Tag: health
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A Seasonal Review: What Were the Most Satisfying Moments of Summer 2010?
I’m taking my cue from friend Maggie Shayne and doing a “seasonal review.” As this long, hot summer of 2010 fades away—the first hints of Autumn cool are on the horizon—I don’t want to remember the passing season as the one that was blemished by the BP Oil Spill here on the Gulf or by…
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Spiritualizing your Workout: Moving Stagnant Energy
Whether you spend most of your days behind a desk and evenings lounging on a couch in front of the TV…or you’re dealing with way too much stress and drama….or you’re feeling dulled by depression, it helps to move that stagnant energy out of your body. Most people familiar with New Age and metaphysical tools…
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Insomnia Cure: Protein Powder for the Temple Body
If the body is a temple, then we need to be aware of when we’ve let it fall into disrepair. Nothing makes its normal upkeep more difficult than lack of sleep. For the past three years or more, I’ve had chronic insomnia. Rarely has there been a night when I’ve slept all the way through,…
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Body Positives: Getting Personal but Keeping It PG
Me, late 20’s. New mom. In a world where we, if no one else, know all the millions of physical flaws we carry on our bodies and are reminded of our inadequacies in almost any women’s magazine, is it possible to love your body? Don’t we women constantly look for what’s wrong instead of what’s…
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Saturdays Are Made for Cheating
On this new eating style of mine, the rule is, I get to cheat once a week. I suppose that’s a bit bizarre but there are two reasons for it: 1. I would rebel too much against a diet that said NO MORE OF THE food ever again. Psychologically, that would be difficult for me.…
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Poisoning Myself: The Bad, The Ugly, and The Unheard Good of Spilled Candy’s MySpace Drama
When I’d finished explaining the trauma of being the sudden focus of thousands of people calling me a thief and a scammer, the gifted intuitive on the other side of the table suggested I wasn’t telling her quite everything about why I’d made some particular business decisions to temporarily downsize my little publishing company a…
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Body Image: Are You a Temple or a Tool?
Sitting outside my doctor’s lab and waiting my turn to “donate” blood, I was struck by a conversation I overheard in which the nurse explained that she’d seen everything and it was “all natural.” What bothered her patient about body image didn’t bother the nurse at all. She said that she could easily see past…
