This is a bittersweet post. In recent months, I have a new awareness about friendships between women. Women who are over 50 (like me) begin to see life with a new perspective. We need good friends during this time of life, as this decade when things begin to shift a…

Listen to Podcast In this podcast, I give you a preview of the ways to connect and ground into our surroundings with the ways we eat everyday. This seasonal food connections allows our body to calibrate with the seasons to. After all, we are part of the environment. When we…

Listen as I share holistic practices the nourish the body and mind to ground the person with anxiety and Attention Deficient and Hyperactivity Disorder. LISTEN to Podcast In this podcast, I share holistic practices steeped the wisdom of Ayurveda and yoga to offer a calming and soothing elixir in the…

A few weeks as I was driving my 11 year old to school, we listened to the current events on NPR. Sometimes we turn it off because the content is too intense. However, I was unable to catch the volume button before learning about the mass shooting at Robb Elementary…

In understanding others, we are able to love them based upon the ambitions, desires, and troubles that embody their being. Loving-kindness offers the balance of forgiving faults, backgrounds, and burdens — while embracing the person’s potential with ambitions, desires, and hopes. In this way, we can love those who know…

Understanding the sense of the moment. The way something appears or smells. Considerations of being able to see a smell. The taste of a late summer berry. The beauty of youth. The blindness of childhood. Wisdom is developed through the five senses. In childhood, we learn about the 5 senses…

After connecting with an old friend of 20 years and knowing her life’s story, she asked me to try out some of my new Ayurvedic learning out on her. Here’s her situation: She has had a major life change. She works 40+ hours & commutes. She is returning to work…