How to make Lent a Positive Journey Within: Using your Healthy Voice

Lent is supposed to be a time of reflection and meditation, where we give something up in order to grow closer to God. Last night Ali (my cousin finishing up grad school in Austin) and I googled the word “Lent” to go deeper into it’s meaning. These words stood out: mourning, repentance, abstinence and fasting. I [...]

The Sugar Regulation Debate: A Healthy Voice Perspective

The Big article this week is from the LA Times: Sugar Can Harm Like Alcohol and Tobacco, Regulate it  This has been the topic of the week. I’ve seen articles, facebook posts. I’ve gotten emails and texts because yes, I love this topic and makes me get very excited for my book to come out this [...]

Why getting off sugar takes so much more than just “quitting” for many of us

Dropping sugar isn’t something everybody can do with willpower. If we use willpower like we do with diets to try and stop eating sugar, we’ll fail. I don’t mean everyone will fail. I mean, those people like me – who can’t just will ourselves to quit sugar. Those people like me who try and try [...]

Your HV: How to go with the flow when the gym is packed

So it’s January 18th. America is still in diet mode and my gym is full steam ahead with their Biggest Loser program. I got a taste of it today when I got there  5 minutes before my class started. I walk into the locker room and I see a woman who often shows up a [...]

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