29 February 2012 ~ 0 Comments

Grow Yourself: Write Your Future Self a Letter

Have you ever given serious thought to who and where you’ll be, two, five or ten years from now? What will you look like, where will you live, work, and play? Who are the people that will be in your life and what kinds of experiences will you have had at that point? What would [...]

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27 February 2012 ~ 0 Comments

Woman With a Mission

One of the questions I’m always asking myself is, Am I here to fulfill a purpose or am I here to just take up space?  I’d really like to believe that I’m here to do more than just take up space, so much of my adult life has been about gaining clarity about my Truth [...]

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24 February 2012 ~ 0 Comments

Don’t Cry For Me

What’s changed for you since you’ve been here last? Did you hook up with someone new, end a relationship, or get married? Did you get a new job, get fired, or launch a business? Are you pregnant, delivering, or thinking very strongly about the process? Did you move halfway around the world, or just down [...]

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22 February 2012 ~ 0 Comments

Grow Yourself: Learn CPR & First Aid

Have you ever witnessed someone having a heart attack, choking, or an accident? Did you know what to do, beyond calling 911? Were you able to provide assistance or did you stand there powerless until help came? The first person to respond in an emergency situation will be the person who is right there as [...]

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21 February 2012 ~ 0 Comments

Are You An Emotional Deadbeat? Here are Four Ways to Find Out

Yesterday I was visiting with my father who happened to be watching an episode of Divorce Court where a wife was frustrated with her husband’s lack of financial and emotional contributions to the family and to their relationship. She felt that he just wanted to lay up and live off of her while he pursued a [...]

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15 February 2012 ~ 0 Comments

Grow Yourself: Create (Better) To-Do Lists

If there never seems to be enough time to get things done, then perhaps it’s time to rethink your approach to accomplishing them. And if multi-tasking only leaves you with a never ending list of open-ended projects and tasks, then it’s time to let go of the belief that you know how to juggle, and [...]

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08 February 2012 ~ 0 Comments

Trading Places: Relocation Goal, Revisited

My original relocation goal was to be a Reverse Weekender: I’d live within a 2-hour drive to Brooklyn, spending my weekdays creating my art + wellness + farming + self-sufficient homestead and my weekends immersing myself in Brooklyn culture. But the plan wasn’t to do it alone. And now that I am by myself in [...]

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08 February 2012 ~ 0 Comments

Grow Yourself: Say Hello to A Stranger

When was the last time you made purposeful eye contact with someone you didn’t know, smiled, and wished them a good day?   We’re all connected socially, but  disconnected in our interpersonal communications.   We’re comfortable sharing the intimate, the profound, and the who-really-cares-what-you’re-doing-now moments of our lives online, but actual, face-to-face interaction? Hmm, when [...]

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07 February 2012 ~ 0 Comments

Shaping My Minimalist Mindset

I’m sitting here, stuck, again, overwhelmed by this next round of purging.   I haven’t bought anything new in a while, and while I also haven’t brought in much stuff over the past couple of months, I still feel like there’s still so much left to get rid of.   But so far, I’ve:   [...]

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06 February 2012 ~ 0 Comments

On Having Enemies

Consider those whom you call your enemies and figure out what they should call you. ~Wayne Dyer

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01 February 2012 ~ 0 Comments

Grow Yourself: Wake Up Half an Hour Earlier

There’s something to be said about the hours between 3:30am and 6:30am. The Yogis call it the Amrit Vela, or, the “ambrosial period”. It’s a place that offers you a quiet stillness you may see for the next 15 hours, so it’s a perfect time to create the space for lies ahead. Here are 10 [...]

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31 January 2012 ~ 0 Comments

How badly do you want to L.O.V.E.?

About ten years ago, I was overweight, miserable, and unsure of my place in the world. I shouldn’t have been, considering that I was doing what I wanted to do (photo major), I was well liked, and I had a series of really cool jobs (ad agency, jazz club, museum, Broadway theater, to name a [...]

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30 January 2012 ~ 0 Comments

How to Eliminate Stress and Pain from Your Life

The only one way to stop being stressed out and suffering from emotional pain all of the time is to STOP doing the things that cause stress and emotional pain. Much of what we experience is caused by what we create. When our thoughts, words, and actions are out of alignment, we create suffering in [...]

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25 January 2012 ~ 0 Comments

Grow Yourself: Get a Massage

When’s the last time you got physically intimate that also didn’t involve or result in a sexual experience? Nonsexual physical contact is the most underused and underutilized tool for expressing intimacy, mindfulness, love, self-care, and self-love. Massage has multiple benefits, some of which include: eases muscle pain increases joint flexibility lessens anxiety and depression improves [...]

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20 January 2012 ~ 0 Comments

Woman vs Diet: Change Your Attitude About Food

The Food Culturist, who has a show on Heritage Radio Network was listening to this show the other day when she hit me up saying, she sounds just like you, the just-relax-and-eat-real-food you. I took a listen, and decided that this would be my gift to you this Friday, three weeks into the new year, [...]

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18 January 2012 ~ 0 Comments

San Jose, CA: I Can Do It IGNITE! March 17-18

Hay House, Inc.

Join Hay House for the information-packed I Can Do It! IGNITE conference as Louise Hay, Wayne Dyer, Cheryl Richardson, and Doreen Virtue share the stage with Hay House’s new cutting-edge authors, speakers, and documentary filmmakers. The I Can Do It! IGNITE conference is a brand-new, fast-paced format that features 20-minute keynotes from trendsetting speakers who will IGNITE your passion [...]

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18 January 2012 ~ 0 Comments

Grow Yourself: Create a Self-Portrait

In my Shaolin Kung Fu class, my Sifu was always asking us, “Do You Know Who You Are?” Usually, we were in the midst of some grueling circuit exercise, pushing our limits, and our threshold of pain. He always answered the question for us: “Not as well as you think you do.” He was impelling [...]

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17 January 2012 ~ 2 Comments

NY Locavore: My Locavore Dilemma

Just a few months ago, my fridge was full to the brim of leafy greens, roots and eggs. At one point, I could barely keep up with my lofty culinary intentions and the fridge, as friend and colleague Olivia put it, became the place where vegetables went to die. Today, I’m staring at an empty [...]

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14 January 2012 ~ 0 Comments

The End of the World

A couple of weeks of overindulging on refined flour and lack of proper sleep have me nursing a mild sinus infection and giving me an excuse to stay in bed and watch old serials on Netflix. I’ve just finished season 3 of Torchwood and decided to see what the fuss of Doctor Who is about. [...]

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13 January 2012 ~ 0 Comments

Whose Body Is It Anyway?

Who owns the female body? Is it the “straight size” model or the “plus size” model?  Fashion magazines or clothing designers?  Babies?   Advertisers?  Patriarchy?  If “real” women have curves, then where does it leave the “skinny bitches”?  How do you make decisions about what is acceptable when it comes to your weight? Your hair [...]

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