If you feel like you’ve had too much to eat over the holidays, it’s fine to take a break from eating. As long as you have no serious medical problems that would prohibit you from doing so, taking a day or two to cleanse your body with a fast is a healthy way to give [...]
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Renew and revitalize with a cleanse
December 29th, 2008 · No Comments · Cleanse, Food, Self Care, mindfulness
Tags: 31 days of self care·Cleanse·diet·digestion·fast·Food·Health
Get what you want - start now
December 28th, 2008 · No Comments · Career, Exercise, Food, Love, Relationships, Self Care, happiness
The Law of Attraction states that whatever you focus on expands. If this is the universal truth, doesn’t it make sense to only focus on what you want? And yet, most of the time, all we do is focus on what we don’t want. We say things like – I don’t want to be fat. [...]
Tags: 31 days of self care·law of attraction·manifestation
Warm up with homemade soup
December 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · Food, Recipes, Self Care
Winter has come. The Winter Solstice marks the beginning of the season and the darkest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere - that is, it’s the day with the shortest amount of daylight and the longest amount of darkness. It happens to also be an extremely cold start to the holiday week. One [...]
Tags: 31 days of self care·Food·soup·veggies
Get off the emotional rollercoaster
December 20th, 2008 · No Comments · Food, Relationships, Self Care
Around this time of year, many of us fall prey to the sugar pushers. If we’re eating sugary treats every day, we may not even realize that our mood swings are due to this change in diet. And if it becomes a habit, we may start thinking that the sugar is making us happy.
In her [...]
Tags: 31 days of self care·emotions·Mind-Body Connection·sugar
Drink in the Chinese secret to long life
December 19th, 2008 · No Comments · Food, Self Care
Want to get more health benefits out of your hot morning beverage? Switch to green tea.
The Chinese have long known the benefits of drinking tea, and now many Westerners are drinking more tea and enjoying the same benefits. Green tea, rich in catechin polyphenols (and particularly epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), offers antioxidant fire power that studies [...]
Tags: 31 days of self care·antioxidants·burn calories·caffeine·cancer·cholesterol·coffee·green tea