by McKenna Gordon | Oct 19, 2016 | Fitness, Mind & Soul, Nutrition
Here’s an important mindset shift for anybody who has a hard time losing weight. Whether it comes off more slowly for you than your friends, or if you’re really feeling stuck and you can’t seem to lose weight no matter how hard you try. If you’ve ever been...
by McKenna Gordon | Jul 5, 2016 | Mind & Soul
There are very often hormonal roots involved in emotional eating. Here are 3 tips on how you can set up specific habits in your life to balance the hormones that make you overeat. The two main hormones that are involved in hunger and satiation are ghrelin and leptin....
by McKenna Gordon | Jun 21, 2016 | Mind & Soul
I feel like we are constantly taught from society and health experts: “You can’t have this”, “Only have one bite”, “You want less sugar” “No.” “Can’t.” “Shouldn’t.” That’s...
by McKenna Gordon | Jun 21, 2016 | Mind & Soul, Well-being
Five Beings We have 5 aspects to our being: physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and energetic. It’s really important to not neglect any of these if we want to make a true change in our life. I think it’s crazy when we are told to just throw willpower at...
by McKenna Gordon | Jun 15, 2016 | Mind & Soul
There are 2 main functions in the body that take up so many resources and energy that other less important body processes are paused until these functions are complete. These two processes are digesting food and managing emotions. Both of these require...
by McKenna Gordon | Jun 15, 2016 | Mind & Soul, Nutrition
When we take a look at how and when emotional eating began (for all of us), we can start to realize how ridiculous it is to fight emotional eating with “willpower,” and instead embrace our emotions and give them a place at our dinner table. -McKenna Gordon It started...
by McKenna Gordon | Jun 15, 2016 | Mind & Soul
Soak in relationships and set a goal to get to know someone more deeply at that gathering instead of focusing on the food. Can you remember a time when you got home from a stressful day and went straight to the fridge like a zombie, not even realizing it, just...
by McKenna Gordon | Jun 15, 2016 | Mind & Soul
“What are you really hungry for?” I’d like to just pose this question. Is it the sugar we’re addicted to? or the dopamine response that occurs when we eat sugar? – And where else in life can we turn up our happiness hormones and neurotransmitters?...
by McKenna Gordon | Jun 7, 2016 | Mind & Soul, Parenting, Well-being
It’s a completely normal scenario: your child starts flipping out over something seemingly small, like being given the the pink cup instead of the green cup. Or having to get off the swings at the park because it’s time for dinner. They go from fine to...
by McKenna Gordon | May 30, 2016 | Mind & Soul, Well-being
What percentage of your average day is spent in stress? What We Have to Worry About Vs Our Ancestors Compared to 50-100 years ago, we are taking in a LOT of data every day. Did you know that every single day, the average person takes in the equivalent of...
by McKenna Gordon | May 16, 2016 | Mind & Soul, Nutrition, Well-being
J.H. Tillden said, “All sickness, all disease, all death is caused by the progressive accumulation of toxins in the body and blood.” However, as much as we don’t want them in our body, this accumulation is unavoidable. Compared to our ancestors, we...
by McKenna Gordon | Dec 12, 2015 | Mind & Soul
More and more scientific evidence is emerging on mindfulness and meditation and how it’s beneficial for not just stress, but also disease prevention and reversal, pain management, sleep, and emotional wellness. If you’re new to mindfulness, here’s a...
by McKenna Gordon | Dec 12, 2015 | Mind & Soul
Have you ever heard someone say, “mindfulness practice” and not know what they are talking about? Have you ever rolled your eyes (don’t worry, I did!) at the thought of meditation? –WAIT! Don’t leave because I said the “M”...
by McKenna Gordon | Dec 12, 2015 | Mind & Soul
When we aren’t living in the moment regularly enough, we begin to feel like we’re just going through the motions of life. We’re alive, but don’t feel like we’re living. If this becomes a chronic state of mind, anxiety or depression is an...
by McKenna Gordon | Jul 16, 2015 | Fitness, Mind & Soul, Nutrition, Well-being
We all know that detoxifying the body from contaminants is important, but there is a lot of misinformation out there, which can make this subject really confusing. Just how critical is it to get rid of toxins in your body? According to J.H. Tilden, M.D., author of...
