What Busy Professional Woman doesn’t know the mid-afternoon crash? You’re charging through your coffee-stoked morning, pause briefly for lunch, race back to the afternoon list of to-do’s, all rarin’ to go… you get nicely started…and then suddenly find yourself wondering what happened to all your energy! You’re sleepy, body-fatigued, brain-fogged, hungry, maybe irritable…as if someone […]
As spring is ramping up into summer, our commitments as Busy Professional Women are increasing…and all the while we’re anxiously preparing for the onset of Swimsuit Season! How can you meet your body’s need for high-energy nutrition, without taking on the weight of carbs and sugars? Simple! There is a superfood I highly recommend you […]
How many times have you done it – stayed up till the wee small hours on a must-do project, or catching up on important correspondence, then just zoning out on social media (decompressing, or catching up on news, you tell yourself)? I don’t think there’s one of my Busy Professional, Real Life Superwomen clients who […]
Are you aware of the incredible benefits of mushrooms? Take a look at a few: Rich in iron and vitamin C Has a compound called lentinan, which boosts your immune system and protects your body against tumors. antiviral Has adaptogentic properties I’ve included a delicious Onion Garlic Soup with Shiitake Mushrooms recipe for you! Enjoy! […]
The other day I was reading a page from Meditations for Women Who Do Too Much by Anne Wilson Schaef and this gold nugget leaped out at me: Intimacy with ourselves takes time. We need time for rest, time for walks, time for quiet, and time to tune in to ourselves. We cannot completely fill […]
For us Real-Life Superwoman, no matter what holiday we celebrate we have a tendency to forget about the sacred energy that is abundant during this time of year. Instead we feel overwhelmed, overextended, overtired and we overspend and overeat. We are busy pleasing everyone else and doing our “should” list instead of nourishing our self […]
With October as Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we’ve been inundated with information and resources “for the cure.” Problem is, I don’t see nearly enough empowering information being shared about cancer prevention – which to my mind is the best medicine! So that’s the perspective I’d like to take in offering you some tips for […]
As the darker hours grew longer, people of a long ago past would gather, light candles and bonfires, and call on spiritual guides and guardians to protect them against the forces of darkness. Not a bad idea…whether you are looking to the Light for spiritual protection…or turning on full-spectrum lights to guard you against more […]
In the city and suburbs, it’s often hard to see the stars as our grandmothers and great-grandmothers did. But one celestial body that overcomes light pollution is the Moon… as the Native Americans used to call her, Grandmother Moon, who rules the ebb and flow of women’s cycles. And according to The Oregonian, the coming […]
One of the lessons I love to share with my clients is the many ways in which our bodies are our teachers. And nothing – but nothing! – has proven this to me more than yoga. So I am eager to celebrate National Yoga Month by sharing some of the benefits I have experienced through […]