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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

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

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

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

Early Warning Signs

Early Warning Signs

It was Christmas of 2014 when I first started noticing a slight change in my digestion. The awareness was very subtle, yet something inside me said, ‘there is something different with me.’ Changes can come at first, very quietly and then if we don’t listen to them, they get progressively louder.

Holistic LivingLeslie PeakeOctober 18, 2017earlysigns, cancer, constipation, menopause, colonoscopy Comments

Circle of Digital Healing

Circle of Digital Healing

A dis-eased body is a disruption in the flow of energy and to me, says time for a thorough cleansing. My mind wants to clean the house, make the temple shine again. How to do this cleaning out?

Holistic LivingLeslie PeakeSeptember 28, 2017digitalcircles, communication, virtual, healingcircles, expatlife, texting Comments

Feed the Stomach, Soothe the Soul

Feed the Stomach, Soothe the Soul

I share with you a recent moment where I created an absolutely delicious vegan dessert out of thin air! Have you ever made a dessert that camemagically together from a kitchen pantry that seemed like it was empty of vital ingredients?

Holistic LivingLeslie PeakeSeptember 17, 2017fruit dessert, pear cobbler, birne cobbler, vegan dessert, julieandjuliathemovie, silverlining, lifepurpose, writing, connection Comment

Life Intensifer

Life Intensifer

Within 24 hours of receiving a report on the status of the tumor stating: Remission, I was in for the first appointment with my Oncologist

Holistic LivingLeslie PeakeAugust 26, 2017remission, love, intensifedlifeexperience, lifeintensifer, tumormarkers, bloodtests, CTscan, chemoinfusion, lunglesion, alternativebodytherapies, EFT, craniosacral, energypsychology, energymedicine Comments

Healing Waters

Healing Waters

I had 5 days to rest at home before boarding a plane to Canada to see family and friends. My body was still reeling from the intense side effects of the treatment and in fact they seemed to be increasing.

Holistic LivingLeslie PeakeAugust 21, 2017remission, rectalcancerremission, endosonography, CTscan, controlcheck, healingwaters, Qigong, meditation, dancemovement Comments

Radiant Radiotherapie

Radiant Radiotherapie

I had no idea what was in store for me as I made my way through the radiotherapie and chemo treatment program.

Holistic LivingLeslie PeakeJune 18, 2017radiotherapie, radiation, chemopills, treatmentplans, transformation Comments

My Intuitive Path to Healing: Part 2

My Intuitive Path to Healing: Part 2

I have always been a firm believer in digging deep and wide for support whatever the situation may be.

Holistic LivingLeslie PeakeMay 1, 2017complimentaryhealing, westerntherapies, intuitivehealing, onlinehealingcourses, energypsychology, medicalintuition, physicalexercise, yoga, restorativepractice, meditation Comments

My Intuitive Path to Healing: part 1

My Intuitive Path to Healing: part 1

Without realizing my exhaustion was a symptom of a much deeper health issue, we managed to do some wonderful biking and hiking.

Holistic LivingLeslie PeakeMay 1, 2017intuitivehealing, personalhealingpath, liverabletion, treatmentplans Comment

Check Up Exams Week 2

Check Up Exams Week 2

In the beginning of receiving my cancer diagnosis, I had many recurring thoughts about how quickly I could get through this, how long until it would be gone?

Holistic LivingLeslie PeakeApril 13, 2017MRI, PETCT, endosonography, radiotherapy Comment