As the year
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2015- The Year of Abundance
I think it’s safe to say that an exciting shift has taken place in Consciousness. We were born into this
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Celebrations and Overcoming an Eating Disorder
As a psychologist specializing in eating, weight and fitness issues, the holiday season is a particularly busy time. People come
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Your Gateway to Health
Biological Dentistry and Mercury Toxicity Biological dentistry is the practice of dentistry that considers the effect of dental materials, techniques
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Pay Attention to Your Intention
I recently visited Bhutan, a fascinating, tiny country in Asia, just south of Tibet and north of India. Famous for
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Celebrate You: Build a Mental State that Expects Triumphs
“Celebrate good times, come on!” Let’s add up our triumphs, big and SMALL, of the past year. Don’t think you
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Inner Beauty – Shining From the Inside Out
“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because
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One Drop at a Time
As we celebrate Thanksgiving this month, I encourage you to go the extra mile in expressing to those who work
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With Beauty, Perception is Everything
None of us can be truly objective about our appearance. We can only perceive ourselves from within, while other people view
Conscious at Work
Ninety-One Beautiful Things
There is no universal way to describe what is beautiful to everyone. Beauty is subjective, unique to each individual. Two
Taming Your Inner Critic
An Exercise In Finding (And Keeping) Your Inner Beauty
We’ve all seen them – the men and women that radiate a certain inner glow. They are not model thin,
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Tune Into the Creative Zone
This month we explore how to tune in to creativity; both in ourselves and with others. I am privileged to
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Create Calm – Conquer Your Fears
Create Calm Boo! It soon will be Halloween, that time of year when we try to scare people for fun.
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The Morning That Changed Your Life
Early one morning, you hopped on your bike to ride to a new location a friend told you about. As
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An Unwelcomed Reminder to Live In The Now
When I first started writing this article our oldest son, Jason, was resting in front of me after his 4
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Living In the Now
Our theme for this month is how to live and lead in the now, while creating the future you desire.
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Exercise- Find What Works for You
Starting an exercise program — and sticking with it — is all about knowing yourself and using focus. Everyday we
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Spiritual Beings Experiencing a Physical Existence
I first and foremost want to say how grateful I am to have the time to share with others my
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Guilty pleasure
We’ve all heard the formula for weight loss. Expending energy must be more than caloric consumption. It has been tried,
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Give yourself a break
We are drawing on the compassionate and timeless wisdom of The Gabriel Messages to provide insight and inspiration that we
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Getting to the Core of You
Taming your inner critic and getting to the core of who you truly are, not whom others think you should
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Let Go of Disordered Dieting
Amy shared with me how much better life has been for her since she let go of an eating disorder.
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Five Tips to Help You Achieve Your Health Goals
When people come and see me for help with their nutrition, they often tell me that diabetes, or high blood
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Empowering Our Core
Have you ever read or heard the term “engage your core?” In the Fitness industry, this term has been used
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The Rediscovery Diet
I’m in the business of helping people shed pounds – pounds of paper, expired food and medicines, clothes that don’t
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Be grateful for all that you have and all that you are.
You have so much to be grateful for. At times it may feel as though life is hard, and yet
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Clearing the Mind Chatter
Have you listened to your inner dialogue lately? Is it full of phrases of unworthiness and self-doubt? It’s hard to
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Food Frenzies Interrupted
Have you ever stopped to think about your emotional involvement with food? Most of how we operate and react to
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Engaging Deliberately Thru Connection
Everyone has their own perspective of what it means to connect. To force anyone to adopt a universal view of
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Steps for Powerful Engagement
Last month’s topic was Leadership in the Mirror. Here we explore how leaders can engage and participate after their reflection
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Oh The Places You’ll Go
What does it mean to you to live life engaged? Are you living it 100% engaged or less than that?
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Tune in to The Grateful Channel
Be grateful for all that you have and all that you are. We are drawing on the compassionate and timeless
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Is Your Lifestyle Getting in the Way of Weight Loss, Fitness Goals?
You hear a lot of advice about lifestyle change for weight management these days, but what does it mean? Everyone
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Calling Back our Own Life Force
Energy, in the form of thoughts and feelings, has the ability to travel. When we find ourselves thinking of a
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Setting Yourself Up for Success
How do you define success? Is it working hard and attaining wealth? Or is it doing something good for someone
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How to Fully Engaged
To what extreme do we live life fully engaged? Well, perhaps it depends on how deep we consciously decide to
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It is safe to let your Light shine!
We are drawing on the compassionate and timeless wisdom of The Gabriel Messages to provide insight and inspiration that we
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Mirror, Mirror: Family Reflections
The people in our lives, especially those closest to us, are our mirrors. Through the prism of their actions and
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Interview with The Dalai Lama
The rising temperature on a mid-July early morn, couldn’t come close to matching the warmth in the hearts of those
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The Way We Do One Thing
….Is the way we do Everything! I learned this the hard way when I saw everything in my life “not”
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Living in Grace
Much has been written about visualizing what you want; attracting things and ways of being into your universe via the
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One Degree of Change
Good health is a choice, not a chance! The challenge is that there is no such thing as a
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Leadership in The Mirror
I often write about leadership from the perspective of emerging women leaders from Rwanda. Due to my deep involvement with
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Receiving More Clarity
We are drawing on the compassionate and timeless wisdom of The Gabriel Messages to provide insight and inspiration that we
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How do you define success?
What is your definition of Success? The best definition I have heard states that, “success is a progressive realisation of
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Walking Your Chosen Path
We are drawing on the compassionate and timeless wisdom of The Gabriel Messages to provide insight and inspiration that we can apply
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Tools for Mental Success
When we set our minds to change our bodies through physical activity, the initial intention is a strong driving force.
Fitness
Uncovering your subconscious programming about fitness
Let’s take a look at fitness from the perspective of the subconscious mind. The subconscious is really what determines our
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Fitness Comes Down to One Simple Decision
Are you someone who puts a lot of pressure on yourself to exercise and eat right? If so, you
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Baby & Me – The Many Benefits of Breast Feeding
In May, we celebrate Spring and the rebirth of Mother Nature, but also Mother’s Day. Mothers (and fathers!) know that
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Is Your Leadership Consciously Fit?
The theme for this month is Conscious Fitness. This is critical for leaders because energy, stamina, drive and the capacity
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Wake up and listen… to your body
Are you ready to wake up your body to sense something spectacular? I’m ready to give you a little guidance
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The Force is With You
Do you know how magnificent you are? The human form intertwined with spirit has capabilities beyond understanding. We have the
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Overfed and Undernourished
As a Board Certified Nutritionist & Holistic Health Practitioner, there is one thing I know for sure: Good health begins
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The Missing Link
I believe that communication is the pathway to connection. Most of us yearn for connection to others, yet some of
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Mindful Training
The topic of mindfulness has exploded in the media like a volcanic eruption over the last decade, but what does
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Eat Right, Fuel Good!
In its most simplistic function, food is fuel for our bodies. What we eat affects the way we feel physically
Conscious at Work
Five Ways You Can Make Better and More Deliberate Decisions
What goes through your mind when you think about making decisions? Do you think, “I’m terrible at making decisions?”
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Never “Should” Your Way Through Life
How often do you say “I should”…as in “I should do this” or “I should have done that”? The word
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Are you willing to go to your edge?
Are you willing to go to your edge? How Yogic Principles Can Transform Your Leadership Many of you are familiar
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Why French women don’t get fat ?
Last month, a friend of mine gave me the book titled French Women Don’t Get Fat by Mireille Guiliano.
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How are you relating to YOU?
How are you relating to YOU? Does this question confuse you at first glance? Let me rephrase it. How
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Sugar: The Legal Drug
Sugar is in most everything we eat. But how does it affect our bodies? What price do we pay for
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It’s All Connected
Everything in the body is connected, working together in a synergistic harmony. The consequence of that synergistic harmony is the
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What’s behind door number 1?
What I’ve been working on in the past year, and still trying to master is letting go of fear. My
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Is Cancer An Ancient Survival Program Unmasked?
For decades it has been believed that cancer is the enemy. In fact we have been at war on
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The Bearable Lightness of Being
By title, I am a leadership coach. But, I like to think of myself as a leadership optometrist. I help
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Are you Balanced?
balance |ˈbaləns|noun – an even distribution of weight enabling someone or something to remain upright and steady. Are you Balanced?