You, Empowered
Body. Mind. Spirit.Blessing or curse? What I wish I’d known about discomfort
Discomfort is a blessing in disguise. Improve your happiness, stress levels and quality of life by making friends with discomfort.
Holiday Health: 3 Lifelines to combat weight gain, stress and low energy
Three lifelines to help you avoid weight gain, stay healthy, and feel less stressed during the holiday season.
Are you annoying yourself?
Has the pandemic-that-won’t-end got you down? Tired of feeling annoyed with situations that don’t go your way, or people that do things you don’t like? Today’s post is for you!
Food Timing MATTERS.
Food choices are deeply important, yes. Also important is food TIMING. When we eat can affect our health, weight and energy. Let's explore.
4 Life-Changing Weeks PLUS Cajun Cod Recipe
Don't miss out on this easy and delicious Cajun Cod recipe. PLUS, only days remaining to get registered for 4 life-changing weeks!
Rejuvenate your health and feel good
How does food affect our health? Why is experience such a powerful motivator? What can you do to rejuvenate your health? All this and more.
Natural Approaches to Navigating Seasonal Allergies
Spring allergies can make us feel lousy, even hampering our productivity. Here’s how to navigate the pollen influx.
Get started with food planning. Easy and game-changing!
When we’re in a rush, all our good intentions around health-building food can fly out the window. Take back your health with intentional food planning!
Intermittent fasting is powerful. Program registration open!
Spring has sprung, and your body is calling for help. Will you answer the call?
Power up your mind to stay savvy and sharp!
Serving up a cornucopia of programming, ideas and tactics to empower your health journey. Weight loss and stronger mind, anyone?
How to master your genes and enjoy better health
Many of us think of our genes as destiny. The truth is much more juicy than that, and places us in the driver’s seat of our health.
Get happy and healthy with peanut butter cookies
A do-able healthy food lifestyle, like the Food Sass® Lifestyle, means that we get to enjoy dessert. Sometimes a dessert that's actually GOOD for us!
Blessing or curse? What I wish I’d known about discomfort
Discomfort is a blessing in disguise. Improve your happiness, stress levels and quality of life by making friends with discomfort.
Holiday Health: 3 Lifelines to combat weight gain, stress and low energy
Three lifelines to help you avoid weight gain, stay healthy, and feel less stressed during the holiday season.
Are you annoying yourself?
Has the pandemic-that-won’t-end got you down? Tired of feeling annoyed with situations that don’t go your way, or people that do things you don’t like? Today’s post is for you!
Food Timing MATTERS.
Food choices are deeply important, yes. Also important is food TIMING. When we eat can affect our health, weight and energy. Let's explore.
4 Life-Changing Weeks PLUS Cajun Cod Recipe
Don't miss out on this easy and delicious Cajun Cod recipe. PLUS, only days remaining to get registered for 4 life-changing weeks!
Rejuvenate your health and feel good
How does food affect our health? Why is experience such a powerful motivator? What can you do to rejuvenate your health? All this and more.
Reclaim your health with a powerful reset
The Body Sass® Cleanse Group Program is at your service! Learn more how this powerful program can help you reclaim your health.
Debunking acid reflux to restore health
Why so many folks have acid reflux, why stomach acid is important and why anti-acid medications can be dangerous. (Part 3 of a 3-part series on the benefits of acid)
How APPLE CIDER VINEGAR promotes health
What can support weight loss, promote healthy digestion, balance blood sugar and more? Read on! (Part 2 of a 3-part series on the benefits of acid)
Acid for optimal health. Let’s talk LEMONS.
Heard about the benefits of lemon water, and wondering what all the fuss is about? Read on! (Part 1 of a 3-part series on the benefits of acid)
One word creates a powerful mindset shift
Discover one powerful word swap that shifts our mind from beleaguered to empowered, and our days from a grind to a joy.
Lentil loaf recipe that is Comfort Food Sass®
Enjoy comfort food that builds health with this lentil loaf recipe that boasts flavor, texture and nutrients.
Natural Approaches to Navigating Seasonal Allergies
Spring allergies can make us feel lousy, even hampering our productivity. Here’s how to navigate the pollen influx.
Get started with food planning. Easy and game-changing!
When we’re in a rush, all our good intentions around health-building food can fly out the window. Take back your health with intentional food planning!
Intermittent fasting is powerful. Program registration open!
Spring has sprung, and your body is calling for help. Will you answer the call?
Power up your mind to stay savvy and sharp!
Serving up a cornucopia of programming, ideas and tactics to empower your health journey. Weight loss and stronger mind, anyone?
How to master your genes and enjoy better health
Many of us think of our genes as destiny. The truth is much more juicy than that, and places us in the driver’s seat of our health.
Get happy and healthy with peanut butter cookies
A do-able healthy food lifestyle, like the Food Sass® Lifestyle, means that we get to enjoy dessert. Sometimes a dessert that's actually GOOD for us!
Top 5 Simple Ways to Minimize the Pandemic Blues
Are all the days running together? Feeling like Bill Murray’s character in Groundhog Day? Bring variety back into your pandemic life experience.
New opportunities, at every turn
I invite you to check out some high-fives, exciting news, and election reflections on inauguration day.
New Year 2021, and 2020 in the Rear-View Mirror
Boy oh boy, are we ready for the NEW YEAR. Some thoughts and reflections.
Thanksgiving, Pandemic-style
It’s November of 2020 and folks in the US of A are teeing up some form of Thanksgiving celebrations, amidst this pandemic Wild World experience. Some thoughts for whole-person health.
Healthy, tasty and quick. Breakfast is served!
Let’s talk about health, immunity….and breakfast.
You are INVITED! Exciting. Move over, COVID.
Loads of information for your physical, mental and emotional health. Tiny monetary investment. What’s not to love about that?
U.S. Election Eve. Some thoughts.
We the People agree about much more than we disagree about. Feeling stressed about the U.S. election? Read on.
Sometimes the simple approach is the most powerful.
I was teaching an on-line class for a corporate client last week and one of the questions during our Q&A was about mindfulness. The subject of mindfulness has come up a lot with my 1:1 clients this year, as well. It makes sense that there is interest and...
How to feel better in COVID America
The COVID pandemic, and all that it entails, is wearing on us all. Some thoughts on how you can improve your mind space, while improving the environment that we’re all living in.
What creates belly fat, anyways?
Why does belly fat happen? What can we do about it? Open for some eye-opening intel and a fabulous (related, time-sensitive) opportunity.
Feel better, in so many ways
Serving up some support for your body, mind and spirit. Help is on the way.
No better time for YOUR self-care
Self-care is always important. In our present-day environment it becomes even more important. Get started with these simple tips.
21-Day Detox Program OPEN for Registration
Two fall health group (virtual) programs are open for registration. Lose body fat, gain energy and re-set your body to VIBRANT!
Chock full of opportunity and GREAT news
Big program news! Ready for a health and weight re-set? If you're ready for recalibration, weight loss, energy increase, and improving your relationship to food, this post is for YOU!
Feel Good During Chaotic Times With This Valuable Tool
Everyday life can feel challenging. Our current environment is even more so, for many. There's an easy, simple, FREE tool that delivers BIG to help us feel good in our Wild World.
Are you protecting your most important investment?
There's a LOT going on right now in our Wild World. Open up to uncover 5 things you can do right now to support your well-being during these challenging, unprecedented times.
The Perils of Indifference
Black lives matter. Indifference is not a beginning; it is an end, and always benefits the aggressor, never the victim. Together we stand in solidarity.
Four Fabulous and Inspiring Friday Nuggets
Love this recent cover article in Inspired Health Magazine! Plus a delish recipe for shrimp—always a popular warm-weather food—that you can munch on whilst you read said article
28toGreat™ Registration ends 5/13 at noon + Mind Savvy®
Mind Savvy® is all about using our mind as the bridge to health and joy, instead of the barrier. Today's post offers you an opportunity to support better health and one to support more joy, both by changing your mind.
Discover an easy and powerful new program.
This 28-day program will provide you with a powerful re-set, yes. It will support your immunity during these Wild World times. It also has an eye on a New Normal—day 29 and beyond—of sustainable health improvement and weight loss. Ready?
Growth and comfort do not coexist
We are navigating challenging times, in widely varying degrees. History has shown that growth and comfort don't coexist. What is asking for evolution?
Amazing, time-sensitive, opportunity for your IMMUNITY
Interested in a special Spring 21-Day program to support your immunity while you lose weight, gain energy, and provide your body with a timely re-set? Only a few days to respond!
You are INVITED to a special community
We humans can be off-the-charts amazing. Especially when we band together in the name of community and support. Will you join me?
Special Edition: Get Smart on COVID-19 and Your Health
Two months into our attention on COVID-19, a strain of coronavirus, it's been named a pandemic. How can you stay well, and what are the answers to some of the big questions?
Sleep Your Way to Vibrant Health
Learn the 3 most important things to improve your sleep quality, and why sleep is important. Immunity is one reason?important in avoiding getting sick.
Avocado: 5 ways to save money and time
Avocados are portable, delicious, and health-building. Let's get clear on how to masterfully navigate their speedy ripening and storage challenges.
coronavirus: The Best Defense is a Good Offense
Let's move beyond the fearmongering and hype, and get real about the coronavirus.
The Cleanse. Book fun. And something SK-INteresting.
Body Sass? Cleanse Group Program registration...closes today at noon! Plus two fun book events and some important info on your largest organ. Read on...
Infuse your holiday with health, joy and peace.
December 24th! This 3.5-minute read will support you with JOY, finding your Body Sass?, enjoying long car rides, and music choices. A holiday cornucopia!
Re-set your body and feel better in January.
Does your body need a re-set? If you're ready for recalibration, weight loss, energy increase, and improving your relationship to food, this post is for YOU!
Feeling SAD? Proactive Care for Seasonal Affective Disorder
Have you had seasonal effective disorder in the past? Or have you felt blue in the winter and not understood why? This post is for you. SAD Be-Gone!
Thanksgiving crowd-pleasin’ vegetable side dishes
This Thanksgiving, why not bring in some new Food Sass? side dishes to wow your crowd? Delicious and nutritious, these five recipes will bring a whole new flair to the sometimes same-ole, same-ole of the Thanksgiving meal.
Balance. You Can Feel More Happy and Productive.
Self-care is an essential pillar in our foundation of well-being. What is self-care? What's the self-care paradox? What are YOUR self-care non-negotiables? (And what on earth is a "non-negotiable?")
A WOW Night to Remember. And Mental Health.
With last week being Mental Health Week and October being Emotional Intelligence month, let's focus on YOUR emotional and mental well-being!
A Book Is Born.
Today is launch day for my new book Wild World, Joyful Heart. This book is for YOU and you can find it wherever books are sold!
How to Sneak Food Sass into a Football Party
Love your football friends? Feed them delicious food on game day that also helps them stay healthy. Chips and chili. What's not to love about that?
3 Often-Missed Truths That Support Vibrant Health
The quick-fixes that are discussed in everyday cultural vernacular are not our path to well-being. So what is? Learn the 3 often-missed truths that are foundational to health and joy.
9 Ways to Minimize Stress and Anxiety in Kids
It's back-to-school season and our kids sometimes struggle with increased stress and anxiety around the upcoming school year. How can we help?
Unlock Your Power to Create Health and Joy
A guidebook. A philosophy. A rally cry. A joyful heart in a wild world will be yours for the taking on October 8. Get ready to rock your body, mind, spirit evolution!
Boost Your Vegetable Intake With This Powerful Secret
Vegetables are Food Sass royalty, bursting with health-promoting goodness. How do we get more into us without much fuss? Become a Vegetable Smoothie Ninja!
Eat Healthy in Minimal Time for a Sensational Summer
You can, indeed, eat for health without spending hours of your summer days in the kitchen. Here I share my Twenty That Make Twenty and Plenty mojo for eating healthy with minimal prep time to make yours a sensational summer.
Your Survival Guide to Prevent Summertime Parenting Meltdown
Statistically, working parents report that summer is their most stressful season. It doesn't have to be this way! No summertime parenting meltdown for you - your survival guide is here.
Prevent Stress and Burnout with Blissful Digital Detox
It's time for a digital detox. This important health habit helps to prevent stress and burnout by giving us a much-needed break from the constant attention demands of our technology devices. Learn all about the bliss of a digital detox!
You can choose what’s good
So much of our life experience boils down to choice. This includes how we experience others - will we choose to see their ugliness or their beauty?
How many calories per day to lose weight?
Calories are an important consideration in weight loss and body composition, but are they THE consideration?
Give emotional eating the boot
Emotional eating does not mean that you're weak, flawed, or lame. It simply means that you've adopted a routine that's ineffective for your health goals. Let's explore how that happens, and a first step to change it.
Spring is here. Bring on the GREEN.
We often crave different foods, in relation to season. Spring is here, and there's an amazing salad experience calling your name. Will you answer?
A simple practice with big results
What is generosity? How does it benefit you, others, and our planet? Generosity is a more powerful practice than you might imagine. Let's explore.
Eating out vs. your health: find the sweet spot
When we're intentionally working to create health, eating out can seem daunting - impossible, even. Here are 5 tips that can help you navigate eating out.
It’s not just about resting
Sleep is scrumptious. We love the feeling of being well-rested, and often seek to "catch up" on sleep when we've been neglecting it. Catching up on sleep is a fallacy - let's talk about why.
This may be the missing factor in your health picture
Eating in a way that both fuels our body and delights our taste buds is an important aspect of both good health and a healthy relationship with food. But there's another important aspect to food and health that many of us overlook.
Success and balance
There are many aspects to success, and creating success is a popular and much-debated topic. And there are many ways that we individually define the word "success." What often isn't discussed is the glue that holds success together: balance.
Here’s where traction happens
A nutrient-dense breakfast is a great way to boost your health experience. But how to fit it into your morning? And what to eat? And how to make it stick? I've got you covered...
New Year, napping, and intentions
Yes, in truth the earth has just completed another revolution on its axis - this is true. AND, what a fun opportunity to grease the skids for living with intention.
What’s not to love about an exotic dish?
This unusual salad is packed with flavor, fiber and Food Sass?. Not only does it double as a holiday meal up-level while also being a great lunch salad, but swapping one simple ingredient makes it Body Sass? Cleanse -friendly, just in time for our January 2019 Group Cleanse.
Your holiday indulgence rescue plan
Despite our best intentions, our goal of eating for health can get derailed during the holidays. Your rescue plan for re-setting back to HEALTHY is here.
Holiday health and joy
This holiday season, the best way to maximize joy and minimize stress is to take a deep breath and remember that you are the owner and creator of your life experience. Here's how.
The Food Sass? flexibility prize has been awarded
Cauliflower is an un-sung hero of the food family. This superpower food has a mild taste, allowing for endless iterations on the delightful flavors it can be dressed up in. Enjoy this curry delight!
The truth of getting to our truth
My literary wellness project is poised on the fulcrum that will move it from manuscript to published book, and straight out of said manuscript is some Soul Food for your day.
Coconut oil Hoopla – here’s the deal.
The long-standing debate about coconut oil was recently enflamed by a Harvard Professor calling it "poison" during a lecture in Germany. Although this type of rhetoric can certainly boost YouTube viewing traffic, this kind of extremism is what keeps the public confused. And unwell. Let's unpack the Hoopla.
Setting the record straight on quinoa
Great news! The Fall 2018 Body Sass® Cleanse Group Program is waiting patiently for your registration so that you can re-set your health, weight, digestion, and energy. This 21-Day Cleanse Group fun is from September 8 - 28 and registration closes in a week!...
Summer party recovery program – at your service
The Fall 2018 post-summer Body Sass? Cleanse Group Program registration is now open! Woo-hoo! This powerful and game-changing group program is back for an awesome (and often much-needed!) re-set, right as we wind down from summer. Because - the summer eating,...
Who gives at hoot?
Why do food choices matter? Why do we eat food, other than the whole grumbly stomach thing? What's significant about the number 432 billion? Answers to these questions and more await you.
Time for a re-set?
You know that gunky, funky feeling that we get when our wellness train has gotten off the tracks? Me too! Let's talk about how to get back on track, and inhabit a body and life that we feel good about.
Insides and Outsides
Most of us want to let our freak flag fly and be loved. We want to be truly seen and be accepted. We want to know that we?re loveable and we want to feel lovING. So what gets in the way?
Food Sass® Strawberry shortcake, anyone?
This month's featured recipe takes a popular summer dessert, waves a magic wand, and - poof! - strawberry shortcake that's Food Sass?, baby!
Let Freedom Ring
Sometimes freedom isn't a news-worthy jubilant celebration of a country's liberation. Sometimes it's a quietly-garnered freedom that happens right between our two ears.
Grillin’, EASY Food Sass?, and your Health Journey
Enjoy the easiest and super-yummy grilled chicken recipe on the planet, and super-charge your Health Journey.
Birdsong and other delights
Mindfulness and nutritious and delicious Food Sass?...what's not to love about that?
Mark Twain was a smarty-pants
One of our least effective habits is worry, yet most of us find ourselves in worry mode often. Try this simple tactics to bring more sleep, focus, productivity, and joy into your everyday life.
What’s fun, healthy, and free?
Laughter, fun, and lightheartedness aren't just a good time, although they are that. They also boost every aspect of our BodyMindSpirit health.
A triple-infusion of BodyMindSpirit awesomeness
A fantabulous podcast on stress, an amazing weekend event, answering the rallying ?Re-set!? cry, and some Valentine love?all for you, baybeeeee!
Yikes! Sit with this one?
We are becoming increasingly sedentary, and it?s wreaking havoc with our health. Find out why exercise isn?t enough, and how little steps can make a big difference with this increasingly prevalent health issue.
A big, warm winter hug, from a bowl
This Indian dish isn't just good, it's got a whole Food Sass? Rock Star thang goin' on. And you'll love the whole "one pot dish and easy to store" aspect of this delicious, nutritious, inflammation-beater stew!
Game-changing event: Heart-Centered Healing and Living
Kim Barthel is back by popular demand. Join us for an event that has the power to improve your relationships, your career, and your health & happiness. Limited seating: act now to reserve your seat!
The Word
Check out this simple New Year's practice that is enjoyable, effective, and fun! Move over "New Year's Resolutions;" your failure rate has you benched for the foreseeable future!
Indulgence happens.
The ever-popular 21-day Body Sass? Cleanse Group Program is designed to support the body?s natural ability to heal, recalibrate, and rejuvenate. Get registered for the post-holiday Jan 6 Program...because...indulgence happens!
A new stylish belt?or a NEW YOU?
Hola sweet peeps, Happy December! I hope you?re in the flow with the season?and using all of the fantabulous tips you learned in my recent 3-part blog series on stress?to sleigh-ride through your holidays with some ease and joy. Speaking of holidays. If your...
The Chillin? Out Series #3: The Big Kahuna for Less Stress
The third post in a 3-part series on stress. Today is all about STRESS RESILIENCE...what it is, why is will ROCK your world, and how to create it for yourself.
The Power of Compassion – Nuggets O? Wisdom
Missed the Power of Compassion event last week? Check out these easily-digestible takeaways that you can start working with today for healthier genes, better relationships, more brainpower, and a better Planet Earth Experience.
The Chillin? Out Series #2: The Chillaxation Response
Learn how to improve your relationship with stress. Stress management skills will make for happier holidays, and a healthier, longer life!
The Chillin? Out Series #1: Your BodyMindSpirit on Stress
The first post in a 3-part series on stress. This post will help you understand WHY that constant stress in your life is getting in the way of....everything...including your health and happiness.
