Posted in Wellbeing on Feb 9th, 2010
What does your recording say? What is your programming? What have you packed in your baggage?Why on earth am I asking you these seemingly ridiculous questions?
I am asking them because if I didn’t bring this up, someone else might, or worse- no one would at all. Then you end up as a failed rock star at an American Idol audition. That’s what happens when you don’t get the truth.
I used to date as a past-time. When the date didn’t turn into a nutritional consult, it often turned into a therapy session. I started to get the feeling that dating was an opportunity for two people to meet, for them to open up the baggage they dragged around with them, empty out the contents piece by piece, and leave it up to the person on the other side of the cafe table to decide whether any contents of this baggage were deal breakers or not. More often than not, I walked away from these dates/therapy sessions praying to baggage handlers the world over that these fine people would be blessed with the lightness that would come should their baggage be lost.
Often however, we don’t recognize this in ourselves. We just carry on, living with the agreements we have come to know as our truth, living and thinking (and often eating) in such a way because everyone else does it the same way and so it seems normal and okay…
Read Full Post »
Posted in Dips, Recipe on Feb 8th, 2010
Should I just say what we’re all thinking here? That eggplants are funny looking. Or should I be more specific and say that eggplants are funny looking because they look a bit like wonky boobs? Well they do. They also have an ugly name. The idea of an actual egg plant is like something straight [...]
Read Full Post »
Posted in Health, Wellbeing on Feb 6th, 2010
My grandpa, Gene Telpner, was a journalist. A world famous one at that. My grandma Fritzi was diligent in keeping scrapbooks of all his writings and adventures that included photos of him next to the likes of Marylin Monroe, Alfred Hitchcock and the delightful couple of Kermit The Frog and Miss Piggy (you know as [...]
Read Full Post »
Was it just me or did anyone else have a bit of a time this week? All I know is that I was definitely not all here, maybe not all there either. All in all, I was feeling mighty unsettled and so I turned to the herbs with a vengeance. I was looking for something [...]
Read Full Post »
Posted in Nutrition, Video, Wellbeing on Feb 4th, 2010
It is tough to keep it local and fresh in the Winter. The best advice I can offer is to make yourself local to some great fresh food! Here’s to holidays in hot places. Yes, this method for keeping the diet local may rip your ecological footprint to shreds but it is a delicious endeavor [...]
Read Full Post »
Posted in Health, Recipe on Feb 3rd, 2010
By request (and so many emails) I have updated my recipe index. I will do my best to keep this updated as regularly as possible (at least more often than twice a year), but really, I just like you to get good and familiar with the old guys before you give the newbies a try.
The [...]
Read Full Post »
Posted in Recipe, Soup on Feb 2nd, 2010
Apparently my sweet healthy ladies (and one or two men who read me), you are all over the single pot meals. Who could blame you though really? What is better than throwing a whole heap of stuff into a pot, taking a good thirty minutes to take a bath, paint your nails, breathe through a few rounds of vinyasa, have a quiet contest with the people you share your house with, or even take a little cat-napper and come back to the kitchen to find dinner ready and only one pot (plus a bowl should you choose to use one) to wash? Nothing! Nothing is better than one pot meals.
Read Full Post »
Posted in Nutrition, Wellbeing on Feb 1st, 2010
In the home where I grew up, there were two different spices used in our meals: salt and pepper. Both are fine and dandy, if not massively over used, and when I became allergic to black pepper a few years ago (I break out in crazy sexy herpes-style mouth blisters), I knew I needed to [...]
Read Full Post »
Posted in Nutrition on Jan 30th, 2010
I am not related to either of these peeps by blood but my friend Adam once told me that family is a feeling. I have therefore adopted uncle Michael and Auntie Oprah as my own. Did you see Michael Pollan on Oprah? I received roughly six phone calls telling me I should be watching this. [...]
Read Full Post »
Posted in Health, Wellbeing on Jan 29th, 2010
We go through a lot of transitions in our lives as we move towards a healthier way of living. Just this morning, as Josh and I were sipping on our raw cacao, home-made coconut milk and sea moss smoothies we both thought how amazing it is that we were so excited about a sea moss smoothie (recipe coming soon!). We have each made these transitions over the course of a few years, and it becomes easy to forget how far we have come, or where our clients might be right now, versus where we would like to get them to. A few years ago, I definitely wouldn’t have been salivating over a wine glass filled with blended green goodness.
Living in the world that I have created, I often forget what is going on outside of this little nutrition bubble.
Read Full Post »
