Over the past fifty years, USAmericans have experienced a shift in the way they relate to food with disturbing consequences. The popular attitude seems to be,
“I don’t care where it comes from or how it’s made as long as I can recognize it, it smells good, it tastes good, and it’s cheap.”
Real, whole ingredients and [...]
Are people telling you…
“You can’t have that.”
“You can’t do that.”
“You’re not smart enough.”
“You’re not skinny enough.”
“You’re just not that funny.”
“You can’t afford that.”
“You’ll never make it.”
“You’re not pretty enough.”
“You need to just pick one thing and stick with it.”
“You have too many standards.”
“You have too many rules.”
“You’ll never do _____________.”
Are you telling yourself these things?
Is [...]
2011 was some year for me.
Not the most amazing year, I’ll admit, but it certainly was a year of success, growth, and actualization.
I did a few BIG things (Social Media Week, LEAD NY, Milwaukee), made a couple of DRAMATIC changes (decluttered my living space, ended my five-year relationship), and spent the last six weeks of [...]
“Grab a machete and hack down your own path.” ─ revolutions.is.
I needed this today…losing motivation/sight of the end goal.
I have never asked for easy, just less of bullshit.
Carrying on.
Yesterday marked a MAJOR accomplishment for me: In just two weeks, I cleared out stacks and stacks of papers, magazines, and books that have been weighing me down for years.
This is a milestone, considering that I gave myself six weeks to get all of this paper out (I hope to be done with the majority [...]
One of the things I love most about Kundalini Yoga is the way it showed me how to reconnect with my breath. I never realized just how shallow my breathing was or that I spent most of my days holding my breath, so having to be conscious of my breath for ninety minutes was a [...]
Beginning this weekend and on the continuing the second weekend of each month , I’ll be teaming up with NYC-based Therapist Marcos A. Quinones to help people who have trouble navigating social experiences, live with anxiety, or experience other mood disorders for monthly meet and greets. Each month, attendees can come check out the space [...]
To me, anyway.
If you let my mother tell it, she’d say it stopped working for me when I had to start giving gifts. She’s never wrong and knows me better than I know myself, so I never tell her that the reason why I liberated myself from her idea of Christmas is because it didn’t [...]
Growing up, I was a pretty healthy kid. I’d like to attribute that to daily tablespoons of Cod Liver oil and Scott’s Emulsion (self-adminstered!), and a plenty of made-from-scratch REAL food. But in high school, I began to develop seasonal allergies. At the start of every season, I’d come down with a sinus infection, starting [...]
A few good yogini friends of mine are launching by-donation yoga classes in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.
Check out the details:
Dear Friends,
Come experiment with us. We love Brooklyn, its vibrancy, its diversity, and we want to honor that by creating a yoga studio that reflects the Brooklyn community it serves. We are starting with a three-week trial [...]
The folks over at Shambhala Publications, a company that specializes in books that present creative and conscious ways of transforming the individual, the society, and the planet are offering a special 35% discount through December 16th on all of their titles. Consider giving the aspirant in your life a title or two, or treat yourself [...]
It’s been several years since I graduated from Institute for Integrative Nutrition (IIN) and so much has changed about the program and health coaching since then. The biggest change at IIN is that in-person sessions have been phased out in exchange for location independent self-study (Hello, customized iPad 2!). I really love the idea of [...]
I am a hoarder. Of the information variety. But not like those people on those reality TV series where you can barely get into the apartment, have infestations, rotting food, and dead animals buried under piles of STUFF and are caving in floors and whatever else is clearly a mental illness that refuse to I [...]
Since I don’t do any cooking or party planning for Thanksgiving, I thought it would be a great idea to get a head start on my Christmas New Year’s Regimen (notice I didn’t say Resolution) by doing the very thing I’m not known for: Planning. I’ve been making lists, which include outlining my ‘Must’ list [...]
One of my biggest nutrition peeves lately is this Fear of/War against Fat.
Despite the fact that everyone who takes a college-level nutrition course learns what Fat is and the role Fat plays in the body and in food, Fat continues to be demonized as a bad food and underlying contributor to obesity.
But, people are eating [...]
The “best” diet for healthy eating is one that recognizes the Eater as a whole person, opts for whole foods, and allows the Eater flexibility in food choices without restriction, deprivation, or willpower.
The “best” diet for healthy eating considers your unique nutrition needs and respects your traditional foodways.
The “best” diet for healthy eating acknowledges that [...]
You never change things by fighting the existing Reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
-Buckminster Fuller
Love & Light,
Melissa
The first weekend of LEAD NY, a two-year Leadership Development program for Food and Agriculture professionals. It was a teambuilding weekend of low ropes courses and personal introductions at the Oswegatchie Educational Center in the Adirondacks. I am excited because I’ll be spending the next two years with 30 dedicated food and ag professionals. I [...]
I can think of six right now, there maybe at least 2 more. Guess that means I should go through that list and call the other two I can’t remember…
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