A Cup of Java: Caffeine and Women’s Health
- By hoano
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- 21 Feb, 2010
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coffee is a methylxanthine which is a compound that interferes with enzymes in the breast, resulting in fibrocystic breast condition. Reducing caffeine intake from coffee and chocolate can eliminate lumpy, painful breasts.” Though fibrocystic breasts are seen as benign, if not managed can result in more serious symptoms of the breast tissue. She also quotes that, “coffee depletes your kidney essence, leaving you more Qi-depleted than you were before you drank it.”
affirmations, meditation, and journaling. Start by taking baby steps. The more I stay away from the craving, the more I am able to sit with my feelings and fill myself with a wholeness and joy that coffee is only masking temporarily.
Women to Women
How to be Resilient in the Face of Change.
Change is a part of life and as humans we either embrace it or fear it. For some of us, change means getting out of our comfort zone or maybe loosing something we had before. It also might mean something exciting is to come and we just haven’t learned how to breathe into yet. We need to un push the pause button.
Covid times is our biggest experience in which we are all dealing with both personal and collective change. Many have lost businesses, jobs, health insurance, loved ones, their familiar routine, but some have bought houses, some are moving out of state, some are starting new businesses and on some level we are all changing inside, deepening our relationship to self through more self - care, our standards may be shifting, relationships are changing, or we are able to carve out more family time.
What keeps me going when I am grieving a loss of something I have been so familiar with is the belief, faith and hope that the universe is conspiring to make my vision a reality. Having trust in myself and my purpose. I trust that no matter what we will all be ok. I see the change as a teacher and an opportunity for growth and expansion. And it is a mirror to our next level of healing or service to others. We are all going deeper right now and really shifting on many areas of personal development and I feel like I am a catalyst for that change and transformation for the clientele I seek to find me.
It may be scary at first, this idea of change, as we hold on to many beliefs and behaviors that give us a sense of love, comfort and belonging. But I can promise you that those beliefs/behaviors are our allies, and the more we flow and build on our ability to love and care for ourselves, we start to initiate new beliefs and behaviors as we step into a new version of ourselves something that has existed already, we just didn’t know it.
Letting go of a space that was my practice and identity for 8 years, was a bittersweet experience and a myriad of physical and mental emotions, but I have done it once before so I know I can do it again. Change. It is not a goodbye. It is a reinvention, an expansion, a new offering. And perhaps the change is needed for my clients. Life brings to us new people and new situations for many reasons.
If you are ready to embrace change, whether that be creating positive habits, deepening your relationship to self, improving your health, making a career change, desiring a relationship, learning stress management, learning to love your body, and so much more; contact me to discover what is involved in working with a coach, a compassionate advocate to your life and health goals. I am here to support you. Make yourself a priority today and call me to be heard, listened to and validated in a way that you may never have before….I am offering a 60 min Discovery Call.
I get asked a lot by my clients about what they can do to enhance their lymphatic health in the interim of sessions. Ladies, your in luck, as there is a wonderful tool and self-care regimen called Dry Brushing. Your probably familiar with the basic bath brush that has a wooden handle that people use in the shower to exfoliate their skin. Well this is the same idea, but with the intention of stimulating the lymphatic system. Dry Brushing is becoming a popular trend, as women are now seeing the importance of rejuvenating the skin’s dermis by clearing out toxins as a way to maintain health and beauty.
It is the same idea when we exfoliate the face to clean of impurities after a cleanser and toner. Dry brushing for the body is a way we can exfoliate the whole body and help reduce stagnancy and inflammation from our very delicate lymph vessel system.
We have many vital organs that are responsible for detox including the liver, kidneys, skin and colon. The skin being the largest. Stimulating the lymphatic system through dry brushing helps remove dead skin cell and makes the skin smoother. It helps to improve circulation, reduce stress and provides a relaxing way to connect with a very essential process of the body in removing metabolic wastes.
Whether for health maintenance, reducing water in the body, reducing the appearance of cellulite, lymphatic dry brushing feels good and makes your skin look great.
Our lymph system has no pump and transports lymph via tiny vessels called a lymphangion. These tiny vessels create natural contractions or peristalsis of the smooth muscle which influences lymphangion motoricity. Exercise, rebound jumping, diaphragmatic
breathing are also wonderful ways to get the lymph system to circulate.
