I like to dabble in woo. Check out the latest of it while I tell you all about how I went from believing I had rheumatoid arthritis (wrong) to being too anemic to go get my blood drawn and confirm it (true) to finding out I had adrenal fatigue (also true)... and how all of that led me to hang up crystals in the corners of my house!!!! 

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Okay okay... I won't even call it a podcast. That is WAY too much pressure.  

Welcome to the first episode of my AUDIO BLOG!  I will tell you all kinds of things that will make your life healthier and happier...becuase the SECRET is that when you are healthier and happier, you will LOSE WEIGHT with EASE. (No pills, shakes, or diets required... but my journals will totally help you!!!!)

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*I promise I will never share your email address with anyone, and I am very considerate of how often I email you, approximately 1-3 times per month. I will only use your email to let you know about new podcast episodes, when I release books and journals, and occasionally send you gifts :)  

We all need to channel our inner angel. Open your heart and release the modern day stressors that follow us and separate us from our own inner guardian angels. Tapping into these archetypes can help us reach health and lose weight! Love yourself with this tiny ritual. 

How getting in touch with your inner queen goddess can help you boost your confidence, lose weight, give up the yoyo approach to health, and make sustainable changes that last!

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Hera in the Myths
Hera is usually represented as somewhat jealous and vengeful. However, it is interesting because she is most often in reaction to her husband having an affair with other goddesses or mortal.... not exactly a fair context to view her in. 

Hera's Power
Hera knows what she wants. When you channel your inner Hera, you learn to trust yourself and to know what YOU want, too! By becoming more mindful you can learn to trust yourself and build you own inner confidence. 

Hera in Your Life
Channelling your inner Hera is the opposite of going on a diet! It is using mindfulness to KNOW what you want, and using mindful eating to make sure you are not using food as a short term fix for other issues.

Hera in Balance
When HERA is IN balance, you can experience both her feminine and masculine power, essentially your own intuition AND your confidence in going for what you want!  You know what you want, and you trust yourself. With food, you can APPROPRIATELY enjoy food and indulgences alongside other healthy foods AND good company, and your inner Hera can do her job in peace. 

Sign up for the "Emotional Eating Detox," eat the foods you love AND channel your inner Hera!

Yes, I went there!
​I'm talking about Chakras. 

Body Wisdom

The body wisdom I'm talking about is super simple techniques to get in touch with your own body and its wisdom. It's not yoga, even though I went ahead and mentioned chakras finally. There is some overlap in that yoga is definitely based on body wisdom as well. But what I'm showing you here and in my other Body Wisdom videos is much simpler than that. It's just ways ways to feel better and know yourself better, which helps with SO MANY things in life.

Sacral Chakra

I realize chakras have a lot to tell us, but that's not what this particular post is about ;)  Chakras capture huge ideas and potential - about abundance, pleasure, and more.  But at a minimum, they also just refer to a basic area of the body. So even if the idea of chakras weird you out, just go with it. I'm introducing a way to relax and improve the health of your entire lower abdomen / lower back area...summed up as the sacral chakra :) 

Self Care

Oh yeah, the all important self care. The thing we all sacrifice to take care of other people, to work a little harder on our job, to get ahead a bit faster, or sometimes just to  get by. But it really is essential to take care of ourselves. That's what this body wisdom can teach us - simple ways to get in touch and give a bit of care. 

Take Me To Bed

Okay, not really, but take this idea to bed. I literally had NO self care and had only excuses when my physical therapist would ask why I didn't do my neck exercises, or whey I stayed up too late working, or why I felt like shit all the time. And then I realized I could do all these amazing self care routines IN BED!!!!! It changed my life.

I stretch laying down; I meditate laying down; I journal laying down... I basically do all my self care laying down!! It's amazing. 

​And of course... let me know what YOU feel when you give this a try!!!! 

Yup. That's right. I'm talking about Aunt Flo.

Your Body & Your Emotional Eating
Welcome to the first in my body wisdom series!!! It's not yoga. It's definitely not exercise. It's just simple ways to get in touch with your body and treat it better. 

What does this have to do with emotional eating? A lot, actually. It's that disconnect between body, heart, and mind that leads to emotional eating. And it's when we try to "fix" our food problems without listening to our bodies that the problems get worse. 

Connecting Body-Heart-Mind
So the next time you get your moon, you are menstruating, or Aunt Flo comes to visit... Take a nap. Tell everyone to leave you alone. Even if it's just ten minutes. Just be. Be still. Relax those tense muscles. It makes such a huge difference!!!! 

Oh, and drink some extra water!!!! I forgot to say that on the  video :) 

And of course, after you make it a point to lay around a little during "that time of the month" let me know how it makes you feel!!! 

​I know I've felt less worn out when I've been able to do little period power naps. 

Last week I did a guided meditation at a new moon goddess circle. It was a guided meditation to go through a variety of symbolic visualizations, and after we experienced the guided meditation, we were then informed what each visual symbolized. 

It started with a harbor, which represents my social life. I visualized three different kind of boats, which makes sense because I like a lot of types of social experiences. Then the boat we got on represents how we view ourselves... lucky for me, mine was a luxury yacht!!!! Hahaha!

So on and on it went, and I had a positive experience through the variety of visualizations, with no major surprises when what each visualization was supposed to represent was revealed. 

At the very end of the meditation, we are visualizing laying in a natural space - mine was under a real tree in my grandfather's (now my parents') backyard, and "One of God's creatures comes to visit."  Not surprising my totem animal came to visit: butterflies. 

They also had a message for me. And my message was... Belly button???

Yes. It was. My message was "Belly button." I always knew I was  quirky girl, but what the?

Ok, actually... it makes total sense because I've been thinking in terms of what the body might symbolize in our life, and so I knew that my message was not SIMPLY Belly Button, but rather a question of what Belly Button means!

So I've had the chance to contemplate this, which is of course the point of a guided meditation, to keep thinking about what insights I gained afterward. 

And a belly button is interesting. It is actually a scar. It's a scar from being disconnected from your source of life!!!!!

But it's also a symbol that I have a mother; that we all have a mother. It's an opportunity to remember where I came from.

It's a symbol of a truly amazing organ: the umbilical cord. The umbilical cord is a twisted rope that takes the blood vessels from a baby and winds them around with the blood vessels from the mother (via the placenta), and the blood vessels get so closely intertwined that the nourishment from the mother's blood is transferred to the growing baby's blood!!! 

It's truly amazing. 

And once disconnected, the veins that give a child life are simply absorbed into the body. Even that can be symbolic, that we take the source of life from OTHER and we begin to nourish ourselves. 

So I'll take that message! I love that message, in fact. I love what Belly Button says to me. What does it say to you?????