How to Have a Great Day….. Every Day!

Did you know that you can even set an intention to have a great day?

Rather than diving into your morning and hoping you’ll achieve your day’s big goal, why not take a moment and set yourself up for success?

Try this “Setting an Intention to Succeed” exercise used by professional athletes, speakers, politicians, and performers:

Here's what to do:

• Upon waking, lie in bed and think about what you have planned for your day (or, find a quiet spot to sit and contemplate). How is it that you want to feel?

• Think about your desired outcome. Take a deep breath and visualize yourself feeling a certain way or succeeding throughout the day.

• Replay your success several times in your mind. How does that feel for you?

• Next, add other senses, including sounds, smells, and touch. Envision it!

• Lastly, replay the scene again, adding emotions. Feel your elation or your pride at finally finishing a project or getting that hour of movement in.

You can perform Setting an Intention to Succeed throughout the day as you desire it. 

So give it a try one day this week and let me know how your day turns out!

It works.

Until next time,

Sending you love, joy and gratitude, Nancy

Forgiveness and Eating for Pleasure

Today I am going to talk about a subject that is near and dear to my heart because it's something I have struggled with most of my life.

I am talking about emotional eating. Most of us have done it at one point in our lives or another.  I always felt that somehow after I ate, I would feel better, but was it really about the food I thought I needed?

Allow me to ask you this: Have you ever downed an entire package of chips, crackers, or cookies? Ate pizza or cake until you felt sick? Drank more coffee or wine than your body wanted?

Do you remember how you were feeling at the time?

I ask because sometimes we overeat to help distract us from that deep emotional pain or discomfort.

So for a moment think about it—have you noticed that sometimes when you overeat you’re not really hungry at all? Maybe you were lonely, angry, sad, resentful or totally frustrated.

Maybe you felt something else you couldn't quite put a feeling too.

So what hurt is it that YOU are holding on to? 

It's time to get in touch with your power of forgiveness....

Imagine confronting your uncomfortable feelings instead of eating because of all the emotion? 

The most divinely perfect way to do that is forgiveness.

4 Steps to Your Peace  of mind and weight loss

If you’ve been suffering because of past hurts, I ask that you first try forgiving whoever or whatever it is by trying just one of these 4 simple yet powerful steps. 

You may find that not only your soul begins it's healing process but that food will be something you actually enjoy and don't need as often for comfort.

• Talk to sympathetic friends and family about your desire to forgive. Talking with others is tremendously comforting and you may find they are supportive in what you want to do. 

• Write a letter to the person you’d like to forgive. You can decide whether or not you send it later, but by  putting it on paper, it makes it real and affirms how you feel and why. 

• Don’t forget to forgive yourself. Sometimes we can be harshest with ourselves. We do so much better when we feel better, so don't shame or put blame on yourself. Take the situation for what it is...you can only change now!

• Understand that you are responsible for your own attitude. Don’t let holding a grudge keep you from feeling free, open, and powerful in your own life.

Remember when you forgive, you release yourself from a painful burden. Forgiveness doesn't mean that what happened was OK, or that if someone hurt you, they are welcome back into your precious life.  It just means that you made peace with the pain and are ready to let it go and move on to a new way of living. 

It also means that your relationship with eating just became less complicated.

Wishing you Good Health and Happiness Always, Nancy XO

Sadie's 5 and were going to Bolivia

It seems like a lifetime ago that my sweet newly wed husband and I sold everything we had, grabbed our backpacks and traveled the the world for a year. 

After a year we became really home sick and so we decided to head back for a a while, and continue traveling later. We didn't realize how much later.

Our 2006 adventure in Bolivia Pics

When we arrived home, after a bit of culture shock, we quickly got back into the swing of things and found ourselves comfortable and glad to be home. At which point we decided to buy a house, settle down and start a family.

That was 8 was years ago, we now have a house, a dog, a 5 year old, and are very ready to travel again, this time with our sweet Sassy Sadie.

Why Bolivia? Life in Sucre, Bolivia is so simple, stress free, and very family oriented. At 2 in the afternoon all businesses close, people go home, spend time with their family for three hours and business opens back up from 5 to 7.

I am so excited and really looking forward to introducing Sadie to a new whole new culture and a new way of living for two weeks over Christmas.

Until then there is alot to do but it's definitely something that we are looking forward to.

Have you been on a great adventure? I would love to hear about it: 

Email me here

Until next time..

Good Health and Happiness to you,

Nancy

I leave you with one of my favorite quotes:

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. May your rivers flow without end, meandering through pastoral valleys tinkling with bells, past temples and castles and poets towers into a dark primeval forest where tigers belch and monkeys howl, through miasmal and mysterious swamps and down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and grottos of endless stone, and down again into a deep vast ancient unknown chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs, where deer walk across the white sand beaches, where storms come and go as lightning clangs upon the high crags, where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you -- beyond that next turning of the canyon walls.”

― Edward Abbey

It all started about a year ago...

I felt empty, not in a spiritual sense but there was something missing, something I was suppose to be doing?

 Don't get me wrong, I adore my life, I love being a stay at home mom & wife but when my sweet Husband and 4 year are away, I felt like I was meant to do something amazing.

Like every stay at home mom, I love the cleaning, cooking, laundry ect...it's theraputic in a way, and I love it when things get done, but could that truly be it for me? There had to be more, right??

.....Yes, Yes there had to be, so I searched and searched!

Most of my adult life, I have been the one who always seemed to fit out (instead of fit in). I think it might have been due to the fact that I loved living a really healthy life style, being crazy active & just loving anything and everything to do with health, wellness and fitness.

Then last Janurary it hit me ..KAPOWW! There it was, a light shined down, the stars aligned, things came together perfectly and so I am so happy to say that I began my holistic health coaching career with the Institue of Intergrative Nurtrion.

I am so excited to say, that I am on my way to further learning how insprie & help people not only love their life  & who they are, but also help them obtain the great health and balanced lifestyle they have always wanted.

Now I am 3 months into my year long journey of becomeing Certified. So far I have learned so many amazing things, and so much more than I could have ever imagined. I love everything about the school, what it teaches & how it teaches. In fact I am enjoying it so much so, that my husband has commented more than once lately "what you're studying again?"  Can't seem to get enough☺

So it's back to Studying for me, and as I go through the course I will share the wealth of knowledge that I learn with you.  I look forward to the rest of my journey & hope you join me as I aspire to inspire Health & Wellbeing in your lives.

Much Love & Smiles, Nancy