In this episode, Izzy discusses the habits or tendencies that you have adopted in your life that convince or discredit your sense of value and the message given to others. Despite the title, this isn't really about food, but more importantly, about the actions or intentions you practice. This is about self-worth and self-love. 

What if the struggles you are experiencing in life actually hold a gift? Our perspective in life can be the difference between feeling defeated, or resilient. In this episode, Izzy shares a story that she hopes will change your perspective and perception around your life struggles.

Are you feeling a lack of focus, energy, disconnected from your life, job, family, and friends? Perhaps you are feeling a bit negative, cynical, or impatient? These can all be the symptoms and signs of burnout. After all, look at what the last 1 ½ year has been like. In this episode Izzy explores the nuances of burnout vs. boredom and how you can identify, and then adjust accordingly.

In this episode, Izzy discusses how a book called "The Rhythm of Life," written by Matthew Kelly, helped her to align her priorities with her values, needs, desires, and dreams leading her to live more authentically in all areas of life. Especially those areas that she had neglected—like friendships. She explores how she shifted to nurturing her friendships and how these friendships and what these friendships say about who she is.

Does the blueprint by which your pre-pandemic life was built on, still work? Yes, that blueprint, road map, that once directed your work, environment, relationships? How you spend your time, money, and efforts? What you nurture, allow, and tolerate in your life? It’s time to reevaluate, because if not now, when? After a year and a half of life turned upside down, inside out, I predict several things have changed the landscape of your life, in probably a very profound way! 

Is your well EMPTY? Yes, your well, your tank, or some may say oxygen. We can certainly recognize it when it happens with our cars, if our children are tired or hungry, or when a wilting house plant becomes thirsty for water and light. But can you recognize the symptoms in yourself?

What if what so many of us are currently are experiencing and perhaps do not recognize it—is GRIEF?

No one can argue that this past year has been like no other. For many, life has drastically changed. Some may claim for the better, while many others are struggling to keep their heads above the water. Nonetheless, everyone has experienced changes. A simple trip to the grocery store can feel cumbersome. Going to the bank, dentist, and hairstylist will forever be different. So many of the things that used to take a little effort now take twice as much, often leaving me feeling irritable and snarky.

Now, if I think going to the market is frustrating, I can’t imagine the effort and complexity of raising a school-aged child in these times while holding down a job and working from home! Or what it must be like to be an educator or healthcare worker! Heck, let’s face it, there are very few occupations that are not affected by this pandemic. It has impacted almost every corner of our lives. As much as we have tried to stay optimistic and hopeful that we’ll get through this together, the uncertainty is exhausting and unbearable at times.

Then added to this, there is the physical loss of life, health, careers, and relationships. Both because of the pandemic and other life circumstances.

Now when asked how grief is expressed, many would probably say sadness, depression, sorrow, or misery. And yes, all those are true. Yet what if sarcasm, judgment, cynicism, and jealousy could also be grief in disguise?

This week Izzy takes a deeper dive into exploring the essence of our true calling and the complexities that keep us from living our life’s purpose. Do you know what your life’s purpose is?  Have you had a glimpse of this purpose but have not yet found a way to live it fully? Does living your life’s purpose mean that you must financially support yourself using it?   Are there rules or beliefs that you live by, that stand in the way of living this purpose?  

Now what?  A simple two-word sentence, packed with so much energy and reverence for what WAS, IS, and COULD BE!

This simple question can evoke scores of reactions and feelings from anger to JOY and everything in between... a recipe of uncertainty. And, if vulnerability is something you try to avoid at all costs, how do you begin moving forward when faced with so much uncertainty?

In this episode, Izzy discusses how uncertainty is a result of change. Whether it is a change in relationship, work, family, illness, loss, displacement, catastrophic world events, or other types of conflict, change can lead to uncertainty. But, she believes we are capable and equipped to transcend, rise above and beyond our human characteristics to co-create, and influence our destiny.

You can learn more from Izzy in her upcoming workshop Making Space for Positive Change. A perfect way to stimulate, motivate, and inspire clarity, peace, and direction.

In this episode, Izzy discusses the power of creating a dream, vision, or intention for this coming year and bringing it to the forefront of your life in a vision board. It stimulates all your senses and stirs beautiful energy in the deepest parts of yourself, especially your organs; your gut, heart, pulse, every cell. Not driven by your brain—the idea behind a vision board is that when you surround yourself with images of who you want to become, what you want to have, where and how you want to live, achieve, or experience, your life changes to match those images and those desires.