Guest Post: “Disrupt Your Life” by Alicia Marie Fruin

A special post on the Delicious Health blog this week – authored by extraordinarily gifted coach Alicia Marie Fruin, owner and principal coach of People Biz, Inc. I thought this would be very timely given we’re all still talking about New Year resolutions. So here you go – some real tips to follow through on your resolutions and achieve real results…

Happy resolutions,

Simla

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“Disrupt your life, business, relationships, or even your body, and engage in the power of a new year!

Your Magnificent Liver: Get to Know, Love & Treat Yours Well

October is National Liver Awareness Month. Are you ready to love your liver?

I love mine. Dearly. After reading this, you’ll love yours too.

About 5.5 years ago, when my health pretty much exploded and I was lost in the maze of conventional medicine, one of the complications I had was medication-induced hepatitis (inflammation of the liver) and pancreatitis (inflammation of the pancreas).

Trust me, it sucked.

No thanks to that and a cluster of many, many other health issues, I was laid up in bed for months. I had to leave my career and go on disability for the ensuing two years.

There is No Such Thing as Work-Life Balance

We go around looking for the holy grail of “work-life balance,” and fail to find it again and again. It’s fleeting at best, it’s the promised land that seems as far away as ever as we paddle furiously towards it, trying so hard to get there.

We think that, if only we did things “right,” we could have this magical equilibrium between our personal and business lives. One that makes us and everyone around us happy.

By definition, however, balance is a state of micro-adjustments, not a single, perfect, static state that you can hold indefinitely.

The Sweet Spot™: How to Connect the Dots & Finally Be in Balance with Your Food, Life & Work in 3 Simple Steps ~ Complimentary Teleclass on Thursday, April 28, 2011

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The Sweet Spot™:  How to Connect the Dots & Finally Be in Bliss & Balance with Your Food, Life & Work in 3 Simple Steps

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The Big Unveiling

This is a time of profound change. Do you feel it?

The upheaval, the angst. The metamorphosis, the healing. Pain. Relief. Agony. Ecstasy. There are always two ways to tell any story, sometimes in diametrically opposed ways. There is always balance in the plan, but at times – especially in difficult times – we must be willing to be vulnerable and receptive to actually see this balance.

The most important thing you can do is to decide:  How are you going to tell your story?

Are You a Closet Member of Fatigued Anonymous?

One of my biggest pet peeves is feeling fatigued. I can’t stand it. Feeling like I can’t get enough sleep and a whole day of dragging and feeling out of it? No thanks.

Having reversed several autoimmune conditions plus Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, which once led to my sleeping up to 20 hours a day for months on end, I have no intention of ever heading back there again. These days, my new default looks something like this: bouncing out of bed and sustaining a steady stream of energy all day until my body gently tells me it’s ready to go to sleep again at night… no matter how demanding my day.

Pow-Wow Purple Smoothie

I knew I had an intense writing day – a “heady” day if you will – ahead of me today so I needed an energizing, flow-enabling, sustaining breakfast that was quick and easy to make. Here’s the result, using some of my current favorite ingredients right now.

This is a high-protein, high-fiber, highly delicious smoothie that’s very simple to make.

The incredible nutritional tally in this single tall glass of pure goodness and love:

• 15 gr protein
• 23 gr of fiber ~ you’re getting more than 65% of your recommended daily intake with breakfast alone!
  [SAD fact: most Americans get only 10-15 gr fiber a DAY.

No-Deprivation Diets & The 3 Levels of Evolutionary Eating ™

If you think all diets are cringe-worthy, think again. A good “diet” is one that is deliciously varied, flexible, rich, and that works for your unique body and lifestyle. Evolving your relationship with food can help you stop with the fads, restrictions, and “shoulds” and discover a way of eating that your body, taste buds, and life can all thrive on.

Delicious Health Presents The 3 Levels of Evolutionary Eating ^TM

Level 1: Impulsive The most primitive way of eating with very low bodily awareness. You go by the dictum “I want” and make choices mostly based on perceived convenience and immediate gratification. Often lends itself to mindless or emotional eating, unwanted weight gain, burnout/fatigue, and a host of chronic health issues.