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Spring Cleansing Rocks!

Top 10 Reasons to Do a Spring Cleanse

By on March 5, 2013 in Health and Wellness for Badasses, Life Design, Career and Entrepreneurship, Mindset and Spirituality

“When you fast, the Light will illuminate you and spread on earth.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi “Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine [...]

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Living Full-On feels freakin' amazing!

Days 358 to 365 – What One Freedom Junkie Manifested After a Year of Committing to Living Full-On

By on February 2, 2013 in Confidence and Courage, Full-On 365, Life Design, Career and Entrepreneurship, Love and Relationships, Mindset and Spirituality, Travel Adventure & Outdoors

This is the story of when I faced death one time too many – and the story of where this blog began. In early 2011 I thought I had cancer – again. I had received an MRI as routine follow-up for my past kidney cancer…during which they also toss in a free check to see [...]

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the easy way or the hard way

Days 338 to 358 Keep It Simple, Stupid – but maybe not that simple

By on January 24, 2013 in Full-On 365, Love and Relationships, Mindset and Spirituality, Uncategorized

Wow…coming back from Africa hasn’t been easy. We got back, I worked in Oregon catching babies and visited with friends and family over the holidays, then we came back to Alaska and were here all of one week before leaving to go work in a village out in the bush. I also managed to launch [...]

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Desert

Why Adventure Is Essential To Your Evolution

By on October 9, 2012 in Confidence and Courage, Life Design, Career and Entrepreneurship, Mindset and Spirituality, Travel Adventure & Outdoors

This moving away from comfort and security, this stepping out into what is unknown, uncharted and shaky – that’s called liberation” ~ Pema Chodron You should know that I have always qualified adventure as being a very personal word. My definition of adventure doesn’t have to be yours. But to give you an idea of [...]

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The girl is engaged in meditation on coast of lake

What is Your Relationship to Silence?

By on June 5, 2012 in Mindset and Spirituality

In essence, I crave it. I long for it. I yearn for the days of my childhood when I would have a question, or merely a thought, and I could hold it in my being for hours, uninterrupted.  Remember those days? Hmmm…I wonder if my dog can read my mind, or if she could save [...]

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Panic - Red Button

Days 118 to 125 – F*#! Cancer

By on June 4, 2012 in Confidence and Courage, Full-On 365, Health and Wellness for Badasses, Most Popular, Travel Adventure & Outdoors

OK Fuck Cancer. I am SO over it. Sometimes I want to yell at it and chew it out and get pissy at it and smack it in the face. And kick it. Then I get scared it will get mad at me and kill me. Then I also see it for what it is. [...]

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Days 110 to 113 Loving is Awesome and Scary

By on May 23, 2012 in Confidence and Courage, Full-On 365, Love and Relationships

Last night I got home from an awesome biz conference in the gorgeous town of Asheville, North Carolina (there are fireflies! FIREFLIES! little tinkerbells!). I had an very cool time at our “Come As You Are In 2017″ party. I pretended that my vest was of camel fur that I found in Mongolia, and that [...]

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ontheroad

Badass on a Budget – Freedom Junkie Tips for How to Live a Life of Fun, Passion, and Freedom Without Going Broke

By on May 11, 2012 in Life Design, Career and Entrepreneurship, Mindset and Spirituality, Most Popular, Travel Adventure & Outdoors

I’ve traveled a LOT. I’ve filled two passports in my lifetime so far (I’m 38), and one even had extra pages, which I’m really proud of;) In fact, the first passport I filled was when I was making less than $14,000 a year. It might have even been less than $11,000 a year but I’d [...]

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Days 87 to 90 – Flipping the Kayak and Getting Connected

By on May 1, 2012 in Confidence and Courage, Full-On 365, Love and Relationships, Travel Adventure & Outdoors

So…some of you may be wondering what happened after the kayaking trip? I flipped the packraft while following Thai into a rapid, and spent the rest of the trip mildly hypothermic, slightly pissed at him for taking me on a “float” trip with rapids (one called Horseshoe Falls or something!?), but also knowing mostly I [...]

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Days 78 to 82 – Confessions of a Perfectionist

By on April 22, 2012 in Confidence and Courage, Full-On 365, Mindset and Spirituality, Travel Adventure & Outdoors

I know you all have seen photos that I’ve posted about backcountry skiing trips in Alaska and Colorado etc. What you may not know is that I’m relatively new to skiing. I’ve owned skis for a long time…but actually using them on a regular basis has somehow eluded me. I think it is that “fear [...]

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