Healthy Lifestyle
Find tips on how to cultivate healthier lifestyle habits, and take steps to restore balance in your menstrual cycles - and in your life.
Simplify: The Way to a Harmonious Menstrual Cycle and a Happy Life
For the past 6 years I’ve been on a mission to find out how I can be free from PMS, do what I love, and live more deeply and joyfully. ...
Four Most Important Self-care Routines
Watching my young daughter has taught me an important lesson about our basic needs – eating, sleeping, playing and love. When all of these needs ...
Getting in a Workout as a Parent
One of the challenges of motherhood is finding time to exercise. Yes I’ve got a good upper body workout just by lifting and carrying my ...
Why Wear a Sports Bra When Working Out
Recently I read an interesting statistic: It’s estimated that over 80% of women are wearing the wrong size bra. If the lingerie business is a $13 ...
5 Reasons to Hire a Personal Trainer
I used to go to a yoga studio once a week. But once I got pregnant, I found my regular yoga practice too demanding for my drastically changing ...
Natural Remedies Can Ease Arthritis Symptoms
Recently my mother-in-law came to visit us. She’s in her 70s, robust and healthy, except for an ongoing pain from arthritis in her ...
Eco-Friendly Health & Beauty Products
Recently, during my pregnancy, I experienced some severe skin rash and itchiness. Wanting to relieve my discomfort, I set out on a mission to ...
What is a Woman’s Greatest Asset?
A woman’s beauty is a depreciating asset. It loses value as she ages. So, what is a woman’s greatest asset, something that ...
30 Ideas to Reduce Stress and Enjoy a Relaxing Holiday
Holidays can be one of the most stressful times for many people. Shopping for gifts, traveling, hanging out with relatives you’re not necessarily ...
A Simple and Instant Way to Gauge Your Stress Level
Stress is a leading cause of chronic diseases and menstrual disharmonies such as PMS, irregular or painful periods. Knowing this fact, I’ve made ...
Why Use Cloth Pads?
Why use cloth pads? If youʼre reading this, you probably already have an idea of why cloth is better than conventional disposable menstrual ...
Simple Homemade Spa Recipes
One of my favorite pastimes is to have a spa treatment at home. It’s a relaxing, nourishing, and inexpensive way to pamper myself.
Rock Climbing Lesson
A while ago my boyfriend and I took a rock-climbing lesson at the Joshua Tree National Park. We met our instructor Steve and the other climbers ...
Take Care of Small Things
Yesterday there was a problem with my server – which forced me into some unscheduled maintenance, shutting down my website. In the process I ...
Five Simple Exercises with Dumbbells or Kettlebells
I recently started incorporating some weight training into my workout routine and have been looking for a set of simple exercises that I can do ...
Four Guidelines For a Perfect Exercise Routine
Many of you have joined us for this month’s 30-day challenge to get some daily physical activity. Some of you walk for 30 minutes daily. Some of ...
A Flash of Insight: This is How it Works
Yesterday my love gave me a massage. While he circled his hands on my belly in a clockwise fashion, a flash of insight struck me like a ...
Just for Today
Just for today I will try to live this day only And not tackle my whole life problem at once. I can do something for twelve hours that would ...
Living Your Dream Life
This morning a big revelation came to me: I AM living my dream life! I have a wonderful partner and a beautiful home. I’m pursuing my passion. ...
10 Worst Sleeping Habits
Do you have trouble falling asleep and staying asleep at night? Do you wake up feeling tired and groggy? If you do, then you’re probably all too ...
A Simple Life: How to Live Well with Less
Simplifying your life is an essential step to restoring hormone balance and cycle harmony. Check out these 7 tips on how to live well with less. ...
July: Getting Some Physical Activity, Daily
Exercise is important. Studies show that regular exercise strengthens our muscles and bones, improves immune system function, lowers overall ...
30-day Challenge to a Healthier Lifestyle
It’s a proven fact that the menstrual irregularities, premenstrual syndrome, depression and mood swings many of you suffer from can be improved ...
Creating an Empowering Morning Routine
I’ve noticed that how I spend the first hour of the day after I wake up has a big impact on how the rest of my day goes. When I rush through this ...
It’s Possible to Change
When asked, “What do you think is the biggest barrier for you to create healthy habits?” many Cycle Harmony friends responded, “It seems so ...
Living in Sync With the Daily Energy Cycle
Before I studied Chinese Medicine, I was aware that I felt differently at different times of the day, but I didn’t really know why. For example, ...
100 Simple Pleasures in Life
Oscar Wilde once said, “Simple pleasures are always the last refuge of the complex.” And as our lives get increasingly complex and stressful, we ...
The Principles to Preserving Good Health
We all want to be healthy and happy. Good health and happiness are perhaps the two single most important, worthwhile and universal goals any ...
The Common Barriers to Creating Healthy Habits, and How to Overcome Them
“I know I need to exercise and eat better, but I just can’t seem to get myself to do it.” I’ve heard similar comments over and over again in my ...
Standing in Front of a Mirror, Naked
This past weekend my boyfriend and I went for a hike at the Will Rogers State Park. Spring had just done its magic. The mountains were covered ...
7 Principles to Creating Harmony in Your Life
My friend Alec, a talented musician, told me recently that there’s a lot of similarity between music and math, and that when he played music he ...
Why Keep a Daily Mood Journal, and How to Do So Effortlessly
Keeping a daily mood journal has helped me understand and improve the quality of my emotional life – by leaps and bounds. Check out how I keep a ...
Balancing Life in an Urban Environment
This weekend I went for a hike in Topanga Canyon amidst the Santa Monica Mountains. It’s about a 20-minute drive from where I live. So close to ...
How to Improve the Quality of Your Sleep
My friend, Joanne Eng, contributed the following article on insomnia, drawing from her research and personal experiences. It’s very informative ...
Reward Yourself! 10 Ideas That Won’t Break Your Bank
Life is no fun, just working all the time. Every so often we need to reward ourselves and play a little. For people like me who subscribe to the ...
Stressed? Simple Routines That Make a Difference
Someone once said, stress is an inevitable part of life. I think it’s true that no one can go through life without having to deal with stress. ...
Four Lessons on How to Find Your Passion
What is passion, really? Have you ever had an experience where you were ignited by someone’s passion just in his or her presence? Why do some ...
What’s Your Five-Element Personality Type?
Understand your inherent drives, desires and tendencies, your gifts and powers, as well your limitations through the ancient Chinese five element ...
What Do You Say to Yourself the First Thing in the Morning?
“How you start your day is how you’re going to live your day. And how you’re going to live your day is the way you live your life.” ~ Louise Hay
What’s the Stage of Your Life Cycle?
How old are you, if you don’t mind me asking? And what does your age mean to you? To some people, it’s just a number. For others, it is a ...
Well-framed Outcome: Free of Pain or Happiness
If I asked you, “Do you want to be free of pain or do you want to be happy?” you’d probably stare at me as if I’d lost my mind. “What kind of ...
It Takes As Much Energy to Be Sick as It Does to Be Well
Has it ever occurred to you that you invest as much energy to cultivate an unhealthy habit as you do a healthy one? Yet the outcome can be ...
How to Strengthen Your Motivation for a Positive Change
Are you suffering from PMS, fatigue, mood swings or depression and know that a lifestyle change is needed to get the relief you so badly ...
What Is Your State of Qi?
The ancient Taoist wisdom puts great emphasis on “qi” – a life force that animates the forms of the world. When applied to our health, a balanced ...
Disposable or Eco-friendly Menstruation
Do you know the costs of disposable menstrual products – to Mother Nature and to your own pocketbook? It’s never too late to switch ...
Five Tips to Developing Healthier Habits
Let’s face it, the quality of your life right now is a result of the quality of the habits you’ve developed over the years. If you often feel ...
Fatigue? The Keys to Effective Energy Management
How often do you feel tired or exhausted? Is it just a couple of days before your period, or is it a daily occurrence? Well if you often feel ...
Small Rituals Big Difference
“I feel horrible for 10 days before my period and have really low energy for 5 days during my period. Then it takes me 5 another days to recover. ...
How to Achieve and Maintain Your Ideal Weight
If one of your biggest challenges in life is losing weight, you should probably consider yourself lucky. Even though losing weight may seem ...