Traci and I have been considering dropping, or at least reframing, words like health and wellness from the vocabulary we use to describe what we’re all about. In our experience, people often associate these words with renunciation of worldly pleasures, extreme diets (often vegan) and a whole lot of hard work and self-restraint. This attitude […]
Oat Flour Pancakes: Gluten Free Gluttony
Personally, we love this recipe just for the taste of it! However, it is very adaptable for people with special dietary requirements, such as gluten free and casein/ lactose free (see note about oats below). What’s more, this recipe is super yummy with no sugar. The carbohydrates are balanced with protein from the eggs and […]
What Really Causes Belly Fat? Reasons for weight gain you may not know about and what you can do to change it.
Toward the end of high school, I started putting on weight. Because most of my family was overweight, I was terrified that I was genetically predestined to be obese. So, I would read teen magazines to figure out how to lose weight and get rid of belly fat. The best advice they had […]
Chocolate Love: Could you use a little more in your life?
Why does it feel so good? And why do we feel bad about it? Few foods have the power to conjure the complex emotions that often surround chocolate. It’s commonly associated with feelings of love and pleasure. You’re probably reading this because of how much you love it, perhaps feeling anticipation at the thought of […]
Throw out old ideas about exercise, and get into the groove when you move!
Redefining Fitness Most people who know me are aware that at the peak of my swimming career, I was diagnosed with an “incurable” autoimmune disease of the liver called Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis (PSC). If you’ve ever read up on that one, you know the prognosis ain’t pretty. I was able to heal myself by radically […]
Cleansing Part 2: It’s time to come clean! Inspire your cells to inspire you.
Click here to read Part 1: Feeling Dirty? When is cleansing clean and when is it a punishment? In this second part of our mini-treatise on cleansing, we will explain cleansing to you so clearly and thoroughly, you will feel cleaner inside just for having read it. Hey, it’s possible. We will explore some of the the […]
Cleansing Part 1: Feeling dirty? When is cleansing clean and when is it a punishment?
We are writing this article as a love offering to all the people we have known and will know (including ourselves) who have wanted to feel better and, let’s be honest, look better, and have struggled with feeling disgust, anger and confusion towards their body. See if any of this sounds familiar. So, a very common […]