Blog Topic: Health
Johanne’s Tofu Satay
Artist Johanne Galipeau is a long term friend offers this simple, heart warming meal on cold, winter nights. 2 cloves garlic – minced 1 tablesp vinegar 1/4 c. peanut butter 2 tablesp. vegetable oil 1 teasp grated ginger root 2 teasp honey 1/4 c soya sauce 1/2 teasp...
Compassionate Self-Care Changing the Nation
Michael Moore gets to the essence of compassionate self-care and invites others to join him.
Yoga to Reduce Trauma Symptoms
Dr. Bessel A. van der Kolk, MD, and a team from the Trauma Center at the Justice Resource Institute has led a three year study looking at how yoga can reduce post traumatic symptoms in women. From 2008 to 2011, they randomly assigned 64 women who were suffering from...
Kindfulness
Mindfulness practice helps us become more aware of what we are experiencing, while we are experiencing it. So we can start to observe ourselves when we are feeling different emotions and reactions and learn how not to react in the moment. It helps if we can do this...
Why Thinking You’re Ugly Is Bad for You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlIAS-rI4E
What if others could hear your inner critic?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=AzqSZdYHyRI
Mid Life Woman by David Whyte
Mid life woman you are not invisible to me. I seem to see beneath your face all the women you have ever been. Midlife woman I have grown with you secretly, in another parallel, breathing with you as you breathed, seeing with you as you see, lining my face with an...
Eating and Breathing Tips for the Holiday Season
Everything in life has a rhythm. And the rhythm of the season is about moving towards each other in celebration, connection and in sharing food and gifts. If we are fortunate enough to have an abundance of food all around us, how do we take care to enjoy, but not...
Eating low FODMAP
So many people are finding relief from digestive problems by eating LOW FODMAP, but it really is a different way of cooking and eating. It is a restrictive diet, but with a bit of planning, it can become routine. Here is a good way to get started with basics. Many...
Pain by David Whyte
PAIN is the doorway to the here and now. Physical or emotional pain is an ultimate form of ground, saying, to each of us, in effect, there is no other place than this place, no other body than this body, no other limb or joint or pang or sharpness or heartbreak but...