“The world is incomprehensible. We won’t ever understand it; we won’t ever unravel its secrets. Thus we must treat the world as it is: a sheer mystery.” ~ Carlos Castaneda Yesterday, after an absolutely lovely and peaceful afternoon walk through the Conservatory Gardens in Central Park, Peter and I returned home, turned on our respective [...]
About Janice Taylor
Janice Taylor is a Life & Wellness Coach specializing in transformation, reinvention and weight loss. She has worked with thousands of individuals worldwide to help them to uncover their authentic selves and to learn to create balance and success in their personal and professional lives. After a successful corporate career for two decades, Janice took a risk and left her position to reinvent, rewire, and revitalize her life ... and that she surely did! Against all odds, Janice has written two best-selling self-help books (Our Lady of Weight Loss and All Is Forgiven, Move On). She is the creator of the Kick in the Tush Club, which has generated over 14,000 members, and she has established herself as one of the country's leading Life & Wellness Coaches and Weight Loss Experts. For the best life, wellness and weight loss wisdom, visit Janice at Our Lady of Weightlossm join the Kick in the Tush Club, and become a Tushkateer! A Tushkateer is a person who receives Our Lady of Weight Loss’s newsletter, called the Kick in the Tush Club. Sign up and receive her weekly e-newsletter with all the news that ‘fit’ to print, and you are automatically a Tushkateer! You can also follow Janice on Twittter and Facebook.
14 Juicy Quotes to Shape Your Identity
Who are you? What costume do you wear? What story do you tell yourself about yourself? Who are you? Really? As I head off to Rowe Camp and Conference Center to lead my workshop, Feed Your Soul: Change Your Weight, I review my story in my own head (as if I could review it in someone [...]
The Hospice Diaries: Transcending the Traditional
This morning, as I lie in bed, contemplating what the next few days might bring forth on all planes–physically, emotionally, intellectually, spiritually–what the days could look like, I begin to wonder how I could possibly best manage to “enjoy” them. As I contemplate how to cope with moving my mother from hospital to hospice, the [...]
5 Ways to Stay Happy and Healthy in Crisis
When tough times come, it is particularly important to offset them with much gentle softness. Be a pillow. ~ Vera Nazarian It has been weeks since I sent out a fully loaded Kick in the Tush e-letter. As both Christmas and New Year’s Day fell on a Tuesday, OLWL insisted that we take off. She [...]
End of World: 6 Steps to Creating Anew
The doom-and-gloom-sayers, the end-of-the-world folk are predicting, based on their interpretation of the Mayan calendar, that the world will indeed end tomorrow, December 21, 2012. How will it end? Will we fall into a black hole; will a monstrous asteroid hit the planet sending us spinning out of control? Will aliens land and takeover, like [...]
9 Tips to Have a Sexy Holiday
While reading through all the holiday season tips — ideas that range from how to resist the urge to stuff yourself silly to tips on how to not overspend your weigh (Freudian slip) into bankruptcy — I realized that somewhere between the my holiday shopping list and dusting underneath the bed, being sexy has fallen [...]
7 Holiday Spending Tips: Save Your Soul-Save Your Pocketbook
A gaggle of people have expressed to me either via telephone or email that they are not only fearful that their eating is going to spiral out of control during this holiday season, but their spending as well. So, I’ve put together a few tips that I hope will serve you well! 7 Money-Saving TIPS [...]
Busted Zippers, Broken Dreams
How are you on this fine 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 NYC window (oh, the joys of the big city) and let out a whistle/honk, call it [...]
Are You Touch Starved?
Intention: End “Touch Starvation” Now! When I heard that neuroscientists found that touch activates the brain’s cortex, which is linked to feelings of reward, my weight loss bells and whistles went off. People tell me (and back in the day, before I permanently removed over 50 pounds, I said it too), “I had a hard [...]
Healthy Thinking: 5 Steps to Forgiveness
How heavy is your dead weight a.k.a. anger and upset? I’d read about a teacher who asked her students to bring a clear plastic bag and a sack of potatoes to class. For every person the student refused to forgive, they were to write the person’s name and date of upset on a potato and [...]
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