Monday morning got you down?  Here are a few tips for getting your life together. 1.  Make friends with the birdies.  Getting up early is perhaps the most important thing you can do to set yourself up for a successful day/week.  Of course, this requires that you go to bed at a reasonable hour, which…

TRUST YOUR GUT. The moment I was diagnosed with cancer I knew an integrative approach was best for me. I hadn’t done much research, nor did I know the severity of the condition, but I was certain I was going to give my body a chance to heal itself. Friends and family voiced their concerns,…

  Know Thyself, then Check yo’ self. I was born a Madison in the great city of Detroit, under a Leo sun. I am a graduate of the mighty HU and I’m left-handed! That means I’m generous, courageous, loyal, full of heart, passionate, smart, arrogant, uber sensitive, bossy and full of DRAMA! Check it, this…

Earlier this week while clicking around the Internet, I came across this article.   As a Certified Holistic Health Coach and Yoga teacher,  I’m always looking for  resources I can share with my clients who are struggling to release  extra weight.  I clicked the link hoping it would offer a fresh perspective.  Unfortunately, what I found…

This letter landed on my Facebook feed this evening.  I haven’t found the words to describe how free I feel after reading these words.     For now all I can say is Ase! Dear Human: You’ve got it all wrong. You didn’t come here to master unconditional love. That is where you came from…

A good friend shared that little gem with me earlier this year during one of our weekly girl-talk sessions.  I accepted it, processed it and stored it away in my “be better” toolbox for later. Later came yesterday, when I discovered my beloved had walked out of the house with the only remaining box of…

It was a beautiful Sunday morning.  The air was still damp from the night’s rainstorm and we were standing on the deck drinking coffee looking out over my newly cleared yard.  The yard  I spent 10 years and way too much money trying to control.  The yard that out of revenge had slowly but determinately reverted…

The people you depend on for guidance, your yoga teacher, life coach, bartender or hairdresser, are just as  likely to be frustrated and confused about some part of their life as you.  Do you know why?  Because they’re  human and human beings, no matter how together they seem to appear on the outside, deal with…

Lettuce, cucumbers and peppers oh my! At least that’s what I hope to be singing in a few months. You see, I am determined to make this the year my modest little backyard garden proves that I did indeed inherit the Madison/Crawford gardening gene. The same gene that allows my father to grow roses as…

A woman after my own heart, Mama Maya Angelou recently announced she is opening a Women’s Wellness Center in her hometown of Winston-Salem NC.  The Maya Angelou Center For Women’s Health and Wellness will provide clinical programs affecting women’s health, including heart, wellness, cancer and surgical services, as well as maternity, emergency, bone and joint health and…

Flashback:  December 31, 2011.   I was sitting on my bedroom floor waiting for the New Year to enter.  I’d spent the previous 7 days exhausted, stressed out, and feeling like shi**.  To make matters worse, I was racked with guilt because I had also been working extra hard on developing a new series of…