Top Five Superfoods for Silky Smooth Skin

by Leisa on October 29, 2008

In this article from Natural News, Mike Adams talks about superfoods for building healthy skin. http://www.naturalnews.com/024654.html Skin tone and texture is so much more than what is put on the surface of it.  It really does come from within and from my experience, lots of raw green juices, green smoothies, good quality raw fats and
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Wonderful WA!

by Leisa on October 27, 2008

Well, all I can say is that we had a fantastic time in WA! It was an absolute pleasure to be there and the retreat was an outstanding success. It was a very positive and enthusiastic group of people and it was such a privilege to get to know everyone and to be able to
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Juicing, Fasting and Feelings

by Leisa on October 25, 2008

I have always found the correlations between detoxing the body and detoxing the mind to be a fascinating insight into human nature. In my lectures when I worked at Hippocrates Health Centre, I always talked to people how when they are juice fasting and detoxing, that quite often emotions and feelings will come up to
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Flies, Snakes and Other WA Surprises!

by Leisa on October 23, 2008

Oh my goodness, the things that WA welcomes us with! After having a cool breeze coming in off the ocean for a couple of days, the wind changed and became a very warm current from the opposite direction – bringing with it what is apparently a once yearly event – a fly plague! We started out
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Perth Retreat

by Leisa on October 20, 2008

Well, here we are in WA running an Embracing Life! Retreat on the opposite side of the country – to clarify for all of my international readers – I live in QLD on the eastern edge of Australia and Perth is on the western edge and is a five and a half hour flight away.
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Delightful Short Video

by Leisa on October 19, 2008

Some days there is nothing more important than simply doing (or watching) something that just makes you smile.  This five minute video does exactly that…  Note the power found in the written word. http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=zyGEEamz7ZM Leisa

H is for Honey

by Leisa on October 18, 2008

Honey has earned a bit of a bad rap over the years as being just as bad for us as “pure sugar”.  But all is not as it seems in the world of honey…. There is quite a lot of difference between the honey you find on the supermarket store shelf and pure “Raw Honey” that
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The Healing of My Thyroid

by Leisa on October 16, 2008

As many of you know I have struggled with thyroid issues for many years, and have been taking natural thyroid replacement for some time. In the past when I have tried to wean off the thyroid support, I have become very ill – that is until recently. Putting together my own retreats has been a
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Food and Mood

by Leisa on October 13, 2008

I was talking to a friend today and we were discussing how different foods make us feel and we realised that there was more to “comfort eating” than meets the eye. We will find day to day that our thoughts, feelings and actions are congruent – meaning that if we feel a certain way we
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German New Medicine

by Leisa on October 10, 2008

Wow, another busy couple of weeks that saw me heading to Melbourne to do some lectures for ARL Pathology – the company that I use for saliva and stool testing analysis – and last weekend I spent two full days being introduced to German New Medicine. I have had an interest in German New Medicine for a while
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