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Too many of us are being impacted by chronic illness medication costs. This is my story. A few weeks ago after a covid infection, my asthma went from a periodic after a respiratory infection to a daily occurrence that was wearing me out, and interfered with exercise and my energy levels.  I was on a rescue inhaler and a high dose steroid inhaler that just wasn’t allowing me to be symptom free. …

Breakthrough Covid in Seniors: The Threat Nobody is Talking About

From Breakthrough to Breakdown: The Unprecedented Covid-Induced Threat for Seniors 65 and Up After getting two Pfizer shots and a booster, you can imagine my surprise when two weeks later I experienced breakthrough Covid in seniors for myself.  I had assumed that with a full load of the vaccine on board, that it was highly unlikely I would get Covid. That turned out to be a false and dangerous…

Mindful Eating Strategies: Shift Out of Autopilot

It’s easy to zone out when you’re eating, especially if you’re eating food for stimulation or comfort.  Just the anticipation of eating alone triggers a surge of dopamine to the prefrontal cortex, which amplifies the expected pleasure of the pending experience.  That’s not necessarily a bad thing.  We all want to enjoy our meals.  But the problem lies in the way autopilot eating deeply distracts…

Something From Nothing: A Skeptic’s Odyssey of Untreatable Foot Pain

“There is Nothing More We Can Do”

Nothing is more defeating in life than a doctor saying there is nothing more we can do for you, but that’s what they told my mom. So, for the last 20 years of he life, she was plagued with peripheral neuropathy of her feet. Eventually her symptoms gradually spread from her feet to her lower legs. She described her feet as having an unrelenting pins and needles…

The Messy Choices of Breast Cancer

With breast cancer you are never done. I was reminded of this reality with the anniversary of my five-year remission from early stage invasive breast this year. While I was deeply thankful for the attaining this recovery milestone, I was also confronted with a new medical dilemma. Which of two treatment paths would I choose in my battle to sustain my remission? Like I said, with cancer you’re…

Is Mindful Eating In The Cards For You?

Is Mindful Eating In The Cards For You?

We all know expensive diets that involve buying special foods, drinking shakes or counting points don’t work. So what’s the alternative? Mindful eating is proving to be a breakthrough approach for women who are ready to end the dieting cycle. Here’s why: (more…)

Few of us lose or maintain weight by desire because intentions without a viable game plan are no plan at all. We need an engagement process that offers a new awareness and approach to our love/hate relationship with food. We call this intention implementation system mindful eating. (more…)

Controlled Breathing: A Simple Tool to Manage Stress

These are stressful times and it makes sense to talk about steps you can take to calm mind and body. Like a change in cabin pressure, the best action is to take care of yourself first so you are available to support others. You do that by partnering with your breath. (more…)

Controlled Breathing: A Simple Tool to Manage Stress

These are stressful times and it makes sense to talk about steps you can take to calm mind and body. Like a change in cabin pressure, the best action is to take care of yourself first so you are available to support others. You do that by partnering with your breath. (more…)

As boomers drift into old age, their aging metabolism wanders into a precarious state called “pre diabetes.” The American Diabetic Association estimates 50% of boomers are afflicted by this benign sounding diagnosis that silently morphs behind the scenes into full blown- type 2 diabetes. How soon? The data indicates pre diabetics wind up as confirmed type 2 diabetics within 5 years. This is where…

10 Signs You Need To Reserve Women in the Rockies Adventure Retreat

1. You feel a deepening ache for the mountains in the fall. They are calling you.

2. Your dream mountain adventure takes place in a beautiful location with luxury accommodations. Roughing it is not your style.

3. You want to live a more healthy life and are at a loss of how to do it. (more…)

10 Signs You Need To Reserve Women in the Rockies Adventure Retreat

1. You feel a deepening ache for the mountains in the fall. They are calling you.

2. Your dream mountain adventure takes place in a beautiful location with luxury accommodations. Roughing it is not your style.

3. You want to live a more healthy life and are at a loss of how to do it. (more…)

Top Five Secrets of Slender Women

Many women spot a slender woman and think her weight management must be effortless or maybe it’s just genetic. But that is far from true. As we age our metabolism gets slower and slower. Weight begins to creep up for ALL women unless we work harder on weight management. (more…)

Jumpstarting an Aging Brain

As we age, many of us want to keep our brains as healthy as our bodies. How do we do that? It turns out our brains are neuroplastic. Neuroplasticilty is the brain’s ability to repair damage by reorganizing and forming new connections between intact neurons. The catalyst for neuroplasticity is stimulating the neurons through cognitive activity. (more…)

It’s The Food Not The Calories!

After attending the Food As Medicine conference in Minneapolis, I have a new perspective on weight loss and eating strategies. The faculty who taught the program asked attendees to “walk their lifestyle talk,” during the conference, and we did. (more…)

Breaking Up With Gluten, Again

Last fall I under went IgG and IgE blood testing for food allergies with a functional primary care doctor. Only a few foods that I rarely eat came back “positive” for being allergic. Surprisingly, the test was negative for antibodies to wheat. I assumed that being off wheat for almost three years had repaired my gluten sensitivity. So of course, our family was back on the wheat train. (more…)