You might be surprised to hear the word plan when speaking about health as it relates to the Holiday time of year. I understand your surprise. When it comes to the Holidays, we're faced with many traditions and routines that become automatic without us giving a second thought to the choices we're making.
Read MoreWith the Holiday time of year building up, one of the most common words we, unfortunately, hear associates with the Holidays is stress. However, it isn't just around the Holidays that we hear about the struggle people face with stress.
Read MoreAs the Holiday Season fast approaches around the world, many of us start thinking about the temptation to overeat, followed by the desire to lose that extra weight we're carrying around.
Read MoreWe have arrived in November and the time of year when the days start getting shorter. For many of us, this can bring many changes that can be stirred up inside us due to the change in season.
Read MoreYour environment, it impacts the way you feel, behave, think, eat, sleep, and more. For this writing, I'd like to focus on how our environment impacts the way we eat.
Read MoreI often mention in conversation that we must understand the load we’re putting on our bodies. When I start explaining this further, I get some confused looks and some AHA expressions.
Read MoreIt's fall time, the time of year that has my senses renewing. Fall, like no other time of year, helps to get me in tune with my senses with way more awareness, especially around meal time.
Read MoreWe all have messes of various forms in our lives from time to time. When these messes pile up, we can start to get overwhelmed. I've heard it stated this way recently, old problems don't get better, they just get older - unless we do something about it.
Read MoreIf you're alive, you've experienced the vitality of moving your body. Remember that time when you broke a sweat from getting your heart rate up and lost track of your thoughts as you experienced excitement in your body?
Read MoreOK. So I'm a food snob. What I mean is that I'm picky about the food that I put in my body. It's more so about the quality of the food and the quality in the preparation of the food than being picky about eating one ingredient over another.
Read MoreWe spend about one-third of every day of our lives sleeping or should I say trying to sleep. So, if we're going to give that much time to something that our biology requires, why not get the most we can out of it.
Read MoreEach day we're communicating with people around us on some level. However, are we communicating deep down on a level that we truly want to be?
Read MoreBefore we can change any behavior within us, we must first become aware of it. One of the most impactful ways that I've been able to bring this awareness to myself is by writing my thoughts down on paper.
Read MoreWith fair accuracy, we can look at cultures and find a common thread in how that culture functions. Once we identify an underlying theme, it's fair to call that the lifestyle of that culture because it represents how the majority is doing things.
Read MoreAt the 40 km to go mark I had been running with the nine-hour bus for about seven kilometers. I was tucked away in the middle of the group just behind the bus driver. I could tell Joseph was poised and very experienced.
Read MoreThe leadup to Comrades Marathon 2018 was filled with ups and downs of logistics. This time around it was my friend Bari and I heading to Durban, South Africa alone, opposed to the support crew we had with us in 2015.
Read MoreOn June 4th, 2018 I departed for South Africa to participate in the Ultimate Human Race, the Comrades Marathon. The day started with the scheduled car service not showing up at 8am as planned.
Read MoreWhen we look at old pictures, reflect on a trip we took, or recall memories with friends and family, we can often find our selves living in the past, wishing that we could relive past moments.
Read MoreBut if you think about it, our hands do all the hard work! Way more than our faces. We use our hands all day, every day, to cook, to clean, to write, type, drive, to eat, to wash—to do practically everything, and then sadly, we get home and give them a quick wash with some generic soap.
Read MoreWheatgrass is a superfood because of its powerful, concentrated liquid nutrient content. What this means is that drinking just 2 ounces of wheatgrass has the same nutrient value as 5 pounds of organic raw vegetables!
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