It is a beautiful warm night here in Queenstown, New Zealand where I write this today. Lake Wakatipu must be the largely undiscovered piece of heaven on earth. Once you see it, you shall never forget it. Mother Nature beckons you here with every breeze, every rustle and every ripple and with the fresh New [...]
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I have been mesmerized with the Randy Pausch story since the first time I watched the unforgettable Last Lecture he delivered at Carnegie Melon University. There is only so much of Randy’s story that you can read before you have to stop and walk away and then force yourself to either promptly forget it all [...]
After 8 months of a strictly vegan diet, one day, I decided it was no longer for me. Here’s the story behind that decision. When I was growing up, I could put eating in two category: you either ate regular foods or you ate diet meals. When we moved to the US, I discovered the [...]
I am now convinced that my explorations into healthy, easy, and appetizing foods is a never-ending journey. Lucky that I also live with a budding chef! During my raw-vegan challenge, which coincided with my hubby’s particularly creative phase around “sweets”, something wonderful happened in the kitchen, and too wonderful not to share. He called it [...]
Welcome back to Episode #7 of The Daily Interaction podcast. Today’s topic is about interacting with the world around you when you are not feeling well. What do you do? Do you hide? Do you pretend? Do you lash out? In return, how should you interact with others when they are not feeling well or [...]
September 2011 was my 4-year anniversary since my first green juice, and I wanted to celebrate the occasion and what better way to celebrate than to share the gift of green juicing and all its benefits with my darling readers, you? In December 2011, I offer my green juicing enthusiast readers this: a comprehensive guide [...]
It is time to tell the tale of the Raw Vegan Challenge Month that was not to be in its entirety! So what happened, what did I learn, and how I plan to continue to take my eating habits to the next level of exploration and refinement.
It’s not what you give up; it’s what you gain that counts! Just for good measure, I will say it again: It is not about what you give up. It is all about what you gain. That is how I have been able to take some of the bravest and greatest steps in my life [...]
It is simple enough to commit to an eating style or diet in its truest meaning but not so easy when it comes to finding and preparing the right foods. It is one thing to say you will be a vegan and another knowing how to create enough variety from easy vegan recipes so you [...]
My, what a big bold claim! Easy and radical in one little phrase? There should be nothing easy about radical. A radical change should require extremely hard work and sweat and only those prepared for such a grueling path should even consider it. And going vegan is not only radical, it is anything but easy [...]
Living your whole life in cold or hot climates does NOT necessarily make you immune to those extreme temperatures! Seriously, how many times have you heard: “Well, you should be used to the cold, you live in [insert cold city!]!” “Oh but you ought to be able to handle the humidity, living in [insert humid [...]
Health is on my mind lately. Lately has been going on strong for about 3 years now. In August, I finished yet another challenge: The Wellness Challenge from the beloved Sync Studio for exercising (at least an hour for me!) every single day. Twenty seven fantastic spinning classes and a dozen yoga sessions later, I [...]
As I commit to another fantastic month long health-forming challenge, I question one thing: How long does it really take to form long-term, sustainable, healthy new habits that seamlessly integrate into your life as though they have always been there? What type of commitment? Habits that once formed never part. Habits of a lifetime. Forming [...]
“Why on earth are you going vegan again?” my husband cried as though he has just heard another of my craziest new ideas yet. “Because I want to!” is usually my first stern reaction. It shows that I am the boss of me while at the same time affording me time to collect my thoughts [...]
On Tuesday morning, the last day of June 2010, I met a new woman at the 5:45am cycling class: myself! A new woman with the stamina, perseverance, strength and power that I would not have otherwise believed existed in me were it not for the image in the mirror staring back at me. This was [...]
