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Awesome, Easy Rhubarb Salad

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Awesome, Easy Rhubarb Salad

Awesome, Easy Rhubarb Salad Recipe and how too! A fresh, easy, fragrant and nutritious choice inspired by Little Roots Ranch Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) harvest.

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Using Self-Awareness For Health and an Active Lifestyle

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Using Self-Awareness For Health and an Active Lifestyle

Self-awareness concepts for health are HIGHLY effective to maintain or improve an active lifestyle, yet, sadly, not everyone is aware, or doing things with self-awareness. How often have you gone through the day blindly, only to plop down in front of the TV and rub the back of your neck, or your legs wondering how they got so achy? Let’s flip the script.

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Moving Meditation for Building Resilience

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Moving Meditation for Building Resilience

A moving meditation helps you connect to the strength, power, fluidity, softness, ease or all the other sensations in your unique body.

It is so important for you to come together with your physical body, your spirit, your mind, your emotions and your community to connect back to you and your authentic reality.

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Why Did the Orange Stop?

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Why Did the Orange Stop?

I often recall this surprising twist to a ‘normal’ day as an ICU Nurse, because sometimes I feel like the orange… like I have run out of juice. But then somehow, my heart opens up again to receive the joys of the day, even if it may appear it is not responding.

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Incorporate Movement, to Keep on Moving

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Incorporate Movement, to Keep on Moving

Incorporate movement to keep on moving! It may seem counter-intuitive if you are living with an illness, however movement is one of the most impactful and positive things you can do for yourself. Take action as you age. You are worth it.

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Balance is Better: Fall Prevention

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Balance is Better: Fall Prevention

Balance is better! Falls are not a normal part of aging and falls can be prevented. Today’s blog discusses how you can take steps to use movement and an attitude shift to develop tools to prevent falls in your life, or the life of your loved one. You can develop the confidence to move as your body was intended!

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Functional Aging is Yours

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Functional Aging is Yours

To me, functional aging means soaring gracefully through the inevitable ebb and flow of age. No one will remain ‘young’ forever, yet there is magic in aging gracefully, maintaining your function, strength, energy, mobility, cognition, power, balance, vitality and health throughout the trajectory of life.

Functional Aging means you get to choose what you want, when you want it, with who you want to do it, and how you want to do it! And, you can choose to have someone to support you along your journey!

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NursePreneurs Podcast

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NursePreneurs Podcast

It was such an honor to chat with Catie Harris, PhD, MBA, RN, Founder and CEO of NursePrenuers to share a little bit about what I do and the vision of Nurse Coaching through Blue Monarch Health.

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Elimination Diet: Survival Tips

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Elimination Diet: Survival Tips

The Elimination Diet is the gold standard for determining food sensitivities, food intolerances and food triggers. It’s a fascinating process filled with some challenges, but mostly triumphs!, like feeling 150% better than before doing it.

I’ve helped hundreds of clients through this process with my 5 step RENEW! Elimination Food Plan, and have come up with some ‘Survival Tips’ to make the process easier.

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Once in a Lifetime, I was a Figure Competitor

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Once in a Lifetime, I was a Figure Competitor

Once in a lifetime, about 10 years ago, I did a thing. As I am almost turning 50, I reflect back to the time I competed in my first (and only) Masters Women’s Figure Competition in Austin, TX. This blog is devoted to what I can remember.

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Lift the Veil

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Lift the Veil

The veil of hiding may very well be fear, or anger, or of staying the same. It could be the veil of, I’m not good enough, or they don’t like me, or of protection or expectations, or ‘shoulds’. It could be a veil of wishful comparison, or that of not being true to who you are.

Whatever the veil of hiding, they all conceal you from your reality and who you are. These coverings keep you from being seen by those who love and admire you and want to be connected to the true you, because, well, you are loved so deeply.

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A Moment of Self Care

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A Moment of Self Care

Sometimes we lose track of who we are, there is so much external noise and pressures. Many of us are feeling lost and potentially disconnected to our authenticity and our real-ness. My Self Care Toolbox is a way I re-connect to myself and my reality and how I can create a moment of stillness to allow me to feel and return to who I am. I open it up and share some of it.

Maybe creating a little Self Care Toolbox for yourself could help you too?

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Honor Your Past

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Honor Your Past

Honor your past, what an incredible reminder… ‘no tomorrow without a yesterday’. You get to acknowledge all of the amazing things you’ve done in your life that have made you the gift of who you are today!

And yes, you have gone through some $hit. But the truth is, you have made it! And you get to choose which memories you hold on to, which memories you cherish, and which ones get left behind for a day when they become useful to you.

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Loving Yourself

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Loving Yourself

How can you return to loving yourself if you get into the rut of being less than kind to your body, mind and spirit? One way is through journaling. Pen to paper, no one watching, reading, looking, hearing- except you and the scratch of your thoughts.
Need some prompts to help you return to loving yourself? They are in this blog.

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Bloom Where You are Planted Nurse Coach!

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Bloom Where You are Planted Nurse Coach!

You know Nurse Coaching will help people realize the power they have over their health, and have been dreaming about owning your own Nurse Coaching practice. A colleague has taken the first steps to open her business, but you are not in a position to quit your well-paying Nursing job… yet.

So, what do you do? Bloom Where You are Planted!