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16 Friday May 2014

Posted by Sarina in Adventures, Embrace Change, Fitness/Wellness/Health, Friendships, Goal Setting, Green Juice, Happiness, Hay House Authors, Hiking, Liberation, Life Lessons, Motivation, Overcoming challenges, Stress Strategies, Success Strategies, Travel

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Laos - GAdventures SE Asia Tour - 2/2012

Sacrificing anything and everything to get my book proposal done, that’s how passionate I was about it. Though, I never realized how this promise, the stress and major sleep deprivation (consistently getting less than 5/6 hours) would impact my health. Sure, my daily dose of green juice and eating more of an alkaline diet kept the flu and even strep throat away when my sister, Amanda, came down with it. But my body couldn’t recover and it absolutely needed to.

Never mind, the warning signs to change something or to take a sick day: the irritability, not being able to think straight, and my heart racing on exhaustion overdrive that it had difficulty shifting down a few gears!

Yes, I survived, though the lack of sleep is nothing to be proud of. [Continue Reading...]

Racing to the Altar; Stop Now!

30 Wednesday Apr 2014

Posted by Sarina in Adventures, Anxiety, Embrace Change, Facing Fears, Friendships, Happiness, Liberation, Living in the Moment, Overcoming challenges, Relationships, Runner, Stress Strategies, Travel, Yoga

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Amanda would say, “You’re just like, Bethenny!” when we’d watch the Real Housewives of NY and the spin off shows, Bethenny’s Getting Married? and Bethenny Ever After. She was referring to my ambitious, neurotic, bossy older sister ways. I love Bethenny Frankel and felt I could most relate to her being single in my 30s. “Well, I hope, I’m not walking down the aisle pregnant getting married at 40,” I told her. Not that there’s anything terrible about that, rather I didn’t want my fate of everything coming together for me all at the same time to be so late when that was 7 years away.

What the heck was I supposed to do with myself in the mean time until my husband showed up? My partner of love and encouragement [Continue Reading...]

My Real Reasons for Traveling the World Fearlessly…

18 Friday Apr 2014

Posted by Sarina in Adventures, Career, Embrace Change, Facing Fears, Happiness, High School Students, Hiking, Liberation, Life Lessons, Overcoming challenges, Self-limiting beliefs, Stress Strategies, Success Strategies, Travel, Workplace

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Sarina as a Class Speaker for High School Seniors at Half Hollow Hills West, Dix Hills, NY 4/2014

Impressive and so very fortunate! Those were my thoughts on learning how world traveled the High School Students are from Half Hollow Hills West when I spoke with them last week! I went in assuming I may need to convince them to get a plane to see another country. Well, I so underestimated the response I would get from asking the question, how many of you have traveled out of the country?

Nearly half the class of 40 students! And the places they’ve already visited: France, England, Germany, Canada, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Israel, Germany, Mexico, Dominican Republic, and Aruba. One student has even decided to postpone college and enrolled into a year-long travel program!

Simply A-MAZING and such a courageous decision!

I continued on with the discussion sharing with the seniors how I’ve [Continue Reading...]

Manifesting Your Presence of Greatness!

31 Monday Mar 2014

Posted by Sarina in Adventures, Anxiety, Career, Embrace Change, Facing Fears, Friendships, Happiness, Healthy Lifestyle, Liberation, Life Lessons, Overcoming challenges, Relationships, Respect and Honor, Runner, Self-limiting beliefs, Stress Strategies, Success Strategies, Yoga

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Johnston Canyon in Alberta, Canada - 8/2013

Ever try to call in what you desired to only have it disappear from your life, right before you had a chance to really experience all the magnificence of that moment, relationship, or opportunity? It feels so incomplete, so wrong, so unfair, so awful, and so heartbreaking. And you just miss it and would do about anything to get it back. This definitely happens. Many of us have been there. I’ve definitely been there on numerous occasions –with relationships, job opportunities, a dream finally about to be realized, then I lose it and I’m devastated.

Really the key here is to know: Just as you could bring forth or manifest what you want, at the same time you can manifest failure or disappointment shortly thereafter. How so? With internal blocks, like [Continue Reading...]

40-day Practice for More Love, Abundance, and Results in Your Life!

14 Friday Mar 2014

Posted by Sarina in Adventures, Anxiety, Career, Embrace Change, Facing Fears, Happiness, Liberation, Life Lessons, Overcoming challenges, Relationships, Respect and Honor, Self-limiting beliefs, Stress Strategies, Success Strategies

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Kripalu Center Retreat 6/2013

For as long as I can remember, I’ve always struggled with my desire to be perfect and accepted by others. Out of that need, came this enormous pressure and self-criticism when I wasn’t meeting those impossible expectations. Another self-limiting belief that I’ve given into has been the, “I’m not good enough” feeling. Then at times, I’ve literally torture myself when I’ve made a mistake by obsessing over what happened, rather than letting it go.

Does any of this seem familiar to you? One thing’s for sure, I know I’m not alone here with this negative self-talk. Maybe you can relate to one of these or have a different negative self-talk you tell yourself.

Sometimes getting to the root of the problem helps us understand why we think and do certain things. Though [Continue Reading...]