A note to my family, students, clients, community, tribe. I have been receiving emails and texts from many of you asking where Heather and I have been the last couple weeks. On November 17th at around 5pm, my loving father, Terry Thomas Mills, passed away suddenly and unexpectedly, a few weeks before his 75th birthday at his home in[…]Read This Blog Post
We spent the last two articles starting with the fundamentals of beginning to create more balance, less stress, more adaptability in your daily life so you can maneuver obstacles and thrive rather than just survive in this brilliant day-to-day existence we have been blessed to experience. (Feature Photo/Art Richard Shilling www.richardshilling.co.uk) Today, we continue where we[…]Read This Blog Post
Earlier in the summer, we started a conversation about life balance. We discussed some ideas and thoughts about balance, and we even gave a “challenge” of picking one thing you have been putting off around your “self care” and practicing it throughout the summer. Some of you may have had lots of success with this[…]Read This Blog Post
Ingredients: 3-4 rhubarb stalks, trimmed and washed, sliced into half inch pieces 1/4 cup of water 1/4-1/2 cup maple syrup or honey 1 tsp cinnamon 1/2 tsp cardamom 1 tsp of vanilla extract 5-7 strawberries halved (optional 1 tbsp of coconut oil) Instructions: Combine ingredients in a heavy saucepan and cook gently until the rhubarb[…]Read This Blog Post
As a teenager, I had a boyfriend who insisted that sunscreen was just a marketing gimmick to sell a product nobody really needed. For some reason, his denial of the valid use of sunscreen made me irrationally irate. So one day at the beach, I decided to put SPF on one-half of my upper chest[…]Read This Blog Post
Ingredients: 1 cup flour (I used organic spelt flour for this recipe.) 2 tsp cinnamon 1 tsp cardamom 1 tsp curry powder 1 tsp sea salt 1/2 tsp turmeric 1/4 tsp cayenne 1 medium size sweet potato 1 small bunch of broccolini 4-5 crimini mushrooms 3 large cloves of garlic chopped 1/2 chopped red onion[…]Read This Blog Post
Summer in Portland is a glorious time! It can also be an intense time for our skin. The lack of sun we experience for the majority of the year leaves us vulnerable when it finally arrives in full force. I see a lot of sunburns in Portland when the sun suddenly appears in all of[…]Read This Blog Post
Ingredients: 1 cup Filtered Water (add more less for thicker consistency) 1/2 cup Organic Blueberries (fresh or frozen) 1/2 cup Organic Strawberries (fresh or frozen) 1 Banana (optional for thicker consistency) 1/2 cup Fresh Basil 1 Mint Leaf (as edible garnish) Food As Medicine: Basil has antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory properties and is high in[…]Read This Blog Post
I recently had a client ask me “when will I know my life is ‘balanced’?” I often use this term “balance” when I am coaching my clients and students to signify some sort of equilibrium. However, this can often be misleading, insinuating perhaps that at some point we will “arrive” in balance never to be[…]Read This Blog Post
See original article published on Portland Monthly here. Each season brings it’s own challenges for your skin. This time of year, Portlanders are transitioning out of an exceptionally long summer—which brought with it a lot of oxidative stress to our skin cells from UV radiation, sunscreens, dehydration, air conditioning, more smog than we are accustomed to, and[…]Read This Blog Post
