Janice Taylor

As I contemplate how to cope with moving my mother from hospital to hospice, the word “creativity” bubbles to the surface.

With love, appreciation and deepest gratitude for your faithful friendship, Our Lady of Weight Loss and I wish you the very best in 2013, AND we invite you to ……

Negative people often do slow us down, drain our energy, as well as create stress and anxiety, none of which is useful or helpful. What to do? Here are a few thoughts on:

Bonjour, Good Day, Shalom and What’s up TUSHKATEERS!!!! How goes it? What’s happening in your neck of the woods? All groovy here! More or less. Depending on your definition of groovy, and your slant/ability/determination to go with the flow, as unexpected happenings happen.

Think about it! When you are happy, when your life is running (more or less) smoothly, you don’t run to the fridge as early and often; do you? Healthy choices are more easily made; aren’t they? When your happy energy is spiraling upward, you are able to focus on your goals and take the proper steps to manifest them without extreme and exhausting effort, aren’t you?

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about. ~ Albert…

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart …. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
– Carl Jung

Here are 6 action steps to help you ‘get up, get going, get a grip, and get happy’:

The amygdala, an almond shaped structure located in the mid-section of the brain, is crucial to our survival. It is where the “Fight or Flight” response lives. Its original function was to alert us when a drooling, hungry, man-eating lion was about to attack, lest we get eaten alive!

10 Tips for Feeding Your Soul to Change Your Weight

In anticipation and preparation for my next workshop, “Feed Your Soul: Change Your Weight,” I’ve committed to listing 10 Ways to Feed Your Soul each week from now until the…

The thing about life is that life has a life of its own and you just never know when ‘life’s life’ is going to show up and where ‘it’ is…

There is a borderland state called hypnagogia. It is a place of transition; a space that is rapt with images, symbols and words that captivate the mind as they move you from wakefulness to sleep (referred to as hypnagogic) and, on the other side of the sleep cycle, give rise to wakefulness (known as hypnopompic).

Definition of a victim:  a person to whom life happens. ~ Peter McWilliams Are You a Food Victim??? I hesitate to use the word “VICTIM,” because it is such a…

Will you live your best life, or will you remain in bondage to food, emotional eating, and the circumstances that life throws in your path?

8 guidelines on how you can ‘root’ yourself in balance, enabling you to smile and stay steady the course, even in the face of the inevitable hiccup, glitch or major league malfunction.

“Our inner guidance comes to us through our feelings and body wisdom first — not through intellectual understanding.” ~ Christiane Northrup Because thoughts come from our head, and said thoughts…

Sleep is the foundation of all consciousness. It’s always present beneath our waking. And because we’re already there, we literally can’t ‘go to sleep.’ Trying to do so will only further activate the wakeful part of us.

Today is National Hugging Day! I’ve already hugged three people! And in doing so, I realized that hugging is a bit more complex than just grabbing someone and squeezing! Not everyone welcomes a full frontal hug. Go figure.

One of my star coaching clients (you are all stars), confessed that she found herself walking in and out of the kitchen all day long – looking. Opening and closing the cabinets, the fridge, the oven … over and over and over again – all day long … looking, foraging, helping herself to a bite of this and a lick and taste of that.