Category: Mind/Body Connection Search for: What I Love About Being 40+ If you exercise, what’s your goal? Have you really thought about it? Have you given yourself a free pass to let exercise be “for fun”? Or is the idea of… My breakthrough in conquering ANGER Often when I’m telling a story, people say, “Didn’t you get mad?” I like to say, “I don’t participate in that emotion.” Breakthoughs Live is a forum to share our… My Dressing Your Truth® MAKEOVER! The big REVEAL After my Dressing Your Truth® makeover, Carol brings me out as a TYPE 3SM energy, so that my full expression of my energy is complemented by hair, makeup, clothes, and jewelry…. On anxiety: There but for the grace of God go I. Do you struggle with anxiety, like I do? It’s my lifelong demon. I’m not sure I’d know what to do without it, though. I fear that without it, I wouldn’t… I’m an epic FAIL at Meditation! It’s time to address this issue: for years, I’ve shamefully felt I’m a failure at meditation. It seems like a great thing to be “good” at. Especially for someone who… Sandra in Canada Has a Great Story of Health Through Plant-Based Eating! Recently we got this story from Sandra P. in Canada I thought you would enjoy! My family started our plant-based journey less than a year ago. My husband saw Dr…. After I eat greasy/sugary “junk food,” I feel … Food for thought! This really makes us think about how powerful addiction to junk food is. Since we feel AMAZING drinking greens, and we categorically feel like crap, eating junk…. From 7 Years Ago, Starting This Blog……to Now Seven years ago, as I started this blog, I ruminated a lot on my family’s menus, the “in the trenches” work I was doing daily, raising kids from 6 to… Dream Big. Live Big. Fail Big. Recover Big. My best friend, Kristin, and I, live on parallel tracks. Everything that happens to her, something eerily similar happens to me. It has been like this for YEARS. Raising teen/young… Whole Foods and Depression, Tori’s Story: Part 2 of 2 This story is worth your time to read. It made me cry, both when I first read it, and again when I sat down with it to craft it into… Tori from Seattle Tells Me a Beautiful Story: Part 1 of 2 Tori’s is one of the most moving stories I have read from a GreenSmoothieGirl reader. You know I’ve read hundreds, possibly thousands. This one is so very special. I have… Thoughts on changing habits I built my house 9 years ago on the culdesac of a quiet street of just 12 homes. My house backs up to the canal that carries irrigation water for…