Healing Power

I’ve been much too busy.  Too busy to blog, too busy to hang with the fam, too busy to visit Puppers!!!!  Note to self, stop it and take some of your own advice!  So, here I am, trying to take my advice.  When I say advice, I mean, what I tell students all the time, “take a moment and breathe”. 

This past Sunday I did an art therapy workshop with a group of students from the Honors College.  There I was telling them to take time each day to stop and be still.  Coaching them on breathing exercises, how to push all the craziness out of your head to truly be peaceful, and to take time to conciously process those big life events that happen in college.  I’m afraid I’m a bit of a “do as I say, not as I do” right now.  I’ve just jumped in full force to my new job and as much as I’m loving really getting into it and investing in it, it’s starting to run me ragged.  I’m getting that twinge of self-righteous, onrnery attitude that needs to check itself at the door. 

Here I sit, with my desk organized, my tea within reach, listening to the New Age Instrumental station on Pandora.  Ohhhmmmmmmmm.

On to the eats.  I needed to use up some of the last bit of bruschetta I made as it was starting to stink up the whole fridge.  So, what’s better than a Bruschetta Veggie Burger?  Mmmmmm…Bruschetta-ey!

Saturday night I made a Greek feast of white bean and basil hummus with rice chips to start off.

Next were Greek Wraps with all the usual suspects.  A bit of tofu feta spiced it up nicely.

Then Sunday I busted out the juicer.  This mega juice of kale, peach, carrot and pineapple was awesome.  I even grew a palm tree out of it!  Oh, wait, that’s just Frank, our back porch palm tree behind.  But, this drink was mighty enough to grow anything regardless.

Three cheers and a big toast to trying to take care of ourselves!