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[New Year, New You] Day 19: The Power of Personal Integrity The way our modern society is organized, it is very easy to believe that the most valuable skills are those that involve a high capacity for traditional learning and knowledge. The “thinking” professions of medicine, pharmaceuticals, law, accounting, etc., are the most consistently high paying professions. Many professionals in the arts (music, drawing, painting, etc.) have a reputation for being “starving artists.”  There are only a small percentage of artists who achieve significant financial success, never mind make a comfortable living at it, compared to the number of lawyers, doctors and accountants who consistently pull in the big bucks for what they do. “Thinking” is the state of being most highly rewarded socially and financially, and it's pounded into us for at least 12 years of the standard education most children receive. But it is not the most rewarding state of being, nor the most influential for improving your overall health, happiness,

[New Year, New You] Day 18: How to Find More Love When You Need It If it's true that problems have solutions, that the difficulties in our relationships and personal situations can be solved, then we owe it to ourselves, and to life, to maintain a certain degree of interest and commitment directed toward the resolution of our problems, especially with other people. It appears that the firecracker part of life is trying to improve, to produce and contribute in order to rise above the noise and that where life is stuck or struggling, there is more likely a heavy burden of confusion and overwhelm than there is the possibility that there are any "bad people." Where life flows easily and smoothly, there's is understanding and a high degree of admiration--a sense of closeness to others, to your environment.  Where there is struggle and sickness and strife, life gets stuck and we are far better investigating what we may not fully understand with the hope of finding some information that helps us get perspective, rat

[New Year, New You] Day 17: How to Overcome Overwhelm We're nearing the end of our 21-Day New Year, New You Challenge! The last two posts were pretty juicy and action-packed, so I thought this one might be coming at the right time. It's easy to feel burdened by things to do, and overwhelmed with everything on our plates. Our reactions to this sense of things "slipping out of control" or "being too much to handle" can vary, but feel something like standing in the middle of a heavy storm with things moving all around, but you don't know how to grab on or where to start. Once you know this simple fact, you've got the first and most important piece of information you need to handle any amount of confusion or overwhelm! Whether you're trying to handle yourself, or trying to help another person you care for, this blog article has some powerful basics for lifting people up from the bottom of the bucket so they can get perspective and get life back on track. A Little Disclaimer First of all, I would like to make it

[New Year, New You] Day 16: How to Spot Your Enemies Being a good, kind person, you might assume that everyone else is, too. But chances are good that you’ve already experienced a person or two along the path of your own live who appeared to have been working against you. If you’ve ever had accidents, injuries, illness, or struggled with self-confidence, that you have met or been very connected to someone whose intentions seemed that they were not in your best interest. We’ve discussed that it’s very hard to change the things you’re not willing to comfortably face, and we've also looked at the fact that sometimes the reasons we cannot face things comfortably are because we don’t fully understand them, or because your attention is stuck in past failures, losses and disappointments. Another reason that some situations are difficult to handle is because you don't see them as they really are--you see what you want to see, NOT what's actually there. It's very important to listen to people's words and understand t

[New Year, New You] Day 15: How to Pick Your Friends You can pretty much count on the fact that sun will come up over the horizon in the morning, and that gravity will pull dropped objects to the earth, etc.. This offers a certain sense of stability and predictability in life, and we like that. Which is why one of the most challenging obstacles we have to overcome in life is the fact that we have been given very few tools to understand or navigate the wildly unpredictable, surprisingly volatile, hotbed of human emotion–our relationships with other people. While we’re all built pretty much the same way mechanically speaking, we don’t all have the same amount of spiritual “fuel” in our livingness tank and so we’re all going to face obstacles and challenges in life with varying degrees of persistence, courage and certainty. One of the biggest frustrations in relationships comes from the disappointment of realizing that other people do not respond to circumstances or situations as we might have hoped. Maybe our k

[New Year, New You] Day 14: How to Lose Your Need to Be Liked We've been talking about how to peel back the layers of misinformation, opinion, and burning hot lies you've been fed and led to believe over the years about the way life works and what you're capable of, so we can help you find your rebel spirit--the feisty firecracker that's been burning inside of you since Day 1! When you follow the mob, or go with the flow, being careful not to ruffle feathers or rock boats, you can find yourself one day stuck in a socially acceptable spiritual straight jacket. It's not even very easy to recognize your goals and dreams anymore, or identify your real passions and interests. And if  you do, then when it comes time to express them in life to other people, or actually do something about it, you feel frozen and petrified. It's like you're standing there with a match in your hand, but too afraid to light the spark of that inner firecracker and let her take up space for fear of offending someone, or being rejected. Re

[New Year, New You] Day 13: How to Find Your Rebel Spirit In yesterday’s blog post I wrote about how other people’s ideas, comments and behaviour can influence how you view the world--sometimes without your even realizing it. I mentioned the idea of the “dusty puppets” in your personal psychodrama as these shadows of the people who have been there and passed along their ideas or behaviours to you and that with so many of these influencing you in any given moment, sometimes it can be hard to figure out which ones are really you. What are the goals you have because you "think you're supposed to" and what are the goals you have because that's what you, as a spiritual firecracker, actually yearn for? The pressure to fit in and follow the rules can be all-consuming. It’s much easier to be socially acceptable than to feel like there’s something about you other people don’t like or can’t readily accept. But finding your rebel spirit--your personal goals, aspirations, beliefs, values and ideas that you are willing

[New Year, New You] Day 12: Believe What You See, Not What They Say The entire conventional education system operates on the assumption that you will dutifully swallow the information you are given, accept it as truth, then regurgitate it politely and perfectly at a specified date and time on test day. And after an average of twelve years of daily practice drilling this technique in place, it's no wonder we tend to believe the things we're told without questioning them, or considering whether it's important and valuable to.  We're cruising along at top speed during our 21-Day New Year, New You Challenge, and if you're still here tuning in and showing up, then you are a rare breed of rebel--someone ready for the article I'm about to share with you.   You can read the rest of the article to accompany this podcast here.

[New Year, New You] Day 11: Ditch The Distractions to Reach Your Dreams So we’re tipping over to the second half of our 21-Day New Year, New You Challenge and if you’re still here, then hat’s off to you! Thank you for your time and attention and persistence in sticking to it. I know this is going to pay off for you. No matter how sloppy and sleepy my messages may have been, the fact that every day for the last eleven days you’ve been checking in and committing to yourself still makes you more powerful than if you’d allowed yourself to get sucked down another Facebook rabbit hole, or Netflix binge! Today we’re talking about “distractions” and how to ditch them once and for all. We’ve been talking a lot about the importance of being present and discussed why where you put your attention will determine everything about the results you get in life. So how do we handle the distractions that come up and seem to take so much of our time and attention off the track of the better life we’re busily trying to create for

[New Year, New You] Day 10: Life Goes Where Attention Flows We've hit the halfway mark of our 21-Day New Year, New You Challenge. Today's message is a wake up call to the worriers out there, and a word of caution to the overly cautious. Sometimes the more you stress and avoid and fear something happening, the more likely it is to actually happen. On the other hand, as long as you keep your eyes on the prize, no matter what obstacles and surprises come up for you in life, chances are very good you'll get there.  Life really does go where attention flows, and today's podcast and blog article prove it. You can access the rest of the short blog article to accompany this podcast here.

[New Year, New You] Day 9: Alive As You Are Willing to Communicate While we all know about the power of anti-oxidants and omega fatty acids, few people discuss the fact that you are as alive as you are willing to communicate. What makes some of us more able to communicate and others crawl into our shells? What tricks and tips and solutions can we find to feel more able to confront difficult and uncomfortable situations in our lives. The answers will be found in this series of articles on Communication. Let's start at the beginning with a look at the only two kinds of communication that are possible and three big reasons why it might not be working the way you expect it to. There Are Two Kinds of Communication If you keep on filling a glass of water, without stopping to take a few drinks, eventually it will spill. If you are driving with a full tank of gas and never stop to fill it up, eventually you will be stranded on the side of a road. Communication is a lot like many other kinds of energy in life, it wor

[New Year, New You] Day 8: The Key to Being Competent Welcome to Day 8 of our 21-Day New Year, New You Challenge. We've been covering some helpful ideas about how to set your goals, then bravely persist in making them happen. We've talked about the importance of taking one step at a time and keeping the whole picture in perspective. We talked about obstacles and how important they are to your degree of pleasure and satisfaction in life. And we've talked about why being present to what's actually happening will make you much, much more able to face and handle the problems in front of you. I don't know what goals and objectives you set for yourself, but since we've covered many of the internal things you'll need to have or strengthen to achieve them, let's talk about another big obstacle that you will eventually have to face--other people! Difficult situations with other people may be one of the biggest sources of stress affecting our health and well-being. While you can throw out the cheese puffs, clear out y

[New Year, New You] Day 7: The Joy of Dirty Fingernails We're one third of the way through our 21-Day New Year, New You Challenge,  and our goal now is to keep things more practical than theoretical. The most valuable people in life are not necessarily the ones with loud voices, sophisticated vocabularies or thick books credited to their name. There are many people who do a lot of thinking about how to make life work, and many more who who do a lot of talking, this blog post is dedicated to the ones who, in the midst of struggle or strife quietly rolled up their sleeves and got busy doing whatever it took to make life work. This blog is dedicated to the dirty fingernails of the world--the ones whose blood, sweat and tears spill getting things done, while others spend time talking about it. This is a message for action-takers--the ones who aren’t afraid to get a little messy trying to make life go right, and who know that making life go right doesn’t just mean “when you feel like it,” or “when it’s convenient

[New Year, New You] Day 6: Creativity: Not an Artsy-Fartsy Idea So here you are. Day 6 of our 21-Day New Year, New You Challenge. In light of your persistence, I hereby certify you as a spiritual freakin' ninja. By this time 90% of people who signed up would have given up.* But here you are, going strong and diving in for the big win. BRAVO!! It takes sharp teeth to show up and take life on, but you're doing it! Over the next couple days I want to share with you a few tools that will help make standing up to life even easier. They're not common tools, but they work. The reason they aren't common is because they cannot be patented and nobody would make any money for sharing them with you. The only mistake you'll make over the next two days as you read these blogs and podcasts, is fail to apply the information and try it out. If you decide you've "already been there and done that," or "already know that" and so neglect to physically put the information into action, you'll miss out on what you don't know about i

[New Year, New You] Day 5: The Secret Ingredient in Chocolate, Sex & Sunsets Welcome to Day 5 of our 21-Day New Year, New You Challenge. Yesterday we discussed why your willingness to observe what’s happening in the present moment will significantly improve your ability to overcome obstacles and reach your goals in life. This is especially true when you’re trying to accomplish something you’ve failed at many times in the past. Whether it's losing weight, building a business, or making a loving relationship work, the sting of past failures can cloud how we perceive what's happening in the present moment and compromise our ability to get back up, or trust ourselves enough to try again. If you're struggling with that kicked down feeling, yesterday's blog and podcast will help. Today I want to talk about pleasure, and where it really comes from, so you can tap into it and turn up the volume on it even more. Pleasure is your spiritual pay check and the "grand prize" for playing at the game of life. The more y

[New Year, New You] Day 4: Choose Crocodiles Not Puffy Cushions This is Day 4 of our 21-Day New Year, New You Challenge, and we've been covering quite a few hot topics like how to tackle big goals in little steps, and how to get out of the cycle of self-sabotage by seeing the facts. Today I want to take on a subject that sometimes gets a little esoteric--or too "mystical" and "spiritual" to understand and put into practice. When it comes to most people's ideas of "being present" modern self-development parlance has a tendency to make things a little complicated. I don't want you to have to spin your chakras three times clockwise, then strap a crystal to your third eye for you to figure things out. In fact, I think most people have a better chance of finding "enlightenment" while they are sitting stuck in a mosquito-infested jungle, in a broken canoe surrounded by crocodiles!! You don't need to escape life and sit on an embroidered pillow case in a silent cave on the top of a mountain to figure life out. I thi

[New Year, New You] Day 3: Rollercoasters, Bandwagons and Other Myths of Existence We're back for another dose of what you need most--encouragement and straight talk on what it takes to make it to the other side of overwhelm and frustration when you're setting out to make your goals and objective stick for the new year. Today is Day 3 of our New Year, New You Challenge and I'm so excited and thankful to be receiving feedback and comments from many of you already! Thank you for taking the time to share yourself and your experiences with me. I LOOOOVE it when you put comments in the blog, or send me an email! Thank you!! Yesterday we talked about the importance of facing big obstacles with small steps, and being able to acknowledge the journey. Today we're going to take that conversation just a little bit further and discuss a common idea in the area of self-help, and certainly food, diet and nutrition, and that is this idea of falling off the "bandwagon" or "slipping backward." There are some really important

Why Big Changes Take Small Steps While it's fine and dandy to have things upbeat and bubbly, because sometimes that's how life is, sometimes things suck and you feel stuck and the hard work you're trying to do and good things you were making progress with suddenly feel like they're falling apart! When that happens, it's easy to lose hope, get discouraged, frustrated with ourselves or just lost and confused along the way to making life better. I wanted to take a few minutes to address some of the tools we can use to help us get through tough moments of life. It's fair to acknowledge that fact that not everyone feels like "Little Miss Sparkle Puff of Positivity" all the time!! I thought I'd share a longer email I received from someone who was reaching out with a plea for help as one of our participants on the FREE 90-day detox I did way the heck back in 2009!! In this letter, this participant shares how she's feeling regarding her ongoing struggles in her relationship to food. This letter is completely unedited

21-Day New Year, New You Challenge] Day 1: Paint the Picture and Walk Into It Only about 8% of people who set new year's resolutions, actually stay committed and make them happen.*  And even then, only about 40% of people even make New Year's Resolutions in the first place. So if you're here, it certainly says something about how you are and how you want to live! It's easy around the first of January to feel that "fresh start" feeling, renew your hope and enthusiasm that this year will be better than the last. But routines settle in, distractions come and it gets pretty easy to fall off the enthusiastic goal-setting bandwagon and settle back into old habits. But not this year! This year we're going to stick it out and make good things happen together. All you need to do is make sure you're signed up to the 21-Day New Year, New You Challenge here. So if you were among the few who set new goals and resolutions, and perhaps even among the rarer few who dare to commit to achieving them, then this little adventure

You can access the transcript for this interview here. This interview was originally conducted by Alison Ramsay and Clare Dakin as part of our Back to the Wild series. You can access the other interviews in this series by choosing "Natural Lifestyle" at WISHRadio.com. What exactly is a woman? How do we describe the feminine principle? With over 3,000 media messages per day, the majority directed specifically at women telling us how to look, think, be, what to wear, how to make him want you more, how to be successful, slim, funny and fabulous, it’s no wonder there is a lot of confusion, convolution, frustration and depression from both sexes. For the last few centuries the feminine has fallen into the background of a masculine driven patriarchal world, devalued and even used. This has created a deep imbalance on a micro and macro level of our lives. So how can we restore this balance and accelerate the revaluing of the feminine, which we desperately need right now? Just like we can look to nature and the wild