Inside The Polished Apple

In light of our month of appreciation, I thought I'd share a piece of behind the scenes at our office.  We have much to appreciate-lovely practice members, a supportive community, a beautiful office, and probably key to a lot of this...  some pretty amazing reorganizational tools that we can use for our own healing and growth and to contribute to our own Elan community.   Today is our example of a not so typical day.  Ever wonder what happens at Elan on a quiet day? When the stars align and our schedules are clear at the same time, we've created space for great things.   Such as our staff healing intensive session using Network Spinal Analysis entrainments... Or moments for SomatoRespiratory Integration... (Scott took this one earlier-such beautiful sunlight!) Or strategically plan for all of the fun events we have coming up and work on how to improve our services... ...

We have days that can act as reminders, can't we?   I met with my CRAVE Calgary Women's group for a CRAVEfuel chat about Simplicity.  We had two experts in the fields of Interior Design and Graphic Design share some tips with us before we broke into small group discussion.  A couple of the take-aways... Consider Simplicity like Focus.  The more focus you have in what you do, the more things will fall into place with ease.   Are we consistent with our Values?  Do we know what we place the most value on?  The more we place our focus on our values, the simpler life will be.   Can you teach your system/ process to a 6-year old?  Break it down so that a 6 year old can follow the directions.   To-Do Lists, Written Lists, electronic devices can all help us to simplify. Having something written down helps to get it out of your mind.   Is your space around you and your mind clear of distractions and clutter?   Life is defini...

It's one of those judgment days of our life today and our life past.   We just survived pre-Valentine's Day dinner.  Scott was leaving town so our little family went out on the 13th, after a full afternoon of the two of them at the movie, with popcorn and snacks.   Dinner out usually ends up being sushi.  Or Vietnemese.  However, the 5 year old in our house thought the pizza, pasta and make your own sundae on the TV commercials place would be the best choice.   Did I mention I'm semi-almost fully gluten free for half a month now?  I've had my share of gluten free pasta and pizza lately.  Not that I'm the one to worry about.  I ate the meat-veggie-rice option.  Followed by dessert, but again, I wasn't the problem.   For Scarlett, the pizza probably wasn't the problem, or the fries, but add on a sundae to that with caramel and m&m's... 5 minutes after dinner finished, there was that look of panic and complete unease, followed by 2...

Well it's February and it feels like last month went by in a blink. It's as if somebody stepped on the gas and has laid out a master plan for the year and I'm just going with the flow of it. That's cool, “I can dig it man”. That said... I've been encouraged to talk about warmth this month. Last year at this time, I talked about the intrinsic value and warmth of wool. Today, I would like to talk about a more metaphysical/physical form of warmth that is always around us. First the physical. If you hold a rubber band in your hand it will be in a cold state. Did you know if you were to take a rubber band and stretch it out to it's full length a few times and hold it in a tensed position you could feel heat that has build up in the rubber. Try it... give it a couple good stretches and put the rubber band to your top lip and feel it. It gets really hot. The stretching has created heat through the introduction of potential energy. You apply your energy to the r...

Seasons in Mosaic I said I wanted more art in my life.  Isn't this beautiful?   I spent the weekend at an Intro to Mosaics with Michelena of Wolf Willow Studios in the community of Spruce Cliff in Calgary.  I thoroughly enjoyed my weekend-you should attend!   It's so lovely to pick colors, smash pottery, cut things up and get your hands mucky in the grout.  The best part is to finally clean away the gunk and find your treasure.    Happy Art Making!  

We're over three weeks in to the New Year.  How are those resolutions going?  I found this lovely workbook-and I have no affiliate links because I did not have the patience to go through the steps to apply-but I'm loving it.  I only started working in it last week, but I hope you all can find some similar way to inspire you.  It's working for me because I've been craving art and journaling and getting messy in my planning for my visions and goals, and whether I finish the book or not isn't even my concern. I'm enjoying the process of it.  (I'm not here to talk about the book, but its download-able, or on Amazon).   Then I had a meeting last night with my Crave Calgary Women's group and we talked all about visions.  I left with the knowing that even if our vision isn't written down, just the knowing and the clarity of it can guide many of your decisions.  One speaker said that her vision and goals aren't tangibly out there, but eve...

I have started the New Year off with a BANG.  Me falling onto floor.  Me falling onto ice.  All within the first week of the year.   Fortunately, neither of them involved a hit to the head, but my head is involved because it has made me perplexed and befuddled.   Head. I didn't think too much about the first fall.  Some strange alarm went off in our house.  Wasn't the stove and the granola wasn't burning.  Seemed to be coming from the basement.   As I ran down the stairs, it dawned on me that it must be the carbon monoxide detector and I eyed it for a flashing light.  Did we really have fresh batteries in that thing or is it telling me to replace the battery?  At the same time that I was staring at it, I hit a puddle of wet floor and next thing I knew, I was on the floor and soaked from my bum to my toes.   The alarm was not the carbon monoxide detector but one of the water detector alarms that our insurance company h...