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My Best Diet Advice
You want to eat healthy and lose some weight, but you’re tired of the different diets you’ve tried that aren’t working for you. Here’s my best diet advice: Eat a big lunch. According to Ayurveda and chronobiology, your digestion is …
How to Shake Off Your Chronic Stress
Your heart pounds, your skin is flushed and your chest is tight. You’re facing a threat, and your sympathetic nervous system, aka your fight or flight response to stress, is in high gear. It’s time to fight, flee or freeze. …
How to Eat Healthy (for real)
You may think that you’re diet is healthy because you eat a variety of foods, but what if the foods you eat aren’t as healthy as you thought? That’s the realization that I had when I first started studying Ayurveda, …
The 6 Most Important Habits for Fall Health
Have you ever wondered why you’re more susceptible to getting sick during fall season? According to Ayurveda, variability, especially in the weather is the biggest culprit. Not only can the ups and downs in temperature negatively impact your body, but …
How to Make a Healthy Transition to Fall Season
Have you ever wondered why you have a higher tendency to get sick during fall season? Or maybe you dread the season that brings higher levels of anxiety, digestive distress, cold hands and feet, and dry, rough skin. If you …
Whitewater Kayaking: How to Balance on Edge
Do you find yourself flipping a lot when you don’t want to? Or maybe you’re trying to surf and stern squirt, but can’t quite seem to get the edge that you need for success. When you can effectively balance on …
How to Overcome Your Fear of Saying No
“I don’t want to say no because I’m afraid that I’ll be judged as rude and unlikable. Also, who am I to say no?” This is what one of my coaching clients shared with me this week when discussing how …
How to Create Freedom through Boundaries
You’re a successful high achiever so why are you sad, overwhelmed and struggling? This week at the Summer Olympics, Simone Biles, considered the best gymnast of all time, showed us that even the most successful people struggle. She also showed …
Want to Achieve Big Goals? Then Remember This.
Want to achieve big goals in your life? If you give up as soon as it feels uncomfortable, or like you’re ‘failing’ then you’ll never see those big results you want to achieve. The other day I paddled a playboat …
Feel Out of Control? Ask Yourself These 6 Questions.
During a visit to a college where I was a keynote motivational speaker one of the students made a comment about whitewater and feeling out of control that I’ll never forget. She was a sea kayaker and mountain climber who …