Cristina Ferrare’s Roasted Shrimp With Cannellini Beans

I am sharing the recipe for the oven roasted Shrimp with Cannellini Beans from Food for Thought for your Mother's Day Celebration! INGREDIENTS Serves 4 12 large shrimp, peeled and deveined 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil 1 teaspoon Kosher salt and black cracked pep...

Mother’s Day Oops!

Oops: My definition: “Uh oh, I didn’t mean to do that and mom’s not going to be pleased.” Oops: Google Definition: Used to show recognition of a mistake or minor accident, often as part of an apology.  Nothing captures the essence of Mother’s Day more than the Mother’s Day...

Book Excerpt: “How to Raise Successful People: Simple Lessons for Radical Results”

Trust Yourself, Trust Your Child How many of us grew up in an environment full of trust? Not many. I sure didn’t. As I said, my father was in total control of the family, and my mother and I lived in fear of crossing him. A lot of us have a hard time building trust, and can be more suscepti...

Maria Shriver’s Sunday Paper: The Joy of Connection

When the world is complicated, the simple gift of friendship is in all our hands.”  — Maria I’m so happy May is upon us because it’s a month that feels like spring. It feels light. It feels joyful. It feels full of possibility. Everywhere you look, you can see nature unfolding...

Book Excerpt: The Latte Factor: Why You Don’t Have to Be Rich to Live Rich

In the heartwarming parable The Latte Factor: Why You Don't Have to Be Rich to Live Rich, author David Bach, along with co-author John David Mann (The Go-Giver), tells the story of Zoey–a twenty-something woman living and working in New York City–who learns “Three Secrets to Financia...

When Life Wallops You, Turn It Into a Personal Revolution

 A friend of mine recently experienced something I call a “life wallop.” You’ve probably had a few wallops in your own life: a relative you funded through rehab calls, high as a kite, asking you for bail money; an elderly parent, lost in dementia, snaps something brutally cruel; you s...

Riding the Wave of Emotions

The following is re-posted from Spirituality & Health  Every day we are confronted with emotions that we may or may not want to experience. How we navigate our emotions has much to do with how we were raised and how people in our life do or do not make space for their own, and our, emo...

YOU Are the Shining ONE

“Shine on you crazy diamond'” Pink Floyd Do you know that you were perfect long before you were born? And do you know that when taking your first deep breath of life, you were a flawless, beautiful being, lacking nothing? As a matter of fact, we all were. Every single one of us. Without e...

Soba Noodle Salad with Probiotic Peanut Miso Sauce

Serves 4 (11 grams of fiber per serving) Soba noodles are a type of Japanese noodle made from buckwheat, which, despite its name, is not a variety of wheat. Noodles made from 100 percent whole grain buckwheat will have the most fiber. The sauce contains miso, which is a paste made from ferm...