Eat When You Eat

Get your metabolism revved up by slowing down and being present while you eat. It makes all the difference in feeling good and losing weight!

You Are What You Eat

Enjoy my Intuitive Intakers!
xo
Ali

A Love Affair with "Why?"

As a seeker and a full-time student of life, I find myself always asking the tough questions. Trying to dig deeper. Trying to understand, um, everything.

What is that?
Why does it exist?
Where did it come from?
Why? Why? Why?

I am obsessed with understanding why things have become they way they have. I have been having a love affair with "Why?"

But what I didn't stop to consider was that my reasons, my answers, may have helped me make sense of my immediate universe but they are not the final answers. My answer is the answer that comes from my one tiny, limited perspective. And even as I expand my consciousness and receive the answers from that expanded perspective, it's still only another perspective.

So, I will keep up my love affair of "Why?" but with the awareness that this life is a mystery for sure.

This reminds me of my favorite quote:

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions - Rilke

I here on out pledge to love the questions and accept that I won't fully understand all of my emotions, or other's emotions. I won't fully understand why I am the way I am and I won't understand why others are the way they are. I accept that and am ready to feel all that I need to feel without trying to wrap my head around my emotions.

Because the head can't always understand the matters of the heart.


Cheers to loving the questions. Keep on asking, my fellow "Why?"ers!

Primary Food

Ketubah Inspiration

Today I am designing a Ketubah, a Jewish marriage contract, for a friend. I was researching examples and I came across a few I needed to share. Although I don't use this blog usually as a space for design inspiration, I believe that when we admire beauty, we create more in our own lives.

Cheers to beautiful art and craftsmanship in the name of love!

The Scrumptious Life

Hey peeps!!

I am so excited to be vlogging for PROUDgirls as the holistic health expert. PROUDgirls is a site for teens that encourages teenage girls to stand united and embrace their unique beauty, to use their power to make a difference in their life, community and the world, and to change their negative dialog into positive action.

LOVE IT! Here is my intro video :)

Deeper Down

Deep down,
we want to shine bright.
We want
to be free.

And yet,
there is a place
deep down,
that feels safer.
A place
where we want to hide.
Hide
from our true selves.

Deep down,
we are afraid.
Afraid
of our darkness.
Afraid
to see
ourselves fully.

Can we
shine
and
hide
at the same time?

The answer is no.

So we dig deeper.

And deeper down,
we want to love
and be loved.
And
when that becomes
our reason to live,
we are no longer hiding.
We shine
BRIGHT.
Real bright.