Health is a balance of body, mind and spirit.

Hippocrates said, "Let food be thy medicine," and I agree that diet can be either healing or harmful to our health. Yet our diet is not the only factor in wellness. Even a healthy, well balanced diet can't compete with high levels of stress, poor sleep, and/or environmental toxins. Let's work on our body, mind and spirit to achieve permanent remission.

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Why Diets Don’t Work

So here we are at the beginning of another new year! It’s a time when people often reflect on their lives, their accomplishments and their goals. Some people take on renewed commitments to their health, which I think is great, of course. And sometimes people decide to try a new diet to achieve their goal. […]

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Gluten Free, Dairy Free Holiday Cookies?

Hey everyone, I wrote an article about some simple tips to make your favorite holiday cookie recipes healthier and specifically gluten and dairy free. And it’s been published (yay!) on MindBodyGreen.com. Check it out by clicking here. Leave a comment on their website and I’ll reply, I promise! To your health, Laren Watson Holistic Health […]

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Healthy Weeknight Dinner: Taco Tuesday

One of the easiest, most family friendly meals to make on a busy weeknight is a Taco Bar. This appeals to everyone because since everyone builds their own, it is full of choices for the kids and therefore no more arguments along the lines of “Yuck!” and “Just one more bite!” If I have plenty […]

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Make your own healthy pumpkin puree

I had never made my own pumpkin puree for our Thanksgiving pies until I joined my CSA and they gave me two little sugar pumpkins a.k.a. pie pumpkins. Even my mother thought I was a little crazy for making my own pumpkin puree back then. “You know the canned pumpkin is really good, honey”. But […]

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5 Time Saving Tips For Family Dinner

I have two sweet kids, 11 and 13, a hard working husband with his own business, a darling dog, 10 chickens on nearly two acres with a small orchard. As if that’s not enough to keep us busy, I’m a solo-preneur building my health coaching business. Most of the time, the house looks like a […]

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Coconut, Lime & Mango White Fish

Our bodies are all different and want different foods to thrive which is why I think there are so many dietary theories that work so well for different people–because they all work for some people. There’s one though, that isn’t really a diet as much as a lifestyle, and I’m pretty convinced it’s the way […]

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Clutter and the Lightness of Being

I admittedly know next to nothing about feng shui. I know that it has something to do with rearranging your furniture to release blocked energy flows in your house (I think). What I didn’t know until the other day is that apparently it also has to do with the elimination of clutter. Now this is […]

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Did you know stress can make you fat?

Did you know that stress can make you fat? Yes, it’s true! Particularly around the middle, that dreaded “belly fat”. Most everyone knows that stress is bad for us. Maybe you even know that it is linked to high blood pressure, and heart disease. But stress can also make you fat. It has to do […]

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