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Melanie Monaco, The Self-Love Lifestyle
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Easy Homemade Hummus!

EASY HOMEMADE HUMMUS

  • Ingredients

    • 2 cups chickpeas

    • 2 tablespoons tahini

    • 2 tablespoons olive oil

    • 2 cloves fresh garlic

    • Optional - fresh herbs of your choice!

  • Method

• In a blender, combine::

• Serve with carrots, cucumbers, celery, or other fresh veggies of your choice.


Melanie ThomasJanuary 31, 2019
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What do you value about yourself?⠀ ⠀ ⠀ Come up with three things right now. ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ I’m serious. Right. Now. 👌⠀ ⠀ ⠀ When I was first given this exercise by my own health coach, I noticed a lot of resistance come up. I didn’t want to seem full of myself or selfish. ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ But that was such B.S. ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ I noticed my resistance was a fear of not being liked or accepted. A fear that people would reject me if I was “too confident” - this fear goes back to my elementary school days. ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ Remember: Confidence & self-love is not an affront, it doesn’t hurt anyone else, and it certainly doesn’t come from a place of ill intent. ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ Fears like this don’t truly serve us- they don’t make us liked or accepted, they just keep us from being our most authentic selves!⠀ ⠀ ⠀ When I recognized this, I was able to break down a very old wall I had built long ago. ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ Why shouldn’t we value ourselves? ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ No one is more worthy of your own love than YOU! ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ So if you haven’t answered already, I’ll ask you again -⠀ ⠀ ⠀ What do you value most about yourself? ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ Comment below! 👇 I’ll start: my compassion, my creativity, and my dedication to self-love. 💕
At the end of my suffering⠀ there was a door.⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ Hear me out: that which you call death⠀ ⠀ I remember.⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ Overhead, noises, branches of the pine shifting.⠀ ⠀ Then nothing. The weak sun⠀ ⠀ flickered over the dry surface.⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ It is terrible to survive⠀ ⠀ as consciousness⠀ ⠀ buried in the dark earth.⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ Then it was over: that which you fear, being⠀ ⠀ a soul and unable⠀ ⠀ to speak, ending abruptly, the stiff earth⠀ ⠀ bending a little. And what I took to be⠀ ⠀ birds darting in low shrubs.⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ You who do not remember⠀ ⠀ passage from the other world⠀ ⠀ I tell you I could speak again: whatever⠀ ⠀ returns from oblivion returns⠀ ⠀ to find a voice:⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ from the center of my life came⠀ ⠀ a great fountain, deep blue⠀ ⠀ shadows on azure seawater.⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ———⠀ THE WILD IRIS by Louise Gluck ⠀ ⠀ This is one of my favorite poems of all time. I studied poetry back in college, and this book was revolutionary for me. It speaks to a part of my soul, year after year. ⠀ ⠀ What are some of your favorite poems? Tell me in the comments below!
Here’s what makes me want to get out of bed each morning...⠀ ⠀ Usually my black cat will come snuggle me for a bit, then I’ll get up out of bed and feed the kitties, make some coffee, and start my ✨morning ritual.✨ ⠀ My morning ritual consists of three parts:⠀ ⠀ 1. I sit down for my morning meditation. It’s usually anywhere from 5-15 minutes. ⠀ ⠀ 2. After that, I pull a few Goddess Cards. ♥︎⠀ ⠀ 3. Then, I move my body. Sometimes it’s just 10 minutes of stretching, sometimes it’s 2 hours. It totally depends! ⠀ ⠀ I’m not going to lie and tell you that I don’t have resistances come up. There are days when I want to go straight into the to-do list or just mindlessly scroll on insta...🙈⠀ ⠀ But knowing myself the way I do, I have a VERY clear understanding that these 3 things will completely change the way I move through my day, and by extension, my whole life. ✨⠀ ⠀ I’m not going to tell you that I do it perfectly every day. Sometimes I switch things out with other activities that I know will have a similar impact, especially while I’m on vacation. ⠀ ⠀ But the intention I have every single morning, whatever my morning looks like, whenever in the world I may be, is simple: ⠀ ⠀ To return home to myself. ⠀ ⠀ The impact that a simple morning intention has had on my life, and the lives of my clients, is so incredibly magical and transformative. ✨⠀ ⠀ Tell me, friend. How do you return home to yourself? Do you have a morning ritual?⠀ ⠀ Let me know!!
Friendly reminder to stop and enjoy the small moments. . Yesterday, in my stories, I asked our community a question that I often ask myself - . . “What are you grateful for in this moment?” . . The responses were so sweet that I wanted to ask it again. . . And to offer you a gentle reminder & opportunity to cultivate gratitude as often as you can. . . I could list all the reasons why this is so powerful - But really I think it would be even more powerful for you to just try it out and see for yourself! . . So tell me friend, what are you most grateful for in this moment? List 3 things you are grateful for right now in the comments below!
“But without restricting my diet, how will I stop myself from just eating endless chips and chocolate?” ⠀ ⠀ I had a client ask me this earlier today... here is my response in case it helps you too - ⠀ ⠀ Ironically enough, what causes binging and unhealthy choices IS restriction. ⠀ ⠀ I understand it is scary to stop restricting after being brainwashed by diet culture that this is the only way to be healthy and have a body you love - ⠀ ⠀ But it simply isn’t true. Otherwise dieting would actually work, right? ⠀ ⠀ So the way out of this cycle is to learn how to listen to and trust your body. ⠀ ⠀ I reminded my client of her progress, I listed all the tools she now has in place - and is currently using - to heal her relationship to food. ⠀ ⠀ She sighed in relief and realized that her fears were just old thought patterns - that she COULD overcome these fears now, as she has already been doing throughout the program. ⠀ ⠀ Once you have the tools in place, managing anxiety and fear around food and your body becomes SO much easier. ⠀ ⠀ Are you ready to learn the tools & stop self-sabotaging? ⠀ ⠀ ➡️ If you want to revolutionize your relationship to your body + food, so you can cultivate a body you love unconditionally, freely eat the foods you love, and develop lasting confidence ... then I’m your girl! 💕⠀ ⠀ ❗️I’m offering *free* SELF-LOVE STRATEGY SESSIONS & I just opened up some spots for this weekend!✨⠀ ⠀ 👉 Just head to my website melaniemonaco.com (link in bio) to claim your free call!
Yesterday, because it was hot & humid here in NYC, I enjoyed some coconut ice cream. As I was savoring my first bite, my husband looked at me and said “you deserve it!”⠀ ⠀ In the past I would indulge in something like ice cream only because I had been “so good” earlier in the day by eating only plants and working out - or I would then starve myself later because of the indulgence. ☹️ ⠀ ⠀ So now - when I hear comments like “you deserve it” I usually have to remind myself and whoever is making the statement that food doesn’t need to be a punish/reward system. ⠀ ⠀ But yesterday, instead of putting on my eating psychology expert hat, I indulged my husband’s remark and simply asked, “why?”⠀ ⠀ “Because you’re as sweet as ice cream” he replied. ⠀ ⠀ 🤣😍😚⠀ ⠀ ⠀ His response reminded me that we all deserve to enjoy our food & treat ourselves well all the time! 🥰⠀ ⠀ Sometimes this looks like a plate of fresh nutrient dense plant food, and sometimes it looks like vegan coconut chocolate chip ice cream. 🍦💕⠀ ⠀ So friend, tell me, how will you enjoy your food & treat yourself this week? I’d love to know! 💫⠀ ⠀ ⠀ 🌸 Flower ice cream sandwiches by my own hometown’s @mcconnellsicecreams
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Melanie Monaco, Integrative Nutrition Health Coach
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