VLOG 21 - Fun With the New Zip Line

Good morning, everyone!  Yesterday we had the awesome experience of putting up a new zip line in our back yard for our boys.  We all had so much fun playing on it.  Here is a video of the very first trips down the line! 

Hope you enjoy!

VLOG 19 Rock Balancing

Our family has a really neat hobby that I'd love to share with you.  This past year we took up rock balancing as one of the ways that we sometimes spend our evenings.  Rock balancing is an art that has been practiced for many years and is as simple as balancing rocks on their tips or ends or any other interesting nook that you may find on your rock. 

Anyone can rock balance.  It is fun to get out in nature and is something that the whole family can get in on.  Even young kids love to get into the "rock stacking" if they aren't where they can find the balance yet. 

Also, we spend so much of our lives disconnected from the world around us and rock balancing is a great way to reconnect.  You can feel the solidarity of the rocks and it is a great way to be reminded that the world is more than our computers and cellphones.

For our fun we simply got some rocks from our woods and around our yard and plopped them all down in our front flower bed and started balancing away.

I love the art because of the stillness of mind and body that it requires.  It is really hard to balance rocks when your mind is racing or your body is in inner chaos.  You literally have to become the balance that you want to see.

We love you all deeply.  Have a wonderful day!

VLOG 18 Family Vacation Fun

We love vacations!

Every year we take a week in September and get away from it all.  This is our vlog from this year's September get away. 

We went to the mountains and stayed in a beautiful chalet in north Georgia.  We filled our days with hiking, shopping, eating, laughing, waterfalls, white water rafting, shuffleboard, watching the river, playing outdoors and celebrating our oldest son's 12th birthday.  Hope you enjoy!

You are BLESSED!

VLOG 17 Post 4th of July Juice and Eyebrow Magic

Hi Everyone!  It has definitely been awhile since my last post.  So much has been happening that blogging just hasn't made it on my to-do list. haha  But don't worry, I am back!  I love to roll with life and feel that certain activities and habits come in and out just like the seasons.  So, for now blogging is back in!

This video is actually a video that I edited back in July.  I am posting the video here in September and I honestly only remember the main subjects that I was talking about and not much else.  It seems to be a long and rambly vlog and I don't want to take the time to go back and review so I am going ahead and posting the video for your long rambly vlog enjoyment!  :)

You are blessed!

VLOG 16 - Life Update, Weight Loss Project, Videos and Victoria Boutenko

Hi Everyone! 

Thank you all so much for watching and for being here on my blog.  I hope it is a blessing for you!

This weeks update covers a little bit about what I have been doing for my own body physically, some new projects that I am involved in and a recommendation for the book Green For Life by Victoria Boutenko.

I love you all and hope that you have a fabulous day!

VLOG 15 - My 39th Birthday Musings and Blessings

Well, it's now been 39 years that I have been cruising around planet earth!  What a TRIP!

Here is my 39th birthday VLOG.  I am reflecting on the past and where I want to be in the future.  The smoothies, fruit tarts, motorcycle chasing dogs and trampolines included in this post are just icing on the cake! :)

Everyone have a blessed day and remember to be grateful for EVERY day of life you are given.

I love you all.

VLOG 14 - I Actually Found A Pot Of Gold At The End Of The Rainbow!

Here's another one of my somewhat daily VLOG updates. :) 

This has to be one of the most special things that has happened to me in a long time, and in my usual long, drawn out, filled with wayyyy too many details for most people's comfort, I share it with you.  :)

VLOG12 - Exercise as a Priority and Random Life Update

Hi Everyone! Just a random update video. I didn't have too much to report today. Ramping up on exercise as a priority and wrapping up some fun projects.

Have a great week!

VLOG11 - Relationships, Gratitude and Why I Stopped Juicing

Today I cover using gratitude to change the dynamics of the relationships in your life, my smoothies and juices for the day and I answer the question "Why did you quit juicing"?

VLOG10 - Juicing, Paddleboarding, Gratitude and Guild Wars 2

My somewhat daily VLOG :)
Today I talk transitioning from my juice fast, getting back into mountain biking and starting paddleboarding. I am reading The Magic by Phyllis Byrne and playing in the Guild Wars 2 Beta event, even though I suck. :)

VLOG9 - Day 12 Celebrating Our Accomplishments

Fasting is hard work.  Let's not forget to celebrate our accomplishments every day!

VLOG8 - Juice Feast Day 11 - Still Going Strong!

I can't believe that Day 11 is already here!  My fasting is still going strong and I am enjoying the changes I am seeing. 

VLOG7 - Juice Fast Day 7 is Here! Emotional Detox

We seem to have a pattern emerging!  I have had a lot of emotional detox going on lately!  Here is my vlog about how my physical and emotional symptoms are going.

VLOG6 - Juice Fast Day 5 and the Consequences of Being Unprepared

Day 5 is here already and today I pay the price of not planning ahead!

VLOG5 - Juice Fast Day 4 - Multitasking & Emotional Detox

Yay!  I made it to day 4.  This juice fast is going very well.  I am still feeling great and have so much energy.  I am having some detox symptoms creeping in but I know what to do to keep myself feeling good during the detox, and I am so thankful for that. 

Today is going to be a busy day so I'm keeping the juice close at hand to keep my energy up!

Choose to have a wonderful day and keep smiling!

VLOG4 - Juice Fast Day 3 - Breaking out the neti-pot

Day 3 of this detox was awesome!  Great juices, great smoothies, good energy levels, mental clarity and emotional stability is what I call a wonderful start to this fast.  But as this is not my first rodeo, I also know that in the next day or 2 it's inevitable that I have some major detox symptoms setting in.  Today I had some minor sinus drainage so I decided to go ahead and start using the neti pot. 

I am enjoying the possibilities of all of the great things that are going to happen during this detox.

Everyone have a wonderful week and remember to keep smiling!

VLOG3 - Juice Feast Day 2 - It's Not Just About the Juice!

Juicing is a rare opportunity to totally rewrite the way we are interacting with our own lives.   Not only are we stepping aside from one of the main focuses of our lives - EATING - but we are also removing an emotional crutch, or a distraction at a minimum for most of us.

I look at juicing  as this wonderful gift and I try to approach it with wonder and excitement because I have never come out of a juice feast not changed on the other side!  Sometimes the changes are an almost miraculous physical healing, sometimes changes are a revelation about myself that I didn't know or a new way of looking at some aspect of my life.  Sometimes I am able to let go of something that has been an emotional sore point for decades, or I am able to look at and consider forgiveness when this was a subject that was unapproachable prior to my juice feast. 

I love to press in to the hard spots and heal what needs to be healed and move out the negativity and limiting beliefs that are not serving me anymore.

I find that I also get to be a great problem solver in my own life the deeper into my juicing that I go. I am able to look at situations with more clarity and objectivity.  Sometimes the change is in me and sometimes the change is in the situation.  I love that!

So when I juice I try to shake up my routines a bit.  I make connecting with myself a priority, and I make it a priority early on in my detox even though I usually get the most growth a lot further into my fasts.  I journal a whole lot more.  I find that my thoughts and insights might just pass me by if I don't write them down, so I keep a listening ear to what I find on my heart and I journal those.

I also make sure that I have time to myself during the day.  My time is in the morning before the other humans in my life are out of bed.  :) I really put a focus on looking at my life and looking at what is working and what isn't.  I look at why it's not working, not projecting blame or negativity on others, and what I can do to shift or change that.

I love being in the beginning of a juice feast where the growth theme hasn't necessarily presented itself yet and there is so much possibility. 

So if you feel so inclined make the most of your time juicing and make sure you aren't missing this opportunity to create positive and lasting change in your life.  It's not just about what you are putting in your mouth.  If that is what you are focusing on you are going to miss out on the bigger blessing.

Everyone enjoy your juicy day and remember to Keep Smiling!

VLOG2 - Starting a Juice Cleanse with Steve Crider Juice Club

I am just so glad that a girl can change her mind! 

Just a couple of days ago I posted that I was doing a cleanse and just could not swing doing a full on juice feast but 'lo and behold the time has come.  I came home from the mountains determined to kick my cleanse up a notch and found out the amazing Steve Crider had formed a Juice Club while I was away.  The fun part of this is that they started a juice detox the day I started mine and so I have a whole gaggle of people to juice with now!!  How exciting.

The group is called Juice Club (fight for your life) and is located on Facebook.  It is a wonderful group filled with lively discussion and amazing people. 

This video is my intro to the group and a layout of day 1.

I hope that everyone has chosen to have an absolutely fabulous day and that you remember to keep smiling!

VLOG1 - Jumpstart and Headed to the Mountains

Hey everyone!  It has been such a hectic week (but in a good way :)  ).   We are getting ready for a little trip to the North Georgia Mountains this weekend and looking forward to some relaxing by the streams, hiking, waterfall viewing and fishing.  We just have such a beautiful state for connecting with nature. 

This is my first vlog on this channel and I will try to post at least one update every week.  This will be the account that I use for my personal updates and I will continue to use my InternaPure blog for clinic updates and other health related stuff.

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend and remember to enjoy yourself, be kind to others and to keep smiling!