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When I first discovered Crystal Andrus Morissette’s new book The Emotional Edge, I was intrigued. I knew the book would offer a process for discovering our “Emotional Age,” a term that was new to me, but I didn’t realize it would provide a powerful roadmap for healing the wounded parts of our psyche and growing into our most empowered, authentic self.

From the Amazon page:

The Emotional Edge empowers you to stop reacting in knee-jerk ways that hurt and instead start expanding your life to become the greatest expression of you possible. Once you know your Emotional Age, you can take any needed steps to become an authentic adult so you stop giving your power away.

You’ll learn:

Whether you’re a Parent, Child, or Adult ‘archetype’—take the Emotional Age Quiz and find out
When you’re inadvertently sabotaging yourself and why
How to channel fear and anger into courage and willingness
How to change your communication scale and style from passive or aggressive to assertive, accepting, and ultimately peaceful
Methods for fine-tuning into your unique needs mentally, emotionally, and physically
Ways …

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Senior Vice President of Client Management, Sal Pellegrino, has departed ABC Financial. Pellegrino was based in Raleigh, North Carolina.

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Source: http://www.sonima.com/meditation/why-sleep-is-important/

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With an estimated 60 million Americans suffering from insomnia, sleep is something many of us are lacking. Mounting research shows why sleep is important for more than just clarity of mind—it also plays a vital role in regulating homeostasis in the body, and lack of sleep is a contributing factor for inflammation, obesity, and many chronic diseases. In this video, Sonima’s founder, Sonia Jones, sits with Deepak Chopra, M.D., the renowned meditation guru and alternative medicine advocate, to discuss why sleep is so important and how mindfulness and meditation practices can contribute to overall improved sleeping habits.

Related: A Sleep Meditation for a Restful Night

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Hey everyone! Hope you’re doing well on this fabulous Wednesday. It’s beautiful weather here in Charleston as of lately and I’ve been training a little bit for the Charleston Cooper River Bridge Run. It will be my first ever 10k race. I’ve done a TON of 5k races but never had the guts to try a 10k since I seriously don’t like running but this is one I’ve wanted to do for a long time since it’s over the famous Cooper River Bridge in Charleston (Remember my old post about running the Arthur Ravenel bridge? It’s the same one!)

Ugh..looking at that picture makes me nervous.  That’s a long way to run and doesn’t stop there.  It ends downtown Charleston.

When I say I’ve been “training” that means I’ve actually…

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For the Love of Food

Welcome to Friday’s For The Love of Food, Summer Tomato’s weekly link roundup. 

This week a strong case for eating beans, how to fall asleep faster, and the downside of 5,000 steps.

Too busy to read them all? Try this awesome free speed reading app I just discovered to read at 300+ wpm. So neat!

Want to see all my favorite links? (There’s lots more). Be sure to follow me on Delicious. I also share links on Twitter @summertomato and the Summer Tomato Facebook page. I’m very active on all these sites and would love to connect with you.

Links of the week

HOW TO FALL ASLEEP FASTER <<The more I talk with people struggling to make healthy changes the more I realize how often lack of sleep–or more specifically the difficulty in going to bed–is the root of the problem. Great advice here from Arianna Huffington. (The Coveteur)
Ask Well: Does Taking Fewer Than 5,000 Steps a Day Make You Sedentary? <<Great reminder that being active and being sedentary are not mutually exclusive. (NY Times)
Eating beans, peas, chickpeas or lentils may help lose weight and keep it off <<New meta analysis argues that a daily serving of legumes he…

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True friendship is essential to our spiritual journey, yet there are times when we may need to discern who actually is a true friend and who, unfortunately, we may need to cut out of our lives.

There is a beautiful Buddhist text dating back to the 14th century known as the 37 Practices of a Bodhisattva. Bodhi can be translated from Sanskrit as “open” or “awake” while sattva can be translated as “being,” so it is an open-hearted being. A meditation master known as Ngulchu Thogme composed these verses so that we could live a full life with open-hearts, in order to be helpful to those around us. Many of these practices revolve around applying virtue to even the toughest of our everyday situations. For example:

When friendship with someone
Causes the three poisons to increase,
Degrades the activities of listening, reflecting, and meditating,
And destroys loving kindness and compassion,
To give up such a friendship
Is the practice of a Bodhisattva.

We’ve all had those friends: the ones who keep us out all night, with whom we think we’re having a great time, but then we wake up the next morning not even remembering what we talked about, feeling drained and yucky. It’s the friend that is never there when you actually need to have a heart-to-heart, but is there in a second when tequila is being served. In other words, it’s the flakey friend who promotes only your most negative tendencie…

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Full disclosure.  I recruited Krishnendu Ray to NYU (for good reason as you can see from this interview in the Washington Post) and he is now my department chair.

With that said, I greatly admire what he’s done in this book, which is to cast a sociological eye on immigrants to the United States who get their start by using what they know of their own food tastes and traditions to open and run restaurants of the “ethnic” variety in today’s terminology.

Ray argues here (and elsewhere) that the contributions of immigrants to modern food culture are largely ignored by academics and critics who view

discussions of taste as marginal to the real lives of marginal peoples. In this conception, poor, hard-working people can teach us about poverty and suffering, hierarchy and symbolic violence, but never about taste…As a consequence, taste loses its contested and dynamic character, and…even its fundamentally sociological nature. As labor and immigrant historians have shown us repeatedly, good food matters to poor people, perhaps even more than it does to the rich and the powerful.

In his book, Ray draws on his readings, experience teaching at the Culinary Institute of America, and on interviews with cooks from China, India, Italy, and elsewhere to examine their motivat…

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Japanese food was once derided, but it’s now in the canon of haute cuisine, says author Krishnendu Ray. How we value a culture’s cuisine in our society, he says, often reflects the status of those who cook it.

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Hunting down that obscure Vietnamese place that serves up bánh bao exactly like you’d find in Hanoi, or an Indian joint with dal just like the one you had on that trip to New Delhi, is a not uncommon pursuit in these food-obsessed days. But our culinary hunt for “authentic ethnic” food can be a double-edged sword, says Krishnendu Ray.

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“The limit is not in the sky. The limit is the mind.” ~Unknown

I was having a conversation with a friend. She was telling me how maybe I should quit my writing and focus on something that wasn’t so challenging for me; that I should accept my limits and work within those boundaries. Her words made me cringe.

You see, I am dyslexic and I struggled greatly to write this story down. I am probably going to read it twenty times and will still have many mistakes that need editing.

My job is a daily struggle, and sometimes I break down and cry because it takes me double the time than it would take a non-dyslexic person. But here’s the thing, I’m not quitting, no matter how many times I cry, no matter how many times the editor sends my story back, or how bad I have it with dyslexia. I won’t quit.

I’ve seen a man with no legs and no arms swimming in the ocean, Albert Einstein was dyslexic, The Beatles were told their music sucked, and I was told I would probably fail in university.

Am I a story of success? That depends on what you think success is.

In a world limited by people’s opinions, I was fortunate enough to have parents who pushed me beyond what I thought were the limits imposed by my circumstances.

I was born with a heavy form…