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leishas birthday!

Leisha's birthday came before I left for Detroit to shoot Vamps so we had some nice quality time before I took off! Six of us went to Elf Cafe for dinner which was so good . We had such a nice dinner at one of our favorite places in LA.

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Yum Elf!

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Waitress at Elf

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Waiter at Elf

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 Waiter and Chef at Elf - the staff all own the restaurant together!

Elf is run and owned by the nicest grooviest people....so sweet and beautiful with such kind energy. It has the best vibe in LA! You can bring your ...

our social activities of late...

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I'm sharing our last few social dates with you because they all included guess what? Food!

Christopher and I spent the 4th of July with Leisha and Nina. We saw a movie and brought our own popcorn! We had a mellow day and it was very nice. To be honest I don't like the 4th of July very much - the fireworks bum me out they're noisy I worry for the animals and they don't seem very Earth conscious...seems wasteful and silly to me and not very pretty...I guess I'm a scrooge!. So we had fun ...

taras EXCITING recovery!

 

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Kind Lifer Tara recently shared her success story about overcoming UC ulcerative colitis and how she has almost eliminated her need for medication. Real food  is the medicine that our bodies need! Check out Tara's story:
 
"I have had UC ulcerative colitis for 6-7 years. My last flare up just happened to coincide with going vegetarian. At the time a lot of people thought that the two were related although I felt it was all stress related. My doctor agreed that the stress was probably the...

surprise birthday visit and meal for my mom!

June 6th was my mom's birthday so Christopher and I drove to see her for a surprise visit and birthday meal! I did all of the cooking and we had a great time hanging out with my parents and their dogs.

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My cheesecake from The Kind Diet...yum! My mom loves cheesecake and she actually loved this one too! She is a tough critic when it comes to tea and dessert

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My mom had made the Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups from my book and had a huge stash in her fridge that she makes without the...

my amazing friend tevia

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Photo Credit: Shawn Laksmi

Tevia Celli-Recht is an amazing human being. She is also the very best spin instructor I've ever had. If you are in LA you MUST run now and take one of her classes at Updog Cycling and Yoga on Santa Monica Blvd. in West Hollywood....and she has her own over-the-top delicious vegan baking company The Lil' Vegan Baker That Could. Connect to the previous blogs about her here and here.

Tevia is an insane athlete who also has MS multiple sclerosis. She manages her MS...

mary cordaro the healthy home guru

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Mary Cordaro is a healthy home guru and can cure "sick building syndrome" or "sick home".

She focuses on creating a healthy green  workplace and home using the fields of Bau-Biologie Bau-Biologie translates as "building biology" a discipline from Germany dedicated to improving how our homes impact our lives and the living environment and Building Science with very low consumption so that you are truly living an ecological lifestyle indoors.  

It all started in 1989 for Mary when she was...

mommy & me yoga...guest blog by my friend desi bartlett

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Mommy & Me Yoga
By Desi Bartlett

Like many traditions Yoga is handed down from one generation to the next and is often shared within families. In my own family my mother was a dedicated Yogini. My mother's guru teacher was Goswami Kriyananda the founder of the Temple of Krya Yoga in Chicago. I can remember going to initiation as a little girl and receiving my first mantra sacred syllable when I was six years old. I learned pranayama work with the breath and meditation when I was very young...

no right now...guest blog by my friend Suzannah Scully

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A while ago I posted a couple of newsletters that my childhood friend Suzannah Scully wrote you can see those ones here and here. I wanted to share another one of Suzannah's newsletters that I liked.  Take a look:

No right now
By Suzannah Scully

This weekend I was talking to a dear friend and she asked me what the biggest roadblock my clients have and I said that it is fear of failure/rejection. I talked about how I see people killing ideas and dreams before they even try because they are...

an ecosystem notebook giveaway!!

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I like to journal and some of my favorite journals are from Ecosystem. I know I've mentioned Ecosystem Notebooks before and how much I like them...but in case you don't know about them here is some info:

These notebooks are cool for many reasons – every part of each notebook is made out of 100 post-consumer recycled paper and they have instructions on their website for how to recycle your notebook when you are done using it. All ecosystem notebooks come from different areas around the US and ...

Essential Formulas Incorporated Presents Dr. Ohhira's Essential Living Oils - Sponsored Post

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A family-owned and operated business EFI pledges to provide the highest quality natural supplements and skin care products available. This mission is proven in Dr. Ohhira's Essential Living Oils an exceptional vegan alternative to traditional fish oils.

We all need Essential Fatty Acids EFAs to live but our bodies are unable to manufacture them. EFAs play a role in many crucial functions including:

Building hormones
Assuring sound cell membranes- to let the nutrients in and the toxins out