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Moving Your Body - Now Considered a Lifestyle Medicine

Moving Your Body - Now Considered a Lifestyle Medicine

I AM EMPHASIZING MOVEMENT as opposed to exercise because moving your body includes everything you do in a day, not just scheduling 30 minutes in your day to exercise.

Having a daily level of mobility is something easily taken for granted. When you are healthy and feeling good, you don’t think about all the steps taken in a day and the exercise you might do at the gym or outside.

WHAT’S YOUR MOBILITY LEVEL and why does it matter? Read the post and find out how to have more energy in the day and feel better overall.

Holistic LivingLeslie PeakeMay 23, 2022movement, meditative movement, exercise, physicalexercise, mental health, Qigong, WHOguidelines, lifestylemedicineComment

Swinging in my 5 year cancerversary!

Swinging in my 5 year cancerversary!

The 31st of August is a day that doesn’t go unnoticed for me anymore.

For 25 years this was the day of my wedding anniversary and then in 2016, it became the day of my cancer diagnosis. Of course, cancer was in me long before this date however, it was the day that it became part of my conscious awareness and a major turning point in my life.

Holistic LivingLeslie PeakeAugust 30, 20215 year cancerversary, cancer diagnosis, greatcyclechallenge, celebration, health challenges Comments

3 Lifestyle Lessons For Living A Happy & Fulfilled Life

3 Lifestyle Lessons For Living A Happy & Fulfilled Life

Live as if each decision you choose makes a difference to the quality of your life, because it does.

Wake-up calls come in all kinds of packages. These signals are not concerned with sex, age, race, or gender. Although this podcast is focused on women’s health issues, men are not exempt from waking up to what their strong reasons for living are and living a happy and fulfilling life. Welcome, everyone!

Tune in by clicking on this link - What Cancer Revealed: Vital Lifestyle Lessons For Living A Happy, Fulfilled Life with Leslie Peake

Holistic LivingLeslie PeakeJuly 14, 2021lifestyle, lifestyle lessons, evolving, podcast, whatcancerrevealed, betterhealthpodcastComment

Would you like more C.A.L.M. in your life?

Would you like more C.A.L.M. in your life?

C.A.L.M. is the 2nd research study I collaborated on with Philippe Goldin, Ph.D. in the Spring of 2016 just before I was diagnosed with stage IV colorectal cancer. As it goes with such unexpected events, saving my life became my focus.

Life has a way of providing lessons that will come in handy later. What I learned from the research I did as a personal/social high school Counselor, became a critical piece of how my own healing practice evolved.

Read on to find out how the benefits of C.A.L.M. have become part of a bigger study, we’re calling Choose Life.

Mindful Parenting, Body Mind SpiritLeslie PeakeJune 27, 2021Calm, compassion, self compassion, mindfulness, research, loving kindness, attention, choose lifeComment

Want to move from anxiety to calm & enjoy peace of mind (and body)? Here's how

Want to move from anxiety to calm & enjoy peace of mind (and body)? Here's how

Can you remember a time when you were so caught up in your thoughts that you didn’t pay attention to the ache in your stomach or the tightness in your shoulders?

I think it’s normal there are days when you’re just feeling separated or detached.

The question is, what’s your go-to formula for finding that harmonious, sweet spot again where you feel at peace and happy inside just because?

Body Mind SpiritLeslie PeakeMay 23, 2021Qigong, movement, contemplative movement, healing, online course, choose life, birdsong qigong Comments

What's the significance of a modern day angel?

What's the significance of a modern day angel?

Are you one of those people who cringe inside every time you need to get a needle? I am.

Let me tell you, you’re not alone. The fear of the needle itself looms larger than when the actual needle is in the arm. My veins are small and deeply buried. This is just how my body comes, with veins that don’t like to surface.

Body Mind SpiritLeslie PeakeApril 27, 2021angel, healing, needles, cancer, illness, calm, specialist, compassion, kindness, loving energy Comment

How I overcame my fear to go skiing again after surgery

How I overcame my fear to go skiing again after surgery

I see the beginning of a new year as a door opener, an invitation to shed some old skin and make room for changes I want to make in my life. So, what am I willing to let go of in order to feel lighter inside…

Body Mind SpiritLeslie PeakeMarch 29, 2021tapping, EFT, Skiing, winter, visioning, manifesting, 2021, hip replacement Comments

Anniversary Dates ~ Special Markers

Anniversary Dates ~ Special Markers

My birthday, another whole 365 days of getting to be alive, has just cycled through again. Wow! 58 this year. I’ve surpassed my brother and my father. Since my cancer diagnosis in 2016, I notice how I am also marking time by the yearly passing of surgery dates.

Leslie PeakeSeptember 27, 2020anniversary, birthday, compassion, loving kindness, rehab, healing, surgery, recovery, singing bowl, Tibetan, hip replacement Comments

Changing Times

Changing Times

Spring was late this year leaving May feeling like Winter still, yet there was an ever increasing feeling of change in the air for me. My life was about to take a dramatic turn.

Holistic LivingLeslie PeakeAugust 4, 2019jobchange, travel, britishcolumbia, schoolcounselor, employeehealth, wellness, well-being Comments

To Wake With The Dawn

To Wake With The Dawn

Since my last blog post, The Sum of All Cells, I was back in touch with a lovely woman who had contacted me in the Fall. I wanted to check in with her to see how she was managing from an operation where she had a cancerous tumor removed.

Body Mind SpiritLeslie PeakeMay 1, 2019cancer, tumor, affirmations, Louise Hay, meditation, EFT, tapping, life, death, Spring, unconditional love, peace, inner balance, Easter, resurrection, courage, dreamsComment

The Sum of All Cells

The Sum of All Cells

Regardless of how many times a person has gone through the customary control scans during cancer treatments and post cancer, there are still many emotions and thoughts that can get stirred up.

Holistic LivingLeslie PeakeFebruary 21, 2019epigenetics, PET, CTscan, cellular health, healthyself, lungs, illness, spiritualhealing, surrender, genes, biologyofbelief, immune function, cellsignaling Comments

The Light of Love

The Light of Love

Seven days later, I was awarded the opportunity to reunite with solid foods.

Holistic LivingLeslie PeakeNovember 10, 2018hospitalstay, liquiddiet, hospitalretreat, recovery, healing, youcanhealyourlife, affirmations, louisehay, lovingyourself, selflove, healthyself, intuitivehealing, gratefulness, visioning Comments

Is Peace Within Possible?

Is Peace Within Possible?

I knew the Summer would involve some Cyberknife treatments on my right lung so I wanted to stay close to home and keep my days unscheduled.

Body Mind SpiritLeslie PeakeNovember 7, 2018cyberknife, self compassion, healing, naturalhealing, forgiveness, family, nature, peace, scans, PETscans, Endosonography, commonthemesofhealing, health, hospital, hirslanden Comments

The Wellspring of Healing

The Wellspring of Healing

What does it really mean, to care for the Self? This continues to be a deepening theme around total healing: respecting self-care like it was the Source of everything, vitally important to Well-Being.

Body Mind SpiritLeslie PeakeJune 16, 2018selfhealin, meditation, journaling, exercise, movement, yoga, nature Comments

Come Dance With Me

Come Dance With Me

Through the eye of intention and focus each small spot brings a story, patiently waiting to be uncovered. Gently placed in the lobes of the lungs, they surface and show their presence.

Following a Natural Path of Eating

Following a Natural Path of Eating

It was after a PET/CT scan in March that showed continued small spots or possibly lesions in my lungs that I revisited what I was eating.

Holistic LivingLeslie PeakeApril 28, 2018ketogenic, keto, MCT, sugar, nutritionalketosis, ketodudes, thomasseyfried, natural health supplements Comment

Laser Meditation - part 2

Laser Meditation - part 2

I live in a world where time simply passes, not marked by a particular beginning or end; days drift into darkness and back into light.

Groundlessness

Groundlessness

I search to feel the ground beneath me. This is something I have done throughout my life, especially in times of perceived adversity.

Holistic LivingLeslie PeakeDecember 24, 2017groundlessness, adversity, PETCT, MRI, cancer, lunglesion, cyberknife, lasersurgery, suffering, opportunity, hope, love Comments

Bridging the Divide - part 1

Bridging the Divide - part 1

When August control CT scans were done and I was feeling so much better, I was pretty surprised to hear that two ‘lesions’ had appeared....

Holistic LivingLeslie PeakeDecember 9, 2017cyberknife, lasersurgery, meditation, chinesemedicine, lungs, radiation Comments

Falling into Surrender

Falling into Surrender

Prolonged illness strips away at the layers we so carefully craft together over time; like many thin layers of silk that float between our psyche and the outer world.

Holistic LivingLeslie PeakeNovember 12, 2017illness, cancer, psychology, psyche, awareness, darknightofthesoul, whitespiritbeartotem, crossthethreshold, calltoadventure, HealThySelf, Saki Santorelli Comments