The Freedom Promise Blog
Spring Into Summer
As we ease into the seasonal change, shedding layers, turning our faces to the sun, I hope you are making time for both adventure and relaxation. Relaxation allows healing and healthy inner transformation to evolve. As we transition from the dense root vegetables and...
Food Swings, Mood Swings
Food should not only be valued for its nutrition but for the experience it gives us, and the energy it creates in our bodies. If “you are what you eat”, and food impacts our bodies on a cellular level, consider how it may impact our relationship to life. While you are...
How Nourishing Is Your Relationship With Food?
If relationships nourish us, what does your relationship with food say about how nourished you truly are? For so many of us our relationship with food and our bodies has a lot of drama. That drama brings with it shame about our desire to eat. We have become proficient...
Sweet tooth, Sour truth.
The verdict is in – it’s sugar, not fat, that is guilty of causing heart attacks. For more than 50 years we have been told that the cholesterol in eggs and other sources of dietary fat were to blame for the triggers of inflammation we know is at the “heart” of...
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
A month into this New Year and I am both amazed and dis-heartened by the amount and intensity of media coverage and the rush of new diets that promise instant results if only we work out harder, restrict certain food groups and learn to cook like celebrity chefs. Pick...
Afraid of What Food Will Do TO You?
I knew something had to change when I realized that I had trouble balancing a monthly budget but if you asked me how many calories I had consumed on a given day I would answer without much hesitation. As numerically challenged as I am, when it came to my diet I was a...