A personal note — plus a FREE offer

A personal note — plus a FREE offer

by | Jul 20, 2021 | Holistic Life Coach, Well-being

Welcome to the many new subscribers and a warm hello to my existing followers.

We are in a time of such dramatic change and reinvention, and so many people are struggling with this restart that it seems like the right time to reach out and remind you of what I do. Also, I want to share a FREE offer (below).

As a holistic life & wellness coach with a goal of integrating your mind, body, and spirit, I offer 1:1 coaching to target a wide range of health and wellness issues. For example, I can help you or someone you know to:

  • Begin a meditation and mindfulness practice
  • Manage stress and anxiety
  • Achieve post-COVID exercise and fitness goals
  • End negative self-talk
  • Identify imbalances in health and develop a program of action
  • Organize and balance finances (I spent two decades as a wealth advisor)
  • Clarify and set intentions
  • Strategize your career and discover your purpose
  • Bring more soul into your life

For the month of August, I’m giving away FREE 30-minute sessions to the first five people who sign-up (you can reply to this email). Do it soon because these limited spaces will fill up. For a half hour you can ask me any question you want or discuss any topic related to your holistic well-being. Zero sales pitch, all ears, no obligation. My goal is to help more people at this critical time.

I also teach meditation to small groups and can deliver lunchtime wellness talks for your company or organization.

My Approach
I provide new perspectives and practices, some science-based and others from ancient wisdom. I am trained in applied positive psychology, mindfulness, meditation, motivational techniques, and many subtle energy practices that help you break through whatever is holding you back. My approach draws on my intuition and kinesiology (aka muscle testing) to take you from where you are to where you want to go.

My Philosophy
We are all energetic beings. Our energy impacts our physical and emotional realms, not the opposite. Any emotional or physical issue is a product of our energetic imbalance and will ultimately also influence our mental state.

I  believe that as humans we should thrive, not just survive. Wholeness is the key to thriving, but we are taught to view our mind, body, and spirit as separate from one another. This contradiction creates the conflict that results in discomfort and disease. I can help you to integrate these aspects of yourself by identifying and prioritizing the blocks that are preventing you from your wholeness. When you release these constraints, you can express your potential.

I look forward to hearing from you, even if it is only to say hello! 😉

My personal note for a welcome new year and thoughts on resilience

My personal note for a welcome new year and thoughts on resilience

by | Jan 10, 2021 | Well-being

Happy 2021!

This time last year, we were happily anticipating the changes that the 2020’s would bring. 2020 delivered more than we ever expected. Our resilience was, and will continue to be, called upon as the unprecedented events of last year go on to transform both our individual lives and our society.

I want to take a moment to thank all of you who chose to draw on my holistic wellness system, Integrative Solutions for Modern Life, or supported me in countless other ways over the past year.

The pandemic has contributed to increased interest in holistic well-being. I continue to offer 1:1 coaching and single-session Breakthrough Sessions, teach meditation, be published nationally, and consult on wellness for a public company. For those who missed it, last year I was also invited to speak on eight national radio shows that were heard on more than 150 stations coast-to-coast!.

As this health crisis lingers on, individuals and organizations have a greater need for support in helping themselves or their employees manage their health and stress while Working From Home (WFH) and as part of their Return to Office (RTO) initiatives. I continue to expand my work delivering public speaking engagements (via Zoom) to groups on topics that include, but are not limited to, Introduction to Meditation, Self-care Tips, Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), Reducing Anxiety, and Navigating Change.

I’m grateful for the opportunity to continue to grow and share my expertise and passion for helping people empower themselves by fusing conscious living and healthy lifestyles with the practical demands of their daily lives.

What about you? Did the events of 2020 make you aware of anything that you would like to develop or change? Where in your life do you have untapped potential? Will you carry this insight into 2021 and choose to push your boundary a bit more? If so, the time is now.

Resilience uses adversity as a catalyst to dig deeper within and transform for the better. This is what we are being asked to do on a collective level. To achieve this objective, the most critical thing you can do for yourself, your family, community, and the planet today is to become the highest version of you.

Let’s step outside the current wave of uncertainty and hyper-focus on what tomorrow holds to draw upon the power of now and take action.

I’m here to be helpful.

Protect Yourself From SAD!

Protect Yourself From SAD!

by | Nov 12, 2020 | Well-being

We’re in a transitional season. Do you find it beautiful, yet cringe at the same time?

Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) describes a spectrum of depression. The reduced level of sunlight in fall and winter may cause winter-onset SAD. This deficiency may disrupt your body’s internal clock and lead to feelings of fatigue and depression as well as difficulty focusing, sleep issues, irritability, and weight gain or loss.

It is estimated that five percent of all Americans are negatively affected by the changing seasons and waning of summer light. Another ten to twenty percent experience milder symptoms. Some people are more attuned to their light sensitivity than others.

Do you…
Find it more difficult to wake up as you approach winter? Feel down or like your energy has been drained on days without bright sunlight? Have trouble falling or staying asleep during winter nights? Count the days until Daylight Savings Time?

If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, you could be suffering from SAD. Over the past month, a good number of clients have come to me with these complaints. In the majority of the cases, we discovered that SAD was the cause of their symptoms.

The lockdown we have experienced due to this year’s pandemic has already taken a toll on our mental health. It has also caused us to spend much more time than usual this year indoors. Due to our lack of exposure to natural light, SAD could affect us much more than it normally does this coming winter.

I’m offering 30-minute Breakthrough Sessions to explore if you could be suffering from SAD. 

I know all about SAD because from the time I was a child, I was conscious of my craving for natural light. Everyone who knows me is aware of me yearning for the beach during my school years, reading outdoors on the lawn at Voorhees Mall as a college student, and sunbathing in Central Park as a Manhattanite. Twenty years ago, I was fortunate to have had a progressive physician who evaluated all of his patients for SAD. Once I discovered that my bias for natural light was biological and not merely an idiosyncrasy, I was able to adopt some simple lifestyle methods to make the seasonal transitions easier.

Please don’t hesitate to contact me for support with this condition that, in most cases, is totally navigable with some uncomplicated adjustments. Of course, people can suffer from a wide spectrum of SAD. Those with severe symptoms should always consult with a physician.

Here’s to keeping it sunny in your mind! 😉

 

The Importance of Play

The Importance of Play

by | Sep 26, 2019 | Personal Growth, Well-being

“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” – George Bernard Shaw

Whenever I change my environment, I always return home to a revelation about my life. Now that I’ve readjusted to being in New York after visiting with friends in Mykonos (Greece), I realize that I’ve had another epiphany.

We don’t prioritize playtime.

While away, I had time to have fun in the sand with several of my besties. It didn’t matter that the Aegean winds of up to 35 mph seriously messed with our patience, hair and clothing. 

With absolutely no structure to our days, my playmates and I gave in to the untamable winds and walked, did cartwheels, and danced on the beach. Playing felt fantastic – we giggled like children!

Play is a creative act. It releases endorphins, the body’s natural “happy” chemicals responsible for making us feel joy. 

My social time in Manhattan is often made up of commitments that involve structure – things like meeting friends for meals, drinks, movies, concerts, and lectures. Due to everyone’s career and family responsibilities, there is very little unstructured playtime. 

When I was in grade school, my neighborhood pals – Steven, Frank, and Joe – and I would meet each morning during summer break. The first thing we did was determine what game we would play that day. 

After a group consensus, we would begin a game of hide-and-seek, spies, or Batman. Using our imaginations, we played out these games for many hours. And we giggled – a lot. 

Our capitalistic society values productivity. Unlike childhood play, which is respected, adult play is generally perceived as unproductive unless it is competitive. Therefore, adult play tends to be dismissed. 

You can’t place a value on joy. 

That’s all from me today. I take my revelations seriously. I’m heading out to meet a friend in one of the best playgrounds in the world. 😉

To book a private session with me in order to uncover the optimal way to integrate play into your lifestyle, please go to ContactMe! on the right sidebar or below (depending on device).

Welcome to a Journey of Holistic Living & Wellness!

Welcome to a Journey of Holistic Living & Wellness!

by | Feb 24, 2019 | Holistic Life Coach, Well-being

Someone asked the Dalai Lama what surprised him about humanity the most. This was his response:

“Man, because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices his money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then he dies having never really lived.”

Can you relate somewhat to the Dalai Lama’s observation?

As the first-born child of refugees and someone who later came to spend decades as a senior executive in highly demanding corporate environments, I can.

Both my childhood conditioning and professional experiences were goal-oriented. Goals imply the future. I’m intimately familiar with having practicalities overshadow my in-the-moment soul urges.

Happily, I’ve become equally familiar with allowing my in-the-moment soul urges to overshadow my practical concerns. 😉

Does the present moment inform your daily decisions? Or, are you proceeding based on an outdated version of yourself?

In order to truly thrive in all areas of your life, you need to achieve the present state the Dalai Lama refers to. It is only through there that you can access your intuition, creativity, and life force – the elements with which you create your life.

Living and working in Manhattan, I often found myself fully engaged in a pattern of moving towards future objectives while my soul urges were placed on hold. My life force, or light, was at times dimmed by the routine nature of modern life.

When you allow your light to be dimmed, your experience in every area of your life – mental, physical, and spiritual – reflects this back to you.

My own life went from amazing, to good, to “okay.” We are conditioned to believe that “okay” is good enough, to be satisfied with “okay” because things could be worse, to equate accepting “okay” with being mature.

As an idealist, I had never been one who was okay with “okay.”

A voice within said I could be living more brightly. I was guided to practice mindfulness and began to trust my feelings more. This led me to achieve greater well-being.

I eventually realized that nothing in life is separate and became completely holistic in my approach to life and wellness.

That same voice that whispered to me also exists within you, or you wouldn’t be reading this. There are no coincidences.

So, what exactly is a holistic approach to living?

  • Tapping into self-knowledge and trusting that YOU know what is best for you
  • Embracing your authentic self and the laws of nature
  • Living with purpose
  • Integrating your mind, body, and spirit

How do you begin the holistic journey?

  • Learn to shut down your mind
  • Eat intelligent food and clear all toxins (including people) from your life
  • Ignite your body’s own natural energy and healing abilities before seeking chemical interventions
  • Exalt your home by decluttering and having it reflect you
  • Optimize your perspective (what you think, you create)
  • Make intentional financial decisions
  • Seek purpose
  • Evaluate your life based on the state of your integrated rather than compartmentalized self
  • Harmonize your practical and spiritual needs and no longer measure your progress by a material yardstick

Practicing holistic living and wellness turns your light back on. I’m here to help you flip the switch.

My intention is to support the unique voice within you, inspire you, nudge you, give you tips, help increase your awareness, and cheer you on.

Let’s choose to live.