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Top 7 Myths of Hormones + Sex (News Flash: Myth Busting Ignites Healing)
What’s your Greater Purpose when it comes to your health? What myths have you busted on your path to robust health? (Show me yours and I’ll show you mine.) Transparency Heals Perhaps you’ve noticed this too. The more honest I get about what I most desire, what I most feel and need, about the ways in which I overprovide, and…
Pleasure, Food and Stress
By Guest Writer Daphne Cohn If there’s one thing I know for sure it’s that eating and living without pleasure = stress. And stress leads to: Weight gain Overeating Exhaustion Moodiness Irritability Overwhelm Loss of passion And way less beauty But the tricky thing is most women I know don’t think pleasure is that important.…
How's your trust fund? I mean…your trust fund in your bones
It’s Valentine’s Day. Time to love up your bones. What’s that? You’re asking “why?” “Why” is not a spiritual question. “How?” is a spiritual question. But I digress. When I first learned that women reach peak bone mass at age 30 to 35, I thought: Help! It’s like a trust fund that peaks too early and ruins the kid. Later…
Need a ReWire to Pleasure, Not Stress? Got Your Marching Orders Right Here!
Last fall I had an epiphany. I was talking to Ellen Heed, the genre-bending anatomy teacher for Ana Forrest’s Yoga Teacher Training, about how we, as women, have to take responsibility for the fact that we are neurologically programmed for pleasure. Here’s the epiphany: our pleasure wiring is a use-it-or-lose-it situation. If you don’t use…
Jonesin' for Your Bones (+ How That Relates to Your Skin) – Don't Lose 30% at Menopause!
With all the other stuff I have to be vigilant about–ravages of stress, how current I am with my man, the mortgage, my daughter’s insane sports schedule, global warming and the lack of snow in Tahoe, my Mother’s thyroid, why 84% of women struggle with insomnia and how I want to fix it TODAY (just…
Dr Sara's Top 3 Natural Tips for Vulvodynia (Tongue-Twister That It Is… Means Your Patuti Hurts or Feels Irritated)
We may not talk about it as openly as our kids or latest food obsession, but vulvodynia affects 15% of women. The official, Harvard approved definiition of vulvodynia is this: Vulvodynia is chronic discomfort in the area around the opening of your vagina and/or labia (vulva) for which there is no identifiable cause. Symptoms…
What Nutrient-Dense Food, Exercise + Orgasm Have In Common
Today I was on a telejam with my new friend, Alexandra Jamieson, who is the nutritionista in the award-winning film, Super Size Me, author and a brilliant certified health and nutrition coach who makes complex subjects like food biochemistry both fascinating and understandable. We were talking the nutrient-dense foods that boost metabolism, get your metabolism right-sized…
My Memory Sucks! Dr. Sara's Top 3 Tips (+ 1 from Tim Ferriss)
Memory is your ability to store, retain, and recall information at will. But sometimes, if you’re like me at age 44, you send the signal and… nothing happens. Blank. I got nothin’. As a recovering stressoholic, I’ve learned that we have a very cool part of our brain called the hippocampus that is the boss…
Gretchen Rubin Made Me Do It: Getting Out the Door to Exercise
One of my dearest friends and I talked about how we didn’t want to read yet another book from some Yalie telling us what to do with our lives, but then we both caved, and actually loved this book. Read The Happiness Project. It will change you forever. Watch my video where I explain how…