Reclaim Your Holiday Joy: How to Manage Sugar, Stress, and Spending
Reclaim Your Holiday Joy: How to Manage Sugar, Stress, and Spending

As the holiday season approaches, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the pressures and temptations around us. Three common pitfalls— sugar cravings, stress, and overspending —can steal the joy we so desperately want to experience. But there’s good news: with some simple strategies, you can regain control and approach the holidays with peace, health, and joy.  You can manage your health, stay stress-free, and keep your budget under control while still enjoying the season.

Let’s dive into three key areas—sugar, stress, and spending—and discover practical tips for reclaiming your holiday joy.

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How Self-Compassion Boosts Goal Achievement: 4 Steps to Success and Personal Growth
How Self-Compassion Boosts Goal Achievement: 4 Steps to Success and Personal Growth

Imagine your best friend comes to you, feeling like a failure because they missed achieving their goals. Would you ever say, “Of course, you’re a failure! You’ve never hit a goal you set, and I expect you never will. Why don’t you just quit and admit you’ll never be successful?” And then sit back with a self-satisfied smile, believing your harsh words will push them into achieving their goals?

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Aging with Grace: Balancing Outer and Inner Wellness
Aging with Grace: Balancing Outer and Inner Wellness

Danielle Steel's quote, "I'm not an aging gracefully type. But I do believe in aging with grace," really hits home when thinking about how we approach getting older. Instead of just passively accepting the changes that come with age, she believes in actively maintaining our vitality and appearance. But more importantly, she highlights the need to embrace aging with dignity, wisdom, and a positive outlook.

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Superfoods: The Ultimate Guide to Boosting Your Health
Superfoods: The Ultimate Guide to Boosting Your Health

In the pursuit of a healthier lifestyle, you may have come across the term "superfoods." These nutrient-dense powerhouses are hailed for their exceptional health benefits and ability to enhance overall well-being. But what exactly are superfoods, and why are they considered "super"? Read on to explore the definition of superfoods, what makes them so special, their importance in our diet, and five easy ways to incorporate more superfoods into your daily meals.

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Divine Dining with Grateful Bites! The what, why, and how of Mindful Eating
Divine Dining with Grateful Bites! The what, why, and how of Mindful Eating

Take a moment and imagine what it would feel like to be at ease with yourself and the food you eat without guilt or fear. By doing this, we are developing intuition and intention. So, let's just pause for a moment and imagine.  Take a moment and imagine what it would feel like to be at ease with yourself and the food you eat without guilt or fear. By doing this, we are developing intuition and intention. So, let's just pause for a moment and imagine.  With non-judgmental awareness we can learn to eat instinctively and intuitively, and to feel at ease with our choices. 

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Harvesting Winter’s Wisdom: Integrating Faith and Wellness in the Season of Reflection
Harvesting Winter’s Wisdom: Integrating Faith and Wellness in the Season of Reflection

As we wrap up the winter season and prepare for the hustle and bustle that comes with Spring and Summer, there’s still time to nourish yourself.

We can learn a lot from nature and how it uses the slower quieter time of winter to nourish itself for the upcoming surge of life.

GOD’s Word tells us we can trust that there is a time and season for everything.

“For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:” - Ecclesiastes 3:1 ESV

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Eating with Wisdom: Energize Your Body and Soul through Intuitive Eating and Faith
Eating with Wisdom: Energize Your Body and Soul through Intuitive Eating and Faith

When you think about feeling healthier and eating with wisdom, what comes to mind?  Losing weight?  No judgment – this is what most of us have on our minds!

Many of us try the traditional methods of releasing weight – cutting down on calories, exercising ourselves crazy, or a combination of both. While it may be successful in the short term, it is rarely a long term solution. So what IS a long term solution?

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The Tire Alignment of Life: Signs and Steps to Restore Balance
The Tire Alignment of Life: Signs and Steps to Restore Balance

If we are not in alignment, many of us just keep going until everything unravels and then you can’t do anything else but step back and take a look at your life, your values, your purpose. As I embark on using “one puzzle” to guide my health, life, and business, I am excited to share my faith, my health and wellness knowledge, and my experience with you to help you feel empowered to move forward in alignment with your Christian faith and GOD’s purpose for your life.

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Sweet Temptations: The Polarizing Power of Food and Sugar Cravings
Sweet Temptations: The Polarizing Power of Food and Sugar Cravings

Everyone else is saying that food is calories and grams of fat.  I’m saying that is only ONE way to look at food.

Everyone else is saying that food is fuel.  I’m saying that food is more than simply fuel.  It has energetic qualities that are beyond the science and mechanics of calories, fat grams, and nutrient values.

For example, leafy greens grow upward, so they have a ‘lifting’ energy, whereas root vegetables, like a potato or beet, grow deep into the ground, so they have a ‘grounding’ energy.

I’m saying the other way to look at food is something really cool, and the concept is called the ‘polarity of food’.

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Want to sleep, but can't? 21 tips to help you sleep!
Want to sleep, but can't? 21 tips to help you sleep!

You’re exhausted and all you want to do is crawl into bed and fall fast asleep.  You curl up in the covers, snuggle into a comfy position, feel your head hit the pillow just right…..

But instead of falling into a semi coma of great sleep, your eyes pop open.  You squeeze them shut and feel how your body is wrapped in the warm covers – hmmm, that feels soooooo good!  Eyes closed, yes!  Then your brain is all of a sudden in overdrive!  WHAT?? Just let me sleep!

 Or – has someone asked you the question – do you have trouble falling asleep? Or staying asleep?  If you’re like I was, my answer was always YES!

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