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self empowerment

The Deeper Meaning in the Movie Avatar

January 26, 2010

Do you ever pay attention to how much spiritual symbolism there is in movies? I love when I leave a movie theater feeling like I gained some sort of great wisdom about myself or life in general. I definitely felt this way about the movie Avatar. Have you seen it yet?

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Spark Your Spark

January 20, 2010

Guess what! I’ve got another giveaway. This time it’s a new book, written by SparkPeople.com Founder and CEO Chris Downie. If you haven’t heard of SparkPeople, it’s a huge community of people focused around healthy living and weight loss via lifestyle changes and personal empowerment, rather than the standard quick-fix diet (YAYY!!!). The book, fittingly [...]

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Finding Your Ultimate Health and Fitness Expert

January 18, 2010

Who can you trust to get you into shape? You want to be healthy, fit, and toned. You want to love your body, and have the energy of a child. You want to be able to set goals, and push yourself physically to reach them. So, who do you listen to? Which expert on health and nutrition do you turn to?

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Shine Your Light

January 3, 2010

Hope you had a wonderful holiday. I know many of you are getting back to work tomorrow, January 4th, and I myself am getting back to my routine. This past week and a half has been a time of reflection for me. It was sort of the theme for this Christmas and New Year. Ryan [...]

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25 Days of Self-Appreciation

December 3, 2009

As I explained in my previous post, What Are You Going to Give Yourself For Christmas, Today marks the beginning of my 25-day commitment to appreciate myself for who I am, which I am doing in addition to my Countdown to Christmas with 25 Days of Clean Eating Challenge. Very fitting. So, without further adieu, [...]

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What Are You Going To Give Yourself For Christmas?

December 3, 2009

Christmas is the season of giving. We spend a lot of time and energy preparing for the holiday, buying presents, making plans, baking, celebrating… doing the things that we want to do in order make people we care about feel good. Most of the time, we do this because we want to share our gratitude and our love for them.

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When To Stop Trying So Hard

November 6, 2009

We are taught that setting goals is a good thing. It helps us to be productive to have a specific, tangible achievement in mind with a rock solid end date. But what if in setting goals, we are actually neglecting the most important part of the process? If this sounds at all intriguing, read on.

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The Scale: Friend or Foe

September 9, 2009

I can remember it like it was yesterday. I would wake up in the morning and the vicious cycle would begin…

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Intuitive Eating Review

August 31, 2009

Recently, I had the opportunity to read Intuitive Eating, an insightful and reassuring guide to finding your natural weight. Authors Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch console the lifelong dieter, and offer strategies to assist in the transformation of adversarial feelings and thoughts often associated with food, diet and weight loss.

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Life Is A Gift, Treasure It

August 13, 2009

Here is a little video, from the producers of the movie The Secret, that will *hopefully* churn up that inspiration inside of you (it sure did for me!). You know, that feeling in your stomach that drives you to get up and start taking action toward living your best life. Each new day we are [...]

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