Happy Valentines Day. We often equate this day, and even the month of February, with love. Most people will be busy exchanging cards, flowers and candy to show their love and affection to those in their lives. I am departing from this ritual and I have decided to take this month to deepen my love… [Read more…]
Self Care is the theme as we start the New Year. Many of us barely meet our most basic needs as we focus on our families, friends, and work. In the back of our minds we know this is important. We feel the frustration and effects of stress as we experience the lack of Self… [Read more…]
With the holidays now mainly behind me, I look forward to the new year with excited expectations. The last couple of months have been a real struggle for me – I had to get really honest with myself and ask myself some tough questions: Why am I in this process? What am I afraid of? … [Read more…]
By the time I’d received my last wake- up call, I was spending a great deal of my earnings to maintain my body so that I could continue to over-work. Weekly appointments for acupuncture, therapeutic massage, chiropractic, and a naturopathic doctor – it was now costing me a pretty penny to keep my overwhelmed endocrinal… [Read more…]
Dear Dave, David, what’s wrong with eating movie theatre popcorn? It’s just popcorn right? And it is known as a ‘diet’ food…. Lauren, Utah Hello Lauren, First of all, corn in any form is a grain – NOT a vegetable. If you have any grain sensitivities you should avoid it entirely as it WILL induce… [Read more…]
A couple of years ago I would have blown a gasket if I looked out and saw my yard flooding. This morning I awoke to a lovely 4 inch pond of Snake River water covering my yard-over the well-head, my raspberry patch, the horseshoe pit and flowerbeds. And it was steadily creeping into the fire… [Read more…]
Moderation is a popular concept that has been promoted by the food industry. They had a slogan that went like this: “There’s room for all kinds of food in a healthy diet.” The promoted idea is that people can eat anything they want, as long as the foundation of the diet is healthy. Unfortunately, what… [Read more…]
Kelly Mortensen, Certified Genesis Coach It doesn’t take much… In this journey of Genesis Transformation, some of us get all caught up in the “diet”… the “how fast can I lose this weight”? We tend to forget about the HEALTH we achieve in the process…. My husband has been dabbling in clean eating more lately… [Read more…]
Michele John, certified Genesis Coach I used to read labels to see how many calories were in a particular food, because I was dieting and I needed to count every calorie that was consumed in a given day. Now my world is about reading labels for the content of what the particular product has in… [Read more…]
Courtney Townley If you are looking for clear instructions on how to take care of your body, you have, no doubt, found yourself thrashing around in a pool of misinformation and extreme dieting techniques. It often seems like a cruel joke that everything in your life has an instruction manual, except for the one thing… [Read more…]
January 29, 2012
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