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5 Reasons Why You Can

I’ve struggled almost my whole life with food. During my late teens I was obsessed with dieting and calorie-counting, which turned into compulsive eating and a powerful addiction to sugary, fatty foods in my 20’s and 30’s – even though I had both a medical degree AND a degree in Dietetics (Human Nutrition). Obviously, having scientific knowledge about food and health isn’t enough to help someone control their uncontrollable behaviour around food – you need to understand the real roots of...

What moves you? You need to move towards it

As you may or may not know, I lived in Mexico for four years (2004-2008) and had my own flamenco dance company in Los Cabos (aka “Cabo”). When I was there I did all kinds of different things in addition to dancing in order to fund my dream life down south, including starting a personal coaching practice and writing for local magazines and newspapers. I wrote a wellness column for a magazine called Destino, and this year when the publisher saw that my book, Live a Life You Love, had come...

Need to save money? Identify your passions and choose happiness

I had an amazing session with a coaching client last night. When we started working together over a year ago, she was extremely frustrated with her job and bored with her life, and today she's on the verge of a totally new adventure.

As a result of our work together she has sorted out her work situation, and to her amazement will be receiving a scholarship that will enable her to take time off to study overseas, a dream she has had for decades. I was so delighted by all the news she...

Why you can

The other day I went to my weekly private flamenco class with one of my favorite flamenco teachers, at the tiny little flamenco studio in his house. Per my usual routine, I walked in the unlocked door, yelled out “Hola!”, took off my street shoes and put on my beloved tattered red rehearsal shoes.

Next, I called out again to my teacher, who was still behind the doors of his office: “Do you want some water?”

He did, so I headed over to his charming little kitchen to get us each a gla...

Turn off fear and anxiety, take control of your life

Dr. Eva Selhub, MD and I have decided that we must be sisters or at the very least distant cousins - not only do we look alike, but we have incredibly similar life stories. Both of us, at the age of 28, were in medical residency programs that we hated. In fact, we both experienced anxiety attacks and intense fear while under the severe stress of medical training.

Thankfully, we both managed to save our personal and professional lives by charting a new course in life: I became a wellness ...

Want a huge payoff? Value yourself

I just passed through the kitchen while my husband was talking on the phone to a friend of ours. She's a highly qualified professional (a psychologist, actually) with decades of experience giving talks to audiences of all sizes, yet as a single mother with two children she struggles to make ends meet.

Speaking is her passion and she spends more time on it than she does with clients in her office practice. Audiences rave about her work and she has so many community speaking invitations that s...

Have You Questioned Your Life Lately?

I had a wake-up call this week. Not the worst kind, like a critical illness or death, but a shake-up wake-up nonetheless. I'm in the middle of a busy book tour (my book, Live a Life You Love , came out in March), but the events of last week suddenly froze time. It felt like when your heart skips a beat, pauses for a scary moment that you breathlessly feel all the way up into your neck, then heaves back into action with a huge thud against your chest wall.
My husband, who is Mexican...

5 Ways to Rediscover the Real You

After I gave a workshop based on my book, Life a Life You Love: 7 Steps to a Healthier, Happier, More Passionate You, a participant sent me this anonymous comment, in response to the first step in the workshop, "Allow Yourself to be You":



"I would love to learn how to allow myself to be myself - but what does that mean and how do you do this?"

You'd be surprised how often people ask me this, often with tears in their eyes. Our culture doesn't encourage us to be ourselves. Quite the...

Cure Your Life Through Creativity

When you were a child, what did you love to do most?  What were you going to be, when you grew up?  These are always the first questions I ask, when I give my workshop based on the steps of my book, Live a Life You Love: 7 Steps to a Healthier, Happier, More Passionate You (hint: Step One is “Allow Yourself to be You” – the real you, not the you that the world expects you to be).   This weekend when I gave the workshop at a women’s event, one participant remembered – with some surprise ...

Busy & Stressed? 5 Food Tips for Maximal Brain Performance

Nutrition fascinates me - I've been studying it for over twenty years and have a university degree in Dietetics. These days I'm particularly interested in the secrets of high-performance eating; the busier and bigger my life gets, the more I need to be on the ball. Food is an essential part of my success strategy. Put another way: if I didn't know how to eat right for my brain, I'd be a mess.

 Here are some of my top tips:

1) Eat breakfast

Kids and college students who eat...