Hey! You with your face in your phone! Do you ever feel like a floating head, stuck in a world that is mostly isolated to the space between your ears? You’re not alone. Yoga therapist Cléo Burke says that when she teaches mind-body awareness workshops the first thing she does is help folks remember that […]
New Year’s resolutions
Posted inLifestyle
Bills, bills, bills: lessons from living on a cash diet
The cash diet is a familiar term for those of us who are fans of the Can-con reality show Till Debt Do Us Part. It’s a mainstay on the show as a way to wean over-spenders off plastic. Once you have your monthly budget broken down into major categories—such as rent, groceries and transport—and an […]
Posted inNews + Opinion
2010 resolution: quit and start over
That was no vacation, it was the holidays: a forced shopping mall feeding frenzy spread over end-of-year overtime and out-the-door queues, visits with family, friends, friends-of-family, family-of-friends, gift-wrap shredding, plastic chucking, meat and sugar binging, gift returns and more cut-rate shopping. No wonder come January we’re ready to swear off every earth plundering bad habit […]