The Art of Healthy Living
The Art of Healthy Living
I try to be honest so this is actually what I ate yesterday, Sunday, but I repeated most of it with leftovers today! For breakfast I sliced some whole wheat sourdough and layered on some hummus and greens and apple with a drizzle of honey. Then, for lunch I whipped …
Some days I just need a quick workout at the gym. I know I need to exercise for mental health as much as physical health and so the days when I am feeling not at the top of my mental/emotional health game, I am at a crossroads of needing to …
I have spent a lifetime waiting for peace. Working for it, wrangling it, and negotiating with it. It’s been a lot like a laughing toddler slipping from my grasp and running ahead as I tried to wrestle it back into place. I was positive that if I got into medical …
Because this is Workout Wednesday, No-Beach-Week-Hurricane edition I decided it appropriate to head into the pool. I was a swimmer in high school, but I haven’t been in the water recently because a friend at a dinner party told us all about what she saw at the bottom of the …
Well, today, beach week turned into only beach weekend as hurricane Debby arrived to join us. She had us dragging our feet while trying to accept the fact we needed to leave, binge watching The Weather Channel, and then with inward groaning hurriedly packing up the car as the rain …
Welcome to The Jolly Heart; Beach Week Edition! It’s a week of travel, family time, and seeing good friends. Routines will be upended, unanticipated challenges will come, cooking will be for multitudes, and new memories will be made. It’s a vacation, but it also has moments of chaos. I have …
This morning started off with oatmeal and blueberries. I microwave this for a minute or so and then add a bit of soy milk. For lunch I did my favorite recipe called “throw stuff in a bowl.” I had some spinach which I topped with farro and white bean mixture …
Grape-nuts have 90% of you daily iron and that is a great way to start the day. The lunch leftovers were from a dinner I made this weekend: Costa Rican Style Spinach, Potato, and Black Beans. It’s a go-to quick dinner where you sauté 1c chopped onion and a couple …
Am I the only one that has times of feeling alone living on a planet of a billion people? A better word might be disconnect. Disconnected is different from being alone. I have felt disconnected in a room full of people and I have felt connected while totally alone. When …
I decided that instead of napping after lunch this week, I would take 30 minutes and add some body movement. I am a lunch napper and so this idea is a big change for me. After I eat lunch, I love to close my eyes and catch a 15 minute …