Jan Block Heart Sage - Wisdom & Well-Being

01/27/2026

If I gave you $500 to spend only on yourself in the next 24 hours, what would you buy/spend it on?

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01/20/2026

Our only real job on this planet is to unravel our human conditioning until we get to our core essence, which is Love.

From this new identity, the world looks much brighter and more filled with possibilities.

01/18/2026

What I Didn't Know in my Weightloss Jouney....

While I've known about the effects of mental and emotional stress for a while and became a Licensed and Certified Trainer & Coach to help myself and teach others how to reduce stress and manage their emotional response to stress, I didn't know how much stress I had been creating in my body and my life with my food choices.

Sugar, junk food, and fast food seen me through some very traumatic times in my life, starting when I was 11. Then during my tumultuous marriage, my stress eating intensified and I gained weight. Add in my Dad passing away when I was 24, leaving me feeling like the one person who could protect me was now gone, and the perfect mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual storm was created.

The food choices I had made as part of my survival mode for 22 years, set the stage for a total of 4 decades of trashing my body with so called food.

What I did not understand, until recently, was that the effects of my belief systems I had developed about my safety and the eating patterns that resulted from that, affected my body on a cellular level. I simply thought I carried too much fat, and I was okay with that.

Over the past 8 months, as I have learned about the toxins in the stuff, we are falsely taught is food, I've finally realized what I have been doing to my body. And man, did I have some self-forgiveness bundled with self-compassion to learn how to grace myself with.

I don't think I realized just how much I have learned until I sat down to write this.

• I've been learning about the gut microbiome, blood sugar levels, and the effects that eating so many simple carbohydrates have on the body.

• I've been learning about fat metabolism, bile and the gallbladder and liver functions.

• I've been learning about the effects of seed oils and sugar, which are both in a majority of the packaged "foods" in the grocery store, and how they create inflammation in the body and how that inflammation is a driver of disease.

• I've been learning the difference that eating the proper amount of protein and complex carbohydrates makes and how starting your day fueled by protein instead of the sugar found in toast/bread, pastries, and even hash browns affect how you feel, how your body functions, and even what your body craves and pushes you to eat for the rest of the day.

• I've been learning about the benefits of fasting, eating within a set window of time, and giving your body breaks instead of snacking and eating all day long.

• I've been learning about natural vs. synthetic vitamins, supplements, and how depleted of natural minerals we are.

• I've been learning about the antioxidants found in the foods we eat and how they help our body recover.

• I've been learning how exercise and diet requirements change as we age, especially for woman as we deal with hormonal changes of perimenopause, menopause and beyond.

The more I learned these past 8 months, the more I realized I was finally ready to make changes in my thinking, habits, and eating, which has allowed my body to drop some weight, have less inflammation and less gut issues, and has allowed me to tighten my belt buckle by 2 notches.

This ongoing process of learning is part of my path of wholeness in body, mind, emotion, and spiritual well-being.

And now I'm excited to try a new product from Young Living Essential Oils that supports the gut to naturally produce GLP-1, helps metabolize fat, and helps maintain blood sugar balance. It arrives tomorrow! YAY! 😃

I'll be sharing some posts and stories along the way so I can track my progress.

I'm definitely ready for this next chapter of Wisdom & Well-Being in my own story.

What's the next chapter in your story?

Much love,
Jan

01/15/2026

100%...

And yes, it's a bit of tough love mixed with wisdom to help us step out of the victim mentality.

You, my dear, are always 100% responsible...response-able...for your thoughts, behaviors, reaction and what you put out into the world with your thoughts, words, deeds and energy.

Uplevel your thinking and your nervous system response and you uplevel the life you create.

01/14/2026

Reminder to stop and pause before teacting, then focus in the area of your heart, breathing in and out more deeply until you feel your body relax. A more calm, respectful and coherent response builds relationships.

Is there someone in particular, that using this techniques before you interact with them, would help you keep your cool?

12/31/2025

The number 1 thing that will change your life instantly is choosing.

Decisions are easy and instant.

It's the ruminating and procrastinating that takes years and creates undue stress!

12/07/2025

The health benefits of using top grade essential oils is far and wide and often dismissed by many because they are unaware of the scientific studies or because they use cheap oils purchased from the store that have been adulterated or diluted and yield little to no health benefits. (They are cheap for a reason!).

SUMMARY
A publicized University of California, Irvine (UCI) study published in the journal Frontiers in Neuroscience in July 2023 found that nightly exposure to essential oils for two hours over six months led to a significant 226% increase in cognitive capacity (measured by a memory test) in older adults, aged 60 - 85, compared to a control group.

The 7 essential oils that were rotated through during the study were:
Rose
Orange
Eucalyptus
Lemon
Peppermint
Rosemary
Lavender

Michael Leon, the study's lead author, noted that memory improvement levels were "far greater than anything that has been reported for healthy older adults".

The findings suggest that using essential oils as a non-invasive olfactory enrichment technique could potentially be an easy way to strengthen memory and stave off dementia by leveraging the direct link between our sense of smell and the brain's memory circuits.

Pubmed study ID: 37554295

I am honoured to help you and your loved ones source the top grade essential oils that I love, know and trust. Shoot me a message and I can answer your questions and help you get started on a path to better health and well-being naturally.

12/06/2025

12/05/2025

5 years later 📆⏳👣

There's something about these bendy, leaning, kinda haggard from life looking trees that resonates with me. It reminds me that nature doesn’t need to look all prim and proper to flourish and be beautiful. We see so much of that false bravado on social media, dont we? Now there's AI adding to the fake imagery we are seeing everywhere. I'll take bendy, leaning, and that well lived in look any day of the week because it's the real truth of living this life. It's a truth that doesn’t require that we feel shame for simply being. It's a truth that says it's okay to experience struggle and ease, gentleness and power, flexibility and structure, growth and groundedness. It's a truth that let's us know we are part of the heavens and planted on earth and that we require sun and water, and micro nutrients in the soil to thrive. We, like the trees, are woven into the tapestry of Life Itself, living and breathing and communicating and being and providing shelter and shade for ourselves and others. What a beautiful life it is when we are open to the joys of being like a bendy, leaning tree that is simply free to be it's authentic self.

Much love,
Jan

11/28/2025

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11/22/2025

The area that most people tend to waste a lot of energy and deplete their energy reserves unnecessarily is in the emotional domain. It's not only the big emotional reactions that deplete our energy, our mindset and emotions like impatience or worry that run in the background slowly and quietly deplete us as well.

11/20/2025

No snow in November? Lovin' my walk! Drop me a comment if you would like my tip sheet on how I recharge my inner battery and find calm and balance admist life's chaos?