This morning, did you wake up and say, "I'm alive!" with reverence, acknowledging that each new day is a miracle? Me neither! Not first thing, anyway.

A rather large honkin' vehicle road past my New York CIty window (oh, the joys of the big city) and let out a...

Our Lady of Weight Loss, the patron saint of permanent fat removal, received an email from one of her "devotees," Mary Beth from KC, Mo., who wanted to know how to deal with the people in her life who were sabotaging her weight-loss efforts.

Racelle Rosett, winner of the WGA award for thirtysomething, recipient of both the Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Prize for Jewish short fiction and the Lilith Fiction Prize, author of the critically acclaimed book Moving Waters, breast cancer survivor and blogger...

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. -- Albert Einstein

Instead of obsessing about food, fat, your weight and your multiple failures to lose "it," imagine what your life could look like, the shape it might take, if you shifted your focus to bringing...

The cataract surgery did not go well. Even though it ranks as one of the safest and simplest of surgeries, and even though the literature reports that 95.5 percent of those operated on achieved 20/40 uncorrected vision or better outcomes following cataract surgery, here -- in...

There is a borderland state called hypnagogia. It is a place of transition, a space that is rapt with images, symbols and words that captivate the mind as they move you from wakefulness to sleep (referred to as hypnagogic) and, on the other side of the sleep cycle, give rise...

I understand that we think "'Tis the season to over-indulge, stuff ourselves silly and stress ourselves out," but it really doesn't have to be.

Our Lady of Weight Loss to the rescue! Here are 21 tips to making...

We made it through the storm. The Hurricane of all hurricanes, Irene, which -- as it turned out here in NYC -- wasn't so bad. Praise be. Still, we had our own hurricane of sorts. Hurricane Harriet. Mother of all storms. Oy vey!

As some of you know, my...

Have you ever wondered how it is that after decades of time-saving inventions and new technologies that "free time" has almost disappeared from our culture?

"Lost time is never found again." -- Benjamin Franklin

Are you suffering from "Spiritual Inertia"?

Are we time-poor, insolvent, bankrupt? Is "free...

In emails from Tushkateers (members of the Kick in the Tush Club) and various coaching conversations that I've had with a number of my one-on-one coaching clients, the concepts of "normal" and "perfect" have repeatedly surfaced.

True enough, many have wished that they were "normal" and...

When I imagine what it looks like to live a balanced life, two thoughts come to mind. The first is the "Jack theory": All work and no play makes for a cranky Jack. All this and no that -- too much of this and too little of that -- just...

I'm referencing the one nightstand that sits next to your bed. The stand that you dump the contents of your day onto before you drift off to sleep. The stand that holds your eyeglasses, your meds, your alarm clock, the book(s) you are reading, maybe your laptop, your cell phone,...

What does it mean to be your authentic self?
During their much-touted interview on Monday night, Oprah told Piers Morgan that being her authentic self was and is key to her success. But what does it mean to be your authentic self?

Dr. Phil defines...

Two weeks ago, on "Wellness Wednesday," I moseyed on over to Norma Kamali's Wellness Café to get the skinny on sleep. Geraldine O'Keefe, herbologist, sleep expert and creator of the much touted "Escape to Sleep" tonic was Norma's featured "Wellness Wednesday" expert.

"The things you want are always possible; it is just that the way to get them is not always apparent. The only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life is you, and that can be a considerable obstacle because you carry the baggage of insecurities and past experience."...

I am going to go out on a limb here and make an observation about Oprah's Favorite Things 2010 list that may not be taken favorably. In fact, y'all might get mad at me, but I'm going to have to take that risk. Because I can't believe my eyes!

I had the extreme pleasure and honor of being the keynote speaker at the American Diabetes Association Expo in Pittsburgh this past weekend. In addition to delivering my 'kick tush' talk, I lead workshops and, following a book signing at Journeys Of Life bookstore - a small group...

Halloween (or Hallowe'en), an annual holiday observed on October 31, has its roots in the Celtic of Samhain and the Christian holiday All Saints' Day. Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, wearing costumes, costume parties, carving jack-o'-lanterns, ghost tours, bonfires, apple bobbing, haunted houses, ghost stories, watching horror films, and eating candy....

The body image stars are aligned this week. The NOW Foundation is launching their "Love Your Body" campaign. The "Inner Weigh," the weight loss documentary that we've all been waiting for premieres in Los Angeles on Wednesday, October 20, and coincidentally Norman Kamali, fashion icon, kicks...

On October 21, photographer (to the stars) Heather Swanson unveils her latest project "The Doll Collection" at the The Soho Gallery for Digital Art in SoHo, New York City.

As many little girls are wont to do, when a child Heather played with 'Barbie-like' dolls and loved them. Her...