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Revitalizing Retreat Salad: A Delicious Twist on Jennifer Aniston's Favorite

Revitalizing Retreat Salad: A Delicious Twist on Jennifer Aniston’s Favorite Jennifer Aniston’s Salad. Step into the kitchen and prepare to embark on a culinary journey with a salad that embodies health, flavor, and simplicity. Inspired by Jennifer Aniston’s famous healthy salad that she reported often ate on-set, this revitalizing salad is perfect for those moments when you crave something…

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Sakura Designs turned 6 today!

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Detoxify Your Body, Mind and... Home: Connect to the Freshness

The 12 Day Wellness Journey in the New Year See Day 1 Here. Each new year offers the promise of a fresh start. As we embark on this journey into the Wood Dragon Year 2024, it is the perfect time to cleanse not only our bodies but also our emotions, minds, and homes. In fact, I’m New Year’s cleaning today as we speak! I recall asking a Dharma question to a teacher a number of years back, I…

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A 12 Day Wellness Journey for Women in the New Year- Day 1: Self Love

Radical Self Acceptance- Why I’m Not Making New Year’s Resolutions First and foremost, I have decided to not make any New Year’s resolutions this year. They usually last me about three days, and it’s a setup for failure. I, like so many women also have spent my entire life feeling: inadequate, not beautiful enough, not thin enough, not smart enough, not enlightened enough. I came from a very…

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The Ultimate 2024 Digital Planner Hyperlinked- Magnolia

The Ultimate 2024 Digital Life Planner-Hyperlinked (Portrait/Vertical Version) Use your IPad with a stylus pen and a free copy of Goodnotes to create your best, most organized life for 2024! Our Sakura Designs digital planner was thoughtfully designed to help you get the most out of 2024: organize and plan every aspect of your life in one place with monthly pages, 3 weekly layouts, 2 daily…

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Festive Vegetarian Main Course- Eggplant Parmesan Stacks

Festive Vegetarian Main Course- Eggplant Parmesan Stacks Serves 4 I had quiet holiday retreat and wanted to make a decadent gourmet vegetarian dinner, and this was amazing. You can use vegan cheese or regular cheese, your choice, either way these eggplant steaks make a great main course! The key is a slightly spicy homemade tomato red pepper marinara sauce, blender-free- and infinitely better…

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Nutrient Dense-Seed and Nut Paleo Keto Bread

Nutrient Dense-Seed and Nut Paleo Keto Bread This is the first winter snow of the season, so I decided to make a comforting, low-carb keto Paleo nut bread to warm up the house! This is a very dense, high-protein, super-food nut bread that’s pretty versatile so if you don’t have all the ingredients you can mix and match certain nuts and flours. This bread is perfect for your morning breakfast…

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What are Attachment Styles and How to Develop Secure Attachments

As a survivor of profound early emotional neglect having been raised in a dysfunctional family system, I’ve spent a considerable amount of time delving into the intricacies of attachment styles, particularly those pioneered by British Psychologist John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth. Understanding these styles has been a crucial aspect of my journey towards healing and forming healthier connections…

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Green Tara Mantra- Live From The Ashram

Green Tara Mantra- Remover of all Obstacles and Fear This was recorded live from Shoshoni Ashram in Rollinsville, Colorado, 2023 during our annual women’s fall yoga retreat, filled with radiant goddesses and yoginis. It is sung by Kalika, in a call and response format. The Green Tara Mantra- is exceedingly powerful and she is said to be the remover of all obstacles and fear. We so need that now…

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The Hawaiian Ho'oponopono Healing Mantra

  Please listen to the mantra here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn2EFAR17hQ The Hawaiian Ho’oponopono mantra is a traditional practice deeply rooted in the cultural and spiritual fabric of Hawaii. Ho’oponopono, which means “to make right” or “to rectify,” is a process of reconciliation and forgiveness. The practice has evolved over centuries and has been handed down through generations,…

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Kundalini Syndrome- Demystified

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Matthew Perry’s Untimely Death- What We Can Learn About Love Avoidance

Examining our deepest fears of intimacy and wounding. I was never the fan of the show “FRIENDS” but reading about Matthew Perry’s untimely death this morning struck a deep, reflective chord in me. He passed away in a hot tub after battling for years with addiction and going in and out of rehab centers. He never married and never had any children, although he did have relationships with famous…

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Polyvagal Theory and How To Heal Anxiety

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Aspirations For Peace

IN OUR DARK TIMES “An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.” ― Mahatma Gandhi Brief reflections about these current wars, religious conflict, self-care and social action. Please listen here: https://youtu.be/M2HmscKrAoA  

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How To Die- Instructions from the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition

Today is my birthday, the inception of a dangerous, insonsolable and heart wrenching war in the Middle East. It is a particulary poignant fall day as one of my very close friends is dying. He is called a Vajra Brother, and we have many of the same teachers and he sent this to me as a guide as to how to help him. I thought I would offer it to you all, as indeed, we all will pass, and there are…

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5 Ways to Go No Contact After The Narcissistic Discard

“How can you hate and delete people and be on the journey toward inner peace? Forgive everyone, clear the karma. Recontact them and heal it, tell them you hold no negativity. Even if you didn’t like what they did. They are not their conduct. Everyone that you had some connection with your exes, family, siblings even if they have died their karmic traces live in you, so heal it, show appreciation.…

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You are Not Alone. Help and Resources for Domestic Violence

Please listen to my personal story. October is the National Domestic Violence Awareness Month October was first declared as National Domestic Violence Awareness Month in 1989. Since then, October has been a time to acknowledge domestic violence survivors and be a voice for its victims, and I wanted to compile a list of resources for those in need. Domestic violence is prevalent in every…