By Guest Writer Daphne Cohn If there’s one thing I know for sure it’s that eating and living without pleasure = stress. And stress leads to: Weight gain Overeating Exhaustion Moodiness Irritability Overwhelm Loss of passion And way less beauty But the tricky thing is most women I know don’t think pleasure is that important.… [Continue Reading]
It’s Valentine’s Day. Time to love up your bones. What’s that? You’re asking ”why?” “Why” is not a spiritual question. “How?” is a spiritual question. But I digress. When I first learned that women reach peak bone mass at age 30 to 35, I thought: Help! It’s like a trust fund that peaks too early and ruins the kid. Later… [Continue Reading]
Last fall I had an epiphany. I was talking to Ellen Heed, the genre-bending anatomy teacher for Ana Forrest’s Yoga Teacher Training, about how we, as women, have to take responsibility for the fact that we are neurologically programmed for pleasure. Here’s the epiphany: our pleasure wiring is a use-it-or-lose-it situation. If you don’t use… [Continue Reading]
With all the other stuff I have to be vigilant about–ravages of stress, how current I am with my man, the mortgage, my daughter’s insane sports schedule, global warming and the lack of snow in Tahoe, my Mother’s thyroid, why 84% of women struggle with insomnia and how I want to fix it TODAY (just… [Continue Reading]
We may not talk about it as openly as our kids or latest food obsession, but vulvodynia affects 15% of women. The official, Harvard approved definiition of vulvodynia is this: Vulvodynia is chronic discomfort in the area around the opening of your vagina and/or labia (vulva) for which there is no identifiable cause. Symptoms… [Continue Reading]
Let’s face it… Thyroid numbers are often counterintuitive and confusing. Mix in low thyroid function with the common low-thyroid symptom of brain fog, maybe a bit of depression, and you’ve got a perfect storm for feeling overwhelmed, and even worse, disempowered about what to do next. Want a sampler of how confusing thyroid math can… [Continue Reading]
Today I was on a telejam with my new friend, Alexandra Jamieson, who is the nutritionista in the award-winning film, Super Size Me, author and a brilliant certified health and nutrition coach who makes complex subjects like food biochemistry both fascinating and understandable. We were talking the nutrient-dense foods that boost metabolism, get your metabolism right-sized… [Continue Reading]
Memory is your ability to store, retain, and recall information at will. But sometimes, if you’re like me at age 44, you send the signal and… nothing happens. Blank. I got nothin’. As a recovering stressoholic, I’ve learned that we have a very cool part of our brain called the hippocampus that is the boss… [Continue Reading]
One of my dearest friends and I talked about how we didn’t want to read yet another book from some Yalie telling us what to do with our lives, but then we both caved, and actually loved this book. Read The Happiness Project. It will change you forever. Watch my video where I explain how… [Continue Reading]
Last minute Sally here. We had so many burning questions from the last few telejams that I decided on an impromptu live Q&A on Monday. That’s in 2 days. Sign up here to join us live OR post your question here or email it to us and I’ll get all I can cram into… [Continue Reading]
