Being with friends and enjoying an adult beverage is a popular way to spend leisure time. Yet a growing number of people are committing to going without alcohol in January, taking a break from the indulgences of the holiday season. They are participating in what’s known as Dry January. But love it or hate it, the health outcomes are undeniably impressive. more…

There was this weightloss coach certified in Holistic Nutrition named Zelda Sheldon, who did a detox and reached her ideal healthy weight and cured her eczema and psoriasis with a super clean diet. After a while, when life got hectic and overwhelming, she started eating little treats here and there, that soon became regular treats, that then turned into BIG treats - that finally resulted in 27 pounds of excess unwanted weight. Oh no! Really? How could this be?

The USA with all the trappings of modern life has a big problem - Pain.
In fact, more than 30% of Americans are living with some form of chronic or severe pain.

Chronic pain is pain that lasts longer than the typical healing time - in some cases beyond 1-3 months. According to the American Pain Foundation, Chronic Pain is a complex condition that affects some 42-50 million people in the USA. However, despite decades of research, chronic pain continues to increase year by year and remains not only poorly understood by the medical community but notoriously difficult to control. A survey by the American Academy of Pain Medicine found that even comprehensive treatment with pain killing prescription drugs helps, on average only 58% with chronic pain.

Day 18 of my Mindbody Detox and woohooo!! I’m feeling good!

Since starting my detox 18 days ago I’ve now dropped a total of three pounds (remembering that dropping 1-2 pounds a week is a healthy rate and greater chance of sustaining that drop) and I’m feeling lighter, not just in my body but also in my mind, and that’s got me so feeling good. In fact, I’m feeling so good that I want to start singing that wonderful song made famous by Nina Simone and then Michael Bublé.

Dear Detox Diary January 3, 2020

This is all about yesterday. Yesterday was Day 2 of 21-Day Mindbody Detox, the welcome break from all the festivities around food and drink. It was a home day, working and also trying to take it easy to recover from a nasty virus.

I was bummed with the all day raining because I couldn’t do my daily walk. Work consisted of some writing and posting then filming and photographing two singing student sessions back to back in the afternoon. There’s always a tension when it comes to filming and photographing – making sure everything looks good – especially me.

Dear Detox Diary, it’s day two and as I stepped on the bathroom scale first thing this morning - which do every morning - I was particularly interested to see if there was any result of my sacrifice and determination.

You see it was a challenge yesterday because me, my mind and my body went to a big new years day party. And that was the day after a big NYE party too with lots of treats! And being a foodie among other foodies it was especially a challenge. All the yummiest foods there for the taking, and champagne, wine and beer was flowing. And the yummy food just kept coming, plates and bowls and platters full of all kinds of tempting celebration foods.