Tasty Avocado Toast Recipe!

This recipe was completely inspired by one of my favorite restaurants-Carmel Belle, of Carmel, CA.  I took the liberty of making some healthy changes to suit my needs and make it wheat free.

Toast a piece of sourdough flavored spelt bread (you can find this in the frozen section of health food store)
Top it with 1/2 a sliced avocado
Drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with sea salt

Spelt is an ancient grain that is a good source of protein and gluten free.  Adding sources of healthy fat like olive oil and avocado help to slow down digestion and keep you satisfied longer.

I eat this for breakfast or as a snack or side dish to a soup.


Enjoy!
Kendra

The Recipe Is Not The Meal!

Do you get excited about joining a gym and all the benefits it will create in your life?  Do you feel inspired when you see recipes for healthy food and make a list for the grocery store? Do you ever look up personal trainers or nutritionists, counselors, or any other health advocate with the intention to follow through?

Do you go as far as to write out a new "schedule" that includes all the things in your life that you know you need to be doing to support yourself and your wellbeing, or the wellbeing of your relationships and family?

I know I have.  And I have many clients who have the best of intentions...weight loss, improved relationships, exercise, you name it. 

There is something exciting about the planning stage, the imagining phase, of any new journey we decide to take.  We can see how good we will look, and can imagine how great we will feel, envision our quality of life improving. This is the just the "recipe."   We often lose momentum when we allow life's challenges to work their way into our kitchen!

In order to enjoy the "meal"  of (fill in the blank, wellness, health, abundance) we need to gather the necessary ingredients.  These ingredients may include information, resources, SUPPORT, and time managment adjustments,  to name a few.   But we can't stop there.  We have to put those ingredients together to create our intentions.  ACTION is often the missing ingredient. And just as a good soup needs a hardy stock as its base, so too do we need a base - called COMMITMENT.  My clients hear me saying time and again that "your commitment must be bigger than your circumstances."

What is the life recipe you find yourself thinking about all the time?  Are you ready to taste the success of your commitment in action?

Take your recipe out of the box and enjoy  it as the meal you intend it to be!

Namaste,
Kendra

Nothing is an Interruption

Oh, the irony.  It has taken me literally 3 months to write this and get it posted.  Even as I type, my computer is threatening to shut down as my battery dips below 10%.  And there is some supposed urgent "update" that keeps blinking down below, drawing my eyes away from the screen, luring me into distraction.

I originally sat down to write this posting in the wee hours, after the end of a very long day of balancing new motherhood with work and other obligations.  I got the idea in my head, fired up the laptop, cozied up in the recliner...and then, "Wahhhhhh.....!"  My son Evan woke up crying for a nightly feeding.  In a flash I was up and switching gears to meet his needs and basically call it a night.  The posting titled, "nothing is an interruption" would have to wait.  It wasn't until I was in bed  that I realized that the subject of my posting  was in full effect.

Many years ago, I read or heard this phrase and it stuck with me.   "Nothing is an interruption."  I found this to be such a profound statement.    Everything is life, expressing itself.  My ego's idea of something getting in the way of what "should" be happening in the moment is just pure denial of life, expressing itself.  Really, what is more important in any given moment then me being present to WHAT IS, and responding to that with as much awareness (and compassion) as possible? 

Case in point:  I want to watch a movie.  The electricity goes out.  What an interruption! (says ego, who would rather watch a movie then sit in the dark)  As I get drawn into the mental chatter of what should be happening I create alot of resistance to the moment.  Resistance wastes the energy that could be spent responding to WHAT IS.  When I let go of the resistance, be present, and respond appropriately, it's amazing how quickly life seems to come back into a sense of harmony.  By the way, responding appropriately in this case was lighting some candles, enjoying the quiet, and playing a game of Scrabble with my husband.  You know, the guy I hardly get to see since having a baby!

So, that is my lesson, every day.  I keep saying "nothing is an interruption."  I use this mantra during big traumatic events.  I use it when the light turns red when I am running late.  I use it when someone calls me and I really think I have something else I should be doing. And it commands me back into the moment.  This rich, full, beautiful, inconvenient, perfect moment.

Namaste,
Kendra