Emotional Eating
March 25, 2010
By Guest Blogger
By Courtney Pool In the journey to heal emotional eating, does it matter what kind of food we’re eating? My personal experience of healing emotional eating has said yes, it surely does. While emotional eating is a symptom of imbalances that are not food-related, I have found that eating a healthier diet is a profound way to support the healing of emotional eating. Fueling our bodies with processed food and animal products only makes for… Read More >
Compassion: The Hidden Key to Healing
March 15, 2010
By Dr. Will Tuttle
Dr. Will Tuttle describes compassion as the hidden potential within us all to create social harmony, spiritual growth, fulfilling relationships and healing of all kinds. Let’s have a compassion-filled day by participating in Meatless Monday! Can you remember times in your life when you’ve been blessed by someone’s compassion? I remember times when I was under the weather or stressed out and received the compassion of a loving touch; when I’ve been on stage in front of… Read More >
The Missing Piece: Spirituality
March 2, 2010
By Guest Blogger
By Lauren Nastasi I have come to the realization that healing has to do with many things; not just my diet. I am sure many of you already knew this, but the problem is realizing how to fix it. For me, the issue was digging down and finding what needed to be healed. I have Crohn’s Disease and have been working toward healing it with a high raw, vegan diet consisting of green juices, green… Read More >
ACTing Up
February 18, 2010
By Guest Blogger
By JodyLynn Stuppy It all began with a click of my mouse… I was surfing the Internet desperately looking for a “new lease on life,” and the search engines were zealously buzzing with hits to a countless number of sites. Crazy Sexy Life stood out like a sore “green” thumb, and with a simple click, I entered the CSL Community! The rest would become history, or shall I say, “my story.” Kris Carr was starting… Read More >
Twins: Our Raw Food Journey
February 16, 2010
By Guest Blogger
By Michelle & Lori Corso We are twin sisters and we are also best friends. Our story has been a long and interesting one, but we will try to keep it short! Our journey to better health started at a young age. Our family has a history of stomach problems, mainly constipation, and the constipation led us to other health issues, including acne, hormonal imbalance, yeast, depression, and a constant battle over what foods to… Read More >
Words That Heal
February 2, 2010
By Guest Blogger
There is a long tradition, both East and West, about sacred words. We don’t resort to that kind of thing very much in modern life. If you are a devout Catholic you repeat the rosary, and in many sorts of Buddhist and Hindu meditations a mantra is repeated over and over. There are two reasons for this, usually. One is that the repeated words go directly to God, as prayers do. The other is that… Read More >
Diabetes & Our Plates
January 15, 2010
By Michael Greger, MD
2010 is the 20th anniversary of Dr. Dean Ornish’s landmark study that proved, for the first time, that a plant-based diet could not just slow down the progression of heart disease, not just stop it from getting worse, but actually reverse heart disease and open up clogged arteries. The list of chronic killer diseases that vegan diets can literally reverse continues to grow. Today, the average American is overweight, and 1 in 3 are medically… Read More >
Soul Mates
January 13, 2010
By Guest Blogger
The new year is upon us and full of possibilities. That was hard for me to imagine not too long ago, when I was single and wanting a boyfriend….feeling desperately single in my 20’s and 30’s and early 40’s. I had a great life in many ways, I just wanted someone to love and to love me. I barely let myself imagine ever being married to a wonderful man. Fear not! This post has a… Read More >
Feeling Spent?
January 12, 2010
By Frank Lipman, MD
First, a confession. I love music and have been obsessed with rhythm from an early age. I grew up in South Africa, where music and its ritual use are a very important part of the way of life in traditional African cultures. In my home, music was always playing from the time I woke up to the time I went to sleep. What I did not know then, was that my love for music and… Read More >
Where do I go from here?
January 8, 2010
By Guest Blogger
It sounds really strange but my journey began with a dispute over spaghetti and meatballs. I know it sounds weird especially for someone like me who mainly eats raw food nowadays. It was an early morning in 2007 when I ran into an acquaintance who told me she had just found a lump in her breast. She was upset and asked me to keep her in my thoughts and prayers. I gave her a big… Read More >
YES to More Self Love for YOU
November 27, 2009
By Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy
Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy How well and often do you love yourself? Are you your own best friend? How kindly and exquisitely do you tend to your own soul? Your answers to these questions may reveal an opportunity to practice more self-love. In my book: Fabulous Friendship Festival; Loving Wildly, Learning Deeply, Living Fully with Our Friends, I write about self-friendship, and have discovered through teaching workshops about it, that about 85% of people do… Read More >
Writing As a Spiritual Practice
October 20, 2009
By Guest Blogger
Win a copy of Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg’s book, The Sky Begins At Your Feet, by being the tenth person to tweet a link to this blog @CrazySexyLife. From the time I began writing like a maniac at age 14, writing has been my most constant spiritual companion, my way of praying for some clarity during the thickest tangles, and my source for finding answers, or at least, getting a better view of the questions. From the… Read More >
Advocacy & Gratitude
September 10, 2009
By Guest Blogger
Meg Wolff Over the past 10 years, I’ve become a pretty good advocate for myself. Because of the health challenges I’ve had (I’ve survived bone cancer and breast cancer), I’ve gradually learned to speak up for myself, and push myself harder than I had ever felt comfortable doing before. That’s why when I recently heard a macrobiotic counselor speak about having gratitude for our hardships, I totally got what he was talking about. I felt… Read More >
My Story: How I Got Here
September 3, 2009
By Guest Blogger
Meghan Telpner Just three years ago I was sick, I was tired and I was so afraid that this was as good as it was going to get. I didn’t know how to cook, had done maybe a handful of yoga classes and was surviving on rice cakes and margarine. Never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined that this is where I would be today, healthier, stronger and happier than ever before in… Read More >
