Is your struggle to be perfect getting you down?

Is your perfectionism putting a strain on your health and happiness?

Are you a bit of a control freak? Does everything have to be perfect? I don’t know if you have noticed but nature doesn’t work that way (just look at the mess trees leave on the ground – they should be disgusted with themselves!), so why are you so hard on yourself? When I posted [...]

3 steps for getting happy when you are in a deep, dark emotional hole

3 steps for getting happy when you are in a deep, dark emotional hole

By Curtis Aiken. Do you ever feel so low on passion and energy for life that even cleaning the kitchen is such a mental struggle that you reuse the cleanest of the dirty dishes sitting by the sink or put off clothes washing for so long that you have to wear the underwear in your [...]

grapefruit salad

Grapefruit, mulberry and mixed leaf salad recipe

It kills me to post this recipe today. Curtis and I are in the middle of a juice/colon cleanse with Blessed Herbs right now and because of the current lack of food in my life, I’ve been spending far too much time ogling pictures of food on instagram so it’s making it that little bit [...]

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10 new books that will flip your life upside down

By Candice Aiken. I don’t know about you, but I LOVE a good recommendation. And whenever anyone I trust and adore tells me about something that helped them immensely, I am all over it. Could explain why I have a collection of books that would rival the New York State Library. In a follow up [...]

Turn the rain on your parade into a pool party

Turn the rain on your parade into a pool party

By Curtis Aiken. By the time I’m done with you here you will be questioning why you ever took life so seriously. After all, life has no meaning! You know those youngsters with tood (attitude) who say things like “I’m here for a good time not a long time”, “Live hard, die young” and “does [...]

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I have something to tell you + spicy thai pumpkin soup recipe

Just a few short years ago I was overweight, lethargic and seriously unhappy. I experienced every symptom under the sun and was in and out of hospitals with a ton of different illnesses. I was lacking direction and purpose and I absolutely despised the person looking back at me in the mirror.   And then [...]

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6 things I adore right now

By Candice Aiken. It’s that time again to give some shout outs to 6 things that are currently lighting up my new life. Here are 6 things I am truly grateful for and adoring the pants off right now: 1. Kiva Last Christmas, I was absolutely stumped as to what to get my Dad for [...]