LTG Nutrition Counseling

03/29/2023

I’m excited to share that my free course “The Science of Well-Being for Teens” is available on YouTube! It’s now easier than ever to explore these lessons - *without* having to take a whole course.

Every week for the next 6 weeks, I’ll be re-releasing 1 week of videos from "The Science of Well-Being for Teens," just as they are in the original course. Week 1 is already available, and you can watch it now on my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwGEcaoTQRk&list=PLWHJHzhtiAuRicnwnrdZQSMQJKbwHaTuq.

In gratitude,

Dr. Laurie Santos

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03/08/2023

11/21/2022

"Can you land on this harsh earth like a downy feather and not lose your soft essence and offering? Then please float the down-currents and be among us, and we will call you sacred medicine, and drape you in the sky as a kind of moon. And coyotes will cloister in the wash of your glow. And they will howl a deep pitch. And mystic things will stir. And the land will breach-birth a timeless time. Umbilical blood will feed this newborn era. And your oldest dreams will, like eggs, crack and open and yield fresh life, wet and winged and already tasting flight." *Fragrance After Rain

Book bundles are back by popular demand. A great holiday gift. Discounted at my website now.

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11/20/2022

“The human body is truly a wonderful, beautiful, and amazing thing. Just think about all the great things it does for you daily: breathing, walking, digesting food, doing everything it can to keep you from getting sick, and so much more.
When you appreciate your body, you acknowledge all the vital things your body does for you every day that keeps you alive and healthy.” - Mike Robbins

The way you speak about your body matters. Take a moment today to reflect on everything your body does for you, and don’t forget to say, “Thank you.”

10/31/2022

For anyone out there who is going through it…hang in there. ⛅️

08/06/2022

KNOW YOURSELF

Know yourself they say
and don’t be led astray
but how can I know who I am
when I’m different every day?

Some days I’m the smart one
with the answers people need
and some days I’m the strong one
standing up to take the lead.

On other days I’m sure
that if the wind blew me too hard
I would shatter like a glass
into a million tiny shards.

And on those days I cower
and I hide out from the world
waiting on my inner child
to blossom and unfurl.

And each day I’m surprised
by the newness that I see
the things I’m finding out
the complexity of me.

So how to know yourself
when you’re all things rolled in one?
you simply must decide
to love whatever you become.

Donna Ashworth
From ‘I Wish I Knew’: https://amzn.to/3JVMJlZ ♥️

Art by Lisa Aisato

07/24/2022

Your body is not your masterpiece — your life is.
It is suggested to us a million times a day that our BODIES are PROJECTS. They aren’t. Our lives are. Our spirituality is. Our relationships are. Our work is.
Stop spending all day obsessing, cursing, perfecting your body like it’s all you’ve got to offer the world. Your body is not your art, it’s your paintbrush. Whether your paintbrush is a tall paintbrush or a thin paintbrush or a stocky paintbrush or a scratched up paintbrush is completely irrelevant. What is relevant is that YOU HAVE A PAINTBRUSH which can be used to transfer your insides onto the canvas of your life — where others can see it and be inspired and comforted by it.

Your body is not your offering. It’s just a really amazing instrument which you can use to create your offering each day. Don’t curse your paintbrush. Don’t sit in a corner wishing you had a different paintbrush. You’re wasting time. You’ve got the one you got. Be grateful, because without it you’d have nothing with which to paint your life’s work. Your life’s work is the love you give and receive — and your body is the instrument you use to accept and offer love on your soul’s behalf. It’s a system.

We are encouraged to obsess over our instrument’s SHAPE — but our body’s shape has no effect on it’s ability to accept and offer love for us. Just none. Maybe we continue to obsess because as long we keep wringing our hands about our paintbrush shape, we don’t have to get to work painting our lives. Stop fretting. The truth is that all paintbrush shapes work just fine — and anybody who tells you different is trying to sell you something. Don’t buy. Just paint.

No wait — first, stop what you are doing and say THANK YOU to your body — right now. Say THANK YOU to your eyes for taking in the beauty of sunsets and storms and children blowing out birthday candles and say THANK YOU to your hands for writing love letters and opening doors and stirring soup and waving to strangers and say THANK YOU to your legs for walking you from danger to safety and climbing so many mountains for you.
Then pick up your instrument and start painting this day beautiful and bold and wild and free and YOU. Paint this day beautiful, bold, wild & free.

~Glenan Doyle, Momastary

art: Francien Krieg

06/07/2022

COMPLIMENTS ON WEIGHT

Compliments on weight
as the cause of looking great,
are toxic to the heart,
they imply that beauty starts,
with the loss of fatty cells,
that keep us looking ‘well’,
but stop us looking slim,
so how can we win?

Never get too thin,
or look too ‘drawn in’
but never get too fat,
there’s no sexiness in that.
You must just stay the same,
somehow train your brain,
that your body can’t evolve,
the science you must solve.

Eat your five a day,
but don’t let that run away
into a snack of choice or joy,
your life should be devoid.
So you can keep your weight,
keep on looking great,
be neither fat nor thin,
because women cannot win.

(And let’s change this shall we?)

Donna Ashworth

From ‘I wish I knew’

Art by Duane Bryers art

03/13/2022

To the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, in response to the public comment guideline review of Medical Nutrition Therapy Interventions for Adult Overweight and Obesity Treatment

02/02/2022

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