Healing Ourselves and Our Dogs, Mineral-Rich Soup

We are coming into the Fall and what better time to make ourselves a bowl of mineral rich soup. Summer tends to be filled with a lighter fare loaded in fun foods and lots of fresh veggies for salads. When… Continue Reading

To Judge or Not to Judge, I Learned the Answer Today

Today I boarded my flight and sat by the window as I often enjoy. They announced the flight was very full and yet the seat next to me stayed empty. Up until the last two people boarded the plane. Young,… Continue Reading

Have You Ever Had A Date Like This?!

Welcome to Fall and very special and super delicious natural foods that will give you so much joy you won’t know what to do with it. Last week I decided to shop in the local Middle Eastern Market. As I… Continue Reading

Movement Solutions for Back Pain, with Ruthy Alon

Have you ever woken up on the wrong side of the tracks? The track being your spine. Nothing like being movement person myself, for all these years and finally giving in this morning to putting on a back brace contraption.… Continue Reading

Walk For Life Program

We just finished our first weekend program of Ruthy Alon’s, “Walk For Life®” course. It is based on using walking poles to help encourage upright walking. Rather than leaning heavily into the poles like many walkers do, we use them… Continue Reading

Ashes To Ashes, Renewal

Sometimes we can think life has burned us down to the ground. However, if we look at our Nature around us we can see otherwise. Just a few months ago, Southern California suffered the ravages of what seems like our… Continue Reading

Walk the Walk, Part Dog

We tend to think of walking as just something we do to get from one place to another. Mostly, we don’t even think about it until something reminds us there is a problem, like a pain in the knee or… Continue Reading

Walk the Walk

I recently spent the weekend with my husband in Las Vegas. While, not my favorite city to be in, you’ll see the part I had so much fun with was watching people walk. I wish I filmed all the men… Continue Reading

What Your Heart and Vagus Nerve Say to Each Other

  What an absolutely eye opening and fascinating conversation I was privileged to have today with Dr Rollin McCraty who is the Executive Vice President and Director of Research at the HeartMath Institute. He has written hundreds of papers on heart… Continue Reading

The HorseBoy Method of Working with Children with Autism

It’s a beautiful day today and everyday at The HorseBoy Ranch in Elgin, Texas. The creator, Rupert Isaacson, who created this this most beautiful way of working with children with autism uses such creative and joyful ways of learning and they… Continue Reading

Vagal Tone and Tourette’s Behavior

“Can we create Tourette’s?” What a strange question to even ask. I pose this question because of a recent abdominal surgery I had. Have no doubt that even when done laparoscopically there is a lot of mucking around that goes… Continue Reading

Every Day in Every Way, I Am Feeling Better and Better

  As my mother’s mother used to say, “No one ever said it was easy being a woman.” I always thought that had to do with wearing painfully ‘cute’ shoes. However, I think we can all agree it goes much deeper… Continue Reading