Scrambled Eggs, Chard, and Chia

Ingredients:

4 Organic, Cage Free Eggs

1/2 cup original almond milk

1 large swiss chard leaf, torn into tiny pieces

Watkins onion garlic pepper (or use garlic pepper)

In a medium sized skillet, heat pan over medium heat. In a bowl mix together all ingredients. Add to skillet and using a spatula constantly mix until cooked completely. 

Cook - Inspirational Words for YOU

Autumn Leaves

The leaves are just beginning to turn.
Autumn came so very quickly this year. It's the time of year when the sun still has a soothing warmth on your skin, but often the breeze brings a refreshing crispness to it that whispers of the coming winter.
Fall is many things in my heart. It is a time of remembrance of the previous year, sometimes of events and challenges, but mainly just looking back at the always flying summer.It also feels like a time when my body wants to take a deep breath and rest. I am drawn to take long walks and absorb as much connection with nature as I can, as if, soaking up the sun today will last tomorrow, next month, then the winter.
It is a time of celebration of my life with my amazing husband, this year, we reach the awesome land mark of ten years.
But most of all, it is a time I feel transition the strongest. In my reflection over this past 9 months, I have had so much transition in my life. First, leaving Tolin (my final corporate accounting job) after 11 (nearly 12) long years. Then, walking into an industry that is brand new to me, but one I am so deeply passionate about. I have spent the rest of the year building my life long dream of having a happy and fulfilling career as a health coach and owner of an integrative health center. It has been extremely challenging for me, as well as for my husband. What amazing changes and challenges; from learning how to balance work and life, to learning to create new functional processes within the center. I've challenged myself on practically every level of my existence and from this I have grown as an individual immensely. I have begun to create plans for the future of my center, and my health coaching business. It's empowering to think I can not only think outside the box, but act upon it, when ever I wish.
Part of my most recent experiments are with time balancing, include walking away from my computer and engaging in my own life - creating solid boundaries with work and life. This is one of the main reasons I wanted to work for myself for so many years. With this engagement comes amazing amounts of time with my family. Time I've never had before, but time I feel like every mother earns and should take. What a gift that comes from taking risks and trying new things!

Plugging Into Fall and to Self

This morning, after dropping little Dom off for school, I visited that park I told you about. This time I walked further and listened to my WISH SUMMIT audio for the day. I notice that when I do this, I half listen and half think.

Today my thoughts are on the challenges I have in life right now and how to shift my energy to the positive. I have done so much studying about attracting abundance, about shifting thoughts and setting intentions. I'm finding that this can be challenging when the poop hits home. My spirit is dowsed with a heaviness I cannot describe. It affects every corner of my being and existence. How does a business owner, teacher, guide, friend, and mom lift herself so she can be the cornerstone for others?

I know the answer and found it today in my walk, listening. I understand that I need to change my vibrational frequency to be higher so that I can attract similar frequencies. (if I'm speaking Greek, read Wayne Dyer's The Power of Intention, Ronda Byrne's The Secret, or any of Echart Tolle's books.) So, I began to change my thoughts to those of what I loved about that moment.

Looking around, there is SO much for me to love at this park....

The landscaping is so easy for me to look at. It's very natural feeling and includes wide open rolling grass, small water falls, natural grasses, cattails, lovely trees, and this day the sun is shining. I love the feeling I have when I am here. It feels homey, and comfortable - yet open and natural like the land I live on. I really love it here.

Already, my energy shifts. I begin to think about possibilities of maybe someday living in this neighborhood and raising my son in an area with other children, yet having access to the open plains and country side I love so much. I think of being close to Barr Lake, and of being able to stay in the same area, which brings a sense of stability and safety with it. I begin to think of how much time Jim and I would save by not commuting so far. I think of my cats and how I would I would fight to keep them, although I'm sure it's against the covenants, but they are old and we are the only family they've ever known and I made a promise. I think of how I could teach cooking classes and smoothie making classes at the local recreation center. I think and I think. 

This is why I love walking. It's my time for me - to realign, to focus on what matters, to breathe fresh air and feel the blood pumping through my body. I feel free and limitless when I shift my energy like this and I feel empowered to take action. 

Today, I walked 1 and 1/2 miles

Upgrade Madness

One of the greatest things about no longer dieting is that I can still enjoy all of my favorite foods. When I am being really careful about what I decide will go into my body, I upgrade in every instance.

You can apply this too! It's easy!

Take whatever you are seeking and upgrade! If you like to bake, use organic whole forms of foods, switch out whole organic sweeteners like honey, sucanat, turbinado, or molasses for refined white flour, use organic wheat flour or another cool grain flour in place of refined white flour. How about organic cage free eggs in place of regular mass cruelty produced eggs? So many changes will result in a full home made taste in your baked goods! Hmmm, just like Mom made!

Another way to upgrade is to check your labels for organic whole foods instead of chemicals. You can still have a pot pie, just choose Amy's. You can still eat frozen pizza, or better, go get a Whole Foods multi grain pizza dough and create your own pizza pie!

Want Ice Cream? Boulder has a local company that uses all natural amazing ingredients! No HFCS in that box!

To challenge yourself, take your favorite recipe and upgrade in as many spaces as you can think. Feel free to share your experience here!

Most importantly - HAVE FUN! Food should be nourishing both for your body and for your mind!