Have You Listened To Your Body Lately?

Posted on March 25, 2013 by Karen
Have You Listened To Your Body Lately?

If you haven’t listened to your body lately, join me to reconnect. In our busy day-to-day activities, it’s easy to not hear ourselves. Building awareness and listening to our body’s signals is not difficult. It can start with something as simple as breath. Observing our own breath not only helps increase awareness, it stimulates our brain to do its job to repair the body, relaxes the diaphragm so it can eliminate and release toxins, and supports emotional and physical balance. Join me in this simple exercise designed to help you follow your breath and start hearing the important messages our bodies have for us.

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[Video] Make your own Raw Key Lime Pie in 20 minutes!

Posted on February 21, 2013 by Karen
[Video] Make your own Raw Key Lime Pie in 20 minutes!

Are you one of those people who LOVE dessert, but don’t want to eat too much sugar?  We all know that overloading our bodies with sugar and sweeteners have a negative affect on our health.  At the same time, our bodies biologically want sweet things, because that is how our ancestors figured out that fruits are edible!  In fact, there is nothing in nature that is both sweet and poisonous.  So if you want dessert, the key is to find treats that satisfy both your requirements for sweet indulgence AND nutritional benefits for your body.  There’s nothing more satisfying than this homemade Raw Key Lime Pie recipe that I’m sharing with you today. And there’s no one better to share this with you than my friend and colleague Theresa, who was born into a 68-year-old family bakery and catering business (Frank’s Bakeshop in Bangor, Maine) and has been making pies for… well, let’s just say, many decades!  Over the last few years, she has been working on more recipes for gluten-free and healthy alternatives to conventional desserts. So let’s get right to work!  If you are going to be following this video to make the pie, make sure you have … Continue reading →

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How ‘Personal Sustainability’ Helped Me Let Go of Fear During My Tedx Talk

Posted on January 27, 2013 by Karen
How ‘Personal Sustainability’ Helped Me Let Go of Fear During My Tedx Talk

The experience of giving a TEDx talk was even more than I had bargained for. Although I felt confident about my message, in the back of my mind somewhere was the fear that I would forget what I was going to say and stand their looking like an idiot. A common fear I know when public speaking, don’t you agree?  The worst for me was not the fact I could flub on stage, but that I would be filmed and I would not have control over who would see this video.   So, I got up and started my speech and…don’t you know it, about a minute or 2 later…it happened…I went blank and completely forgot where I was going and what I had planned to say. I heard my inner critic start to panic, but in a split second unlike times in my past, instead of diving into the panic I watched my mind at work and it immediately delivered all that I needed  – I found myself acting without having to plan. I opened my mouth and let whatever words needed to come out and before I finished my sentence, I realized that I was back on track in the … Continue reading →

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What Would Life Be Like If We Were ‘Personally Sustainable’?

Posted on November 28, 2012 by Karen
What Would Life Be Like If We Were ‘Personally Sustainable’?

A couple of years ago a friend of mine sent me a link to Brené Brown’s Tedx talk on vulnerability. I was really impressed with her delivery and the gist of the message, but when she reached the end of the talk, I felt like she left me hanging. She talked about vulnerability and how important it was and how her study of vulnerability had really opened her up and changed her life. But I wanted more clues about how she had gotten there–other than talking to a therapist–and I needed more suggestions on how one could learn to be more vulnerable. I wanted to call her up and say “let’s talk and can we work together and see if we can come up with some practical ways for people to access their vulnerability?” I thought about how much my practice of building chi through tai chi, qigong, meditation, feng shui (and doses of other Restore Your Soul practices) had made me internally stronger and more willing to open up and be vulnerable with others. Before I had enough chi or life force, every time I would get to a certain place of openness and vulnerability with people I would … Continue reading →

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What Are You Doing With Your Life?

Posted on October 16, 2012 by Karen
What Are You Doing With Your Life?

Lately, just about everyone I know is either questioning, changing, struggling with or looking to re-invent their career or life path. I’ve even been through a few changes myself in the last few years.  With the questionable economy and so may things in flux, there’s a lot of fear around how we can earn a living and support ourselves and our families, but many people don’t realize that times of flux are often the best times to create opportunity.  If you’ve been following my recent blogs, you may have checked out my last 3 videos on simple Feng Shui tips for attracting more love into your life, improving your reputation and creating more abundance.  This week, I’ve focussed on Feng Shui for your career and life path. Now is the perfect time to focus on your passions and follow your heart.  Have you ever sat down and asked yourself what your day would look like if you were able to spend time doing something fulfilling and be able to support yourself with that work?  How would you feel? Taking the time to organize the career and life path area of your house can do wonders to support you in coming … Continue reading →

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An Easy Way to Create Abundance in All Areas of Your Life

Posted on September 24, 2012 by Karen
An Easy Way to Create Abundance in All Areas of Your Life

Within 2 months of re-arranging the abundance and fame areas of my house using basic principles from the feng shui bagua, I significantly improved my financial situation and my exposure in just about all areas of my work.  This gave me the ability to share the things I’ve learned with more people and be an inspiration for them to enrich their lives. Many people are afraid of abundance, but there’s nothing wrong with having the resources to support yourself and your family and share with others.  It really doesn’t take much to influence your environment and attract significant abundance into your life, if you make conscious choices that are based on time-tested formulas which have worked for centuries for countless people around the globe.  These ‘ancient chinese secrets’ no longer need to be kept hidden! In this week’s video, I share some of the ways I organized my space to create more abundance  in my life.  Check it out!

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How a Monk, a Mirror and a Mountain Helped me Find my True Home

Posted on September 24, 2012 by Karen
How a Monk, a Mirror and a Mountain Helped me Find my True Home

If you had told me 15 years ago that I would be living on my own in a beautiful house in California overlooking a mountain with a garden, a full heart, and recording music again, I would have said you were nuts! At the time, I had just walked away from an expanding music career, was living in Spanish Harlem in NYC with my boyfriend whom I expected to marry one day, and had a six-figure sales job at technology company. From the outside, my life looked idyllic. But my heart was restless and I felt empty. It was at that point that I made a choice: I wanted to go home.  To myself. The next several years saw me split with my boyfriend, change careers, build a business, close a business, gain and lose friends and fall to my knees. Although this was the most painful few years of my life, I wouldn’t change a thing. When I reached rock bottom, I met myself for the first time. With all my weaknesses, insecurities and flaws in tow, I opened my heart to ME. I held my own hand and started my journey toward wholeness. I had two powerful allies … Continue reading →

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Will Someone Please Tell Me They Appreciate Me?

Posted on September 4, 2012 by Karen
Will Someone Please Tell Me They Appreciate Me?

Do you ever feel like you’re working your a@$% off in your job, hobby, craft, business or family and no one seems to give you the credit that you feel you deserve? So many people have been asking me lately for simple things they can do to start boosting the impact they have on their business, craft or project, so they can have more influence, more money, more recognition or all three! I have found that a very easy way to immediately start influencing the way people react to you is using the principles of feng shui. In my last feng shui video, we used the feng shui map or bagua to attract and enhance your [romantic] relationships. Now we’re going to work with the fame and reputation area of the house. Get ready to start feeling the appreciation you deserve! Let me know how it goes and stay tuned! More videos will be coming soon…  

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How to Attract More Love Into Your Life

Posted on August 3, 2012 by Karen
How to Attract More Love Into Your Life

Picture yourself outside, standing next to a beautiful waterfall, the birds are singing and the wind is rustling the leafy trees. How do you feel? Odds are good you feel wonderful. We are much more conscious about how our environment affects us in nature: cloudy or sunny days, warmth or cold, ocean or beach — each can have a dramatic effect on our moods. As I came to appreciate the beneficial effects that a balanced environment can have on my mood and energy level, I began to study and practice the principles of Feng Shui. The Basics of Feng Shui Contained within Feng Shui are principles and “elements” that represent every area of your life:  money, health, relationships, creativity, family, career, reputation, travel, and wisdom / knowledge.  Organizing your surroundings to support each area is so good for your soul.   Using Feng Shui in the LOVE Corner Here’s an example in my life. I came to a place in my life when I was ready for a relationship. I’d balanced my energy, done a lot of clearing, and decided I wanted to nurture “couple-ship” in my space using Feng Shui.   In my house, the relationship corner happened to … Continue reading →

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Where To Get The Best Food EVER!

Posted on July 16, 2012 by Karen
Where To Get The Best Food EVER!

When people come to my house in California, they always comment about the freshness of the food, especially my friends from NYC. I remind them that it is possible to have fresh food themselves, even of there aren’t many farmer’s markets nearby, by growing it themselves. Many people think of growing fruits and vegetables as overwhelming, but it’s actually much simpler than it seems. (And you don’t have to move to some field in the middle of nowhere to do it.) All you need is a few square feet of the great outdoors (or even just a little a container), a water source, and a little time. Your Forefathers and Mothers did it, and so can you! There’s so many great reasons to grow your own food. Here are a few: 1. Improve your whole family’s health. When you grow fruits and veggies yourself, they have more vitamins than when they come on trucks from far away (or even your local market). Studies show that kids who who eat homegrown produce are more than twice as likely to eat (and like!) 5 servings of fruits and vegetables a day than kids who rarely or never do. When my 7 year old niece … Continue reading →

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