Journaling is the ONE habit I truly believe makes every other habit easier. ✨ When your mind feels cluttered, journaling gives your thoughts somewhere to land — bringing clarity and focus back to what actually matters. And the bonus? It tends to strengthen almost every other healthy habit too. Better decisions. More self-awareness. Less mental clutter. More intentional days. A few simple ways to make journaling work for you: 🌿 Plan tomorrow tonight. Write down your 1–3 most important tasks for tomorrow in order of priority — ideally with rough time blocks beside them. 🌿 Include your keystone habits. The small things that quietly change everything: Movement. Meditation. Tech-free wind-down time before bed. 🌿 Track what matters. Mood. Food. Alcohol-free days. Energy levels. Patterns create awareness. 🌿 Reflect with gratitude. A favourite prompt of mine: 3 Gratitudes. 3 Wins. 3 Things That Would Make Tomorrow Fabulous. ✏️ Quick journaling prompt: “What are three things that would make tomorrow fabulous?” And halfway through the year is such a powerful time to begin. Before the second half of 2026 races ahead, this is a beautiful opportunity to pause, reflect, and intentionally reset. 💚 So from June 1st, I’m hosting a free 30-Day Journaling Challenge inside my Skool community. No fancy tools required. Just a piece of paper and 5–10 minutes a day that are completely yours. Each day includes: ✨ A simple daily theme ✏️ Quick prompts + deeper reflection exercises 🌿 Zero pressure to “do it perfectly” Weekly themes include: ✅ Monday Motivation ✅ Tuesday Thanks ✅ Wednesday Wisdom ✅ Tranquil Thursday ✅ Self-Coaching Saturday ✅ Self-Care Sunday You do so much for everyone else — consider this one small daily pocket of time as a gift to yourself. 💚 If you'd love to join us, it’s completely free: Plant Positive Community: We kick off June 1st ✨

1.) Spend time daily in deep relaxation, at least an hour throughout the day...more if possible. This is a powerful way to balance and decrease the stress hormone cortisol. The more cortisol you have running through your body, the more your body will gain and hold onto weight like there's no tomorrow. 2.) Take longer pauses between your meals. You can do this by eliminating snacking throughout the day, or extending the time between dinner and breakfast. Doesn't have to be the same pause every day, it's actually great to vary it up, but more time pausing between meals will help you lose weight. Some people call this intermittent fasting. Don't matter what you call it. It works by decreasing insulin and countering insulin resistance. Insulin resistance can make weight loss almost impossible. Similar to cortisol...the more insulin you have running through your body, the more your body will gain weight and refuse to let it go. 3.) Start a Food and Mood Journal. Write down everything you eat, and how you felt while eating and afterwards. No judgment, just data. You can use dirty napkins to write it down, or a fancy journal. Don't matter, just write it. No need to analyze, or think about it after you write it. Simple, straightforward, just write it down. Anything we bring awareness to, we naturally and automatically start to change for the better. As long as we don't judge it and bring shame to this process. 4.) Eat more vegetables and low sugar fruits. If you are looking to let go of weight, strive for at least 50 percent of each meal being veg/fruit. The nutrients from these foods prevent cravings that come from malnourishment. The fiber helps you get full faster and keeps your digestion humming along nicely. These are some of the basic steps I took to let go of over 70 pounds in just a few months. I had an aunt that also let go of a lot of weight during the same time. She worked REALLY hard...exercising daily, for an hour or more, eating special foods. I respect her immensely. I felt guilty sometimes that I was doing less and having similar results. You're welcome to chime in here, in the comments, and share about your amazing transformation, if you'd like @Bev Elton :)

Wellness Directory Profile: You did it. You took the first step and you are entering your dream life. No more day job, no more rat race, no more hustle. Or maybe you are an empty nester, moved to a new city or town, or came into your trust fund. You can start the business, write the book, carry out your new big, hairy audacious goal. After all, you were a top performer at work! Your bosses and clients raved about you. You were always top of your class in school, or school was not a priority yet you always succeeded at everything you did. You can do anything you want. You have the resources of clarity, money, time, connections, attention, and energy to accomplish anything. Yet the hours stretch before you. You read self-help books, hire a coach, and join groups. You make new friends… and still, the expanse is difficult to traverse. It’s hard to know how and when to pivot, who will be your future client and who is just not right for you, it’s hard to know which mastermind to join or which shiny product and service to invest in. The truth is that we need our own bespoke containers and systems of time, energy, networks, and money to hone our attention and achieve our biggest dreams. The truth is jobs and education created external structures to complete great work. The truth is that self-help groups and books mostly rely on structures other people created to solve their own problems in their lives or industries. The Problem: you have a vision and ideas, but not sure which path to take Work with me to: Brainstorm new pathways The Problem: your vision feels distant Work with me to: connect the dots of your grounded reality and your loftiest goals The Problem: too many solutions and tools Work with me to: figure out how you learn and create tools that work for you The Problem: you know about adhd/time management, and you have the skills and tools, you have marketing and catchy SEO… but there is a vacuum Work with me to: translate your work into new client bases, markets, environments

And you can actually HARNESS those powers, for transformation AND joy! Learn how to do that and hear about some of my super powers in my talk from the last HEALTH X Summit... Note to self: I need to learn how not to fiddle with the microphone so much! Yet, I'm proud of myself for getting up on the stage, even if it wasn't a perfect presentation. Anyone here interested in doing more speaking?? Besides our obvious, amazing speaking coach @Ben Sherry ?? And maybe @Javaria Sajjad ?? I'd like to start an in person support group in the next few months for upleveling our speaking skills and applying to speaking events. If folks here are interested, we can make it in person/virtual...that would be fun!

Do you have one? Does it support you in living your best life? Developing a supportive morning routine was one of the biggest game changers for me. It was part of the reason I started being able to lose excess weight, after years of trying, with very little success. The morning routine I started with was super simple... Lay in bed and listen to hypnotherapy or guided relaxation for 30-45 minutes. Allow myself to relax completely. That was it. This simple routine put me in a good head space for the rest of the day. It set me up with a positive mindset, gratitude, and openness to the blessings of life. Because it felt so good, I started incorporating guided relaxation at the end of the day too, and sometimes even in the middle of the day, if time allowed. I often incorporated prayer during this time too, since that's an important part of my day. This relaxing morning practice supported me in having balanced cortisol throughout the day. Little did I know that balancing my cortisol would help excess fat drop away from my body, with ease and little effort. I had never experienced this before! I started at 220 pounds. My goal weight was 160. I never weighed myself at home, since we didn't have a scale. A few months after I started my simple morning routine (and intermittent fasting), I weighed myself at the gym and almost fell off when I saw the number...it said 146. I thought the scale must be broken! It wasn't. I do weigh myself weekly now, because I appreciate the information I get from doing that. I share this story as inspiration about how quickly things can change for you when you get your cortisol in balance. Intermittent fasting helped me get my insulin in balance. Balancing these two hormones, insulin and cortisol, is KEY for good health and weight loss, and we talk about them quite a lot in the Release the Weight course, in the Classroom. A good morning routine can go a long way in helping us balance both insulin and cortisol!