News – Rachel Kurtz – Integrative Health Coach

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Lecture & Demo: Wow Your Guests With Healthfully Decadent Entertaining

Thursday, March 21 at noon: I will be doing a food prep demo and talk at the Saratoga Springs Public Library, on healthy, decadent entertaining. Description: A fabulous party can be healthy too! Join Health Coach Rachel Kurtz for a cooking and plating demonstration of healthy, delicious and beautiful fare. No…

An Individualized Diet?

If you are confused about nutrition, you are in good company. Should you go low fat or low carb? Vegetarian or Paleo? Eat whole grains or eliminate grains entirely? Drink coffee or skip it? Contradictory information in the news is only one problem. Even nutritionists and scientists disagree because they…

Superhero You and Gratitude

Imagine this scenario: At a local flea market you find something that looks just like a magic lamp. Intrigued, you purchase it and idly rub it. Poof! A genie floats before you. The genie is not here to grant you three wishes, however. Its magic is reserved for turning you…

If you Want to Be Happy and Heart Healthy, Tweet Or Write Your Best Self

I’m reminded in my positive psychology course that our brains have a negativity bias. For good reason, the psychologists say. Our ancestors, the theory goes, would have gotten mauled or starved to death if they didn’t see the world as a scary, dangerous place. I would love to think of…

Stepladders through the Dark

When I was 10 I decided I was too old to sleep with a nightlight. As a budding young psychologist, or having some intuitive sense, or, really, who knows how I came to this: I devised an ingenious plan to wean myself off my nighttime companion. I found an extension…

Who cares what you’d do if you could not fail?

What would you do if you knew you could not fail? I love this question. Or, I used to love it. It invites you to dream big. Well, gee, if I couldn’t fail, I’d run for president and fix this country! The question suggests you might stop worrying about failure…

The New Year’s Diet. Cheat your way to weight loss?

What’s in your post-holiday grocery cart? If you’re like the average person, the groceries in your cart after New Year’s Resolution time includes 55% more spent on food and twice as many calories per serving purchased. That’s according to a 2014 study. What’s going on here? Consumers purchased not only more…

Is Getting into the Best Shape of My Life a Good New Year’s Resolution?

I am good at helping clients create concrete and achievable goals for themselves. We do this at the end of every session. Yet as 2019 approached, I got totally carried away in my own New Year’s Resolutions. I proclaimed, this year I’m going to get into the best shape of…