Abundance Buddies Posts

For years, Laura Rhodes-Levin, a licensed marriage and family therapist, has been trying to get the message out that engaging your five senses can help you lower your work stress. “I am always telling my patients: ‘Come to your senses,’” she said. As the founder of the Missing Peace Center for Anxiety in Agoura Hills, Calif., she wishes mindfulness were called “bodyfulness.” “It’s about getting into your body, and your five senses are the best way to do it, said…

Kate Ferdinand’s life has taken a dramatic turn since her days on The Only Way Is Essex. Now 33, she’s swapped reality TV for the delights and trials of motherhood, discovering her true vocation in family life. Currently a mum to three-year-old son Cree, 13-month-old daughter Shae, and stepmum to husband Rio’s three children, Lorenz, 18, Tate, 16, and Tia, 13, Kate jests that you’re more likely to spot her pushing a pram for exercise than all dolled up.  Read…

Three tiny hairless dogs guard the entrance to Lamar Peterson’s garden. Bea, a 7-year-old Xoloitzcuintli and Chihuahua mix with no teeth and a pink tongue, is the smallest but barks the loudest. The other two pups, Daisy, 6, a Xoloitzcuintli, and Moo, 8, a Chinese crested, try to overtake Bea’s bark, but to no avail. “They’re extremely protective and Bea, she’ll bark when I walk her … well, she’ll just bark all the time,” Peterson said. “It’s funny, me walking…