POETRY: Love After Love by Derek Walcott
- At June 07, 2015
- By ericamarie
- In Inspiration, Poetry
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The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other’s welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
Books: Inspiring Health/Nutrition Authors
- At April 14, 2013
- By ericamarie
- In Books, Health
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Below is a short list of a few health and nutrition experts / authors who have influenced and inspired me (in no particular order). Each expert may promote different health philosophies, but a common theme is to eat real, nutritious (unprocessed!) food. I take nuggets of expertise from each of them and incorporate the elements that work for me.
- Michael Pollen (Author of In Defense of Food)
- Dr. Mark Hyman (Author of Ultra Wellness)
- Mark Sisson (Paleo, Author of Primal Blueprint)
- Gary Taubes (Low-Carb, Author of Good Calories, Bad Calories)
- Mariel Hemingway (Author of Healthy Living from the Inside Out. One of the first books I read that inspired me to live healthier!)
Book Summary: The Beauty Detox Foods by Kimberly Snyder
- At April 13, 2013
- By ericamarie
- In Books, Health
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“The Beauty Detox Foods” book by Kimberly Snyder was a very inspiring read. The author focuses heavily on a vegan lifestyle, but the overarching principle is the importance of having an abundance of greens and plant foods in your diet to enable your body to function optimally and to be your most energetic and beautiful self.
WEBSITE:
http://kimberlysnyder.net/
Important principles from the book:
- Digestion takes more energy than any other internal function of the human body, so by eating ‘beauty detox foods’ you free up this energy from digestion leading to superior health and radiant beauty.
- The high content of minerals, enzymes, and fiber in ‘beauty detox foods’ also help cleanse and unclog waste from your intestines allowing your body to more optimally absorb nutrients.
- Greens are the most important, nutrient-dense food group in your diet, full of alkaline minerals, chlorophyll, and amino acids to regenerate and purify your cells.
- Drink water between meals, NOT at meals. Too much water with your meals will dilute your digestive juices and slow down the digestive process.
- Blending your greens into smoothies “predigests” them freeing up more energy from digestion.
- Increasing fiber is the very important to cleanse your body!
- Sugar destroys your beauty, contributing to wrinkles, stiff joints, weight gain, and several other negative effects in your body.
The connection between food and beauty is incredibly powerful. Just by changing the foods you eat, you can radically change the way you look and feel. -Kimberly Snyder, “The Beauty Detox Foods”
Some favorite “beauty detox foods”:
- Spinach
- Kale
- Avocados
- Nuts and Seeds (Almonds, Walnuts, Flaxseeds, Pumpkin Seeds, Hemp Seeds, Chia Seeds, Sunflower Seeds)
- Cucumbers
- Lemon
- Carrots
- Blueberries
- Bananas
- Asparagus
- Broccoli
- Romain Lettuce
- Parsley
- Sprouts
- Spirulina/Chlorella
- Dulse
- Raw Apple Cider Vinegar
- Radishes
- Nutritional Yeast
- Coconut Oil
In moderation:
- Sweet Potatoes
- Figs
- Pineapple
- Pears
- Apples
- Bee Pollen
One of the most important assets you have in your quest for beauty is energy. Energy is a key factor in your ability to shed weight easily and permanently, achieve great health and look your most beautiful. Energy regenerates your liver and other tissue cells, flushes toxic waste from the body, helps maintain your ideal weight, keeps your skin’s collagen smooth and your hair healthy… -Kimberly Snyder, “The Beauty Detox Foods”
Superfood: Spirulina
- At October 14, 2012
- By ericamarie
- In Health
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Superfood: Spirulina
Spirulina, a single-celled blue-green algae, is a great ingredient to add to your smoothies. It has a lengthy list of nutrients and benefits!
- Nutrient-dense, excellent source for several important vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants, including calcium, iron, magnesium, potassium, B12, and beta-carotene.
- Excellent protein source, containing the eight essential amino acids, and 10 non-essential amino acids – the building blocks of protein.
- Easily digested and assimilated by the body.
- Highly energizing
- Contains chlorophyll which cleanses and alkalises the body. It’s highly alkalizing properties rid the body of acid waste, and helps to promote a healthy acid-alkaline balance in your body. (Interesting fact – chlorophyll is only one molecule different from our blood!)
- Other benefits include, cancer prevention, enhanced immune function, detoxification, cholesterol lowering, liver-protection and anti-inflammatory effects.
Apparently, NASA has even selected spirulina as an important space foods, as it provides nearly everything the human body needs!
POETRY: Searchers by James Kavanaugh
- At November 09, 2009
- By ericamarie
- In Inspiration, Poetry
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Some people do not have to search – they find their niche early in life and rest there, seemingly contented and resigned. They do not seem to ask much of life, sometimes they do not seem to take it seriously. At times I envy them, but usually I do not understand them – seldom do they understand me.
I am one of the searchers. There are, I believe, millions of us. We are not unhappy, but neither are we really content. We continue to explore life, hoping to uncover its ultimate secret. We continue to explore ourselves, hoping to understand.
We like to walk along the beach – we are drawn by the ocean, taken by its power, its unceasing motion, its mystery and unspeakable beauty. We like forests and mountains, deserts and hidden rivers, and the lonely cities as well.
Our sadness is as much a part of our lives as is our laughter. To share our sadness with the one we love is perhaps as great a joy as we can know – unless it is to share our laughter.
We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything beautiful it can provide. Most of all we want to love and be loved. We want to live in a relationship that will not impede our wandering, nor prevent our search, nor lock us in prison walls.
We do not want to prove ourselves to another or compete for love. We are wanderers, dreamers and lovers, lonely souls who dare ask of life everything good and beautiful.
For wanderers, dreamers, and lovers, for lonely men and women who dare to ask of life everything good and beautiful. It is for those who are too gentle to live among wolves.
James Kavanaugh, There Are Men Too Gentle To Live Among Wolves
