Sorry. No. Thank you …
January 28, 2013
I have a deep-rooted calling to feel happy. To love the skin I’m in and to embrace all the nooks and crannies that make me, me. I need peace of mind like I need oxygen. I need unstructured time like I need water. Consistent contentment and less stress probably boost my immune system more than green juice. And yet I often get lost in my to-do list, complain about too many commitments and align myself… Read More >
Crazy Sexy Gentle: How to Cleanse in 2013
January 7, 2013
Hi Sweet Friends, It’s about that time. The ole “New Year, New You” push. Like many, you may be feeling pressure to totally renovate your body, fit into smaller jeans, reverse the hands of time and grow shinier, thicker hair. I know I feel pressure to improve. It’s been awhile since I cleansed. I hear the silly voices of “should” in my mind. “Kris, you know you should clean it up a bit.” Heck I… Read More >
Your Work: The Often-Overlooked Path to Healing
September 3, 2012
By Guest Blogger
When we’re not well, we first think about healing by way of modern medicine. For some, that works. Others turn to alternative therapies: nutrition, meditation, or yoga. For some, another path is required, one often overlooked and easily discounted. For me, my healing path has not been paved by green juice and acupuncture needles (though both have helped). My healing path has been paved by my work. Following the wrong path made me sicker, but… Read More >
Forget Willpower: Seven Steps to a Healthy-Eating Mindset Even If You Love Chocolate
August 29, 2012
By Guest Blogger
I was always pretty good about eating healthy, or at least I thought I was until I heard the three most dreaded words: “You have cancer.” Even though I am considered an expert in emotional eating and the psychology of weight loss, and have helped thousands of people with emotional eating, I now had to revamp my own entire diet. Ironically, two surgeries and 33 radiation treatments later, people who didn’t know that I had… Read More >
My Divine Diet
June 28, 2012
By Guest Blogger
Four years ago, I was as low as I could go. I was an attorney living in Chicago and taking about 25 pills a day for everything from ulcerative colitis to fibromyalgia (chronic pain). I lived all alone in a not-so-great neighborhood, as I was soon to be divorced and could not afford anything better. I could barely work 10 hours a week at a local legal aid organization and did not see how I… Read More >
Love, MS and Letting go: a Discourse on the Heart (with a List to Match!)
June 12, 2012
By Guest Blogger
Love … Gorgeous love. We all crave it. We’re all terrified of losing it. We all struggle through the moments when we feel we don’t deserve it. We’re all capable of giving it … and receiving it. At times, it seems to vanish. We wonder why love has left us. But it never does … Love is expansive and complex. I grew up in a tough household. Out of some misguided belief that too many… Read More >
Three Ways to Celebrate Being Cancer-Free
May 31, 2012
By Guest Blogger
The day my sister, Jo, learned she had breast cancer was the scariest day of her life – and mine. Jo is more than just my sister; she is my best friend and confidant and has been by my side through thick and thin. The thought of losing her was impossible to comprehend. After months of intensive treatment and a mastectomy, she learned her cancer was in remission. When her doctor revealed the results of… Read More >
Healing With Love
May 29, 2012
By Guest Blogger
After 20 years in family practice, and the last 10 years of an integrated approach, I now wonder if all healing can occur from a space of true, compassionate and unconditional love. Can love truly heal all illness? Can love heal depression? Chronic fatigue? Multiple sclerosis? Diabetes? Anxiety? Obesity? Can love heal every ailment we hear of in medicine? I feel it can. I now work teaching people how to release and allow true love… Read More >
The State-of-Grace: Where Unlimited Possibilities Await
May 24, 2012
By Guest Blogger
I love being in that state–of-grace place where synchronicity occurs, coincidences happen, just the right people, books, and events present themselves, and things work out better than I can imagine. It’s the magical realm of unlimited possibilities — I also call it the Miracle-Prone Zone. I’ve experienced this place throughout my life and it has thrilled me and filled me with a knowing that there is so much more to life than meets the eye.… Read More >
The Missing Piece of the Diabetes Puzzle
May 18, 2012
By Christiane Northrup MD
Modern medicine operates much like a farmer who fixes his fences only after the horses or cows have broken out. Hence, most serious health conditions incubate for years before they are diagnosed. This is certainly true of type 2 diabetes. A couple of weeks ago, I read a timely article in Life Extension magazine entitled “Glucose: The Silent Killer.” In addition to summarizing all of the really bad things that excess blood sugar can do… Read More >
Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
April 30, 2012
By Guest Blogger
When I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis seven years ago, at the age of 28, it felt like my life was sent spinning downhill. My fear of how this disease would weigh on me, drag me down into inevitable disability, was echoed by the concerned family and friends who cautioned me to be careful, not to take risks, to take drugs, to abandon my dream of having children. How would I cope with one day… Read More >
10 Tips to Find the Right Doctor
March 30, 2012
By Lissa Rankin MD
You might have been raised to believe that doctors are gods and that you shouldn’t question us, but let me tell you the real truth, my loves. We docs are in the service industry — it’s our job to love, nurture, tend and care for you, and if we’re not doing that the way you deserve, you should fire our sorry asses! If you weren’t getting what you needed from your massage therapist, hairdresser, or… Read More >
The Healing Power of Saying Yes
January 13, 2012
By Jen Louden
This summer I taught a Shero’s Journey retreat at Hollyhock, the magical retreat center on Cortes Island in British Columbia — an island wild enough to be home to wolves and cougars. My sweetheart Bob came along and, while I taught a powerhouse group of shimmering Shero’s, he birded and kayaked — until the third morning of the retreat, when he pulled a muscle in his back while kayaking. Our friend, neuropsychologist, Buddhist teacher and… Read More >
Is Healing Your Body a Full-time Job? Tips for Easing the Overwhelm
November 15, 2011
By Guest Blogger
Does this sound like a typical week? A doctor’s appointment, a massage, acupuncture, daily yoga, therapy, 25 daily supplements, morning green juice, daily meditation, cardio, cooking, and that’s after cleaning the house, getting the kids to school and finishing the sales presentation. Wow, I’m tired just thinking about it. Healing your body from illness can seem like a full-time job on top of your regular life ? a job you didn’t even apply for. How… Read More >
Your Fascinating Relationship with Money: How Healing Your Finances Can Heal Your Life
October 6, 2011
By Guest Blogger
Money is at the core of our fears and anxieties. As an individual, family, country and world, it affects us on every level, among people of all races and economic backgrounds. We all have a “money story” that begins in our childhood and continues into our adult life in the form of a love/hate dysfunctional relationship. It is one of the top stressors and can destroy our relationships, self-esteem and health. “I can’t lose weight… Read More >
Turn Your Attention to the Arrow in Your Heart
September 15, 2011
By Guest Blogger
If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it’s fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there’s an arrow in your heart and relate to the wound. -Pema Chodron Human nature is a curious and often paradoxical thing. We often act with compassion toward others who are suffering but never consider doing the same for ourselves. We have a… Read More >
Help Your Healer Heal You
August 3, 2011
By Guest Blogger
The role of the patient has changed dramatically over the last several centuries. The Industrial Revolution created labor specialization and division in all spheres including healthcare. Suddenly, there was not one doctor but many subcategories responsible for different parts of the body. The structure of healthcare also changed significantly: hospitals became more accessible and seeing a doctor doesn’t require traveling long distance. Living in the wilderness without access to immediate medical help, our ancestors once… Read More >
5 Lessons Hospice Taught Me About Living
June 30, 2011
By Guest Blogger
I cannot tell you how many times I have been asked, “How can you work in a hospice and be sick yourself? Isn’t it awful?” For those of you who don’t know, I have been living with and trying to heal from a chronic illness, Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy/Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (RSD/CRPS), for the last six years. I took a second year clinical internship for my master’s degree in a hospice for that precise reason… Read More >
4 Ways to Create a Holistic Home
June 7, 2011
By Guest Blogger
By Tisha Morris Although I don’t have any linguistic rules to back me up, I feel like it’s not coincidental that the word “home” begins with the same letters as the word “holistic” (not to mention includes the word “om”). Holistic living is being more and more embraced with conscious eating, preventive and alternative medicine, and simplicity. Holistic implies being “whole” or taking into account the “whole” picture – our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual… Read More >
Don’t Settle for Being Well. Be Vital!
May 20, 2011
By Lissa Rankin MD
I’m so honored to be here with my new girl crush BFF Kris Carr on the main stage with all you Wellness Warriors to share with you why I believe you can be your own doctor. Because you can, you know … But first let me tell you why I went to school for 12 years to become a doctor – and then quit. I could write a novel about that. But to make a… Read More >
