Inside The Polished Apple

It was so timely-I had a call with my coaches this week about prioritizing the things in life.  What is urgent, non-urgent, important and non-important?   Calgary is in the midst of a cleanup from the recent flooding-an amazing recovery is in progress from this disaster that has affected thousands of families, the town of High River, the Calgary downtown core and more.  (Including my little incredible and wonderful community of Bowness.) It all was and is urgent. Urgent to pack bags and get out of your house by 7pm. Urgent to watch the news and Facebook updates all day and all night. Urgent to fill bathtubs or jugs of tap water. Urgent to feel as though you should drop everything and start shoveling out basements. Urgent to purge your house of anything unnecessary and donate to families in need.  Urgent to give food, clothes, money, anything you can scrape together.   The urgency makes it difficult to see what is the most important thing to do at any moment, and what cou

Hello Elan community! We hope you are safe and dry. Our apologies for our on-line absence during the floods. Many of our office team were in various degrees of evacuation, or evacuation alert, although it now looks like our homes are safe. We know that we have practice members who are still evacuated and you are in our thoughts. Please let us know if there is any way that we can help and s pread the word within our community. The generosity of this entire city has been amazing. If anyone still needs a place to stay, food, clothing, household or children's items, please ask. We may not be able to personally provide, but we can put the request out. Our office is open regular hours. We know that it may be difficult for some of you to reach us and please be safe if you are considering coming in. As odd as it may sound, it was very calming to be at work yesterday and have a little piece of normalcy and serenity. Take care! From all of us at Elan.

We all disappear at some point don't we? While I haven't been away from the office TOO much, time seems to have disappeared.  I've had a busy month with practice members and squeezing training into every spare moment.  This is exciting information to come!  But out of the office... in the past 5 weeks I have had 3 birthday parties (out of town that is, and I think there were one or two additional ones here), an upcoming wedding, a training seminar in Ottawa, a community garage sale, end of year picnics and dinner, and will have spent an estimated 40 hours of highway driving.   So patience with me at the moment!  I am well aware of the lure of being busy, and have to say it has not been only busy but productive time as well.  I am dreaming of staying put for a bit and having a weekend with much space.     That or perhaps find a log cabin in the woods with some wifi?   The good news, the garden is up and flowers are blooming; our family adjusts and adapts, and summe

June is our Nature and Nourish Month!  Here's a Guest Post from our Health Coach Janis, with a challenge for you.   As you are already seeking a holistic approach to health with your work with Elan Family Wellness, you probably already have good or excellent eating habits.  You’re up for some challenges, such as the Raw Food Challenge.  But what about seeking nourishment beyond food?  So often, our focus is on the external factors in our life: work, caring for loved ones, the self re-filling to-do list…. Summer is a natural time to slow down and enjoy a more relaxed pace of life, so I’d like to encourage you to do a Nourishment Challenge.  Perhaps this challenge involves food and exercise (I’m never going to argue with that), but I’d like you to focus on self-care: ·           Dance ·           Sing ·           Write ·           Give yourself 10 minutes of undivided attention every day (turn off your iphone, close the laptop and shut that book you are reading.