Monthly Inspiration on Healing & Whole Living
Why Self-Care is Not the Solution
It sounds so simple, right? So obvious. Self care. Of course! You feel really run-down, tired and overwhelmed....so you're told to take time to look after your own needs. You maybe attend a class, run a bath, make a healthy dinner, meditate. And, in fact, I've been a...
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3 Things Much Better Than Resolutions!
If there's one thing we're not supposed to do during the darkest, coldest, harshest month of the year (January!), it's try to change our lives. Honestly. There is a time for change. But despite all the marketing messages you'll be assaulted with this month, It's not...
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Are You Afraid Of How You Feel?
With Christmas almost upon us, there's no better time to talk about....feeeeeelings! Because if ever there was a time of year to bring up all those buried grievances, anger and grief, it's the season of goodwill. When we spend more time than usual with our families...
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Why Are You Refusing to Rest?
Rest is revolutionary — Uma Dinsmore-Tuli So many women come to me run down, overwhelmed and low on energy. They complain of being exhausted or run-down and want a quick fix. Is there a supplement they can take? Or a remedy of some kind that will help them keep...
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4 Personality Tests That Could Change Your Life
Everyone loves a good personality test, don't they?! For most of my life I pored over those silly magazine quizzes I couldn't resist: "Which world city suits you best? and later, "Which Sex and the City character are you?" or "Which style icon are you?" (I still have...
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3 Steps to Self-Acceptance and True Happiness
Are you hoping to find happiness through changing yourself? Do you secretly believe that you are not now good enough - and all will be well once you’ve lost 10 lbs, got fit, found a new job and secured the perfect partner? I know I did. Still do, sometimes! The shiny,...
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Why You Don’t Need A Celebrity Diet
Have you noticed there's something weird happening in the world of health right now? It used to be that we were upfront about telling women that thinness was the ultimate state - to be achieved at any cost. Back in the '80's and '90's, this meant a diet of coffee and...
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Are You Missing This Essential Secret to Good Health?
It's taken me a long time to learn a simple lesson. A looooooong time. I used to fervently believe that if something wasn't going right in my life that it was because I wasn't working hard enough to keep it under control. So, if I had put on weight, this was a...
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How to Actually Feel Good This Year
Let me ask you something... What kind of a 2016 are you trying to create? And is it making you feel good? The Dream Maybe you're dreaming of 2016 being the year you finally lose those 10lbs, run 10k or kick a particularly bad habit. By summer, you're going to be...
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How to Deal with Difficult People
I wish you a very merry and peaceful Christmas. I hope you enjoy this time to catch up with family, friends - and yourself - and feel full to the brim with gratitude, love and peace. But...if your experience turns out to be a little less than heavenly, you might...
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12 Ways to Comfort Yourself Without Food
Yikes! It's the Christmas season. There are many reasons to overindulge at Christmas: There's food everywhere....all the time There's drink everywhere and, well, what goes better with alcohol than FOOD?! You have to hang around with your family, who know how to push...
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How to Support Someone Who Is Struggling
We're not very good at dealing with pain, are we? And it's a funny thing. Because the one thing we can be sure of in life is that we will suffer. We will have our hearts broken. We will get ill. We will lose loved ones. Things will hit us out of the blue. We will...
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Do You Really Love Food Too Much?
"My problem is that I just love food too much." Have you ever said this?! I know I have. In fact, anyone who's ever struggled with weight has probably uttered these words and been convinced they are telling the truth. It sounds pretty reasonable, doesn't it? I mean,...
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How to Understand and Stop Your Emotional Eating
There's A Reason For It, You Know Something is driving you when you pick up that pack of chocolate chip cookies. And have one...two...three...okay, LOTS (!). But still not be able to rest until you dig into that packet of crisps you had tried to hide at the back of...
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The 3 Most Powerful Words To Live By
Imperfection is not our personal problem - it is a natural part of existing. - Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance Who Would You Be If You Knew You Were Enough? Okay, so we've all seen the words "you are enough" bandied around in inspirational quotes on the internet....
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What Your Body is Really Trying to Tell You
Every time I asked "Why?" I got the same response: "It's just one of those things." When you've been brought to your knees with pain or illness, it's really no help to hear this from your doctor. We don't know why it's happening. There's no known cause. Or cure....
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What These Astronauts Can Teach Us About Who We Are
I came across this video on The Overview Effect a few months ago and found it really thought-provoking. It features short interviews with astronauts who discuss how viewing the earth from their new perspective in space changed their understanding of who we really are...
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Why You Are More Beautiful for Having Been Broken
Don't you sometimes get tired of how our culture celebrates perfection? It's exhausting! And not just any kind of perfection, but a very specific, tightly controlled version of an ideal. Youth, we are told, is the perfect state. An unlined face, an unscarred body. An...
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