Integrative Health Blog

The holiday season starts this week and that means travel for a lot of people. I started thinking about weather and airplanes and trains and crowded terminals and delayed flights. Imagining all the ways in which stress could get the better of us, I thought that this week I would talk a bit about how to avoid “personal and family meltdowns”.

Prepare for the Unexpected

Last winter in Washington, D.C. we had a January storm that came upon us fast. I left my job at 3 p.m. and due to the amount of snow falling and the amount of people driving on the roads, a trip that usually takes me 45 min. took me 10 hours!! Talk about your possible meltdown! All of us were in the same boat that day, never going above 10 mph for hours on end.

What saved me?

Do we need to experience hard times to create stress in our lives? No, we don’t...some of us do a good job of that all by ourselves regardless of what’s going on in the world around us.

We stress about how we look, how we don’t know what we should eat, how we don’t have any “down” time, how we haven’t been to the gym in a while, how cluttered the kitchen counter is, blah, blah, blah...

What if we were to understand that the road to wellness is paved with attention to our thoughts?

Wellness is not just about the broccoli, folks!

When you look down at your dinner plate, does it stimulate your senses? Creamy textures, crunchy goodness, rich vibrant colors that look inviting on the plate - food that is pleasing to the eye as well as the taste buds!

Eating well is more than “what’s for dinner”. It’s no surprise that that fruits, vegetables and dark leafy greens are at the top of the list for good nutrition. The more vibrant the color, the more antioxidants and phytonutrients that food contains which translates in to goodness for your cells!

Enjoy the Fall Harvest

Fall is a perfect time to make use of all the colorful vegetables and fruits that are in abundance. What’s in season now?  Acorn squash, beets, carrots, pie pumpkins, pomegranates, pears, kale, collard greens, butternut squash, swiss chard, spinach, celery, turnips and brussel sprouts, to name a few. Roast them, lightly steam or saute them for crunchy goodness or eat them raw in a salad for even more delicious crunch and goodness.

Coy Roskosky D.C.

All the time? Some of the time?

There’s a chorus from a Paul Simon song that goes like this: “How long you think that you can run that body down? How many nights you think that you can do what you’ve been doin’? Whooo? Now who you foolin?”