The conversation within!
Questions to provoke you into a paradigm shift and behavioral change! 
 
What would you say to someone who speaks to themselves the way you speak to yourself? What would you say to someone who speaks to you the way you speak to yourself?
 
Have you ever really contemplated this?  I mean really taken time and reflected on the conversation you carry on with yourself?  Once you do ask yourself this.. Is it something I’d repeat out loud? Would I let any one of my loved ones say this to me? With mindfulness and meditation initiatives ever on the rise let's take a good look at self-talk.

 2020 dietary trends and practices you will hear more and more of as 2020 rolls on.

Do you ever notice how the old becomes new(s), becomes old, becomes new… as history goes?  It’s been said most all we experience is recycled. When it comes to diets, Lord knows this is true.  Sure it may seem like a brand new diet with the adept marketing experts repackaging skills yet when you strip away the smoke and mirrors so to speak, the truth is revealed. It’s the same old, same old.

Rather than fads and trends, I am sold on tried and true!  And my story hasn’t changed in decades.  Oh sure it’s constantly finessing as I like to say thanks to ongoing science.  The science that isn’t bought, paid for, filtered and fiddled with to get the desired results. No, no, I am referring to the evidence-based, see and feel for yourself science put to practice that has you feeling and aging fine.  Just what is this is revealed to us...

STUFFED MUSHROOMS, MARTINIS and PARTY TRADITIONS

Every year for the past 13 or so years I host a special party called Martini Magic to a group of long time friends.
I’ve added a few to our guest list each year for I’ve been accurately called a people collector. Ha ha, yes I am one of those souls that chats to most everyone anywhere and loves to bring people together.
This particular party is tapas and cocktails focused as you may have suspected and there have been years where I’ve offered 8+ various Martini concoctions to choose from. (Once a bartender, always it seems.) It’s a wee bit crazy to manage, yet I am an innate host and rarely sit still at parties. If you need help at  party, invite me, you'll see what I mean.

Besides great food and drink at my parties, our eves always include a rousing game of some sort and it seems my friends get more and more outrageous as the years pass. Wisdom and wise-ness as we age, oh yes I trust this to be true along with older and more eccentric. (Oh to laugh at oneself and have friends close enough to laugh at each playfully too).

Are you plagued with out of control cravings for certain food or drink?
Does it feel like you have zero control over them?

To discover what they might mean read on and gain strategies to deal with these challenges.
We’ve all been there. It comes on strong and it can be relentless and have you extremely motivated, agitated and even relentless to respond to it ASAP. What is it you ask? Why it’s the infamous craving and no you don’t need to be expecting to experience it. You know what I am talking about don’t you?

WELL DID YOU KNOW THIS?
Each of us has food tolerances in our body and no, this is not a typo – I do mean ‘tolerances’. These have developed over the years from the foods we regularly eat that are highly processed, acidic and toxic to overall well-being. These foods react in our body like a drug.

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 MY MIND WANDERING MUSING
 
I’m sitting in a coffee shop, computer, a glass of water and my decaf Americano on hand with a whole lotta to-do’s to do. Around me, a wall of windows show case the beaming sun and brilliant recent snowfall, a humming buzz of conversations, the intoxicating smell of grinding coffee beans, good music playing… can I focus? Hell no!
 
Almost immediately as I settled, a flood of memories triggering tangible feelings of light-heartedness set in. I’m reliving sitting with my sister in a Nashville coffee shop after some holiday shopping.
A carefree, smile on my face sensation seeped in and the longing to be in that mode at this very moment high-jacked my emotions. Then I am off day dreaming and it's not related to work at all. Imagine that!

SMOOTHIE ESSENTIALS!  Making something so truly great!
It’s my absolute favorite breakfast
If you follow me on IG, or Facebook you will know I love smoothies. Why you wonder?
Well let me tell you.
 
This breakfast fave is a perfect way to launch your day with living energy and you gotta love the feels-so-good sensation after a yummy  smoothie.
With the right blend of ingredients, these cold and creamy blends deliver both the mighty macro nutrients as well as the oh-so-essential micro nutrients! And yes, you can go with any eating style you like from plant-based to Paleo, Keto, Fodmap, AIP. etc.
 
You will find most all of my smoothies are made thick enough to hold up a host of toppings for color, texture, visual allure, added yumminess and yes even more nutrition power. This is only one reason however.

It’s my own quest for optimal health and well-being that immersed me in my world of whole-self wellness.
The quote ‘we teach best what we must learn most’ is oh so true for me. I am ever learning and my own personal wellness practice is ever evolving as I dive deeper and deeper into the latest research.
 
My line is “Once you know, you can’t not know” so as you learn you are more able to make informed decisions.
And so it goes, thirty years later, still actively practicing whole-self wellness and witnessing it becoming more and more main-stream.  Hallelujah!
 
Recently a few clients and friends have asked me about challenges they are having with cold and flu symptoms.
Right away I went to my own arsenal of practices learned over the years and as a result I just had to share them.
 
Read on for some wonderful Ayurvedic remedies.

If you are wondering about your need to take supplements this is a fabulous movie to watch.
That Vitamin Movie
    (You can find it streaming with Netflix, Amazon Prime etc.) 


I am all over optimal health and well-being!
Even though I make a most concerted effort to eat a well balanced, varied, whole food diet; supplements are a must in my regime. Not just any ole supplements,
nor a basic multi vitamin/mineral. I align with what the experts suggest, tap into my body's symptoms and couple this with the essential
supplements you'll learn about in this video.

Do you know what most of us are sadly deficient in?

Sugar is an ominous and silent killer and it’s everywhere.

It’s frightful discovering how many foods are filled with sugar.  Even if you’re avoiding adding sugar to your foods, sugar finds its way into most all packaged foods from yogurt, milk/non-dairy milk, baked goods including most breads, muffins, cookies, cakes, pizza crusts and flatbread, sauces, broths, condiments, dips, crackers, protein bars, nut and seed butters and on and on. Then there is candy and alcohol. Mega sources of sugar.
 
You’ll find high sugar in endless forms and added sugars in all kinds of beverages from (the not so smart) ’Smart’ waters and sports drinks, coffees, juice shop smoothies, flavored lattes and Chai teas, many tea leaf blends, so-called healthy protein bars, cereals, many North American, Indian, Thai, Chinese and Japanese foods including the perceived healthy sushi.  It’s the reason most of us are so addicted. And this drug is legal, available most everywhere and encouraged. Help is needed to beat this addiction and I have it.