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Easy Tips To Help You Navigate Holiday Party Foods and Drinks

  November is upon us, and with Thanksgiving and Winter Holidays running towards us back to back, that usually means lots of celebratory foods we might not normally choose to eat and drinks we might not routinely drink.  It also means folks are stressing about their weight.  More on that at the end of this blog post. Whether holiday parties are stressing you out, picking out the perfect gift, figuring out how to afford travel (damn it’s so expensive!) or balancing social commitments, even joyful holidays can be stressful ones. Most people report that being surrounded by rich holiday foods, […]

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Your Body Is Almost Entirely Made Out Of Stars, Here’s How To Celebrate It

    As a physician, every single cell in our body is literally like a miracle to me.  How it functions, replicates, repairs, lives, dies, replaces.  The fact that our skin is self healing, our bones fuse back together, we breathe and our heart beats while we use our body to do other things all day long without even thinking about it, how we create life, how little humans grow within us and are born. The fact that all of it, almost every bit of it, comes from cosmic dust and stars — it’s all just so damn magical.  We

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Holiday Eating And Drinking: What Party Foods To Eat (+ Why You Crave What You Do)

  Holiday stress isn’t just stress over picking out the perfect gift, figuring out how to afford travel (damn it’s so expensive!) or balancing social commitments. Most people report that being surrounded by rich holiday foods, alcohol, impulse eating, and weight gain during the holiday season adds a significant amount of stress as well. So as holiday season gets underway I wanted to give you a few tips on how to navigate this tricky but wonderful time of comfort food, decadent desserts, and celebratory toasts.   If there was ever a time that people worry about their weight, it’s during the

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Independence Day Gratitude

    We love the 4th of July!!!!   Last year as part of our homeschooling journey I read the Declaration of Independence to my children on the 4th of July.   We discussed the meaning of the word choices in this declaration, the importance of the risk and the stand that our forefathers took in proclaiming their independence… and the sacrifices they made to lay the foundation of the country we live in today.   “That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it,

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My Favorite Winter Solstice tradition… releasing our dreams into the night

Last year I posted this celebration idea *after* Winter Solstice, which does you… dear reader… no good. So this year I wanted to post it the week before… it’s such a simple, easy, and sweet way to mark the darkest day with honor and a bit of candlelight. It is something my entire family looks forward to every year. This Winter Solstice we’ll be traveling, but I’m taking some slips of paper and a few matches so that we can create our sacred space wherever we are. I would love to know that a few of you are out there

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