By definition: “Spiritual self-care is the activity we engage in to find and nurture a sense of connection to a Higher Power and meaning for our lives. … Regardless of where you find spiritual meaning, a certain amount of effort and discipline are necessary for establishing and maintaining spiritual nurturance.” Lately, I’m feeling more and more distant from my emails and Facebook and Instagram. I feel like I’ve shifted away from all the online ‘artificial life’ happening and it’s a feeling that I can’t seem to shake loose. How do you guys feel? My heart and soul are moving away from thinking that I need to be lulled into ‘digital la-la land’ or dialed into the ‘next big thing happening’ online. I don’t feel compelled to check out what everyone else is up to. I keep asking myself, “Am I enjoying this ride that is directing me on this journey to never-ending…

Ashwagandha has been helping me for over 2 months now with hormone balancing, sleeping at night, and I swear, magically, minimizing my stress levels. (Ashwagandha is also known as Indian Ginseng, Poison Gooseberry, Winter Cherry, and Padalsingh). I had done some reading and research over the past few months regarding menopause and hormone fluctuations and the side effects of going into this age of “Goddess Wisdom” (it is what I call the transformation of women into their second (magical) half of their life). There is much talk about what women go through during menopause and some of it can frighten the strongest of us. I’m grateful that due to eating plant-based foods, dairy is not in my life, so I don’t have the bovine hormones to contend with that so many other people do.  Please know, this is one of the number one culprits to wreak havoc your hormonal balance. If you are…

After a little over a 5 hour direct flight to Liberia, Costa Rica, we found our way to Budget Rent-a-Car and got our SUV rental. With the GPS and Google Maps turned on our cell phone, we started our drive to the sleepy surf town called, Nosara. It’s about two hours to get to Nosara from Liberia and the drive takes you through some small towns (some with asphalt, some without), scattered farms, tico’s homes, little sodas (local restaurants) and the most prevalent event of the whole drive is the famous dirt roads. …Complete with bumps, holes, and more bumps and more potholes and when I say dirt roads, I mean “DIRT ROADS” and in the high season (from November until the beginning of May), it is very dry with no rain and that makes even more dirt (and yes, it is airborne and dirt is all over the trees, leaves, cars,…

Officially I’m now into my 50’s and feeling some trepidation about it and yet, I’m going to try to allow myself to feel it and do my best to ‘become’ it. There’s no point in fighting it, denying aging or trying to reverse the process of evolving into “middle-age” as it’s here to stay –  I may as well become comfortable with it. Each and every one of us has to deal with growing older every second, every minute, every day too so why not honour this delectable passage and privileged entrance into wisdom and grace and emerge as the butterfly we are meant to be. Every time I look in the mirror I look back at myself and it is tainted, in a slight way, of disbelief, “how did it happen so fast?” Then on to the bigger looming questions, “What have I done to change the world? And,…