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Healthy Ritual Of The Week: Morning Warm Lemon Water!
Raise your hand if you have coffee or tea first thing in the morning. My hand is raised! I have green tea before I do just about anything and I considered that to be the best thing ever for my body. Until, that is, I was reminded this weekend of the lemon & warm...
15 Things You Should Give Up To Be Happy
Giving up anything feels like a loss, doesn't it? So maybe the way to greater happiness requires that we jump into an uncomfortable, unfamiliar space where we are not repeating what we have done before, where the risks are bigger and the rewards more real. Are you...
Feng Shui Q & A: Are Headless Mannequins Bad Feng Shui?
A reader asked the question: "Are you really anti-headless mannequins? Also what is your feeling on a mannequin in the living room (when the living room is also home office for a fashion designer)?" My answer: I'm not "anti" anything per say.... Take a peek at the...
Feng Shui Q & A: What Am I Doing Wrong That I Can’t Find A Man?
You just have to love "love-shui" because it is so ripe with metaphor and so full of symbolism. This week, a fellow doggie mom in the neighborhood asked, " What am I doing wrong feng shui wise that I can't find a man?" My answer: First of all, I asked what was in...
Joseph Campbell Bliss Time!
There never will be more brilliant scholarship on myth and life than Joseph Campbell's work, and never more beautiful a quote and a truth than this one! Enjoy! xoxo Dana
Healthy Ritual Of The Week: Dry Brushing!
I remember when I was in high school this Deepak Chopra craze was sweeping my school and everyone was scraping their tongue (don't ask, we'll go over that later!), covering themselves in sesame oil and dry brushing their skin. Granted we were all about 15 and no one...
Andy Warhol On Change!
Please listen to Andy folks: you CAN NOT make anyone change. No matter how beautiful, fabulous, handsome, rich, lucky, famous or anything you are you CAN NOT make people change. All you can do is be a good example and keep your side of the street clean! xoxo Dana
Balanced Beauty Product Of The Week: Alison Raffaele True Concealer
I don't know about you, but if I had just one beauty product to bring to a desert island it would be, hands-down, concealer. This week, celebrity makeup artist & balanced beauty expert Chantal Moore brings us an absolutely brilliant concealer (hard to find) that,...
The Joy Of Super Non-Toxic, Do-It All-Baking Soda!
One day, long ago, I got inspired to buy myself a giant box of baking soda. It was the best purchase I have made at well under $3.00 for the GIANT box. I was inspired by reading something about how you can use baking soda as a hair rinse, and wanted to see more. ...