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Superfood Spotlight: Quinoa

Details: Category: Natural Health; Created on Monday, 21 May 2012 22:39; Hits: 301

Over 5000 years ago the Incas cultivated the grain-like seed quinoa as one of their staple crops. Sacred to the Incas, quinoa was referred to by them as, ‘the mother of all grains’.

Researcher Philip White, in an obscure 1955 article on "Edible Seed Products of the Andes Mountains says,

"While no single food can supply all the essential life sustaining nutrients, quinoa comes as close as any other in the plant or animal kingdom."

Say Goodbye to Fear in 5 Steps

Details: Category: Transformation; Created on Monday, 14 May 2012 22:22; Hits: 550

Have you ever dreamed of doing something in your life but stopped because you felt afraid, hesitant or fearful?

Living a life filled with fear can lead to a frustrating life, feeling stuck and unable to move forward. I know because this is how I used to live my own life.

7 Ways to End Emotional Eating.

Details: Category: Weight Loss; Created on Monday, 07 May 2012 20:28; Hits: 562

I used to be an emotional eater. I would eat when I was sad, I would eat when I was angry and I would even eat when I was feeling happy and celebrating. I loved food, I loved cooking and I loved eating!

This became a real challenge for me when I began to gain weight. Slowly at first, but over time the extra pounds became more and more noticeable. It soon became something that I felt ashamed, embarrassed and self conscious about...

7 Tips for Reducing Stress

Details: Category: Healing; Created on Monday, 30 April 2012 20:35; Hits: 848

Are you feeling tired, exhausted or even burnt out? Do you wish you had more time? Is your to-do list longer than the hours in your day? Do you need a break or a holiday?

If you answered yes, to any of these questions, you are probably suffering from the effects of stress. Too much stress can certainly affect your physical, mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing.

3 Ways that Yoga Helps with Weight Loss

Details: Category: Yoga; Created on Monday, 23 April 2012 23:12; Hits: 1124

As a yoga teacher, I frequently get asked if yoga can help with weight loss. What many of my yoga students don’t realize is that I used to be 60 pounds overweight.

When I share this little fact with them, they almost laugh with total surprise and disbelief...

Healing with Yoga

Details: Category: Yoga; Created on Tuesday, 10 April 2012 22:10; Hits: 750

Did you know that yoga has the ability to help you to heal and transform your body as well as your life?

When I first started yoga I had no idea what I was really doing. On the mat, I initially felt self conscious but I kept practicing anyway.

I was totally surprised and thrilled when I started to notice the positive effects that Yoga was having on my body, mind, emotions as well as my life...

The Right Way to Eat Chocolate

Details: Category: Recipes; Created on Monday, 02 April 2012 20:41; Hits: 1086

This week, leading up to Easter, it is hard to avoid the subject of CHOCOLATE! It seems that we are in a week long swirl of chocolate. There’s chocolate being advertised everywhere. Now you’ve probably heard that chocolate is bad for you and that it should be avoided, particularly if you are trying to lose weight...

Well I’m here to show you how you can eat chocolate, lose weight and stay healthy... you just need to know how to eat it the right way...

#6 on Kindle Charts - Losing Weight is a Healing Journey

Details: Category: Weight Loss; Created on Saturday, 24 March 2012 21:18; Hits: 1281

Thank you so much for everyone who has been spreading the word and sharing my book 'Losing Weight is a Healing Journey'.

Last week it climbed to #6 in the personal transformation section on Amazon's Kindle charts. It's a pretty amazing effort for an independently published book by a first time author in such a competitive industry.

Could it go all the way to #1?

You Can Lose Weight Naturally!

Details: Category: Weight Loss; Created on Tuesday, 20 March 2012 00:09; Hits: 1236

Do you suffer with excess weight? Would you like to lose 10 pounds, 20 pounds or a lot more? Are you sick of dieting or food restrictions?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, then please know that that you are not alone. At any moment in time, at least 6 out of every 10 UK women are on some form of diet.

4 Steps to Achieving your Dreams.

Details: Category: Transformation; Created on Monday, 12 March 2012 23:42; Hits: 1163

Have you ever looked at someone else and just wished that you had their body, their health or their life?

Whenever you find yourself comparing yourself to someone else, it is time to stop and reflect on what it is you really want to manifest and create in your own life.

Here are 4 steps that you can use to help your create your dreams...

Letting go of Limitations

Details: Category: Healing; Created on Monday, 05 March 2012 21:55; Hits: 918

letting go Would you love to transform something in your life?

Have you ever heard yourself say that ‘some day’ you will change your career, travel overseas, make more money, be in that amazing love relationship, connect more deeply with your spiritual path or purse a creative dream…

These kind of ‘some day’ responses are often an indicator of an unconscious self imposed limitation. The good news is that these limitations are surprisingly much easier to release than you might think…

3 Steps to Self Love

Details: Category: Healing; Created on Monday, 27 February 2012 22:11; Hits: 1602

My journey to self love began from a place of self loathing, apathy and despair.

I had just had a physical break down, I was 60 pounds overweight and I was totally disconnected from what I really wanted from my life.

This place of discomfort, as gut wrenching as it was, was my starting point....

Falling in Love with Yoga

Details: Category: Yoga; Created on Wednesday, 22 February 2012 00:00; Hits: 1857

When you think of 'getting fit', 'losing weight' or exercise what comes to your mind?

Do you think you have to join the rows of people sweating it out on treadmills in the gym? Do you think you have to wear tight, sweaty and unflattering gym clothes? Do you think you have to start pounding the pavement in an effort to get fit? Do you think of having to get yourself in an uncomfortable, breathless state?

7 Tips to Heal Pain

Details: Category: Healing; Created on Wednesday, 15 February 2012 00:00; Hits: 1499

Have you ever experienced any form of physical, mental or emotional pain? Of course, you have. We all have.

Pain can show up and manifest in your life as a block, an addiction, a fear or a feeling of "stuckness". The question is, are you going to let it be a limitation or a spring board to your growth?

If you let it, pain can become your greatest teacher...

Taking Responsibility for Your Health

Details: Category: Natural Health; Created on Thursday, 26 January 2012 21:56; Hits: 1844

No one else is responsible for your health and your body, except for you. No-one knows your body like you do.

You simply cannot delegate your health to anyone else and still expect to stay vibrantly well and healthy.

Cultivating the Essence of Trust...

Details: Category: Healing; Created on Tuesday, 17 January 2012 22:01; Hits: 1331

How does the issue of trust show up in your life?

Do you trust the Universe?

Do you trust others? Do others trust you?

In this article we are going to look at how trust plays out in your life, and how becoming aware of the powerful affects that trust has in our lives......

5 Secrets to Feeling Fantastic

Details: Category: Natural Health; Created on Saturday, 14 January 2012 00:00; Hits: 1458

If anyone deserves to look and feel fantastic, it’s you.

So, to help you feel naturally well from within, I’m going to share with you my top 5 natural health secrets. Allow them to become habits in your life, as they are in mine.

These secrets are easy-to-use making them perfect for you if you want to feel better and experience more energy, health and well being in your life.

3 Tips to Achieving Your Health Goals

Details: Category: Transformation; Created on Tuesday, 03 January 2012 12:12; Hits: 1200

Have you been wondering about how to experience more health and energy in your life? If this is the year you have truly committed to living an inspiring life you love, I would like to congratulate you. Doing something different takes courage and commitment.

To help you on your journey, I would like to share 3 tips with you that helped me to radically transform my health.

The Yoga Girl Revolution

Details: Category: Yoga; Created on Sunday, 04 December 2011 20:37; Hits: 1749

I just saw this cute video and it made me stop and think, what exactly is a Yoga Girl? Have you seen it? (I've included youtube video is at the bottom of this article just in case you haven't)….

You know, the interesting thing is, that Yoga Girls really do stand out...

Raw Chocolate Cake

Details: Category: Recipes; Created on Saturday, 19 November 2011 01:04; Hits: 1056

Today is my beloved's Birthday. Of course I wanted to make Damien a special birthday cake. But I was totally unprepared and needed a no-cook, no-special ingredients, and very fast raw chocolate birthday cake.

As I've been buried in writing my new book, making a birthday cake had totally missed my radar. It was late, about 4pm in the afternoon before I realised that I needed to make something fast, simple, and chocolatey...

Food Fit for a Goddess

Details: Category: Natural Health; Created on Sunday, 21 November 2010 00:00; Hits: 502

Eating processed foods and dieting is bad for your body as well as your spirit. And the crazy thing is that it actually makes you fat!

This is not about living a life of deprivation. The very opposite. This is about indulging in the bliss and enjoyment of food, and life. Sweet indulgences are a necessary part of living a balanced and fun life.

Weight Loss is a Journey

Details: Category: Weight Loss; Created on Tuesday, 02 November 2010 00:00; Hits: 646

For many people, losing weight and keeping it off can be a major struggle.

But, today I want to share with you an insight that I have gained from having been on my own weight loss healing journey.

It was this one simple distinction, which really helped me to change how I felt about my disempowering and struggling relationship with my weight.

You Were Born Creative

Details: Category: Creativity; Created on Sunday, 24 October 2010 00:00; Hits: 1023

Do you feel as is you have untapped creative potential living inside of you? Or maybe you feel as if you weren't lucky enough to be blessed with creative genes.

It’s funny how our minds work in weird and wonderful ways; and how our beliefs, our identities and self perceptions get formed as we grow up, particularly around something as fundamental to life as creativity.

Green Smoothie Recipe

Details: Category: Recipes; Created on Wednesday, 02 June 2010 05:59; Hits: 1170

I like to eat greens everyday. One of the best ways is to drink them! A juice or a smoothie - don't let the green put you off.. Now, if I miss a few days of greens, my body starts to crave them! Crazy, I know, but true!

One of my favourite recipes is my Green Smoothie. It contains miracle healing powers and also tastes delicious as well.

1 Simple Secret That Transformed My Life

Details: Category: Transformation; Created on Tuesday, 01 June 2010 22:09; Hits: 569

How many times have you had the intention to do something healthy for yourself, but life somehow gets in the way or just takes over?

This used to be me, all the time, until I discovered this 1 secret.

Firstly, a warning! It's very simple - but don't let that fool you! I've always found that the simplest things always work best...

To Raw or Not to Raw?

Details: Category: Natural Health; Created on Friday, 28 May 2010 02:56; Hits: 482

The other night for our dinner party it was raw all the way......

Have you heard of raw food?

Raw foodies believe that eating raw food (food eaten raw, in its' living and natural state is the best for us as it has all the nutrients and enzymes stil intact)....

Learning how to listen to your body

Details: Category: Natural Health; Created on Friday, 30 April 2010 00:00; Hits: 478

Learning how to listen to your body is the key to living a happy, healthy life. Our bodies are our minds, and our minds are our bodies. There is a connection between the mind and the body; they are one. The body holds so much wisdom - imagine if we had to breathe ourselves or filter 1 to 1½ gallons of blood as many as 400 times a day passing through over 1 million tiny filters in the kidneys.... Imagine if we had to do that consciously?!!