Losing my hair
When I first got the news that I might need chemo, what concerned me most was losing my hair. Of course, I didn’t like the idea of poison coursing through my veins killing off my immune system (that I had ironically worked hard to get strong over the last few years since my dairy allergy […]
Read MoreThank you cancer!
I’m participating in a 21 day meditation challenge with Oprah and Deepak Chopra. It began on the day that I first met with an Oncologist and found I had enlarged lymph nodes in multiple places on my body. That first meditation’s Centering Thought was “I am open to miracles.” Boy was I ever open to […]
Read MoreWTF? I have cancer?
Three words you never want to hear your doctor say: biopsy, oncologist, lymphoma. I have had these impossible words spoken to me many times over the past 6 weeks as the doctors have tried to figure out what was causing my lymph nodes to be enlarged. Time went really fast and at the same time […]
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Lots and lots of onions
I was at my daughter’s Dive Meet last night at our neighborhood outdoor swim club and my friend in the snack shack called me over as I walked by. Apparently they had ordered way too many onions for the swim meet earlier in the week and would I like to take some home instead of […]
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Making Almond Flour + Gluten & Dairy Free Blueberry Scones
Needing to bring something to my Book Club meeting this morning got me searching on Google last night for some kind of gluten-free, dairy-free yummy thing that goes with coffee and tea. Of course I thought of scones and since it was 7:30 pm, I didn’t want to have to go to the grocery store. […]
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5 Steps to Beautiful Skin
I have a spray that I spritz on clothes and then pull the fabric this way and that and the wrinkles go away. Don’t you wish they sold that for our skin? I’m at that age where it’s inevitable that there are lines and wrinkles where there weren’t any the year before. There are all […]
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Spring Clean Your Food?
I’m not talking about scrubbing your food with a scouring pad. I’m talking out pitching out the junk. I’m not a big fan of having foods around that are unhealthy, especially those that you know are your undoing (chocolate chip cookies for me). Whenever someone comes to me wanting to lose weight and get healthy, […]
Read MoreThe Why, What and How about Vegetables
We all heard growing up to “Eat your vegetables!” and I don’t know about you but I didn’t care much for vegetables as kid. Now as an adult, I love them and I don’t think that has as much to do with my age now as with the vegetables I was eating as a kid. […]
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What is a Health Coach?
Today I thought I’d address a couple of questions that I get asked frequently. What is a Health Coach? and What is the difference between a Health Coach and a Nutritionist? Health Coaching is a new and fast growing industry. Basically what I do as a Health Coach is I help people get healthy by […]
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5 Pitfalls of Exercise and How to Avoid Them
One thing I’ve noticed is that people have a real love/hate relationship with exercise. Do you? I know I love/hate exercise. I love the feeling after I exercise, that tingly feeling and the happy mood but I hate the doing of it. Well, I really only hate doing some kinds of exercise. But I’ll get to […]
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