Yoga

Yoga has so many benefits, we probably don’t even know how to recognize or measure most of them yet. Flexibility and calming are just the beginning. Yoga can help you improve circulation, energy, memory, attitude, digestion, metabolism and strength.

Avoid These 3 Common Weight-Loss Pitfalls

Are you making these common weight loss mistakes? It might be why you can’t lose weight!

The Transformative Power of Practice

Strength of mind is like strength of body. It takes discipline, perseverance, and repetition to develop.

Kombucha! (and how to make your own)

Kombucha is delicious and has so many health benefits. Not only that, it is simple and inexpensive to make at home.

On Change, and the New Year

The end of one year and the beginning of the next usually means evaluating where we stand and what we want next. Of course, best intentions are often soon forgotten. How do we truly make a new start?

When Things Are Difficult

I wrote this piece when a man I loved walked out on me, completely unexpectedly. I doubt he ever read it, but it helped me to affirm my own values, and judging from the many people who have responded to it in the years since, it has helped others as well. When things are difficult, don’t give up. Re-commit. Progress is rarely linear.

The Transformative Power of Practice

Would you like to be the kind of person who handles her day with grace? Who navigates adversity with admirable aplomb? Who is able to find resilience in the worst of circumstances, and optimism to share through the best? One way to develop these qualities is by developing a practice. What is a practice? TheContinue reading “The Transformative Power of Practice”

Women: How to make your 40s and 50s fabulous

Is it true that, for women, aging means gaining weight, lost libido, thinning hair and increasing aches, pains and physical woes? Absolutely not! This can be a wonderful time of life, if women learn to take care of themselves as well as they’ve taken care of everyone else in the decades before.

Start Getting Healthy: 6 Things You Can Do

Pick any of these 6 tips and get started! Whatever you choose, stick with it. Make small changes each week, commit to them, and keep building on those changes once they are established. You can do it!