Category: Cleansing

  • 5 Questions to Ask Before You Begin a Cleanse or Detox

    5 Questions to Ask Before You Begin a Cleanse or Detox

    5 Questions to Ask Before You Begin a Cleanse or Detox I believe that a whole-foods short-term cleanse can be a hugely beneficial way to support your body, mood and mind. But I also believe that many people enter a cleanse when they shouldn’t and their results and experience reflect that. Here are 5 questions…

  • Shift into Spring #5 – De-clutter

    Shift into Spring #5 – De-clutter

    Shift into Spring #5 – De-clutter Today brings our final Shift into Spring tip.  Now let’s focus on how critical our home environment is to our cleansing experience. This shift has major-momentum-building power because outer clutter creates inner clutter … and inner clutter stops us in our tracks every time. I want you to think…

  • Shift into Spring #4 – Move

    Shift into Spring #4 – Move

    Shift into Spring #4 – Move How are you feeling?  Lighter, calmer? Let’s keep it going! Our 4th shift in this series is about creating spaciousness in our body. As the weather makes its transition into warmer and longer days, it’s really the perfect time to get outside and take a daily walk. What if…

  • Shift into Spring #3 – Detox

    Shift into Spring #3 – Detox

    Shift into Spring #3 – Detox How was yesterday’s shift for you?  Today, we’ll keep up with this week’s shifts (water and greens) and add another layer of detox for our skin. Your skin is not only the largest organ of your nervous system, but also a critical organ for detoxification. You can capitalize on this…

  • Shift Into Spring #2 – Greens

    Shift Into Spring #2 – Greens

    Shift Into Spring #2 – Greens Today, with Shift #2, we’ll be cleansing from the inside out with greens. Leafy greens are powerful cleansers in two ways. They’re a dense nutritional source of chlorophyll, and they contain fiber. Here’s the key to success with today’s shift – do NOT worry about what the rest of…

  • Essential Foods for a Spring Cleanse

    Essential Foods for a Spring Cleanse

    Essential Foods for a Spring Cleanse Can you just feel the energy of springtime?  Spring is really nature’s New Year and everything about the season supports us shedding off the old and bringing in the new.  There is a freshness, vitality and renewed desire to make positive changes in our life that mirror the bloom…

  • Busting the Pottery Barn Myth

    Of all my programs, the one I have the hardest time talking about from the heart is my upcoming Cleanse Your Life program. Whenever the time comes to open it up for the group live run I feel like I have a pebble in my shoe… or maybe it is more like a ‘walking on…

  • 4 Questions to Ask Before You Begin a Cleanse or Detox

    4 Questions to Ask Before You Begin a Cleanse or Detox

    4 Questions to Ask Before You Begin a Cleanse or Detox In my cleansing course, I outline 10 different types of cleansing. They are on a spectrum ranging from least restrictive to most cleansing. It is important to have options as you decide on what cleanse is right for you because there is simply no…

  • Could cleansing help with fatigue and “hard to lose” weight?

    There are a lot of gimmicky promises about quick weight loss gains from cleansing and detox programs out there.  It feels like every women’s magazine has multiple glossy ads advocating a simple pill, supplement or bottled juice cleanse touting hard to believe before and after pics of women as testimonials. I can understand why it…

  • 3 Biggest Mistakes Women Make when they Cleanse and Detox

    Spring is literally around the corner, but the weather in my backyard feels like it is already here.  This is one of my favorite seasons…in so many ways it is nature’s new year and a much more fitting time to get revived and make a fresh start than January, don’t you think? One of the…