Live Your Best Life
Advice, Tips, and Best Practices from Our Health Coaches and Wellness Partners
We were honored to be featured among an inspiring community of women in the Beyond Mom Interviews highlighting our CEO and founder, Caroll Lee. This series focuses on entrepreneurs, wellness leaders, and creatives who exhibit leadership in motherhood and beyond. Caroll talks about her own experience with motherhood, and how she balances it along with self-care, family life, and being an entrepreneur.
We’re no stranger to the busy and sometimes hectic lifestyle that New York City brings. That doesn’t mean your health and wellness should be compromised. Our mission is to help New Yorkers make their wellness a priority. We were excited when editor Hannah Baxter contacted us about a story to try out “Goop Approved” products and living the #gooplife.
I’ve just returned from Natural Products Expo West, the largest natural, organic and healthy products event on the planet. Over 85,000 attendees descended on Anaheim, CA to see the latest and greatest in the healthy food and supplements industry. Thousands of exhibitors were there, from large well-known brands such as Stonyfield and Applegate, to little guys debuting their first natural product. There were also many seminars designed to educate businesses on sustainability, diet, entrepreneur’s success and failures, and wellness lifestyle trends. After sampling hundreds of products and attending fascinating lectures, here are my takeaways on the wellness trends to look out for this year.
I’ve been promoting eating clean among my friends and family ever since I had my own “aha” moment over a decade ago. When I discovered that my low energy, fatigue, tummy aches and the blood sugar roller coaster I was on could all disappear just by eating real food, I knew I had found my calling to help others feel their best as well.
I am a firm believer in cooking. To paraphrase Michael Pollan, I believe it may be the single most important thing we can do to improve our health and general well-being. As a health counselor, I know that eating nutritious whole foods, or “clean” foods free of potential inflammatory triggers (such as gluten, dairy and refined sugar) is the fastest path to feeling well. But I also know that modern life can be stressful and fast-paced, and eating healthy can be pushed to the end of the priority list, only considered once the body’s blood sugar starts to take a nosedive.
