Category: Mind/Body Connection Search for: 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… More…..about scars on the human body Nikki wrote me about my last blog post. She said she was pondering the scar conversation we had, and about how scars point to some other things: She said, isn’t… And what to do about SCARS? On the long drive home from Tijuana to Utah earlier this month, I stopped at a McD’s because they have the cleanest bathrooms. And, well, because I’d drunk the 32… What to do about WRINKLES? After yoga, when I’m rolling up my mat, seems like often a GSG reader comes over to chat. Tell me their green smoothie experience, ask what to do to help… Just take a deep breath! At the Budwig Clinic, as in many holistic cancer treatment centers all over the world I’ve studied at, there is a great deal of focus on bringing oxygen into the…