Complimentary Guided Relaxation CD ($25)
and it's yours to keep
Additional printouts of instructional tools and
strategies at your session
15 emails with motivational boosters
and
informative
articles on
(for
example):
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Beating
Worry, How to Cope Between
Sessions
Take
2 skinned chicken thigh fillets and dice into small strips.
Coat
with korma paste (Pataks or Sherwoods are my favourites)
and
leave in fridge for a couple of hours.
In
reasonably hot frypan, stirfry 1 diced onion, 3 cloves garlic, and 1 tbspn
korma paste. Add 2 tbspns grape seed oil in the centre of the
frypan, heat, then quickly seal chicken strips.
Turn
heat to low, add 1 can of light coconut milk, half a diced red capsicum, 2
stalks celery sliced, and thick slices of raw potato.
Cover
with a lid and simmer on low for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Now add a handful of snow peas, and small broccoli florets, replace lid
and simmer for further 2 minutes then remove lid and remove from heat.
Serve
with brown, basmati or jasmine rice and poppadums.
(Yes,
I know it's not exactly Chicken Korma, and it is absolutely yummy!)
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of the month
"Motivation
is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."
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Acceptance means that you can accept the other person, 'warts n
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