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Healthy Happy Loving Life: Top 7 Diet Myths to Dump

29 Friday Jul 2022

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Very few people have always been satisfied with what they weigh.  Young teens are dieting to try to get rid of unwanted pounds, to get that ideal Hollywood body.  Have you been through one day with other people, without someone bemoaning their weight gain or talking about needing to lose it?  Unlikely!  It’s a cultural obsession.  But our cultural obsession also holds dear a number of completely false ideas about how to lose weight!  Here, then, are the top 7 Diet Myths that are keeping you from losing the pounds you want to lose:

  1. Counting calories leads to weight loss. Eat fewer calories and you will lose weight. Truth: the body doesn’t metabolize all foods the same way. You can’t lose weight eating 1200 calories worth of candy every day.
  2. If you lose a bunch of weight, your waist will be smaller. Truth: waist size doesn’t work that simply. Taxed organs (liver, stomach, intestines) may be swollen and not respond to weight loss or fat loss per se. Look at all the barrel-chested British actors, whose heavy drinking has led to swollen livers and therefore swollen abdomens and lifted ribcages. Lower intake of alcohol and sugars can help this effect. Also, lack of abdominal muscle tone can lead to stretching of the girth. Yoga poses such as Suryanamaskar (Salutation to the Sun) and abdominal lifts can assist in toning the abdomen. It’s good to think of dieting and exercise as natural partners within your overall weight loss program.
  3. You should tell all your friends you are dieting, for accountability. Truth: you need your own positive program and internal scripting to strengthen your way to your weight goals. You don’t need friends chatting about your fitness. On the other hand, a diet buddy working the same program can be a great help.
  4. There is an ideal diet somewhere, if only I can find it. Truth: There is no single diet that works for all metabolisms. Be sure to coordinate with your doctor before embarking on a diet/exercise program. Be sure your blood profile doesn’t need adjusting first. You may need thyroid supplementation, for example, and balancing this one factor could cause a few pounds to melt away. Some people have lost dozens of pounds by eliminating foods they are allergic to. And in either of these cases, the people felt much better, also. Further, a large metastudy (study of the results of many studies) of many diet plans concluded that almost all diet plans work– if you stick with them.
  5. Intermittent fasting must be the best plan because it’s new. Truth: Intermittent fasting works well for some people, but maybe not you. Some people have felt ill trying to use this technique.
  6. Dieting will fix my weight problem. Truth: if you stop thinking of LOSING WEIGHT you’ll be more successful! Your subconscious knows it’s bad to lose stuff! So your subconscious will try hard to keep you from losing weight. Switch to “releasing bulk I no longer need” and measure your inches instead of your pounds. Talk to your subconscious every day about how much easier everything will be with less bulk, and how good you’ll feel with less bulk. Thank your body and bless it for all its wondrous functions.
  7. Food is the key to weight loss– or release of bulk. Truth: Dieters who are the most successful support themselves in creating this shift by using a wise food plan, a wise exercise plan, and supplemental activities like meditation. They also go dancing with friends and only drink soda water while they’re out. They drink lots of water throughout the day.
So what’s the best formula for success? First set a goal. Then coordinate with your doctor, start thinking of releasing bulk and gaining fitness, choose a reasonable food plan, start a simple workout plan (yoga, walking, swimming), and play around with meditation techniques. And get some energy healing; learn some weight release points to hold.
And that will be you: ever more HHLL, stepping into your new bulk-balanced life!

Be sure to let me know what you experience.  And that will be you, ever more Healthy, Happy, and Loving Lifesm!  Now you’re stepping into your new bulk-balanced life!

In my daily series this month, I hope to strongly convince you that positive living is the way to be, and that it results in greater health and happiness and joy.  Plus, it’s more fun to live this way!  And that would be me and you, shaping our lives anew, ever more Healthy Happy and Loving Lifesm!


Kebba Buckley Button is a stress solutions expert, holistic guide, and award-winning author who celebrates life.  She has a longtime energy healing practice and is an ordained minister. Among her books are: Discover The Secret Energized You (http://tinyurl.com/b44v3br), Inspirations for Peace Within:  Quotes and Images to Uplift and Inspire, and Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine.  The books are available on Amazon and through Kebba’s office.   To email us, kebba@kebba.com .

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: Dumping Guilt and Worry

26 Tuesday Jul 2022

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I seek to learn more about happiness and fulfillment all time, and to share about happiness and fulfillment with my clients and cohorts.  One of the most profound ideas I ever learned was long ago, from reading a book by psychologist Dr. Wayne Dyer, Your Erroneous Zones.  The idea is that you can not live at any moment other than the Present.  Wayne weaves this principle through a chapter of Your Erroneous Zones, in the guise of Chapter 5:  The Useless Emotions: Guilt and Worry.

Wayne explains that guilt is for what we may have messed up in the Past, and worry is for what we may mess up or encounter in the Future.  But back to this now-living thing.  After reading this chapter, I began to observe my immediate environment more.  I started being more aware of my Present, practicing really being present to my Present.  I have enjoyed life more ever since, because I began paying attention to my Now Life, rather than letting my thoughts run through, for example, my day at the office, while I was driving.

Wayne writes:

You see examples of guilt and worry everywhere, in virtually everyone you meet.  The world is populated with folks who are either feeling horrible about something that they shouldn’t have done or dismayed about things that might or might not happen.  You are probably no exception.  If you have large worry and guilt zones, they must be exterminated, spray-cleaned and sterilized forever.  Wash out those little “w” and “g” bugs that infest so many sectors of your life.

Guilt and worry are perhaps the most common forms of distress in our culture.  With guilt you focus on a past event, feel dejected or angry about something that you did or said, and use up your present moments being occupied with feelings over the past behavior.  With worry, you use up those valuable nows, obsessing about a future event.  Whether you’re looking backward or forward, the result is the same.  You’re throwing away the present moment.

Play around with this notion a little each day.  Practice bringing yourself back to the here and now, when your thoughts wander too much into the past and the future.  Especially if you are in guilt or worry.  And let me know what you experience.  And that will be you, ever more HHLL!

Then that will be you, ever more Healthy, Happy, and Loving Lifesm!

In my daily series this month, I hope to strongly convince you that positive living is the way to be, and that it results in greater health and happiness and joy.  Plus, it’s more fun to live this way!  And that would be me and you, shaping our lives anew, ever more Healthy Happy and Loving Lifesm!


Kebba Buckley Button is a stress solutions expert, holistic guide, and award-winning author who celebrates life.  She has a longtime energy healing practice and is an ordained minister. Among her books are: Discover The Secret Energized You (http://tinyurl.com/b44v3br), Inspirations for Peace Within:  Quotes and Images to Uplift and Inspire, and Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine.  The books are available on Amazon and through Kebba’s office.   To email us, kebba@kebba.com .

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: 12 Top Tips for Cleansing the Energy of Your Space

25 Monday Jul 2022

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Have you been dragging lately?  Are you working through times when you have been bored, horrified, angry, sad, or grieving? Well, I have good news for you:  while your personal emotions affect the energy of your space, your space can be cleansed and refreshed!  And that, in turn, will cleanse and refresh your energy and moods.  There are levels on which everything is energy.  So you may as well enjoy your energy!

Cleansing your space—sometimes called “smudging” –is easy.  You just have to think of it and do it.  There are no hard and fast rules.  Here are some tips for success with an energy cleanse.

  1. Pick a day or hour when the outside weather is pleasant, and you would enjoy having your windows open anyway. If your windows don’t open, count on opening the doors and possibly running room fans to keep the air moving.
  2. Pick a sage bundle or wand, or a favorite incense stick; I use Nag Champa incense sticks. If you don’t have those at the moment, use a candle. Pick a lightweight dish or pan you’ll carry under the sage/incense/candle, to absolutely catch any flying or dropping embers.  You don’t want the sparks or embers to touch your clothes or your carpet.
  3. Open your cabinet doors as well as all your windows.
  4. Set your intention. In the form of an affirmation or prayer, say to the Universe or Holy Spirit that you want to now release any old energy and cleanse your entire space.
  5. Light your sage/incense/candle. For incense, blow the big flame out and let the ember end smoke its scent into your space.  Now begin to circulate in every space.  You may want to stroll around thoughtfully, affirming the cleansing as you go, in each area.
  6. Especially circulate near your areas of most concentration (computer?) and fatigue (favorite chair, bed, pillows). When you plop into your favorite recliner at the end of the day, all your fatigue and frustration and busyness of the day go right into that recliner.  That’s why it needs to have its energy cleansed.
  7. Use your own script. Affirm that (in God’s or Jesus’ name, if that feels right) you cleanse this entire area completely.  You now clear it of any negative, tired, old, sick, pained, dissipated, frustrated, or angry energy (add any adjectives that suit you).  And you now fill this entire area completely with new, fresh, clear, light, happy, healthy, blessed, ready-to-go energy.  Keep affirming the clearing and the same excellent new qualities as you go from area to area.  If necessary, do a difficult area twice.  Remember the bathrooms, especially the showers.
  8. When you have circulated in all areas inside, work the doorway areas for several feet outside.
  9. Do all this for your car also. You may be amazed at the stress energy that has accumulated in the car.
  10. Finish with a prayer of thanks or affirmation of gratitude that all is now refreshed and recharged.
  11. Leave the cupboard doors and home/office doors open for an hour if possible. Run the ceiling fans to assure circulation.
  12. ENJOY the light feeling.

 And that will be you, ever more Healthy, Happy, and Loving Lifesm!

In my daily series this month, I hope to strongly convince you that positive living is the way to be, and that it results in greater health and happiness and joy.  Plus, it’s more fun!  And that would be me and you, shaping our lives anew, ever more Healthy Happy and Loving Lifesm!


Kebba Buckley Button is a stress solutions expert, holistic guide, and award-winning author who celebrates life.  She has a longtime energy healing practice and is an ordained minister. Among her books are: Discover The Secret Energized You (http://tinyurl.com/b44v3br), Inspirations for Peace Within:  Quotes and Images to Uplift and Inspire, and Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine.  The books are available on Amazon and through Kebba’s office.   To email us, kebba@kebba.com .

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: 5 Things You Haven’t Seen (Probably)

23 Saturday Jul 2022

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In my holistic/energy healing practice, I find it very powerful to change your channel.  Changing your channel snaps you out of whatever is stressing you out, and it resets your nervous system.  Often, a novel or surprising sight or event will snap a person into changing their channel.  So here I present Five Things You Haven’t Seen Before– or probably haven’t.  Notice any energy shifts in your system, as you take a good look at each of these things.  And I hope you enjoy.  Above, (1) the stained glass is– not!  It’s a very close up image of dragonfly wings.

Above, (2) is a new flavor of Listerine.  It’s Grapefruit Rose’ flavor, with zero alcohol.  Now wait– if this is for people who don’t want alcohol, why did they give it the name of a wine?  Just sayin’.

When I saw (3), above, I was completely startled!  There I was, completing my grocery shopping escapade, when my eyes became stuck on this display about DEATH.  LIQUID DEATH!  I thought, oh, this must be one of those super-concentrated espresso-plus-vodka type of drinks?  But NO, it’s a water.  In several flavors.  And the pitch is:  “death to thirst”.  No, I didn’t buy a can to try.  I’m still startled at the boldness of this marketing tack.

Right up there with a high Startle Factor is (4), above, a book about dealing with jerks and constructing your life so you have no jerks.  But for marketing, they use an A- word.  Yes, I have ordered a copy, and I’ll let you know if I recommend it.  After all, jerks are a major source of my clients’ stress, pain, and fatigue.

So my last surprise of the week (5) was this lovely pillow, gently encouraging us to relax with our breath.  After all, most of us need to breathe, right?  So we may as well use our breath to relax and release.  Just please start with the EXHALE, or you will have nowhere for the INHALE to go.  Try it!

Now, do you feel refreshed?  You just got a 2-minute break from your habitual worries.  You changed your channel for a short while.  Does your bodymind system feel different?  Good!  Then that will be you, ever more Healthy, Happy, and Loving Lifesm!

In my daily series this month, I hope to strongly convince you that positive living is the way to be, and that it results in greater health and happiness and joy.  Plus, it’s more fun to live this way!  And that would be me and you, shaping our lives anew, ever more Healthy Happy and Loving Lifesm!


Kebba Buckley Button is a stress solutions expert, holistic guide, and award-winning author who celebrates life.  She has a longtime energy healing practice and is an ordained minister. Among her books are: Discover The Secret Energized You (http://tinyurl.com/b44v3br), Inspirations for Peace Within:  Quotes and Images to Uplift and Inspire, and Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine.  The books are available on Amazon and through Kebba’s office.   To email us, kebba@kebba.com .

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: Happy National Hammock Day!

22 Friday Jul 2022

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I am amazed by the array of things that have their own day—like National Hammock Day, today!  For every day of the year, there is something that is celebrated.  Or 20 things.  Multiple websites, such as NationalDayCalendar.com, let you know what the special celebrations are for the day you’re checking out.  Also, there are months to celebrate some things, like February as National Heart Month, which started with a Presidential proclamation in 1964.  So you can research the special days and months by topic or by date and month.

While I can’t find anything on the origins of National Hammock Day, I have found a little history of the hammock itself. And National Hammock Day has become an internet meme.  Apparently, the fiber sling was a standard sleeping device in Central America, separating the sleeping person from creatures of the jungle floor.  It was brought back to Europe in the 17th Century by explorers. Navies adopted the hammock as a space-saving, comfortable way to sleep on ships.  Today, Amazon (yes, I love Amazon!) has around 1,000 hammock options, in hundreds of natural and lab-made fibers, from the $30 range to the several-hundred-dollar range. My favorite photo website has 1,537 images of hammocks.  So clearly, hammocks are popular today.  Hammocks look attractive, help you relax or slumber, and can be folded up easily for storage or backpacking.  One summer, I was invited to stay at a Colorado cabin in the woods, and I slept in a hammock, slung between 2 extremely tall pines, for several months.  I watched the stars and listened to the coyotes singing at night. Cozy!  And oh yes, my hammock cost around $10 back then.

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It should be mentioned that today is (coincidentally?) the day to celebrate two other occasions: Mango Day and Summer Leisure Day. What a perfect fit of three important commemorative days!  Maybe it’s time to blend yourself a mango margarita or smoothie, head for the hammock, and get in some major relaxation!  Relaxing blissfully raises your DHEA, the master hormone, and makes you stronger and younger. So be diligent in celebrating this important day!  And that will be you, ever more Healthy, Happy, and Loving Lifesm!

In my daily series this month, I hope to strongly convince you that positive living is the way to be, and that it results in greater health and happiness and joy.  Plus, it’s more fun!  And that would be me and you, shaping our lives anew, ever more Healthy Happy and Loving Lifesm!

 


Kebba Buckley Button is a stress solutions expert, holistic guide, and award-winning author who celebrates life.  She has a longtime energy healing practice and is an ordained minister. Among her books are: Discover The Secret Energized You (http://tinyurl.com/b44v3br), Inspirations for Peace Within:  Quotes and Images to Uplift and Inspire, and Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine.  The books are available on Amazon and through Kebba’s office.   To email us, kebba@kebba.com .

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: Top 5 Reasons to Eat More Protein

18 Monday Jul 2022

Posted by Kebba Buckley Button in Building muscle, Feeling energized, foods with high protein, Healthy Happy Loving Life, Kebba Buckley Button, Protein, the life you want, Weight loss, your best life

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What you eat makes a huge difference in how you feel!  This is not an illusion!  Your cells– all 70 trillion of them– have only what you put in your mouth to make new cells from. 

So let’s talk protein!  We should all be getting at least 12-18% of our daily calories from protein.  Are you feeling tired, depleted, or wanting to build muscle mass?  Then here are 5 things you’ll want to know about protein.

  1. High-protein foods move more slowly through your system and keep you from feeling hungry.
  2. Protein doesn’t have to mean meat.  It could mean fish, cheese, eggs, nuts, peas/beans/lentils, hemp seeds, or quinoa.  There are also dairy proteins often found in instant shakes or protein shakes.
  3. Complete proteins have all 9 essential amino acids.  Incomplete proteins have fewer than the 9 essential amino acids.  But combining these with foods that contain the missing amino acids can still give you complete protein.  Foods containing complete proteins include: eggs, cheese, meat, soy, and quinoa.
  4. Protein can be quick.  You can buy protein powders to blend into shakes, such as: soy, whey, pea, and mixtures.  Of course, you can buy protein drinks already mixed. Some brands have as much as 30 grams of protein in one tasty serving.  Plus, you can use these pre-mixed protein drinks as coffee creamer.  Just do not confuse energy drinks with protein drinks!  Be sure the label says the product is a protein drink.  
  5. Protein can be portable.  Jerky, beef- or turkey sticks, and nuts come pre-packaged and can travel in your purse, waist pack, or laptop case.  Mixed nuts with raisins or other dried fruits are widely available in snack packs that travel well. They also do well in your desk drawer or car door pocket.  Many bottled protein drinks do not require refrigeration, so they also are very portable.

So look around for some of these additional protein sources that are quick and/or convenient.  Especially if you’re rebuilding after an injury or illness, or you want better muscle tone, or you’re losing weight, mind your protein intake, and enjoy your stronger health!

What proteins do you like best?  What forms work best for you?  Enjoy your protein journey!  Here’s to living more in the realm of Healthy, Happy, and Loving Lifesm!  

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Kebba Buckley Button is a stress solutions expert, holistic guide, and award-winning author who celebrates life.  She has a longtime energy healing practice and is an ordained minister. Among her books are: Discover The Secret Energized You (http://tinyurl.com/b44v3br), Inspirations for Peace Within:  Quotes and Images to Uplift and Inspire, and Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine.  The books are available on Amazon and through Kebba’s office.   To email us, kebba@kebba.com .

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: Get More Love With the 6 Love Codes!

13 Saturday Feb 2021

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Who doesn’t enjoy love?  An estimated 100 million love songs have been written and recorded, just one cultural proof that people love love.  Annually, we face Valentines’ Day on February 14th, and that day makes us really think about the love in our lives.  It isn’t just the cards, the heart-logo candy, the heart-shaped pillows, and the heart-decorated clothing and jewelry that are out this time of year.

So, if you think you want more love, let’s start with recognizing better the love that you do have that you may not have noticed!  That’s where the 6 Love Codes come in.  Some have been trying to say they like you, they have great regard for you, they love you– but they are indicating in other Love Codes than you have been recognizing.  Here is a very brief outline of the basic 6:

  1. They speak it:  they give compliments, they say you are delightful, and sometimes they even say “I love you”.
  2. They touch:  they high-five with you, they clap you on the back as they go by, they hug you.  They stand next to you and squeeze your opposite shoulder.
  3. They do for you:  they trim that bush near your front door (asking first), they ask if you want anything from the grocery store, they offer to bring that heavy package in for you.  They offer to drive you to your vaccination appointment.
  4. They like to spend time with you.  They hang out while you bake or while you trim the roses. At a barbeque, they join your conversation group, holding their beverage and nodding thoughtfully.  They make up reasons to spend time together.  In business, they spend extra time after the Zoom meeting, helping you with business issues.
  5. They give gifts.  They bring you soup when they’ve made a pot.  They give you a new brand of local raw chocolate they just found at the open-air market. In a relationship, they buy you candy, flowers, jewelry– even a car, if you believe the Toyota commercials.
  6. They give money or pay for things.  This is most clear in parents who ask their college kids, “how are you doing?  Do you need some money?” Sometimes your aunt or sister buys you a subscription to a magazine you love — whether that’s gifting or money gifting, you can see this is caring, right?

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We have often been advised to “stop and smell the roses”.  So, what if we applied this to noticing love?  What if we walked a little more slowly and noticed how many brighten up when we Facetime or join that Zoom room?  What if we showed caring and appreciation in these 6 ways, matching the ways in which people are showing caring and love for us?  Imagine, if you suddenly found there is much more love in your life than you had realized yesterday?  And there is always more love to share.  Now, doesn’t it feel great to be even more Healthy, Happy, and Loving Lifesm?  It’s up to you!  


Kebba Buckley Button is a stress solutions expert, holistic guide, and award-winning author who celebrates life.  She has a longtime energy healing practice and is an ordained minister. Among her books are: Discover The Secret Energized You (http://tinyurl.com/b44v3br), Inspirations for Peace Within:  Quotes and Images to Uplift and Inspire, and Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine.  The books are available on Amazon and through Kebba’s office.   To email us, kebba@kebba.com .

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: Happy Chinese New Year of the Ox

12 Friday Feb 2021

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Happy New Year to all of you!  Today marks the beginning of the Chinese New Year, based on the lunar calendar.  And this year is The Year of the Ox.  Twelve animals represent the Chinese zodiac in sequence.  For example, last year was The Year of the Rat.  In China, people love the Lunar New Year, normally closing their factories and traveling to relatives, celebrating the New Year for at least 2 full weeks.

I’m leaving the explanation of the nature of the year to the experts.  Kathryn Wortley, in the Japan Times, says this:

Few people will have been sorry to see the end of 2020, a year characterized by the global COVID-19 pandemic. For those who follow the Chinese new year, the close of the tragic and tumultuous Year of the Rat is fast approaching, too.  February 12 marks the beginning of the Year of the Ox. The second animal of the Chinese zodiac, the ox denotes the hard work, positivity and honesty that will be manifested in all of us in the coming 12 months, according to astrologers.

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The Victoria and Albert Museum (UK) website offers this description:

People born in the Year of the Ox are strong, reliable, fair and conscientious, inspiring confidence in others. They are also calm, patient, methodical and can be trusted. Although they say little they can be very opinionated. They believe strongly in themselves, but are also stubborn and hate to fail or be challenged. Although they do not lose their temper easily their anger can become explosive and impulsive. They are serious, quiet and not naturally sociable, which can make them dull. Ox people have a great deal of common sense.

So hopefully, 2021 will help us all to be calm and stubbornly in pursuit of Good Things for ourselves, for our families, for communities, and for everyone.  What will you be pursuing in this Year of the Ox?  Will you be ever more committed to being Healthy, Happy, and Loving Lifesm?  It’s up to you!  


Kebba Buckley Button is a stress solutions expert, holistic guide, and award-winning author who celebrates life.  She has a longtime energy healing practice and is an ordained minister. Among her books are: Discover The Secret Energized You (http://tinyurl.com/b44v3br), Inspirations for Peace Within:  Quotes and Images to Uplift and Inspire, and Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine.  The books are available on Amazon and through Kebba’s office.   To email us, kebba@kebba.com .

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: 6 Great Things About Avocados

11 Thursday Feb 2021

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Do you love avocados?  I do!  I love them plain, cut into salads, halved and filled with tuna salad, smashed on toast, crushed into guacamole, blended with bananas (instant pudding), added to smoothies, or made into chocolate avocado deserts (see recipes on ChocolateCoveredKatie.com)!

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Avocados are so nutritious that some people blend them into a facial mask.  But if you put them on your face, you lose a great snack!  Fun trivia: the avocado is actually a fruit, not a vegetable, and it’s also called the “alligator pear”, due to its rough skin.

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So what’s to know about this delicious and versatile food?

  1. They are super loaded with vitamins and minerals.  They contain more potassium than bananas!  So they are great for helping blood pressure and kidney health generally.
  2. They are loaded (77%) with oleic acid, a fat that is a monounsaturated acid (oil component) that is a major component of olive oil.  Remember, we all need to limit saturated fat, and this is not saturated.  This excellent fat is great for your heart and your skin.  It’s anti-inflammatory.  Using avocado oil for cooking is great because the good components don’t break down at high temperatures.
  3. Avocados are rich in fiber, which helps your gut health and may help you lose weight.
  4. Eating avocados can reduce your overall cholesterol and your triglycerides, again making them heart-healthy.
  5. The healthy fat in avocados can increase absorption of your supplements and veggie components that are only fat-soluble, such as vitamins A, D, E, and K.
  6. Test-tube studies have shown avocado can reduce some forms of cancer and also the side-effects of chemotherapy.  Stay tuned for future studies on humans.

So basically, avocados are a fantastic health food that also tastes delicious!  If you haven’t had any in awhile, try them again for the first time!  I promise you’ll feel more Healthy, Happy, and Loving Lifesm!  


Kebba Buckley Button is a stress solutions expert, holistic guide, and award-winning author who celebrates life.  She has a longtime energy healing practice and is an ordained minister. Among her books are: Discover The Secret Energized You (http://tinyurl.com/b44v3br), Inspirations for Peace Within:  Quotes and Images to Uplift and Inspire, and Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine.  The books are available on Amazon and through Kebba’s office.   To email us, kebba@kebba.com .

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: A Delicious Chocolate Avocado Pie [Video]

10 Wednesday Feb 2021

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Today I’m sharing a delightful resource, if you like chocolate.  Years ago I randomly found Chocolate Covered Katie, the blog and website and empire of a young lady named Katie Higgins.  I may have been websurfing for gluten-free recipes.  A foodie/cook myself, I was delighted to find someone else who creates delicious foods for any diet.  Katie switches out sweeteners and flours at will, and she tells you how to adjust the texture if you use a dry or liquid sweetener.  Of course, I subscribed to her newsletter immediately!  Her recipes are delicious and her images are beautiful.  She has demonstrated recipes on The Dr. Oz show and on major news shows.

Katie’s creations are on her own website, ChocolateCoveredKatie.com, and Pinterest.  There are easy directions for all her recipes, and an increasing number have videos as well.  The short video for Chocolate Avocado Pie is at this code, together with some related recipes:

QR for chocolate avocado pie at CCK

If you love chocolate, why not try this yummy recipe?  And notice how you feel after you eat this healthy food?  And notice how smooth your skin is the day after you eat avocado-rich food?  And after you look at the video, look around her website and see if there are other recipes you want to try.

Katie Higgins is clearly Healthy, Happy, and Loving Lifesm!  She is vibrantly healthy, she has created a career from her passions, and she embraces life fully.  Are you living like she does?  Are you enjoying and embracing your life?  How can you resist embracing Katie’s chocolate and your own life?


Kebba Buckley Button is a stress solutions expert, holistic guide, and award-winning author who celebrates life.  She has a longtime energy healing practice and is an ordained minister. Among her books are: Discover The Secret Energized You (http://tinyurl.com/b44v3br), Inspirations for Peace Within:  Quotes and Images to Uplift and Inspire, and Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine.  The books are available on Amazon and through Kebba’s office.   To email us, kebba@kebba.com .

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