by TAadministrator | Sep 6, 2016 | Brain, Habits, Vision
I am a traveler. Maybe as a result of my parents getting me on planes, trains, camels, boats & funiculars in my childhood or my innate love of exploring people & places. I thrive on change, energy, differences, new. As an entrepreneur & divorced mother of...
by TAadministrator | Aug 31, 2016 | Brain, Habits, Mindset
When I was 16, I told my mother I was not going to do my Physics GSCE (British State exams), because I knew that I did not have a good enough grasp on the subject to get an A. She persuaded me by saying – people will want to know how many you got, not the individual...
by TAadministrator | Aug 24, 2016 | Mindfulness, Mindset
When you start to commit to a new path: a new way of interacting with your time, with your food, with your body, it’s hard. Willpower is a muscle that fatigues – which is why dieting is usually such a disaster, because it gets boring and tough and restrictive and...
by TAadministrator | Aug 16, 2016 | Ayurveda, Habits, Mindset
I have been heavily steeped in the back-to-school energy all my life, going from school, to college, to graduate school, to a post-doctoral fellowship, to motherhood. There is something very cleansing and energizing as the weather starts to shift, the back to school...
by TAadministrator | Aug 10, 2016 | Mindfulness, Mindset
I just spent 10 days in the South of France. I have been going to France all my life as many Brits do – but it’s just a bit more of a trek to organize it now, since I live in the US. My brother and his family left a few days before me & I was surprised that my Dad...
by TAadministrator | Aug 2, 2016 | Mindfulness, Mindset, Vision
I am on vacation with my family and there are a lot of dishes for 10 people, 3 meals a day. What’s struck me these last few days is how I keep doing the dishes – I actively enjoy the process. This is a major evolution for me, because I used to HATE doing the dishes....
by TAadministrator | Jul 27, 2016 | Brain, Habits, Mindfulness, Vision
Every day there are moments which can push you into the negative. Small things like why do I always get a shaving rash? Big things like how overwhelmed with sadness I felt when I my ex-husband dropped off the kids for me to take to Europe and, I realized that my kids...
by TAadministrator | Jul 20, 2016 | Mindfulness, Mindset, Vision
Recently I was filling out documents which required me to list emergency contacts. So, I sat back to think about it: I can put my dad’s cellphone on the list, but he lives two flights away from me, so can’t turn up at the ER or collect my kids from school if I am...
by TAadministrator | Jul 12, 2016 | Brain, Mindset, Vision
Sometimes things in life need a new perspective and then it will all seem better. This weekend I was working through a lot of emotions around the state of the world (Brexit, Black lives matter, Orlando, Dallas, US & UK politics), around an irritating child-care...
by TAadministrator | Jul 6, 2016 | Habits, Mindfulness, Mindset
I frequently post about food – how much, what, when etc and if you follow me on Instagram or FB, you’ll see that a lot of my posts are about how to make healthy, easy, plant-based meals. And what you eat is really where it’s at in terms of your long term physical...
