The Afternoon Matcha Club

I’ve done it all to get ahead…and I got there, to the place that I thought that I wanted to go, when you think that if you keep ticking things off the to do list that this plus that equals happiness. The dream job, the lovely boyfriend, the adventurous lifestyle! But somewhere along the way, I needed more.

This took me a third of my life to learn this, well, until after my 30th birthday. I was a doer. I still am but these days I do more of what I love...

What do you dream of? What does your soul want to do? What is on your vision board? I was lucky enough to have someone tell me this when I was youn...

Are you feeling a bit sluggish?

Are you wondering how you're going to do it all again at Christmas and still be fit enough to ski this winter or are you going to have the chance to fit into you bathing suit in the spring?

Or are you wondering how you poor gut is doing?

Matcha is an antioxidant heavy hitter. One of Matcha's major health benefits is that it delivers a mega dose of antioxidants in every sip. Matcha is packed with exponentially more antioxidants than any other ‘super food’. Drinking one cup of Matcha has the equivalent antioxidants of 10 cups of green tea. WOW!

We feel it because we want what someone else has but we are taught to just not feel it, so most of us just identify it as something else, pity is an easy go to.  You are jealous of that friend with a big house and great job but really you just pity her for working so much and not being happy with a simple life, she is vain and needs material things to be happy, poor girl.  No, not true, you are jealous and you are jealous because you want that too.

What drives us to be healthy? Is it vanity or do we truly care about our health?   Most women would say that they are somewhere in the middle, health for health but not opposed to an occasional crash diet or extra workout to fit into a party dress or a tropical vacation swimsuit. 

We are living in a time right now where healthy bodies and body image is fashionable, which is amazing and I for one am loving it, but this hasn't always been the case.  Some of us older milienials will remember a time when models were painfully thin; heroine chic it was called (I am not kidding).

There are obvious signs that vanity isn’t healthy and that is definitely not ok but would we really reach for the celery, water and popcorn if we didn’t care quite so much how we looked and would we really just do it because it was healthy?  Do we really love ourselves that much?

We all desperately want self care to be about sleeping in and bubble baths but it isn’t.  It never was and it never will be.  Sometimes that is what you need but real self care isn’t trendy and pretty, it’s about your routine, saying yes to your needs and sticking to you guns when it comes to the promises that you make to yourself. 

Well, addicted is strong word, right!  I just need it to function everyday and can’t live without it. Oh sheesh! 

Coffee is life for most of us but coming from someone who has successfully kicked her coffee ‘habit’. I can tell you with a little commitment you can definitely rely on it a whole lot less and still feel great, better even.