Integrative Health Coach Blog About Healthy Living Choices
10 Signs You Need To Reserve Women in the Rockies Adventure Retreat
1. You feel a deepening ache for the mountains in the fall. They are calling you.
2. Your dream mountain adventure takes place in a beautiful location with luxury accommodations. Roughing it is not your style.
3. You want to live a more healthy life and are at a loss of how to do it. (more…)
Top Five Secrets of Slender Women
Many women spot a slender woman and think her weight management must be effortless or maybe it’s just genetic. But that is far from true. As we age our metabolism gets slower and slower. Weight begins to creep up for ALL women unless we work harder on weight management. (more…)
Jumpstarting an Aging Brain
As we age, many of us want to keep our brains as healthy as our bodies. How do we do that? It turns out our brains are neuroplastic. Neuroplasticilty is the brain’s ability to repair damage by reorganizing and forming new connections between intact neurons. The catalyst for neuroplasticity is stimulating the neurons through cognitive activity. (more…)
It’s The Food Not The Calories!
After attending the Food As Medicine conference in Minneapolis, I have a new perspective on weight loss and eating strategies. The faculty who taught the program asked attendees to “walk their lifestyle talk,” during the conference, and we did. (more…)
Breaking Up With Gluten, Again
Last fall I under went IgG and IgE blood testing for food allergies with a functional primary care doctor. Only a few foods that I rarely eat came back “positive” for being allergic. Surprisingly, the test was negative for antibodies to wheat. I assumed that being off wheat for almost three years had repaired my gluten sensitivity. So of course, our family was back on the wheat train. (more…)
Women in the Rockies: A Wellness Adventure
The mountains are calling and I must go—John Muir
When our kids were little, I made the bold decision to book a family vacation at the C Lazy U Guest Ranch near Granby, Colorado. We were living in Los Angeles, and my dream was to have our girls experience what I had loved about growing up near the Rocky Mountains. What started as a vacation wound up being a turning point in my life. (more…)
Prevention of Early or Returning Breast Cancer
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
– Benjamin Franklin
This time of year when I see professional football team players wearing pink, I feel women aren’t getting the whole message. Our focus on breast cancer awareness needs to broaden to include breast cancer prevention. It’s not just about finding cancer; it’s about preventing cancer. Both strategies are essential for saving lives. If you want to learn about and possibly support organizations that are investigating causes and prevention of breast cancer, go to zerobreastcancer.org (more…)
Changing Perspectives to Honor a Promise
A Promise Made
We had made a promise to my 20 year old daughter that I didn’t want to keep. Actually my plan was that my husband, David would make the promise happen, but due to bad ankle, he was on the bench for this one. The promise was to find an apartment in NYC for Gretta’s junior year in college. We had made the deal based on two conditions; she would find a suitable roommate and get good grades. Her best friend in NYC, McKenna was more than a suitable roommate and she made the dean’s list both semesters last year. It was clear I had to honor the deal. (more…)
Moving through a Life Transition
Life has a way of bringing you back to places that you thought that you had left for good. William Bridges author of The Way of Transition. (more…)
The “Microbiota” Factor
The Simms/ Mann UCLA Center for Integrative Oncology has a lecture series that features top physicians, researchers and educators open to the community. This week, I attended a lecture on wellness, the immune system and the gastrointestinal microbiota (the term microbiota replaces “gut flora,” which refers to the tens of trillions of bacteria that reside in the intestinal tract). Carolyn Katzin, MS, CNS and Robert Schiestl, PHD were the presenters. (more…)
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