One of the most important keys to losing weight is to build muscle. Muscle tissue is metabolically active and burns a lot of calories even while you are resting or asleep. If you lose weight without exercising, you might lose about 2 lbs. of muscle for every 5 lbs....

One quick question before I dive into lesson 3 - How are you doing with your Journaling ? If you haven't started yet - make this Monday the start of your journey.  Commit to printing this out and filling it in!  You got this!  If you have been doing it - send me a...

Are you ready for Lesson 2?  Have you been keeping up with your daily journal?  If so - Great !  I would love to hear how its going!  If not - no worries- start today!  A healthy happy lifestyle takes planning! I cannot stress that enough. Whatever you are successful...

Hi- I am so happy you are here!   The fact that you subscribed and made the conscious choice to live your best life should be celebrated!! You are on your way to learning the lessons needed to start living to your fullest. Only you can do it, but I am here to help you...

Are you genuinely happy? Are you growing and thriving? Or are you just pushing through the hours day after day.  I have been doing the latter for too long now.  I told myself that when summer was over and the kids were back in school I would be more mindful of my...

So..it’s been a while since I have blogged or posted. I could blame it on being “busy” but I am always busy. If I am honest, I got in my head. I second guessed the relevance and the purpose behind why I wrote. I felt disconnected to the community, to myself. I thought...

It's that time of year- Preschoolers, High Schoolers, and College Students graduating! Moving on to the next phase in there life. It's been fun writing out graduation cards and appreciating the message for what it means to me, my clients and my hope to all of you....

X or Y ? why not both or perhaps neither? It’s very easy to fall into the happiness trap of false choices/truths –of thinking you can either do X or Y, and that’s the choice you have to make. False choices are tempting for a couple of reasons. First, instead of facing...

Thought for the Day: “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson I don’t know a woman alive who is completely happy with her body. No woman I’ve met has ever said, “I eat healthy, I...

Ok- so everybody will probably agree that it's much easier to gain weight than lose it. It doesn't take any real effort to gain weight it just kind of shows up. But you're acutely aware of the effort it takes to drop weight. And this heightened awareness of the effort...

In the spirit of de-cluttering - Look at your home. Is it a place where you really want to live? Is it comfortable and joyous, or is it cramped and messy. If you don't feel good about it you are never going to enjoy it. Your home is a reflection of you. What state is...

In the spirit of April I thought I would inspire some “spring cleaning”. Have you heard of the “broken windows theory”? This theory of policing holds that when a community tolerates minor examples of disorder and petty crime, such as broken windows, graffiti, or...