Making Love In The Kitchen

(Don’t forget to come by my film screening tonight!)

One of the questions my clients have the toughest time answering when I do their intake, is what their hobbies and interests are. Last week a client responded with “Who has hobbies anymore?”

Great health is not just about the food we eat. We all need other things in our lives to create TOTAL health. I, for one, often get way too caught up in my physical health, making sure I get my daily exercise, my protein and fibre with every meal, my lemon and water in the morning (I could go on and on and on), that I often put aside the things that nourish the rest of me.

My hobby is putting colour on stuff and I don’t do it nearly enough. Cooking has become my primary creative outlet of late, but there is still nothing I enjoy more than sitting down with an assortment of paints and a glue gun and creating something completely ridiculous. I love focusing my energy on something that has absolutely nothing to do with my physical health. The above photo was from Canada Weekend at my cottage. Every year we take on a family art project, and this year we decorated boxes. I was going with a farm to table kind of theme (with a naked plastic doll holding a pink  comb). So silly. More photos at the bottom.

What activities nourish you?

Here are some of my other tips to staying healthy that have nothing to do with what you eat.

Meghan’s Guide To Making Love Outside The Kitchen

Cry Over Spilled Milk
When we keep it in we get sick. Emotions and feelings that are repressed, will end in illness in one form or another. We all have our inherent weaknesses but there is no need to find out what those weaknesses are. Talk it out, share feelings, and most importantly, be real about what you’re feeling.

Follow Your Gut and Make The Decision
My friend Jay always says to me “When there’s doubt, there’s no doubt”. If we follow our instinct, we will never have to make another decision again in our life.

Create Solutions and Make Peace With Them
We may choose to view ourselves as victims of circumstance but for the most part, we create our circumstance and therefore have the power to change it.  Positive change results from positive action. Negative circumstance results from negative reaction.

A Cute Outfit Means Nothing If You Feel Like Shit
We’ll spend more money on a consultation for colours to paint our walls than on consultations to resolve our health issues. People who hide from reality and pretend like everything is sunshiney, glossy and perfect all the time  are those in the most pain. It’s okay to have bad days.

It Is What It Is.
Acceptance of ourselves- our appearance,  our relationships,  our health,  our family,  our friends…  We must accept things just as they are. Refusing acceptance is the surest way to create our own suffering. If we can simply accept things as they are, we begin to eliminate negative emotions from our lives that include jealousy, envy, competition, criticism, destruction and dissatisfaction.

Laughter Is The Best Medicine.
When was the last time you had a good laugh? The kind where you can’t catch your breath and tears are rolling down your cheeks? If you can’t remember it has been way too long.

And now for some more pictures.

My mom working on her work of art. She’s the true artist among us.

A close up of my work of artistic genius

My sister-in-law Carly hard at work

My dad’s rhinstone and birch bark creation

My brother decided to make the cows road killYou know I picked the chairs for my porch!