Energy Bites

When it comes to health and wellness, pleasure is not automatically what comes to mind. In fact, we keep close tabs on how much enjoyment we allow ourselves to have out of fear that too much ...

As a holistic health coach, I’ve realized that at the core of many of our food, weight and body image challenges is the inability to feel at home in our bodies. There's a certain degree of ...

Before I discovered the practice of mindfulness and meditation, I lived in my head and it was a really noisy, not so friendly place. I would over analyze everything, was a slave to my never ...

As I approach my 52nd year of life experience on this earth and my first born has left for college, I find myself reflecting more and more on my personal beliefs about aging and health. And while I ...

Your unwanted health issues are your body's way of communicating with you and asking for your attention: Your body speaks in the language of feelings and sensations. It's messages always ...

There is an ever growing body of research that shows how being outdoors in nature has substantial healing benefits for the body and mind. 1) Lowers stress related hormones cortisol and ...

When I went to culinary school over 10 years ago in NYC to become a Natural Foods Chef, I had a profound shift in my attitude toward food. I had considered myself a pretty healthy eater; but this ...

Do you pride yourself on being a perfectionist? You set the bar high, believe in doing things the right way or not at all, tell yourself that mediocrity is not an option for you. You have a ...

One of the biggest misconceptions is that if we accept ourselves just as we are it will make us lazy and complacent. Along with that is the belief that you can criticize and shame yourself into ...

When it comes to the subject of weight, it still amazes me that the mainstream approach of: eat less, move more, no pain, no gain is still grabbing so much attention. Because research shows that ...

How's your relationship with food? It's a fundamental question that I start every initial coaching session. Because I can share all the standard recommendations for healthy eating, but if ...

Love heals. What modern science is mapping out now, ancient wisdom has known for centuries. When we embody the felt sense experience of love, we are connecting to an all powerful energy that ...

I think we can all agree that the world of health and wellness can feel wildly confusing and overwhelming these days. With 24/7 social media feeds jammed with "wellness gurus" pushing detox kits, ...

Modern day living has us hyper focused on the material world.  We're encouraged to value how we look, our bodies, our possessions, what's trending on social media etc. Over time this pre-occupation ...

Our minds are story-making machines and when it comes to our health, few things are more impactful than our self narrative. When clients come to me feeling stuck, the stuckness is largely ...

I’ve come to know in my coaching work that one of the biggest obstacles to caring for ourselves is a lack of Self Trust. What’s hard for us to trust: Our Emotions, Our Body, Our Appetite, ...

It's a heart centered inquiry: What is the genuine state of who I am and how I am feeling/doing? I'm not talking about the temporary "happiness" promoted by mainstream society that's ...

Balance is a fundamental and recurring concept in my work as a holistic health coach. Finding balance in our inner world emotionally, biochemically, and energetically is what our bodies need ...

Just like the food we eat, the sound and vibration we take in has the power to build or diminish our health. This idea that sound has a healing effect on the body and mind is not new. Since the ...

When you embrace the human body as a dynamic energy system rather than a mechanistic bio-machine, you understand the key roles that consciousness and belief systems play in one's health. ...