Do you remember your very first experience with health and nutrition? Mine happened in 1988. I was a college student living in Austin, Texas, and wandered into a small grocery shop just off campus. They had a something called a “smoothie bar” where they blended THE most delicious combination of fruits and berries I’d ever tasted in my life…what a treat! I remember feeling like it was something very special and that not only did my body feel elevated by the experience, but so did my mind and spirit.

Turns out that little shop was the very first Whole Foods ( a huge mega-chain of health food stores in the states and the UK) and that “experience” I’d enjoyed was my body, mind and spirit being in perfect alignment because I’d unknowingly discovered a key factor in what I needed to be a highly functioning, holistic human…nutritious, living foods! Simple as it sounds, that experience awakened within me a higher knowing of a quality of life that was possible.

I dabbled in nutrition for years after that, from growing fresh herbs and vegetables in my garden, to trying every new detox and cleanse I could find. I dabbled in fitness, as well…running, aerobics, weight training, swimming, cycling. The one common factor I noticed no matter what nutrition, health and fitness regime I was utilizing at the time is that I always felt mentally clearer and better about myself. Life seemed to have a magic to it that it lacked when I neglected to properly care for myself .

After having my first child in 1997, I learned even more about the body/mind connection. I noticed the negative impact sugars and unhealthy foods had on my preschooler. I’d also begun to wake up to the huge limitations in modern-day medicine when my son was accidentally given two repetitive injections of the same vaccination due to poor record-keeping by a highly respected, world renowned pediatric practice.   For me, dabbling was no longer adequate.

I began to empower myself as a woman and as a parent by reading everything I could get my hands on regarding “alternative health”. I took a homeopathy course to learn how to holistically treat myself and my family. I even gave a ghastly amount of money (though, it was worth it) to a holistic health guru to teach me everything he knows about the body, mind, AND spirit! Slowly, but surely, we began the uphill climb of unplugging ourselves from the worldly system of allopathic, experimental modern-day medicine, fast-food malnutrition and the fast-track to disease.

At the time, I was moving on intuition alone. I could see where we were headed if I didn’t get more serious about taking charge of our health and our lives. Even though money didn’t seem like an unlimited resource back then, I knew that I had to make some changes in our choices. I knew within myself that if I just put the money into our bodies on the front-end through switching to healthier foods and what seemed like expensive supplements at the time, I would be saving even more on costly drugs and the grief that comes with sickness. The transition time was the toughest. 

Years later, now, I am SO grateful that I listened to that intuition. My own health, as well as my family’s, is in a much better place.   And, God knows how much money we’ve saved by not buying all those over-the-counter drugs, prescription drugs and expensive doctor visits. I’m not operating on faith alone, anymore. I know there’s a better way because we’re living it. I know that having a body, mind and spirit in perfect alignment is not only possible, but very achievable. We have a quality of life, now, that most people on this planet have yet to discover for themselves. That doesn’t mean we have perfect diets or never get any form of sickness or symptoms. We are humans living in a culture of “un”health and “mal” nutrition, and every day offers another opportunity to make right choices.  Thankfully, we’ve learned how to make more of them. And, I continue to learn daily just through tuning my mind into my body and its needs.

That brings us to you. What’s YOUR story? If you’ve read this far, you must be on an adventure of finding your own better way. So, let me ask you something…when would NOW be a good time for you to make your health and fitness dreams come true? When will you give yourself permission to say YES to you?? When are you ready to have invigorating, amazing, incredible health? 

Because it’s a universal law that what we’re attracting into our lives at any given moment is a direct reflection of what we’ve been thinking about and feeling deep within ourselves, I am absolutely certain that you’ve been thinking and feeling “healthy living” thoughts for some time.   AND, you are a tiny step away from making it a reality in your life…that’s the reason you’re reading this right now!