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Healthy Holidays: Your Checklist For The Rest of The Year

Healthy Holidays: Your Checklist For The Rest of The Year

A lot of people just give up on healthy eating this time of year. We’re busy. There are sugar cookies and candy canes and eggnog everywhere you turn. There’s a gathering every weekend, shopping and decorating and wrapping to do. Who has time to be healthy? That’s what the New Year is for, right?...

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Five Healthy Habits That Changed My Life (One May Surprise You)

Five Healthy Habits That Changed My Life (One May Surprise You)

We hear a lot about healthy habits, and sometimes they seem complicated. They’re too big or too vague: eat healthy meals, exercise for at least 30 minutes at least 5 days a week, get 8 hours of sleep a night, drink enough water. And we tune out.Habits don’t have to be hard. In fact, the best...

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What’s Not Wrong?

What’s Not Wrong?

Gratitude has become a popular buzzword. Lots of self-help gurus tout the power of a gratitude practice. Several years ago, during one of my more depressed periods — and I’ve had more than my share of those — I watched an Oprah show on gratitude. “Choose to be grateful," her guest said, “It’ll...

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Green Light Your Eating Habit Changes With One Little Word

Green Light Your Eating Habit Changes With One Little Word

Making permanent changes in your eating habits may be one of the most difficult things any human being can do. I speak from experience. I’ve been successful in confronting and recovering from a compulsive overeating disorder and food addiction. Am I perfect? No. None of us are, but perfection...

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Cue The Cookies — Do You Use Food to Cope with Strong Emotions?

Cue The Cookies — Do You Use Food to Cope with Strong Emotions?

For eighteen years I went to a friend’s house every two months to get my hair cut. We’d catch up on each other's lives, our activities, families, and pets. We didn’t have a huge amount in common, but I enjoyed her quirky personality. Invariably the conversation would turn toward the planets. Linda...

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How To Get Up and Move Even When You Don’t Feel Like It

How To Get Up and Move Even When You Don’t Feel Like It

I've been navigating the stormof a crappy mood for months now and it’s brought more than a few surprises, the biggest being my motivation to exercise flew out the window. After more than seven years of daily (ok, daily-ish) exercise, I thought I had this. After a lifetime of hating exercise, I...

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Happy Birthday! Is It Really A Celebration Without Cake?

Happy Birthday! Is It Really A Celebration Without Cake?

why is it that all our celebrations involve food? And not just any food, our holiday tables are laden with rich and sugary treats. There’s a good reason for that. One that’s embedded in our cultural DNA. In days past food took a lot more energy to find and prepare. Our ancestors, as recently as...

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Decadent Hot Cocoa That’s Actually Good for You!

Decadent Hot Cocoa That’s Actually Good for You!

It was a mellow Christmas at our house this year. Bitterly cold and windy outside, we were happy to hunker down inside and enjoy a quiet day by ourselves. On a whim after I’d washed up the dinner dishes I decided to make us some hot cocoa. The result was a rich, frothy, decadent tasting treat. The...

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Walking this Camino Called Life

Walking this Camino Called Life

Eight years ago I boldly announced to my friends on Facebook that I intended to walk the Camino de Santiago de Compostela. Why in the world would I want to follow an ancient pilgrim’s road 500 miles across Northern Spain to end up at a Cathedral that has no real significance to me? I love...

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