Yiska's blog

Nothing feeds the soul like speaking our truth. When I think of the many times I’ve turned to food in my life, for reasons beyond nourishment and pleasure, I have found it’s so often been connected to something I’m not saying. I heard a story once about a tribe whose healer does one thing. Read more

Did you ever notice that LISTEN and SILENT have the same letters? When things feel out of sorts in my life I know some basic questions need answering. What do I need? What am I feeling? What am I thinking? What’s missing? Finding the answers to any of these questions begs a serious dose of Vitamin S, the vital nutrient Silence! Read more

If you didn’t catch the headline this week about Ralph Lauren model, Filippa Hamilton being fired for being “too fat”, check out this link and Today Show video, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/14/filippa-hamilton-ralph-la_n_320396.html At 5 foot 10 inches tall, 120 pounds and a Read more

I read an article a while back written by one of my favorite people in the healthy, holistic eating world, Geneen Roth. Her approach to emotional eating and "legalizing food" has been hugely inspiring to me. Read more

We’ve all heard the phrase, “you are what you eat”. Of course in so many ways this is true. What we eat becomes us. I’ve also heard it said that “we are what we don’t excrete”. This is also true, for physical nourishment as well as anything we ingest, even ideas. It is only what we absorb, take into ourselves, and hold on to, that becomes who we are. Read more

Well said by Dawna Markova in her book I Will Not Die an Unlived Life, “most of the Western world is caught up in doing, doing, doing-we have become trained to do in order to have so that maybe in some distant time we can be. This is all backward.” Read more

You know the feeling…let’s just say hypothetically a major holiday just passed and you shockingly put on 5 pounds over a weekend; incessantly eating, one large celebratory meal after another for 2 days straight; wine, bread, dessert…the more the merrier right? Read more