7 Top Products to Travel Well this Summer

PRODUCTS

People ask all the time which products I use.

Funny - because I lean toward tomboy and keep it super simple.

It’s been a few years since publishing my tried and true favorite products, so here ya go:

• Kangen Water :: Everything: Drink + Eat + Clean + Beauty + Baby :: DM Me!

• Pangea Essential Oils

• Herbal Face Food Serum

• Organic Rosehip Oil and/or Emu Oil

• African Shea Butter (straight up!)

• Sun Potion Supplements and Superfoods

Beyond these tried and true, I dip into a couple of sources of mushroom and other supplements - always playing around with what I need season-dependent. Plus generally keep it “clean" for all hair/skin/nail essentials and bare minimum makeup. The Environmental Working Group​ has an app for that.

XO 🌱

Travelling Well by Surfing Today

Have you considered how to "surf today"? Every day?

While we wish life were filled with perfect easy-to-surf waves, learning to “surf today” is the way.

Surfing each day, down to each moment, as it comes. 

Slowing down. Paying attention. Breathing. Staying present. 

Riding the waves. Riding the emotions. Easy tiny ones. Massive soul-crushing ones. They all show up. Our job is to navigate them with grace and finesse.

This is how we travel well through each and every day. By taking each wave, each emotion, each happening, each day, as it comes. One at a time. Noticing how they arise, the texture, the speed, and the intensity. Staying present, letting it pass, or paddling hard. Breathing, popping up and in, riding it out. 

We nod to the ancient wisdom of nomadic people who knew how to travell well. While leaning progressive, we use this archaic spelling of ‘travell’ to tip our hats with respect to those who came before us. They did not question “WTF?” when up against the challenges of a constantly shifting lifestyle. Adaptability and flexibility were the name of the game.

We have become sedentary in this modern life. We have become entitled. 

We expect everything without lifting a finger.

This is engulfing to the point where more humans than not are living with disease and dis-ease of the mind and body. Challenging ourselves toward upheaval so that we can uplevel might seem straight up silly. However, motivating ourselves in every single realm is the way to find our freedom. Persuading ourselves to go out in the ocean and stick with it. Inspiring ourselves to stay present in a relationship and stick with it.  

No one is going to do it for you.

Much like surfing, the environment of a transient being, nomad, or vanlifer is constantly shifting. As human beings, the environment within the self, our thoughts, emotions and feelings are also ever-changing. The waves are all different. Different in size. Different in force. Some roll slow and some close out hard and fast. The temperature or the wind can shift on a dime. The wind kicks up or the sun suddenly shines and your whole experience changes. The temperature of the water can also vary day to day. So any expectations must be left behind. You never really know what the waves will bring unless you get out there. 

Expect nothing, gain everything.

Translating surfing to life is great encouragement to relax, lower expectations of any kind, simultaneously challenge ourselves and then notice how we react. How do we adapt to self-inflicted change? How do we adapt to change beyond our control? Are we flexible? Are we rigid? Are we open? Do we shut down? Do we roll with it or do we become uptight?

Once we notice, we can begin to look for tools and techniques to manage our reactions and potentially place ourselves in the right place at the right time to efficiently and effectively ride the waves of the ocean and the even more challenging waves of life.

Above all, to travell well, we must stay in today, surfing one day at a time. 

Let’s go surfing.

Safe Tech

It's tough to keep up. There are a zillion health concerns in the world today. While we don't want to add stress to our lives by worrying about every little thing, this modern life is also growing and changing at an ever-increasing pace. We must wonder whether technology is safe.

The challenge of working a 40+++ hour work week, taking care of kids, eating well, exercising and getting outside daily, much less constantly combating potential health threats, can be overwhelming.

Holistic health coaches to the rescue.  Holistic health is about far more than nutrition and exercise. We pour over information and endlessly educate ourselves obsessively in order to assist you, your family, and your teams in not only keeping yourselves well, but also performing beyond what you ever imagined. The result for those motivated is progress in all realms of life, which ultimately leads to more happiness.

Some worries that have surfaced are due to one of our greatest advances - technology.  We love technology. It allows us to learn and connect and collaborate and support one another like never before. 

On the flip side, the cons come in various ways. Let’s acknowledge a few:

First, always being connected can affect us by not actually ever being connected in “real time”.  Speaking with people face-to-face is immensely important in certain circumstances. 

Second, disconnecting from our digital slaves allows the mind, which is inextricably connected to the body, to rest and reset.  It is absolutely necessary to allow the parasympathetic nervous system to reset by encouraging the rest and relaxation response. Getting outside, yoga, and meditation are a few ways to do so. Leave the electronics behind!

Social media, for example, can make you feel high, but can also make you feel low. Texts might make you feel like you always have to answer every little message right away. Both examples lead to unnecessary stress leading to a host of additional health issues.

Third, what we are more recently striving to combat are the increasing number of EMF’s, electromagnetic fields, that we come in contact with in this modern life.  You are exposed to 100 million times more EMFs than your grandparents were.  There is a growing chorus of doctors, researchers, and health & wellness professionals warning that EMF’s may be linked to a wide variety of risks ranging from sleeplessness to cancer. 

Holistic health coaches can offer information, ideas and support regarding how to manage technology and protect yourself, your family, and your company’s personnel. 

Become a warrior versus a worrier.  After all, less worry equals less stress – an ultimate benefit to your wellbeing.  Get outside. Leave your phone at home. Dare ya.

What is Holistic Health Coaching?

Health coaching is still a newer industry. Much like yoga, there are many styles without a truly unifying alliance yet in place.  That being said, when the coaching is described as “holistic” we are referencing the integration of all realms of life. Holistic refers to the whole; an intimate interconnectedness of all parts explicable only by referencing the whole. We are speaking on the human experience - body, mind, emotion, spirit. “Spirit” can be substituted with whatever works for the individual from religion to nature.

Health coaching is an industry on the rise given the state of our nation’s health and its healthcare system. Health coaches are not doctors, therapists, or nutritionists, although the practice holds strong components from all three. We support these professions, in many cases working alongside them, as well as referring out to them as necessary.

So what happens within a coaching session? Holistic health coaching means we are peering into all realms of life to find areas we can tweak to benefit the whole:

Health

Movement of body 

Nutrition

Home & work environment

Relationships

Social life

Spirituality (insert your own vocabulary)

Creativity & self-expression

Finances

Career

Continuing education

Overall joy

We are looking at root causes of disease, or lack of well-being, preventing and healing dis-ease, rather than slapping a Band-Aid on the byproduct for temporary relief. 

For the coach, sessions include deep deep listening to the client often beyond what the client is actually saying. What does this mean?? Well, some folks want a coach to be specialized in order to understand what exactly they will offer and what exactly the outcome will be. Commonly heard: “I want to lose weight.”. Commonly thought: "This person will give me the magic combination of diet, nutrition, cleanse, green juice and exercise which will for sure help me lose weight." While all of these will certainly assist and often remedy an issue, many times a deficiency in an area seemingly unrelated is actually the missing link!

Digging deeper, and this happens quite often, the client eventually finds that a certain person in their life, friend, relative, or partner is actually causing tremendous stress, turmoil, obsessive thought, and all related emotions leading to a severe lack of wellbeing expressing itself through additional weight, that annoying skin condition, chronic fatigue, loss of additional relationships, and so on. These conditions then will not go away by adding more vegetables to one’s plate. In fact, when a force to be reckoned with is sucking so much of one's time and energy, it’s really hard to eat more vegetables. So once we get to the root cause, we begin the evolution.

Holistic health coaches listen, support, guide, teach, coach, consult, deduce, heal, and inspire change in mind, body, thought, leading to transformation. Taking people from where they are now to where they want to be is what we do.