Give the Gift of Health

Give yourself, or a loved one, the gift of health. This time of year, it is so easy to feel stress physically, emotionally and even spiritually. We can sacrifice self-care as we try to fit in more. The most loving gift you can give to your loved ones is the gift of your own self-care. Fill your bucket so it can pour over to others. Well-being is infectious and so is stress. Which will you choose to give energy to? Here’s a few last-minute gifts to consider for yourself or others that I have to offer:

My hope is that you will enjoy the feast of this holiday season and join us in January for an Intermittent Fasting KickStart . You will be nourished with organic soups, juices, turmeric mct shots and nut mylks, delivered right to your home. This will provide you energy to plan, shop and cook (or to eat out), while discovering an eating rhythm that works for you. Intermittent fasting is not about dieting or deprivation. It is about enjoying pleasurable food for 8-10 hours a day (feasting), and then allowing your body to rest and digest and repair itself for the remainder of the 24 hours (fasting). Food and cooking is the ultimate expression of love. Learning to feed yourself nourishing wholesome food is probably the best healthcare and self-love skill you can develop.  

Email me for a Gift Certificate for a Health Assessment with me. Cost is $300 for 1 1/2 hour session plus recommendations.  We can meet online. 

Or give my self health book, Savvy Secrets.

Consider a class or a service at Rise Well-being Center. I'll be teaching a class next Wednesday. 

Here's one of my favorite recipes while cranberries are in season:

Raw Cranberry Sauce

Ingredients: 

2 cups of fresh cranberries

1 apple, cored and quartered

1 orange peeled, seeded, quartered

1 tsp orange zest

1 cup dates, pitted

Directions: In a food processor, process all ingredients until thoroughly mixed but still chunky. 

May your holidays be filled with simple pleasures.

Carpe Diem!

Lisa

About Lisa Jackson, RN, CHC, RYT-500, AFMC

Lisa is an author, functional nutrition, and functional medicine trained health coach, yoga teacher, and retired Registered Nurse with the mission to "Inspire, Educate and Empower" individuals and corporations to achieve optimal health.

Lisa's book, Savvy Secrets: Eat, Think & Thrive is a self-health book offering her Seven Steps to Optimal Health.

When she is not coaching, or speaking, you can find Lisa joyfully sharing Carpe Diem Dance or playing with her two grandchildren. She is the mother of four adult children and believes, "Optimal health should not be a secret."

Self Care During the Holidays

How to we practice self care, especially over the holidays? How do we show up for ourselves when you want to show up for everyone else? How do I walk the walk?

Typically, the holidays revolve around my family. This Thanksgiving however, my husband and I decided to spend the holiday alone instead of with our family. We had the choice to drive 12 hours in the snow to Northern Michigan to visit my two daughters and grandchildren or go to sunny Cancun. We decided the latter. We were exhausted, my husband has had unprecedented stress with his business, and we realized we needed time for ourselves and each other.

But this decision didn’t come easily. It felt sacrilegious and selfish. I felt guilty at the idea of missing out on quality time with my quickly growing grandchildren. But one thing I’ve learned is the more we give, the more self care we need. You cannot give from an empty bucket and my bucket was close to empty.
So we chose Cancun.

Each day my daughters sent messages of what I was missing: Zydeco dancing with a live band! Making mini snowmen with my grandson! Hiking, cooking together, holiday music! This was a lot to miss.

But by choosing to miss out on these beautiful family memories, I was able to take the time for myself to recharge. To bask in the sun and do yoga on the beach. To reconnect with my husband, I even did a little Christmas shopping online. Now refreshed, I can truly enjoy the holidays without the stress and migraines I routinely had this time of the year.

By choosing my own self care, I am now ready to fully engage and be present with my family this Christmas and New Year’s. By showing up for myself and honoring my own needs, I can now show up for everyone else.

How are you showing up for yourself this holiday season? What small acts of self care can you give yourself?

For more self care, come see me Wednesday mornings at the Rise Well-Being Center, or stay tuned and plan to join us for our newest Intermittent Fasting Kickstart in January.

Carpe Diem and Happy Holidays!

With Love & Gratitude,

Lisa

About Lisa Jackson, RN, CHC, RYT-500, AFMC

Lisa is an author, functional nutrition, and functional medicine trained health coach, yoga teacher, and retired Registered Nurse with the mission to "Inspire, Educate and Empower" individuals and corporations to achieve optimal health.

Lisa's book, Savvy Secrets: Eat, Think & Thrive is a self-health book offering her Seven Steps to Optimal Health.

When she is not coaching, or speaking, you can find Lisa joyfully sharing Carpe Diem Dance or playing with her two grandchildren. She is the mother of four adult children and believes, "Optimal health should not be a secret."

This Thanksgiving a friend and colleague, Babette Lamarre is in need of support. She has  been told that she has an incurable cancer and is on her way to California to beat the odds given. I do believe in the power to heal from within and so does she. She's given so much to others, now it's time for her to receive. Please read her story and send her love, prayers and consider supporting her.

Click Here to See her Story & GoFundMe Page

If you want proof in the power to heal from within, then please purchase tickets now for a December 5th viewing for inspiration and education. The Food Cure is a documentary about 6 individuals using food for cancer treatment. 

Please register here for this important film and join us

Hope to see you at the movie theatre!

Wishing you and your families health and happiness this Thanksgiving. 

Carpe Diem. With Love & Gratitude,

Lisa

Turning Fear into Curiosity and Empowerment

I've talked about turning fear into curiosity as one of my seven steps to optimal health and wellness. How do we do this when we are feeling stuck? When we feel like our world is tumbling and we are stuck in a rut?  The current human condition is to feel like a victim or we might be the rescuer or the prosecutor. We get stuck in this negative triangle. It is called the Drama Triangle.

When we are ask ourselves, "Why me? Why does this always happen to me?" we fall into the victim role. We may identify our being with our illness or diagnosis. Or we may move over to the rescuer role, "I'm going to swoop in and fix this." Some one else is hurting, I'm going to be the rescuer, which can make us feel good but ignore our own issues. Many healthcare providers identify with this role. Or we might take on the persecutor role, "What's wrong with me?" It's that internal negative voice full of automatic negative thoughts (ANTs) and self limiting beliefs that we bestow upon ourself.

How do we change this negative pattern? We can change this to a triangle that is full of personal development, growth and transformation.  Imagine what your life can become by changing these dynamics! We can change from being the victim to becoming the creator.  To be the creator of our destiny.

To turn that inner voice into the coach like the little train that said, "I think I can, I think I can"

Or turn the inner critic, the persecutor into the challenger. When you hear that voice saying, "Why am I always so dumb? Why am I always so sick?" (or whatever ANTs show up) ask a different question.

Like, "Am I always dumb, all the time? Is this really true?  What would my life be life if I were smart or not sick (or healthy or thin and beautiful or whatever the goal) How would I feel?"  Get into this future vision of yourself that you can keep in your mind, and be open to new possibilities. Then take small sustainable steps to get there. I'm taking on a challenger role by writing this blogpost.  What will you create as a result of it? 

This is the power of coaching. To have another person help you to co-create a new reality for yourself. Co-create a plan that serves you better. To look at the dis-ease you are feeling today as a lesson for where you don't want to be; and as motivation to help you create a roadmap to where you want to be.

Food for thought. Carpe Diem.

Lisa

About Lisa Jackson, RN, CHC, RYT-500, AFMC

Lisa is an author, functional nutrition, and functional medicine trained health coach, yoga teacher, and retired Registered Nurse with the mission to "Inspire, Educate and Empower" individuals and corporations to achieve optimal health.

Lisa's book, Savvy Secrets: Eat, Think & Thrive is a self-health book offering her Seven Steps to Optimal Health.

When she is not coaching, or speaking, you can find Lisa joyfully sharing Carpe Diem Dance or playing with her two grandchildren. She is the mother of four adult children and believes, "Optimal health should not be a secret."

November 1st as the New Year

The nights are getting longer. This is good news. All seeds begin in darkness. Often our darkest moments create the seed of innovation. Everything in nature points to this. Through darkness comes miracles and transformation. The caterpillar becomes a cocoon and then the butterfly. Human beings take 9 months of incubation before birth. My husband and I were driving home last night and noticed all the deer.  I reminded him that this was mating season and that mammals mate and incubate and hibernate during the winter months.

Dr Eben Alexander, MD and Harvard Professor, discusses his coma and Near Death Experience as feeling like he was in a "murky muddy underground."  He then saw a bright light and a being that said, "You have eternal love and nothing to fear."  He goes further to say that the world is about to go through a global conscious awakening and will experience peace like we have never known. 

How beautiful is this? How different is this to the news we are receiving today? Dr Alexander survived a coma for 7 days which is unheard of in conventional medicine. He is an example of the power of the human being. 

Our modern culture does not honor this incubation period. We judge ourselves on how much we can accomplish each day. We can easily dismiss the importance of sleep, rest and just being. We forget that we are human beings, not human doings. 

The earth based traditions believed that November 1st was the New Year.  That now is the time to save and cultivate seeds. Now is the time to plant your seeds for what you want to begin to germinate in the Spring.

Will you take the extra hour and perhaps meditate on what it is you would like to sprout in the next 6 months? Will you prioritize sleep so you can align your body with natural rhythm for optimal health? 

Food for thought. Carpe Diem

Lisa

Importance of Play & Community: An Invitation on Halloween

I love Halloween. It gives me an excuse to dress up and pretend I'm a kid again. I can so easily get bogged down in the seriousness of life... in the data. I can forget to smell the roses. There's a reason that children and grandchildren keep us young. They can keep us in the moment. They can be pure joy. We forget how important it is to play. Even working dogs, like rescue dogs, can only work 2 hours before they need a break and need to run and fetch a ball for fun.

This is why I love and teach Carpe Diem Dance. It is movement to music that keeps you in the moment. It's playful, fun and joyful. Sometimes I throw in an invitation to explore your emotional and spiritual self along with your physical body.  Otherwise, it's too easy to get stuck in our mental body. When you play, your body emits powerful endorphins of pleasure. This tells your body that it is safe to rest and relax, to rest and repair, and/or to mate and ovulate (depending on your goals).

It's also easy to get stuck in social inertia. If you are self employed or work at a desk on a computer every day, you can easily feel some social isolation. This is a common root cause of dis-ease that is becoming increasingly more common.

You cannot underestimate the power of both play and community. Sometimes our community can keep us stuck too. If you are wanting to create change in your life, your family and friends may be resistant. Especially when it comes to food and alcohol. Food is emotional and it takes courage to be different. This is why it is especially important to create your own community for support as we are doing with the IF Kickstart starting this week.

In yoga, we call habitual patterns, samskara's. These habitual patterns become so ingrained that they can become addictions. These can become our modern day "Ghosts"

So whaddya gonna do about it? Call Ghostbusters!

Please join me on Wednesday morning at 7:30am to dance and play to fun Halloween music. Can you think of a better way to start your day? You can bring a costume or just bring yourself in whatever attire is best for the day.  I'll be teaching my Carpe Diem Dance class at Rise Wellbeing Center. If you've been meaning to check out this beautiful new center then come this week. If it's your first time, the class will be free. Consider joining this community of like minded souls to nourish your mind, body and spirit.

When you surround yourself with healthy people, your health improves. Do you have a community that supports your samskara's or that allows you freedom to choose healthy, food, thoughts and actions?

What ghosts do you need help busting? What do you do for fun? Is there a super power you want to emulate this week?  Happy Halloween!

Carpe Diem,

Lisa

Antioxidants and Cardiovascular Health

You may not know this about me. I was diagnosed with hypertension in my 30's and on statin medications to lower my cholesterol. Never mind that I was a single mother with 3 small children. Stress was my mantra. I remember taking a meditation class at Brown's Chapel where they wanted us to sit on the floor, when every bone in my body ached. I had chronic back and neck pain then. I told them it hurt to sit that way and was told to just sit and breathe through it. I thought to myself $%* this! I didn't go back. I didn't think I had any choice back then, but to power through. I took a mindful eating class, but that didn't resonate with me either.

I've since learned ALOT about hypertension and cardiovascular disease.  I know that cholesterol is not the enemy. I know that stress is the silent killer and as in all chronic disease, there are usually multiple factors and triggers. I know that we are all unique and we need to look at root causes to find "the cure" or at least to stop progression and put the disease into remission.

I know that maintenance matters. Here's a picture of the birthday card my girlfriend Peggy gave me:

Maintenance Matters!

Those statins gave me severe muscle pain. I tried them on and off over the years always with the same result. It wasn't until this past decade that I discovered the power of micronutrient testing and functional medicine that I finally pinpointed some of the root causes of my cardiovascular disease.

I know now that if you are on a statin medication you must take CoQ10. You see statins lower this vital nutrient, there are in fact, mitochondrial killers. The mitochondria is the power plant inside each and every cell in your body that generates energy in a process called ATP. CoQ10 is the spark.

It's not just statins that lower CoQ10. Acid blockers like PPIs and antihistamine allergy drugs, antacids, antibiotics, blood thinners, blood pressure and anti arrhythmia drugs, cancer drugs, diabetes medications and psychiatric drugs, all lower this vital nutrient.

CoQ10 is just one of several powerful antioxidants. Antioxidants are powerful in that they counteract oxidative stress from free radicals. Free radicals occur from daily living like exercising and eating. They also occur from toxins in our bodies, fried foods, alcohol and internal and external stressors.

How do we raise antioxidants? We can take supplements or we can eat and drink antioxidant rich food. If you are on medications and/or live life to the max with added stress, I would suggest you do both, supplement and ingest nutrient dense food. Last month I attended a seminar on micronutrient status as it relates to cardiovascular disease sponsored by Spectracell Laboratories. This is my go to lab for many years now and I test myself annually for both micronutrient testing and cardio metabolic testing.

But what is the simplest solution? Eat 8-10 servings of a variety of vegetables particularly green leafy and cruciferous vegetables, small amount of seasonal fruit and healthy fats and proteins. It's hard to eat that many vegetables for most, so I'm a big fan of green juices. This is why I am teaming up with Tasty6 and others to offer the Intermittent Fasting KickStart. If you'd like to join us, then please register before October 25th. You can learn more via this short video.

Carpe Diem,

Lisa

Did you miss out? It's not too late for an Intermittent Fasting KickStart!

Did you miss out on the first opportunity? No worries, because now you have another chance! There is always a new day, a new opportunity for a kickstart. This fall for the first time, we are offering an Intermittent Fasting Kickstart. Why? Because it's sustainable. It's easy and it's life affirming.

What does this mean? It means, it's not about dieting. It's not about deprivation. It's not about eating less. It's about eating less often. To find your own daily rhythm. A rhythm that suits your unique body the best.

It's what everybody is talking about it! Here's the "Who's Who" of experts in healthy living from the famous Cardiologist who wrote Wheat Belly Total Health to the recent book by Dale Bredesen, MD on The End of Alzheimer's: The First Program to Prevent and Reverse Cognitive Decline. Who doesn't want to have the sharpest mind, no matter what age?!

Dr Ben Lynch writes about the benefit of intermittent fasting to clean up your dirty genes. YES! You can change the expression of your genes with diet and lifestyle! You are not bound by your genes, nor are you bound by any diagnosis. This is what we will be talking about in our first online webinar that is included in your 7 Day KickStart to Wellness.

Do you want to feel and look your best? Then, please, I urge you to join us and sign up before October 25th when we will hold our first online kickstart webinar, where you will commit to a 7 day Intermittent Fasting Kickstart program. The program will officially begin on November 1st when your Tasty6 supplemental organic fresh soups, juices, nut mylks, and MCT shots with turmeric will be delivered to your home or office.  This can be shipped directly to the address given when you register.

The day after Halloween is a perfect time to begin. Whether your goal is to prepare for the holidays, or a wedding, you want to heal from a war torn body, or you want to find your optimal weight and health.  This is the perfect program for you to get group support, education and knowledge so you can confidently create positive lifestyle change that is sustainable.  We are providing you with the best organic juices and food voted by Washingtonian Magazine, vetted tried and true simple recipes, a guidebook on eating out, group support and more.

We are really excited to be able to offer this program to you and hoping that you will join us to find your optimal health and wellness.

Carpe Diem,

Lisa

Choose Clarity on Columbus Day

This morning I woke up to my husband's snoring at 3:45 am. I used to have a lot of insomnia. Now, not so much. When I do wake up before "I should", I don't panic. Instead, I practice looking at life with more curiosity and less fear. I ask myself, "What is my body telling me? What is it that I'm needing and wanting?"

I worked 7 days this week and although I love what I do, I realized that I was needing time for me. This morning, I went outside, I danced in the moonlight, looked up, and saw a shooting star. A reminder that it was time to explore my own vast inner world. Time to exercise, to meditate and to write. It felt deeply nourishing.

Today is Columbus Day; a day to celebrate freedom. More than one of my clients have said, "I feel like a prisoner to my disease."  There are more than 68,000 diagnosis codes in the ICD-10 International Classifications of Diseases that our modern medicine relies on for insurance reimbursement. That is a lot of labels of what's wrong with us. That's a lot of negative news. It's enough to make you anxious. Add in the radio and television ads like, "Do you have Gastric Esophageal Reflux Disease?" Translated to, are you eating fake food that is irritating your stomach? Or do you have so much stress that your body thinks it should be running away instead of digesting food?  You can see how easy it is to get trapped in the "What's wrong with me?" mindset.

What if all these labels and signs and symptoms were merely a loving message from within signaling a need for change?  A nudge to point to a new direction? Imagine what your life might look like if you used your inner compass for direction instead of fearful labels. Focus on where you want to go. Use the dis-ease as a buoy so you don't shipwreck your body. Use your dreams and desires as a lighthouse to sail towards.

When you are locked into labels, it is hard to see clearly. I find it fascinating that autoimmune disease is growing at an epidemic rate. This by definition, is failure to recognize self. It's a cry and reminder to pay attention to self. If you believe that the world is flat, then it's easy to fear going too far and falling off the end of the earth. Please do not become victim to self limiting beliefs and labels.  Don't become so locked into your disease that you are covered in fog and cannot see the lighthouse.

If you know and believe that your body is self healing and self repairing then you are empowered to move in new directions. You are free to play and experiment with different choices. This can be the gift of the dis-ease, if you are open to new possibilities. 

We hear a lot about "finding balance." Balance is not a static end point. It's more like a dance with a rhythm. Some days you may need a vinyasa practice or aerobic exercise, to run, punch a bag, or to dance. Other times your body may need deep rest and a meditative practice.  We can get so locked in our "shoulds" that we lose touch with ourselves. See if you can find fluidity in your physical practice. See if you can practice self compassion on days when your body is needing deep rest. Don't worry, you won't sleep forever and you won't fall into the deep abyss, if you follow your heart.

Where do you practice freedom? Are you free to fully express yourself in your deepest relationships? Can you honor your unique thoughts, needs and desires enough to speak your truth? Being true to self takes courage in a world focused on conformity.

Free yourself from food myths and marketing. Food can be medicine or the same food can be another man's poison. We are all unique. Honor your unique body's needs and rhythms. Our genes have been adapting for as long as our existence, based on your stressors. What stress do you need to remove in order to fully digest and assimilate nutrition?

Diversity in the diet is the #1 practice you can do for longevity. Try a new food or recipe this week. Focus on feeling good without the need for addictive food or substances. Self medication is only sustainable for so long. Freedom may come by doing something radically different. Spend time fasting to give your gastrointestinal tract time to heal and repair. Or join us on October 25th to learn about and commit to an Intermittent Fasting KickStart. This is a great pre-holiday kickstart that is sustainable with supplemental juices, nut mylks, MCT shots, and soups to be delivered on November 1st, just after Halloween.

Take time today to enjoy nature, return to self and dare to explore the vast inner world of your unique body, mind and spirit. Focus on where you want to go and explore new ways to get there.  Ask yourself what limiting belief is holding you back from obtaining your goals. No amount of medication or supplementation can compare to the power of practicing self love, compassion and self care. Go where no man has gone before. Dare to explore the vast world of infinite possibility within you.

Carpe Diem,

Lisa

About Lisa Jackson, RN, CHC, RYT-500, AFMC

Lisa is an author, functional nutrition, and functional medicine trained, health coach, yoga teacher, and retired Registered Nurse with the mission to inspire, educate and empower individuals and corporations to achieve optimal health.

Lisa's book, Savvy Secrets: Eat, Think & Thrive is a self-health book offering her Seven Steps to Optimal Health.

When she is not coaching, or speaking, you can find Lisa joyfully sharing yoga and Carpe Diem Dance or playing with her two grandchildren. She is the mother of four adult children and believes, "Optimal health should not be a secret."

The Power of Love

Yesterday was my daughter, Margo's 32nd birthday. As I was preparing for my morning yoga classes I ran across this letter from Albert Einstein to his daughter on the power of love. When I first read this I remember feeling somewhat angry and judgmental that Einstein wasn't there for his daughter, as my father was absent for nearly all of my young life.

This morning, I reread his letter in another, more human, light. We all make mistakes. To err is human. This is how we learn our biggest lessons. Margo is now a young Mother. She too will make mistakes, as I did. We can remain angry and bitter or we can choose to forgive ourselves and each other. 

In my case, I need to forgive both of us. I still grieve my father's death, because I never fully forgave him when he was alive. I missed precious time with him. I need to forgive him for my own heart health.

Here's Albert Einstein's letter:

“When I proposed the theory of relativity, very few understood me, and what I will reveal now to transmit to mankind will also collide with the misunderstanding and prejudice in the world.

I ask you to guard the letters as long as necessary, years, decades, until society is advanced enough to accept what I will explain below.

There is an extremely powerful force that, so far, science has not found a formal explanation to. It is a force that includes and governs all others, and is even behind any phenomenon operating in the universe and has not yet been identified by us. This universal force is LOVE.

When scientists looked for a unified theory of the universe they forgot the most powerful unseen force. Love is Light, that enlightens those who give and receive it. Love is gravity, because it makes some people feel attracted to others. Love is power, because it multiplies the best we have, and allows humanity not to be extinguished in their blind selfishness. Love unfolds and reveals. For love we live and die. Love is God and God is Love.

This force explains everything and gives meaning to life. This is the variable that we have ignored for too long, maybe because we are afraid of love because it is the only energy in the universe that man has not learned to drive at will.

To give visibility to love, I made a simple substitution in my most famous equation. If instead of E = mc2, we accept that the energy to heal the world can be obtained through love multiplied by the speed of light squared, we arrive at the conclusion that love is the most powerful force there is, because it has no limits.

After the failure of humanity in the use and control of the other forces of the universe that have turned against us, it is urgent that we nourish ourselves with another kind of energy…

If we want our species to survive, if we are to find meaning in life, if we want to save the world and every sentient being that inhabits it, love is the one and only answer.

Perhaps we are not yet ready to make a bomb of love, a device powerful enough to entirely destroy the hate, selfishness and greed that devastate the planet.

However, each individual carries within them a small but powerful generator of love whose energy is waiting to be released.

When we learn to give and receive this universal energy, dear Lieserl, we will have affirmed that love conquers all, is able to transcend everything and anything, because love is the quintessence of life.

I deeply regret not having been able to express what is in my heart, which has quietly beaten for you all my life. Maybe it’s too late to apologize, but as time is relative, I need to tell you that I love you and thanks to you I have reached the ultimate answer! “.

Your father,

Albert Einstein

One thing I know for sure is the power of love. It wasn't until I gave birth to Margo and her siblings that I fully understood this. I agree with Einstein that it is urgent that we nourish ourselves with this powerful healing energy. What negativity do you need to release in order to be able to receive this love? To receive nourishment? Is there someone you need to forgive in order to do so? Perhaps even yourself for past mistakes? Please remember and know that no one comes into this life without baggage. We can continue to be weighed down by it, or we can choose to let it go. We can carry past generational burdens with us or we can choose to break the chain. 

How do you do this? As with everything, it starts with your willingness and commitment to do so. Begin the conversation with self and others. Make amends with important people in your life. Most of all, start exploring ways to feel and act in self loving ways. There are so many wonderful tools to help you. If you suffer from a disease, know that your body is self healing and self repairing. Do not fall into the "war on ....(cancer, diabetes, etc)" mentality. Instead ask what is the message your loving body is trying to tell you through the dis-ease? What needs to change for you in order to heal? How can you maximize what your unique body needs, minimize toxicity and inflammation, and prioritize self care? 

Wednesday mornings I teach at Rise Wellbeing Center in Reston, whose soul mission is to cultivate wholeness. I feel loved the minute I walk in the door. Six days a week there is a wonderful variety of classes and teachers. Please consider joining us! Here's my new schedule at Rise on Wednesday mornings:

7:30-8:30am: Carpe Diem Dance, a fun combination of movement to music that anyone can do. 

8:45-9:45am: Yin Yang Yoga, a practice for anyone to find flexibility and equilibrium (the calm within chaos) 

10:00-11:00am: Meditation for Beginners. I am a student, this is Rise's gift to me to practice self-care

11:15-11:45am: Street Clothes Stretch. Come on your lunch hour and then have lunch in the beautiful garden space or attend one of the monthly lunch and learns. 

May we all learn to give and receive this universal energy of love. 

Carpe Diem,

Lisa

About Lisa Jackson, RN, CHC, RYT-500, AFMC

Lisa is an author, functional nutrition, and functional medicine trained, health coach, yoga teacher, and retired Registered Nurse with the mission to inspire, educate and empower individuals and corporations to achieve optimal health.

Lisa's book, Savvy Secrets: Eat, Think & Thrive is a self-health book offering her Seven Steps to Optimal Health.

When she is not coaching, or speaking, you can find Lisa joyfully sharing yoga and Carpe Diem Dance or playing with her two grandchildren. She is the mother of four adult children and believes, "Optimal health should not be a secret."