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Looking Forward to 2011! (Instead of Resolutions, Try Dedications, Intentions, and WHY NOTs Instead.) HAPPY NEW YEAR! Jump into Your New Year: Mind, Body, and Spirit Renewal Program * New Year’s Coaching Sessions – Start the Year with Clarity Dedications: Self: To keep working toward my best over-all health: Exercise. Continue reading Looking Forward to 2011! — It’s Never Too Late to Try Dedications, Intentions, and WHY NOTs! by Lasára Allen, www.LasaraAllen.com Are you planning on making any resolutions for the coming year? Many of us make New Year’s resolutions – and then fail. A whopping 88% of well-meaning New Year’s revelers will “fail” in achieving the resolutions they set out as a Continue reading A New – Or POST – New Year’s Tradition; Give Up Resolutions! The holidays are upon us. No matter what your spiritual persuasion, you’re probably going to be finding time within this season of cold days and long nights to gather with family and friends, sit around the feast table, and celebrate some light in the darkness. What a wonderful thing! But even so, the most joyful season Continue reading Self-Care for the Holiday Season Yesterday I had a first appointment with a new psych doc. Never something I look forward to, but just like the search for a good care-provider of any type – massage therapist, chiropractor, general practitioner, gynecologist – sometimes finding Doctor Right takes some time. As with ending any relationship – getting fired from a job, losing Continue reading Finding Dr. Right (Wanna play yoga with us? Join our Community Yoga Experience – yoga everyday, from now until the autumnal equinox – Sept. 23.) Physical exercise for me, from asana yoga, to running, to Pilates, to dancing, is not an optional part of my self-care. Yet I still act sometimes like it is. And end up back in Continue reading Exercise is Not Optional Today I start with frustration. It’s not the topic I want to write about. I am dead-tired of self-introspective, self-indulgent, self-aggrandizing writing, yet here I am today, finding my self starting with my own self-indulgent expression of dissatisfaction. Yesterday at therapy my (very awesome) therapist and I were talking about summer break. About how it’s easy Continue reading Learning to be Human I haven’t written an update in a while. That’s because I hit a wall. And learned from it! For two weeks, I could barely move from over training. I was tired and in pain. I decided I would reduce my miles, and started healing immediately. I’m now back to being able to run, and workout, without Continue reading Update 2.19.10 Another run with Beth – Yay Beth! We clocked two miles at: Beth: 11:09/mile Lasara: 12:11/mile Pretty good, I say. Forgot the Red Bull again, and my lungs paid the price. Treated post run asthma attack with Astragalus, Herbal Expectorant Cough, and Yin Chiao. And hot Ovaltine with some extra Malt. Yum. The lungs feel better now. My shake Continue reading Update 2.7.10 Sunday run with Beth! They say the trail is 6 miles rt, but it is FOR SURE more. Not only that, but pretty brutal up and down, too. We did it though! Still rockin’ the minimal support shoes. We ran at the lake today (Lake Mendocino) instead of by the house, so no concrete anymore – Continue reading Update 1.31.10 Gratitude for Talib Kweli, my buddy Jamers and his pushing me on our run today, 5 MILES DOWN on a casual…, for a run on a the roads of my youth – a reminder of how miles were shorter whan I was young’un, even tho my legs were, too. The smell on my skin after Continue reading Update 1.28.10 GOOD news; ran just OVER 6 miles (if the signs were accurate…)… BAD news; I ran the OVER part because someone stole my bag I’d placed, slightly hidden by the trail. I didnt think anyone was crazy enough to be out there today besides me! GOOD news: I left the keys in the car, not in the Continue reading Update 1/25/09 http://www.LasaraAllen.com Okay, I admit it; we bipolar folks can be a real handful. If you have close friends who live with bipolar disorder (BD), you’ve probably had a couple – or more – not-so-easy interactions with them/us. This is my invitation to walk a mile in their/my shoes. But before we go further, terms; I choose to say, Continue reading Bipolar Disorder: …It Sucks. I just found out the 2011 is the 2500th anniversary of the marathon! This is super cool, as my plan is to run a full marathon for my 40th birthday – in 2011! The fact it’s such a momentous occassion makes my goal that much sweeter. (See more on this soon.) My other piece of news Continue reading News About Long-Term Goals – the 2500th Marathon Anniversary in 2011! Race as Platform for Bipolar Advocacy & Education. Robert (the Mr.) just went out to meet the fedEx guy…I thought it was the Mr’s second cashmere sweater (wine colored v-neck! First was a black, double weight), a late delivery from Santa… But he comes back in and says, “It’s a box of macho.” I was like, “What?” He says “It’s a box of macho Continue reading Supplements I’m Starting With. This is my training updates page. And here’s the beginning of my training story: Update, day two of training: Running with Elk Completed the scheduled three miles! I had my appendectomy just over a month ago – and haven’t run in well over a month. Even before the appendectomy, I had fallen off the running wagon for Continue reading Lasára’s Progress Page – Races, Competitions, Goals Long- and Short-Term Self-Care for the Holiday Season Lasára Allen, MPNLP, http://www.LasaraAllen.com The holidays are upon us. No matter what your spiritual persuasion, you’re probably going to be finding time within this season of cold days and long nights to gather with family and friends, sit around the feast table, and celebrate some light in the darkness. What a Continue reading Self-Care for the Holiday Season |
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