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Chalk Board Lovin’

Posted on 31. Jul, 2010 by kris.

Heyyyyy!

How are you enjoying your Saturday??  Happy Weekend!

I am just going to do a quick post this morning as I am running out the door to meet the ‘rents

Yesterday was a late day and we didn’t eat dinner until close to 9!  We were flat out of food in the house, so we had some vega mixed with hemp  milk and rushed over to Whole Foods to get some real food.

By the time we got there it was pretty late and things were picked over  I did however, get the most amazing dolmas ever and some vegan potato salad.  Yumm!

During the day I came home to this:

Ryan bought a chalk board.  Yes, it sounds weird.  He will be hanging it behind him in all of  his videos on line with a fun or positive saying on it so his viewers can get some lovin’.

This saying is pretty positive if you ask me!

This chalk board has ended up living in our kitchen and I end up writing different empowering sayings and words throughout the day!  WOW!  What a fun thing to have in your home.  Everytime I was an apple I look at it and think of the saying.

I think everyone needs a chalk board!!  If there is  one thing you can do this weekend go buy one and put it somewhere in your home.  Find new words to write for yourself or  your family to see

I hope you have a wonderful day!

Do you write notes to yourself or to your loved ones?  Do you write on the foggy mirrors in the bathroom?

To Your Glam Life,

xxoo

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Day 1: Beginning Of My Meditation and Dealing With Grumps!

Posted on 26. Jul, 2010 by kris.

Hey!!!

Happy Monday  Hope you in-joyed  your weekend!

Thank you for all the wonderful comments and suggestions on the Flat Tummy Drink!  I am sippin’ some of it now.

This morning I omitted the cucumber just because I didn’t have any left and I think I like it better.

Over the weekend I spent a lot of time reflecting on myself, my life, my action, the blog and what level I will take everything to.  This meant I spent a lot of time at the beach (my comfort place) thinking and outlining.

Of course I am happy with most areas of my life, but I believe I have a lot of improving and changing to do.  I am still on my way of me finding that connection that I can feel with myself and others without judging and thinking too hard about it.  I am not even sure if that makes sense or not?  ;)

I decided that starting today I am on a 30 day mindset overhaul! I feel internally that I have some “glaming” up to do and I was so excited to wake up this morning to get it on!  I am totally open with myself on the blog and what I share, you I hope you can help me or learn from my next 30 days!

Meditation was first on my list. It has been a while since I actually had a meditation schedule and really followed it.  I used to meditate before hitting the sack, but felt that I probably was sleeping more than I was actually calming the mind.

For the next 30 days I will be meditating first thing in the a.m. for at least 15 minutes.  This will allow me to get my mind right for the day, clear my clutter, and be close to my inner glam.  WOOT WOOT

I have also been really focused on my feelings these last few days.  Being aware of how your body feels is so important and helpful for all areas of your life.

For me to really feel my inner glam I had to make sure the outer glam was matching as well. I guess from the night before eating foods I wasn’t used too I felt heavy and not as pure.  It was amazing that I was able to feel this and know that I had to increase my water and green foods to bring myself back to a feeling of balance inside.

I was also Tested yesterday and reminded it is also important to be aware of how others make you feel and learn to either let it roll off of you if someone put you in a funky mood or embrace it if they raised you up to super high vibes!

While walking the sea wall yesterday with Ryan and Hudson we had stopped at 3 little boys having a lemonade stand.  I thought how cute of these little entrepreneurs workin it!  I was flipping through my wallet to get some cash for them as this grumpy old dude stopped us and said “Did you read the sign back there?”  ”No sir, we didn’t”

He insisted that he pull us over there to show us that NO DOGS were allowed on this part of the sea wall.  I was fuming inside that A.-He ruined my moment with me feeling good helping these 3 little boys and B. -That he had the nerve to be all up in my biz.  I felt that he could have been nicer about it and that why did it really matter to him anyways?

So I stopped took some deep breaths and realized I can’t change what just happened, he can’t change my mood and decided to forgive him and let it go.

In the Add More ~ing To Your Life book it says to stop and allow yourself to feel for 90 seconds after you are in a situation.

I could really feel my mood change after the elderly man issue and I had to fight to allow myself to not be bothered with it. This will get better over the next 30 days  I am happy about that!

It is mucho important to keep yourself eating properly to feel good.  The food you eat is huge for your energy and your overall vibing!

If you are eating whole nutritious foods that are “high vibers” you will get that back as well.

Yesterday’s Get Me Out Of The Dumps Food:

Bowl of Fresh Fruit: 1/2 and apple, 1/2 a grapefruit, and 1 plum

1 large Green Smoothie with Vanilla Chai Vega, 1/2 frozen banana, spinach, chia seeds and hemp milk

2 Vegan Dreamy Decadent Cookies

1 decaf americano (what can I say…it was Sunday )

A LOT of water and 1 litre Lemon Water (For bringing my bod back to alkaline)

Cucumber and Carrot slices

A Whole Food Vibrancy Vega Bar (I was eating anything green!)

A mondo salad with Asian Portobellos, bok choy and fresh peas.

Another cookie……

A plum and another spinach salad

Of course I needed to have a good stress reliever workout in the afternoon as well and rocked out P90X Kenpo along with 15 minutes on the ‘mill while listening to  Dynamite by Taio Cruz

Felt like heaven!

I am happy to report today I am back to myself and enjoyed my morning medi and feeling exercise

Today’s Agenda:

-Blog for Opendaily.ca and finish up the Official Launch Email

-Gym

-Work Stuff / Social Media

-Wash the Hair

-Read some of BREAKING DAWN!  YESSS I found it!  I was on a major hunt these last few days  I feel whole again.

Come’on Give Your Best Stress Buster Tips!  Do you Meditate?  If so, with music or without?  Do you stop and support little kids and their sidewalk stores??  I just love it!

To Your Glam Life,

xxoo

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How To Wish Upon A Star

Posted on 08. Jul, 2010 by kris.

Happy Thursday Everyone!

What a sizzling week it has been here so far!  Holy mother of pearl it was a whopping 33 degrees yesterday (for my American friends that is like 92 ish).

You know when it is so hot most people don’t want to eat?  Yea, I am completely opposite.  I am always hungry when it is really hot out.  Who am I kidding?!  I am hungry always any weather, anytime and any day!

But I was good….no cookies or baked goods.  I did have a raw granola bar through, but I figured it was better because it wasn’t cooked.

Dinner was something that I threw together in 10 minutes and it turned out to be one of the best meals we have tasted out of our kitchen in the last few days.

Stir-Fry Veggies in Coconut Oil on Quinoa

2 cups quinoa
4 cups water
1 zucchini
2 heads of broccoli
1 medium onion
3 carrots
3 cups sugar peas
1-2 tbsp coconut oil
1 tsp sea salt
2 tsp seasoning blend of choice (I used different pepper corns)
1 bunch fresh basil
a drizzle of wheat-free soy sauce over the plated dishes

Directions:

Cook the quinoa as the instructions show

Heat a large skillet over medium heat.  Heat the coconut oil and add chopped veggies and spices.

Saute for about 10 minutes.

Plate the quinoa and the veggies on top.  Then drizzle a tad of soy sauce over it

Super Yum!

After dinner we decided we would go on a little summer night adventure. One of the reasons was just to get out of the stinking house because it was so flipping stuffy!  We have an A/C unit, but because it only gets really hot here for a total of maybe a month out of the year, we only have one that will do one room at a time.

We packed the dog, some water and some strawberries and hit the road.  I love driving when it is still hot out at night and I love having the sunroof open and the windows down!

Our final destination was a park called Lighthouse Park in West Vancouver.  We had never been here before, but it was absolutely beautiful!  There is something calming to me being right on the beach when the moon is bright.

The park was quiet, so we unloaded our packing’s and hiked down to this little cove that perfectly held this pocked of warmth and sweet ocean smell.  Ahhhhh I was in heaven!

Sorry No Pics to go along as it was too dark.  So you will have to listen to me ramble about it

I was relaxed, allowing myself to be free and centred and was in the middle of wishing upon my star (we will get back to that) when this light in the ocean, like UNDER the ocean started moving around.

I think my heart stopped.  I whispered to Ryan that something is in the water.  We backed up and tried to see what was coming at us…..a sub?  I was freaking out.  Of course I am so engulfed in Vampires and Werewolves right now, my mind was playing some pretty nasty tricks on me!

This guy emerged from the water in a full black wet suit.  He was scuba diving alone at night!  Freaky!

After he left, I tried to get myself back into my wishing, but no luck.  I was freaked out of what was lurking in the bushes round me.

Normally when we go to the beach at night I will lay on the bench or a log and find my star and wish until my little heart is content. I have done this since I was a kid.  I used to stand in my bedroom window wishing to the first star I saw and would press my eyes really tightly together like I was thinking really hard that this wish was going to come true.

I seem to stay very true to my “wishing” routines.  I wish on my stars, I hold my breath through tunnels while I wish and Ryan and I always play the game where we try to throw things in the garbage and if we make it in something good with happen to us  Call me superstitious or call me connected.  Either one I am fine with

Bottom line is when I wish on my star I feel GREAT when doing it.  Those few seconds of me wishing is a way for me to KNOW that it is on its way.

How do you Wish Upon a Star?

1. At dusk go or look outside.  Find that one star that really stands out and appeals to you!  Bring that little kid that is in there somewhere out for a bit

2. Stare at this star like you love it.  This star is your genie and look kindly and warm at it.  I know this sounds silly, but trust me it works  Now in your head (or out loud) say “Star light, Star bright, the first Star I see tonight, I wish I may, I wish I might, Have the wish I wish tonight.”

3. Now make your wish!  Close your eyes and feel that wish circulate from your heart up to your head.  I envision this wish in a form of a white light that rolls through me.

4. Open your eyes and look at your star.  I always say “Thank You” as a nice gesture

Of course all of us are different in what we believe in, and how we get our messages, wishes or prayers out there, but the important thing is to believe that you have this power within you to ask for what  you are feeling.

I would love to hear feedback on this topic!  Do you Wish On Stars?  Do you believe Wishes come true?  Have you ever had a wish of yours come true??

To Your Glam Life,

xxoo

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Can You Let Go Of Your Fears To Keep Your Dreams Alive?

Posted on 21. Jun, 2010 by kris.

Hey Everyone!

Happy Monday!

**First off I want to let you know if you contacted me yesterday through the Contact Kris form, there was a glitch and was unable to read any of the notes sent my way!  Please, Please, PLEASE refill out the form and I will get back to you.  Apologies all around

Moving on….

I hope everyone enjoyed their weekend and for those that celebrated fathers day, made the best day for their dad!

We took dad out for dinner last night to a restaurant downtown called Glowbal.  It was a lot of fun, great company and great food.  Although there was not much for a vegan to eat, I made the best of it and pieced and subbed dishes from the menu

My dad engaged in a little marshmallow chipping outside of the restaurant to try and get his dinner for free.  Unfortunately I believe “the wind” was not in his favour last night and the marshmallow did not make it in to the buckets

Michelle and I at dinner:

I wrote this simple, yet powerful quote on Twitter this morning:

“People are never more INSECURE than when they become obsessed with their FEARS at the expense of their Dreams. Keep those Dreams GOING!”

I can’t even tell you how many responses I received on this single tweet.

Can you tell me (by leaving a comment below) if YOU are obsessed with your Fears and find that they stand in the way of your dreams?

I can honestly say my journey to where I am today was full of me hurdling my fears to come out on the side where my dreams still resided. Not going to lie Dolls, this was the hardest thing for me to do was to “work” everyday at keeping my vision alive when I was scared and felt so small to this huge Internet and outside world.

The most recent example I can give to this is for about a month I had been working with people to get the new brand of i Heart Wellness up and running.  And can you believe it still isn’t complete?  I still need to have a fancy opt-in and opt-in gift added on the side which should be complete very shortly!  Anywhooo…..the day of the launch I was sweating, begging Ryan to not change the template and header because the old or “little” i Heart site would have done me “just fine” I said.

WHAT?!  ”Just Fine”?! He looked at me with these wide eyes and said “You worked for a month on this and created a plan and now you just want to stay the same?”  I shook my head like uh-huh……while lower my head I had a whole conversation which felt like 5 Kris’ punching each other out in there.

Why was I thinking this?  What was I so afraid of?  And I sat with my eyes closed and really, REALLY dug deep into my feelings.  I realized I was afraid that someone might not like it.  They might stop following me.  They may think I don’t really have much to provide for them, and the list went on.

I sat there and said to myself “You worked to darn hard at getting things to where they are today to just let the OLD way of living and thinking rule you!”  See, in the end I was right  Just have a convo with yourself when you are down or in fear and find out WHY you really are.  You will always find the answer!

I had dreams for this Blog.  I still do.  This is my passion to have a place where you all come and really learn, relate and find things that resonate with you.

I had to remember these dreams in my time of fear the other day.  My dreams are always written out, so I went back to them and re-read them and got that fire back in me to move forward.

You can too.  You may not have a fear like I did, but whatever your FEAR is right now that is stopping you from your dream, please do me and yourself a favour and remove it.

You can remove Fear by Overcoming it.

Realize that fear is not real and it is just something that you are Telling yourself. It is your STORY.

Nothing can tell you not to do something if you really want to do it.  First, ask yourself and find out why it is there.  Is it because Bobby in the first grade told you that  you will never amount to anything?  Did your best friend call you stupid wayyy back when?  You will know when you ask yourself.

We are dreaming beings and yes sometimes the fears that rule  us might need a little cat fight action in our heads, but it is totally worth it in the end.

Hmmmm I think I have an idea for the next blog post already!  See energy just flows where attention goes!

Tell me, Do your Fears stand in the way of your Dreams?  Do you think you can work on fixing this?

If you loved this post as much as I do, please pass it on!

To Your Glam Life,

xxoo

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