Food Day is a nationwide celebration and a movement toward more healthy, affordable, and sustainable food—sounds a lot like the Slow Food Movement to me. Events are taking place across the nation to promote “eating real” food. Go to thewebsite to find out about events in your area and to take their “real food” quiz to find
Every time I mention kale to my mother she groans and rolls her eyes saying “I don’t like kale.” Talk about a role reversal. I tell her (like a mother would), “I just don’t think you’ve given it a chance or had it prepared the right way.” Personally, I’ve just learned how to massage my
It’s the second week of the mindfulness-based stress reduction program and some people are wondering why on earth I am asking them to do the body scan every day (a formal mindfulness exercise that asks people to systematically bring attention to their body from head to toe). All kinds of comments are made after we
Mindfulness is a great way of helping us contemplate our values. When we’re present we can really feel the contentment and ease of our lives when we’re living in a way consistent with what we belief in and how we would like to behave. And conversely, you can feel the discomfort of living and behaving
But Maryam Fakhradeen from the University of Missouri-Kansas City won the book “Commit to Sit: Tools for Cultivating a Meditation Practice” by posting her comment about doing the three minute meditation. She said “Helped a LOT; I knew I was tense but didn’t realize I was THAT tense until I was doing the exercise. Love
Meditation is like taking a good friend to a coffee shop and getting to know her better, only without the coffee and the good friend is you. Just sit down with yourself and bring your open, curious attention to what is going on with you. Notice what thoughts are passing through your mind, what feelings are
Respecting your body is one of the concepts I often talk about in my classes. What does respecting your body mean to you? To me it means giving it healthy food. I recently had the pleasure of reading an article by Jillian McKee, a Complementary Medicine Advocate, about the importance of a healthy diet and
I’m happy to announce that registration is open for my successful non-diet weight management approach to eating for health and enjoyment. This ten week class starts in September so you need to register soon. If you live in Columbia or Kansas City, you might enjoy taking the in-person class being held on the University of Missouri
I recently had the opportunity to be interviewed about mindful eating and thought you might enjoy reading the article at Slimkicker. Learn how I discovered mindful eating, how you do it, how you benefit from it, how to socialize and eat mindfully at the same time, how to incorporate mindfulness into your workday and more.
A study by Harvard researchers indicates that the more you daydream the less likely you are to be happy. And, it comes as no surprise that people’s minds are wandering about 47% of the time. That’s almost half of your waking hours. When we’re lost in thought this means we’re lost in primarily negative and
