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Holiday Stress? Mindfulness Can Help

Here it comes – the wave of winter holidays. Time seems to speed up now, and the season can seem a bit sugar-coated and a bit stressful. Suddenly so much to do! Decorating, attending gatherings,...

Quickeners Podcast Episode 4: Not Your Fault. Now What?

In psychology there the idea that "it's not your fault that you...". We did not personally create many of the dysfunctional parts of our life. Many of our struggles are rooted in early events and...

Emotional Eating, Disordered Eating, Eating Disorders

What, Why & What to Do These words - emotional eating, disordered eating and eating disorders - are often tossed around by people who don’t understand the complexities of an individual's...

Garlicky Leek Soup Recipe

This soup was inspired by my love of potatoes, though there is only a little potato actually in it, the flavor is there. Potato heads unite!

Moving Grief with Courage: Quickeners Special Episode

Born a quad-Aries, I've always had access to courage. I'd like to say it's been tempered by wisdom over time, but no, my fearlessness is as blind as it ever was. If I've learned anything about...

Quickeners Podcast: Episode 1 – Finding Inspiration

Inspired to launch a podcast. May it inspire you too. Quickeners: A Podcast to Inspire Self-Care Quickeners are mini-inspirations that help people make a quick shift toward...better. My beloved...

Breakfast Salad Recipe

This summer I was breakfast salad crazy - in the garden, knee-deep in some wonderful greens, and the vegetable bowl craze just pointed to making more breakfast salads. Yum. Now that the weather is...

How a baby bird taught me to begin again

Cats, birds, and nature don't always - or maybe ever - mix. We get busy and distracted in our important lives - starting a new practice, entertaining and improving my level of fitness and oops....

With herbal waters, you of course skip the sugar and chemicals in the refined drinks you purchase. But you also get a smidgen of phytonutrient and bioenergetic support from herbs and other botanical flavorings, which contain some of the most potent of nature’s medicines.

Prediabetes Symptoms – Here’s How it Feels

The last couple years have been tough. Through my challenging time, I had a personal experience of how prediabetes symptoms feel - I don't recommend it. For me, it was the wake-up call I needed to...