Mindful Fitness

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Mindful Fitness

Mindful Fitness

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Are you watching your mind diet?

July 31, 2009 perspective

I was watching the news, which reminded me of the beginning of a Beatles song: “I heard the news today… oh boy..”
…and I was thinking about how we don’t consider what we consume in thoughts.  Right – thoughts.  We consider our diets and what is good for us, we consider our fitness and how much [...]

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Ah, Summer

July 16, 2009 Uncategorized

I don’t know about you - honest, I don’t! - but when I was growing up summers were long, languid affairs. You spent a lot of time just hanging out, doing nothing. It was a time to play soccer with your mates, make up games of your own, and sometimes just hang around staring at [...]

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Cancer is not a battle, it’s an attitude!

March 31, 2009 perspective

I have a friend who has just undergone a mastectomy. She has cancer.  She recently came to a party we were throwing. Okay, it was our wedding.  I was afraid she would not be able to attend because she was going to have her first chemotherapy treatment the day before the wedding, but she came [...]

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Clinging to Life

March 30, 2009 perspective

Last fall Kevin and I went to Yosemite.  We love living in San Francisco, but it is really nice to take some time to get away from our daily lives of work and urban living and just be in awe of natural surroundings.
I love the quiet of the forest, the sound of the birds and [...]

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Flexing Your Mind.

March 19, 2009 Uncategorized

Every time I go to the gym I’m amazed at the sheer variety of different exercises you can do to work out each part of your body. It seems that for each muscle there are a dozen different ways of working it to make it stronger.
That’s good, because variety can help you avoid becoming bored [...]

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High Anxiety!

March 9, 2009 Thoughts on Change

Lately, I’ve been working with people who are suffering from anxiety.  There is a lot of anxiety out there, and in many cases there is good reason to be anxious.  Loss of a job, money worries, or health issues just to name a few.  But sometimes we create anxiety when we don’t have to.

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How a Cuppa Joe Could Save Your Brain

January 23, 2009 Uncategorized

Buy shares in Starbucks. Go and hug your neighborhood barrista. They could be saving your brain!
A new study from Finland found that people who drank three to five cups of coffee a day in middle age were less likely to develop Alzheimer’s or dementia compared to people who drank no coffee or very little.
The study, published [...]

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Babies are the Craziest People!

December 30, 2008 Thoughts on Change

So I went to my daughter’s house yesterday.  She was having the midwife, the midwife’s assistant, and the doula over for a little pre-birth chat.  Our baby is due in 2 weeks.  The baby has lot’s of people looking out for her already.  Right, her.  She is named Emma, after her grandmother, Helene, after her [...]

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Anxious?

December 8, 2008 Thoughts on Change

Anxiety and stress seem to be gaining much attention in the news recently, or maybe it’s due to the news that stress and anxiety is prevalent!  Don’t despair,  there are ways to control these toxic feelings instead of being overtaken and ruled by them.  One method that is gaining momentum to change this emotional tide [...]

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