Duane Allman of the Allman Brother’s Band was a reader, a thinker and a mindful person. Around the time of his death, he was reading a lot of T. S. Eliot. He said that every time he was in Georgia, he’d eat a peach for peace which likely inspired the title of their album Eat…
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3 Warming Smoothie Recipes to Rock This Winter
Smoothies are my favorite way to consume a lot of the healthy stuff my body desires in the morning. It’s a real morning party! I kinda feel like a smoothie criminal getting in all of those nutrients in one meal. Once the cold weather starts showing up in my neck of the woods, I must…
A Few Healthy Hacks to Rock This Holiday Season
Halloween just happened which means Thanksgiving is right around the corner which means holiday parties are coming which means New Years Eve is close which means eating and drinking all the things while over exerting yourself and taking a ride on an emotional roller-coaster is likely to be your reality. All of your healthy habits…
Shots! Shots! Shots…Of Water
Since your body is composed of about 60% water (obviously the other 40% is sparkles and rainbows), it’s important to hydrate yourself. If you like to party and you like to do it consciously, then you know how water is key to you feelin like the rock star I know you are. When you’re partying…
Remembering the Las Vegas shooting victims and how it could have been me
I posted this a year ago a week after returning home from the Life is Beautiful festival in Las Vegas. Remembering all of those who were lost to gun violence on that day and since then. Most of my dearest friends and even my husband are in my life because I first met them at…
If I was going to Brooklyn Comes Alive this is what I’d do
Checking out which super groups of musicians I wanted to rock out to, I created a schedule of epic proportions. I was all set to rock Brooklyn Comes Alive with gusto when I received a very sad phone call. My ride had to back out making it pretty much impossible for me to go. Bummertown!…
I drank all the vodka.
Waking up with my head pounding as flowing waves of nauseousness came crashing down, the disappointment set in as I realized that I’d done this to myself. WTF? I totally messed up and now I’m paying for it big time. Damn it! How did I allow this to happen when I’m so committed to conscious…
“I would never get THAT drunk,” she said.
He was stumbling around unable to formulate words before vomiting everywhere and then choosing the sidewalk as a suitable bed for the evening. Since you’ve been practicing your conscious partying habits, you roll your eyes at him and say to your friend, “I would never get THAT drunk.” The errors in that thought are a…
How to Party this Weekend Without the Hangover
I was mad because I was hungover, sad because I did it to myself and disappointed because I let it happen to me yet again. This was an average post holiday weekend feeling for me and I didn’t like it one bit. What did I do? I started to practice mindfulness when it came to…
When Life Throws You a Curveball
Pre-festival excitement was making it almost impossible to think about anything else besides all the possibilities, new friends and experiences I was going to be a part of at Phish’s Curveball Festival. The festival that I’d been planning for months to attend was to take place August 17-19th 2018. Our Prius was packed to the…