In this week’s episode of Wellness As A Way of Life I am focusing on a great way to get more veggies into your diet this fall: Quick, Easy, Healthy Soups!

33 Vegan Gluten-free Soups #eatmoreplantsthisfall_Megan Swan Wellness_compressed.pdf

Plant-based Broth Base option here. 

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In this week’s episode of Wellness As A Way of Life I am focusing on Stress Cycle Completion Techniques that help you process strong emotions and ongoing stress.  

Understanding your fight, flight, freeze and fawn.

Embodiment of strong emotions. 

Why stress cycle completion is important. 

Bedtime routine tips to ease you into rest. 

Previous episode mentioned: Swamping

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In this week’s episode of Wellness As A Way of Life I am focusing on an Integrated Spiritual Wellness Spotlight: Julie Piatt aka SriMati’s Spiritual Community Water Tiger which is described by Julie as The Way to No Way.

We chatted about:

Agency in your spiritual practice. 

Learning to trust ourselves through trial and error. 

The importance of perspective or lens in all things spiritual. 

“There is nothing more beautiful than a being that knows thyself.”  

Quality over quantity. 

Julie Piatt aka “SriMati” is a mystic mother, musician, artist, chef, author and healer who has lived her life immersed in devotion and expansive creativity. She is a wayshower of finding the divine in all life experiences. SriMati shares her wisdom from a multitude of life events that she has experienced as processes of alchemical transformation. In her experience, her life has shown her that It is the ability to hold the divine perspective in all life brings before you that allows for the deepest access to the meanings that life is waiting to reveal to us. Each life is created in the perfection of a unique blueprint that has inherent within its design all that is needed for its full expression. SriMati is a powerful living example of how to love ourselves more so that we can live our unique design in full and expansive self expression. When we live in this frequency, we bless all life around us.

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In this week’s episode of Wellness As A Way of Life I am focusing on How and Why You Want to Make Pausing, Breathing and Reflecting a Way of Life with my friend and mindfulness expert Michael O’Brien.

We chatted about:

The accident that almost took his life.

How he secretly practiced one breathing technique in order to maximize his rehabilitation sessions.

The blessings in disguise of the pandemic.

How you can ripple something good today. 

How we can help more men be inspired to start a mindful practice. 

How essential mindful practices are to prepare us for any unknown.

Michael is a qualified meditation teacher, executive coach, endurance athlete, and creator of the Pause Breathe Reflect Meditation and Gratitude app. He loves helping people accomplish hard things through mindfulness. He’s a survivor of a horrific near-death cycling accident called his Last Bad Day and years in the corporate executive suite and in 2022 used the power of mindfulness to ride his bike across America.

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www.mindfulnessweek.org

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In this week’s episode of Wellness As A Way of Life I am focusing on an Integrated Physical Wellness Spotlight:  Spice Up Your Life: Immunity Boosting Qualities of Herbs and Spices 

1. The Seasonal Wellness Genius Packed Into Pumpkin Spice

2. Why Your Need More Spice in Your Life in Fall and Winter

Immunity Elixir Salad Dressing

This delicious recipe brings a lovely tart flavor to any fresh green salad.  

*You could also use it as a morning elixir, have a tablespoon before breakfast to prime your digestion and immunity. 

1/4 cup of olive oil

Juice of 1 lime

1/2 tsp of sea salt

1 clove of garlic

1/8 cup of organic apple cider vinegar with mother

1/2 tsp of ginger in powder

Tsp of raw honey

Combine all the ingredients in the food processor and blend for 2 minutes.   Serve immediately over your favorite green salad or use as a dip for fresh veggies.Store it in the refrigerator in a glass container for up to 3 days.

Notes

This dressing is full of immunity boosting ingredients: ginger, garlic and apple cider vinegar are all great for your gut health.  

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In this week’s episode of Wellness As A Way of Life I am focusing on an emotional wellness spotlight that affects our optimal wellness: swamping.  Having an intentional system or way to help you identify and process your emotions is a very important wellness tool you have in your toolbox because it helps you live in full spectrum emotionally, essential to optimal wellness and longevity.  Full Spectrum Living is one of the modules inside the Wellness As A Way of Life Course.  

Resources mentioned:

What is Swamping and How Can You Use it to Feel More Embodied and at Ease in the World? « The Sober Curator

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In this week’s episode of Wellness As A Way of Life I am focusing on a physical wellness spotlight that affects our optimal wellness: caffeine consumption.  Sleep is Pillar No 1 of my optimal wellness system and if your daytime habits are affecting your sleep quality we need to make some adjustments, because sleep is arguably the most important wellness tool you have in your toolbox.  

We discuss:

The half-life of caffeine

Best practices with caffeine consumption to not interfere with sleep quality

Why you are exhausted when you are caffeinating yourself all day long

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In this week’s episode of Wellness As A Way of Life I am focusing on the Power of Vision Boards, Sharing, Declaring & Gratitude in our lives with Debbi Sluys the founder of Dare to Declare.

We chat about reframing: 

How Vision Boards Are the Modern Day Prayer for Modern Women

Be, Do, How

Order Promotes Focus

Digital vs Paper Vision Boards

Goal vs Vision Boards

Vision Boards & Self Regulation

Debbi Sluys founder of Dare to Declare™ is a coach, trainer, and speaker who specializes in helping people expand their brain’s potential to see what is possible for their future with Vision boards. As a former Child Care Director, Debbi has studied personal development for over 30 years and has facilitated and witnessed science at work by guiding over a thousand clients to identify and declare their Vision both online and in-person in her Dare to Declare™ studio. As an adopted child and survivor of child abuse, her mission to support women to declare their truth is her life purpose. Debbi has been featured on many global podcasts, in The Corporate Escapist Magazine, shared an event with Gabrielle Bernstein and interviewed by Jack Canfield (Chicken Soup for the Soul) for his Success TV. She lives in Chatham, Ontario, Canada.

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It only takes 90 seconds to change your inner state with the breath.  No 4 Optimal Wellness Pillar: Mindfulness.  This week’s meditation is for everyone who says meditation isn’t for them, just a dong to grab your attention and help you tune into your inner experience to slow down, soften and breathe for a few minutes in the middle or end  of your busy work day

This is the 3nd Guided Meditation you can try to find more presence and stillness in your life today.  

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In this week’s episode of Wellness As A Way of Life I am focusing on How to Reframe Rest as Not Resisting the State You Are Currently In + Not Need to Feel Accountable for Every Moment of Your Day with Vikki Louise Yaffe.

We chat about reframing: 

Rest

Productivity

Pleasure

Time

Vikki is the UK’s leading Feminist Time, Productivity and Rest Coach, innovating outdated time management systems and tools that simply have women ‘getting by’, overworking and operating from high stress and pressure. After graduating from the London School of Economics, she worked in finance, and tech, before founding her coaching company. She’s gone from 80 to 15 hour weeks and helps her clients do the same. She helps them create plenty of time and succeed more because they do less. She also hosts the top 1% “Feminist Time, Productivity & Rest podcast”, downloaded over 600,000 times.

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