Can a jar of juice save your life?

Perhaps.  In the documentary Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead, documentarian Joe Cross chronicles his journey to health as he embarks on a 60 day juice cleanse.  The results?  Amazing!  But don’t think you have to go “balls to the wall” like he did.  In just 3 short days a relatively healthy person will enjoy tremendous…

Maya Angelou Helps Women Stay Healthy

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…

Confessions of a Junk Food Yogi

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…

F.A.B. Girls Know When To Let Go

I’m one of THOSE people.  I faithfully check the daily horoscopes,  not so much because I believe an astrologer can predict my future but because I find that if I read between the lines I often find bits of wisdom and advice that I can immediately work into my life.  For example, on Friday I…

Happy New Year!

Today marks the first day of the Lunar Calendar, a day that is commonly known as the Chinese New Year.  Over the years, this New Years celebration has become increasingly significant in my life.  Like many of you I spend the last days of December  resolving and intending  to make significant improvements to my life…