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What should be the happiest time of the year, is for many one of the most stressful.  We often give ourselves permission to overindulge and binge. We give into sugar cravings and our borderline bad habits. We don’t eat right, don’t get enough sleep and end up feeling anything but cheery! According to the American Psychological Association, this is more the norm than many of us care to admit. They say that during the holidays, people tend to experience heightened emotions, many feel overcome by loneliness and that intensifies our ability to deal with what would otherwise just be an annoyance. The APA also found that nearly half of all women in the US experience heightened stress during the holidays and that 41% use food and 28% use alcohol, to deal with that stress. While we may all feel the need to binge on an extra bag of cookies or share a drink to bring in the holiday cheer, there are many ways to keep a sense of peach and limit our emotions from spiking and diving to new d

  As we embark on a new season, we expect change, even if we don’t actually welcome it. The one thing that we need to understand, is that change is inevitable, whether we are willing to ride the tide or we try to stand our ground and risk getting knocked from our perch. When we are open to change, we learn to welcome the shift, to embrace change, as it is helps us to shed what is no longer serving us and then there is room to bring in wonderful new relationships and opportunities. We have just witnessed the fiery full moon in Aries, and you may have noticed that it brought you face to face with some tough energies and decisions. Did you feel the wave? It might have tested your beliefs and the very foundation of your support system. So, it is actually the perfect time to reflect on your foundations and the rituals that you have in place to help you get through changing tides. It's time to get real about that fact that many of us are trying to get by while feeling j

We all have them. Some are healthy, some not so much. Some are ingrained in to us so much that we don’t even know that we are doing them, while others are still in the formation stage. Some we learned from our parents or that we developed because we needed to make changes in our lives. You probably don’t even realize how many things you do unconsciously everyday that may be affecting our effectiveness at work or our ability to focus. Our bodies love ritual. Without looking at the clock, we know that it is lunch or supper time. If you go to bed at the same time every night, your body just knows when it is time… same with waking up in the morning.   When we do things over and over again, we become accustomed to it and it becomes part of our daily routine. When we are aware of our rituals, we can identify habits and lifestyle markers that may be affecting the quality of our day to day life. I have personally developed some purposeful rituals to help me to deal with stresse