When it comes to summertime, simple food that travels well is your best bet. To look and feel great this summer, try these healthy essentials. Your body will thank you. Fruit salads Fruit is the best ingredient to use in your summer cooking. You can add it to just about any recipe for a refreshing…
You Call It Selfish, I Call It Self-Love. For many of us, giving away our time, resources, and energy, comes so naturally that we often find ourselves giving when there is nothing left to give. Afraid of appearing selfish and inconsiderate, I, too, once found myself over-committing to obligations that drained me of my energy…
Throughout most of the year in our exhausting jobs and our other responsibilities as parents and caretakers, we tend to run ourselves down by eating a poor diet on the go and putting everything else before ourselves. The result is fatigue, irritability and an overall poor quality of life. How can we fix this? By…
Here’s an example of how I struggled with writing in April 2008. I couldn’t seem to squeeze even a paragraph out of that mass of neurons (a.k.a. that grey matter supposedly hiding somewhere inside my thick Sicilian skull). But here’s what I discovered: A few days ago, while shaking cracker crumbs out of my backpack,…
“When it comes to getting back to the gym after an injury or illness, it’s best to be the tortoise instead of the hare.” ~Coach Kristina Uh oh. You’ve just suffered an injury or an illness that’s going to force you to take a few days, weeks, or even months off from working out. Now…