Posts by Laura Halpin

Halloween freaks me out. Even though I love Halloween festivities —the costumes, the darling kids running house to house, the neighborhood revelry  — the candy thing gets me down. No matter how much we know about the damage candy is wreaking in our children’s bodies, it’s difficult to take on the Halloween candy onslaught. For one…

  Remembering to float Last month, my oldest child flew the coop, headed off for college to begin a new chapter of her life. It’s been a transition for all of us, filled with layers of excitement, fear, loss, and newness. I’ve been thinking a lot about the process of change, which on every level…

I’m a fervent believer in the power of food to heal the body. With each client, my faith in food grows. Our food choices and the manner in which we eat our food impact every system of the body. Food, broken down in our digestive tract, absorbed into our blood stream and assimilated by our…

Three days ago, Dr. Wayne Dyer made an exit from his body. His message over all his many years was we create our reality and our reality is a reflection of what we chose to see and believe. It’s a message of the responsibility and power we have. In each instance, no matter our circumstances,…

When a person is taking strides to address his/her health, it makes a lot of sense to begin with the obvious and general  (i.e., If you’re drinking a six pack of beer a day, it doesn’t make sense to start supplementing with resveratrol to lengthen your life, right?) Yet starting with the obvious and general can…

If you’re interested in improving or protecting your health, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by conflicting information: Eating organic is important. Eating organic doesn’t matter. Take supplements. Supplements are a waste of money. Eat kale; it’s a superfood. Don’t eat too much kale; it can suppress your thyroid. Eat raw. Eat paleo. Eat gluten free.…

Yesterday, I finished Gretchen Rubin’s Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives.  Over the past year, a question that I’ve found compelling is: “In the absence of crisis, how and why do people change?”  (Some would argue that people don’t change: love this scene from Bridesmaids!) It’s always bugged me when people…