Empowered Health
April 24, 2012
By Guest Blogger
There’s something so annoying about getting sick. Whether it’s the common cold, flu-like symptoms or being hit with the cancer stick – it really is most inconvenient! And let’s be honest, it’s never a good time to get cancer. “I have things to do, thank you very much – you are mucking up my life plan, god damn you!” was my response to my “incurable” disease. I have never been one to do things by… Read More >
Five Tips for Establishing & Maintaining Healthy Boundaries
March 1, 2012
By Guest Blogger
One of the most common questions I am asked as a mental health professional and someone living with and healing from a “chronic and progressive” neurological disease, Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy/Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (RSD/CRPS), is how to establish, maintain and enforce (when needed) healthy interpersonal boundaries. This topic is especially important when one is living with chronic, acute and/or terminal illness because unhealthy interpersonal relationships and stressful life events can flare up and even aid… 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 >
Reclaim Your Mornings
September 28, 2011
By Pilar Gerasimo
Start the day on your own terms, and change your life for the better. Every day, millions wake with a sense of urgency. Jerked from sleep by an alarm, we lurch directly to the coffeemaker, to our email, to the day’s news headlines, or some other up-and-at-’em directive. One way or another, we abruptly press the day’s “on” switch, and before we’re entirely conscious, long before our brains and bodies have nudged themselves into first… Read More >
6 Steps Towards Emotional Wellness
April 4, 2011
By Guest Blogger
by Jennifer Reger I’ve spent the past five years on the quest for wellness, with much of my time, efforts and money devoted to better food choices. I bought organic, read label after label, avoided processed food, and experimented with various food plans before choosing a vegan, plant-based diet. With all my energy focused on food, and more recently a regular fitness routine, I managed to overlook a crucial component of health: emotional wellness. And… Read More >
Love List: Luscious Skin Care
March 30, 2011
Hi Radiant Queen, From time to time I love to update my favorite organic beauty products. A few months ago I got the best gift ever! Annmarie Gianni sent me a slew of her healthy potions and lotions from her new skincare line. Ya know why I say it was “the best gift ever”? One: Because her products blew my mind (not easy to do). Annmarie harnesses the power of Mother Nature in a bottle.… Read More >
Six Ways to Ease Your Postpartum Frazzle
January 10, 2011
By Kristen Suzanne
Postpartum self-care is an important topic that doesn’t get enough attention. When I was pregnant, nobody really talked about it other than saying, “Make sure you have food in the freezer because you’ll be too tired to cook.” But you know what? There’s more to it. As my midwife said with a chuckle, “Try getting a one-month postpartum mom to feel sorry for a woman in labor … not gonna happen.” I now understand the… Read More >
Love List: Build a Pitt Crew
December 1, 2010
Champion, Last week I shared my daily practice. This week I want to clue you in on my monthly self-care plan. I admit, my daily practice doesn’t happen every single day, but it happens more days than it doesn’t. So you do the math. If there are seven days in a week that means that I check in with myself at least four mornings per week. Remember, we’re spiritual athletes and we need to warm… Read More >
Glad During The Holdays: No Matter What!
November 25, 2010
By Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy
The holidays are full of pressures to be glad even if you don’t feel that way. People talk about “holiday cheer,” “finding the silver lining,” “looking on the bright side,” all of which are fine when we feel those things, but can actually add to feelings of loneliness and depression when we don’t. There is also a certain kind of “holiday tyranny” where we are encouraged to hide how we’re actually feeling, for the “sake… Read More >
Love List: Hot & Healthy Beauty Products
October 13, 2010
Hello Gorgeous! You are what you eat, but you’re also what you put on your skin. Everything we lather on our pores is absorbed into our bloodstream! So if you wouldn’t gobble it up, think twice about rubbing it on your beautiful bod. Have you ever looked at the ingredients in your beauty products? Can you even pronounce half the words in the ingredient list? My pal, Stacy Malkan at the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics,… Read More >
The Juice & Smoothie King
October 1, 2010
Hi juicy friends! This week I am honored to have a super special guest, my hubby Brian. He’s the Master of the House, the Pharaoh of Breville, the Vitamix Whisperer and he’s here to give you some special tips and tricks. Hope you enjoy and have a brilliant weekend tootsies…. Peace & family kitchen time, Kris PS. We forgot to mention that we use purified water or coconut water or even almond milk to blend… Read More >
Love List: Staying healthy on the road…
September 1, 2010
This Crazy Sexy healthy lifestyle is all well and good at home, but how the heck do you take it on the road? Answer: forward thinking and planning ahead. I don’t know about you, but my job requires lots of travel. I have a choice: I can let my health fall apart, or I can do my best to stay balanced in unfamiliar territory. Sometimes when you’re in the middle of bum f@ck nowhere, it… Read More >
The Necessity of ME Time
August 20, 2010
By Guest Blogger
“Self-care is never a selfish act. Any time we can listen to our true self and give it the care it requires, we do so not only for ourselves but for the many others whose lives we touch.” – Parker Palmer We all “know” how important “ME time” is. And we recall the wonderful feelings that having some ME time creates – peacefulness, gratefulness, calmness, etc. We all know that flight crews going through the… Read More >
Asking for Help
July 9, 2010
Howdy Sizzling Hot Sassies! Let’s take some advice from the wisdom-filled words of The Beatles: “Help! I need somebody!”. In this weekly vlog installment I talk about asking for help and I drop the f-bomb, so mothers cover your children’s ears! I love you, you’re worth it, now stop whining and ask for help! I’ll go first. What the heck do you want me to munch on, muse over and yackety-yack about next week? Peace… Read More >
A Declaration of Independence for the Free Soul
July 5, 2010
By Guest Blogger
By Tama J. Kieves In honor of Independence Day, why not write your own Declaration of Independence? What do you want to declare or break free from? I want to break free from holding back my power. I no longer want to live with only my low beams on. I want to shine so unequivocally that others decide to abandon their own shadow choices. I want to break away from the undermining thinking of the… Read More >
Your Inner Kiddo
July 2, 2010
Wassup Wildflower, If my inner kiddo met your inner kiddo on the playground, I bet we’d be friends. We’d be super nice to each other, share organic graham crackers and cozy up on a carpet square during story time. Life would be a lot less stressful. Watch today’s vlog for a simple but powerful exercise that will help you tap into your inner kiddo. PS- No bullies allowed on my playground! Peace & personal fireworks,… Read More >
Perfection
June 11, 2010
Aloha Life Lovers, Ta da! Check out my 2nd Vlog. This week’s topic is perfection and I sure hope it resonates with you. I also circled back to last week’s vlog on rest and highlighted a brilliant comment made on my Facebook fan page. I’ll be checking comments all weekend (in between some learning and healing at Omega and my juice and smoothie demos at CAS). Leave any thoughts, nuggets or ah-has, ’cause you know… Read More >
Rest
June 4, 2010
Howdy Wellness Warrior! Today kicks off the first in a series of short, fun and sass-o-matic vlogs. I’ve missed connecting with you so much, but I’m back in the crazy sexy saddle and ready to share my wellness tips and adventures once again. Lots of people ask me how I start my day. To be honest, it’s never the same, which is why it’s so exciting! Here’s a sneak peek of one of my current… Read More >
Do More Things Badly
March 5, 2010
By Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy
My inner perfectionist flipped out when I first heard this recommendation from one of my mentors, Rebecca Latimer, who wrote a book called You’re Not Old Until You’re Ninety: Best To Be Prepared, However. Rebecca said to me: “Oh SARK, when you speak to groups of people, would you please let them know that if they meditate and do it badly, it still works? And that goes for everything else, too. My best recommendation is… Read More >
