Blog Topic: Weight
New Thinking about the Old Food Guide
What a controversial subject! Some people are very reactive to the idea of Canada’s Food Guide and others find it a very helpful simple tool for eating healthier. Most countries have a food guide that outlines a balance of locally available foods to eat each day in...
Grace after Meals…….by John ODonohue
We end this meal with grace. For the joy and nourishment of food, the slowed time away from the world to come into presence with each other and sense the subtle lives behind our faces, the different colors of our voices, the edges of hungers we keep private, the...
Ten Secrets to Positive Parenting This ls a great resource to parents of young children. There is no doubt that those early years are the busiest. You wake up and hit the ground running. If we are too stressed, our parenting becomes more reactive to situations,...
8 Step Recovery – another way
Book Recommendation: Eight Step Recovery: Using the Buddha’s Teachings to Overcome Addiction Dr. VALERIE MASON-JOHN Here are the 8 steps: Step One: Accepting that this human life will bring suffering Step Two: Seeing how we create extra suffering in our lives Step...
Emotional Regulation Systems
We have three basic emotional systems that work together to keep us healthy and happy. Our Defence System is designed to ensure our survival – it needs to be activated, going into alarm mode when we are in danger, for ‘fight, flight or freeze’. But often this system...
Gut Problems
There is a fabulous new book out that can help people suffering from IBS. The latest research has found that the FODMAP diet provides real relief for people suffering from gastrointestinal problems such as IBS, Chrohn's and multiple food intolerances. Here are the...
Read more“Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.”
~Thich Nhat Hanh
Feelings
"Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor." ~Thich Nhat Hanh
Mindfulness Quotes
Waking up this morning, I smile, Twenty four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion. Thich Nhat Hanh As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise...
Read moreI can wade Grief –
Whole Pools of it –
I’m used to that –
But the least push of Joy
Breaks up my feet –
And I tip – drunken –
~Poem by Emily Dickinson
Grief…
I can wade Grief - Whole Pools of it - I'm used to that - But the least push of Joy Breaks up my feet - And I tip - drunken - ~Poem by Emily Dickinson
Just for Me
What if a poem were just for me? What if I were audience enough because I am, Because this person here is alive, is flesh, Is conscious, has feelings, counts? What if this one person mattered not just for what She can do in the world But because she is part of the...