The Confessions Of A Valentine Junkie

Confession #1

I was the girl in grade school who romantically envisioned that her carefully decorated, home made paper bag Valentine holder would be brimming full of sweet somethings from admirers...secret and known, teachers, friends and the like. Alas, as fate would have it, there was no bag small enough to make mine seem full.



Confession #2

I was the day-dreaming high

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Joey Tribbiani's Thanksgiving Pants(Revisited)

5 yoga minded tips to feeling better after the...

BIG MEAL!



As Thanksgiving approaches, I am reminded of a scene from an episode of

"FRIENDS"....(IMPORTANT, Please watch before you continue)















































Let's talk DIGESTION! First...let's try NOT to over eat, but in the event that we do(and we all know we will) here are a few tips to help take

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Yoga Mama's: Yoga & Birth Part 2

Women often ask me if yoga was responsible for my two whirlwind fast labors and deliveries. Id' like to say 'YES' and promise them they'll go into labor around 10pm, finding themselves nicely tucked in their beds and fast asleep only three hours later. Ok, that might be a bit of an exaggeration in regards to my second labor and delivery...but not far off. I think I was asleep three and

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Perspective: Challenging Our "Healthy Food" Assumptions

There I sat...after weeks of unbearable pain, sitting in yet another doctors office. Sitting, hoping to find an option, any option, that might bring me some relief. The mainsteam medical world had been of little use. After several of these visits all I had to show for it was some hefty medical bills and at least one diagnosis of "crazy". Although none of the natural doctors I'd seen

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Beware Of The Food Police: Being Gracious

The Vegan Police



Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

— MOVIECLIPS.com




So often I am surprised by how us "health food junkies" behave ourselves. We tend to act like the designated "health food police". Sometimes our passions can get the best of us.


Please understand. I'm all for fighting the good fights, such as Eco-farming techniques, humane treatment of farm animals, paving a better

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The Food Wars: 5 Tips To Raising Healthy Eaters

Super Linus!!




I remember the day...it was seared in my memory; the smell, the taste, the texture and a strange feeling that things were not what they seemed. It wasn't fair...I was so young when I had my first experience with...THE CAROB BROWNIE!




Well, maybe it looked like a brownie, came out of a brownie pan and maybe had the slightest scent of a brownie, but this was NOT, and I

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The "Gluten Free" Trap

You can see it in their eyes; shifting, searching, searching, searching...Breads, cookies, pastries, pizza and muffins. It's the gluten free frenzy!





The Not So Good News...

I have recently been told that I am "gluten Intolerant", meaning I can never eat things with gluten in them again! This of course leaves the french pastry girl inside of me feeling a bit dejected. Not that I

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INCEPTION and RESURRECTION!

Inception: An event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events

Resurrection: The act of rising from the dead or returning to life.










[Setting the stage]


It's a beautiful spring morning in Minnesota. A young girl awakes to the sound of shuffling, banging and tense voices. These are not the normal sounds of Easter morning...or are they? Curious, she

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Chew It Or Lose It!

We all know or at least should know that digestion begins in the mouth. Much of the nuritents are lost when we do not chew well enough. We can eat and eat and eat and still be malnourished!



This is just a friendly reminder to

STOP!

DROP(the fork)!

And CHEW!



Some studies suggest at least chewing 40 times per bite or till the food is liquid in your mouth. YIKES! Maybe just

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Confessions Of A Valentine Junkie

Confession #1

I was the girl in grade school who romantically envisioned that her carefully decorated, home made paper bag Valentine holder would be brimming full of sweet somethings from admirers...secret and known, teachers, friends and the like. Alas, as fate would have it, there was no bag small enough to make mine seem full.



Confession #2

I was the day-dreaming high school girl

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What about the M.O.U.S's? I don't think they exist!

About four years ago I took a tumble! This was no ordinary tumble, such as missing the bottom stair or tripping over a curb. This was the kind of tumble that you see in the Matrix: Trinity kick butt style slow motion. The kind that you can almost in a prophetic way see the end of...and the end is never good!



One day I moved an old computer monitor from my upstairs office to the curb.

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Happy Thanksgiving and pass the SANTOSHA please!

Often times at Thanksgiving, our heads are racing with thoughts...

We feel hungry(cause it's 2:00 and we are still waiting on those darn relatives)
The room is too hot or too cold
The kids are too loud (or even worse, too quiet)
What we really want is turkey not tofurkey
And could everyone please stop yelling at the T.V.

Whatever the cause, our desires draw our thoughts away from the many

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Joey Tribbiani's Thanksgiving Pants

5 yoga minded tips to feeling better after the...




BIG MEAL!






As Thanksgiving approaches, I am reminded of a scene from an episode of


"FRIENDS"....(IMPORTANT, Please watch before you continue)




























Let's talk DIGESTION! First...let's try NOT to over eat, but in the event that we do(and we all know we will) here are a few tips to help take the edge of the

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