Make the Vision for Your Life Your Reality
In this episode of Divine Downloads, I share about my recent engagement, how I met my partner and all the spiritual lessons I learned right before we met and as we were dating for those of you on your own journey to deep romantic love. I provide some of the tools and tips that were effective for me in rising up to meet the man of my dreams and receiving great love when it came!
In this episode of “Divine Downloads”, I dive into why our thoughts are creating our lives and how we can look to our way of thinking to change our lives both on a mental and a physical level. I discuss how to see what areas of your life need a thought shift so you can see the life upgrade. I give you the top three tools for shifting your thoughts!
Tis the season where everyone starts making resolutions to lose weight! Now you already know my stance on that — NOT HELPFUL! If you’ve been thinking about weight loss as a “goal” for 2020, I’d like to offer you a more loving and helpful option.
How about we make 2020 the year of nourishing your body and eating with intention!
Want to know an easy way to make sure that you actually stick with that? Choose one healthy habit that you are going to incorporate on a regular basis.
Here’s one that’s been a lifesaver for me — my go-to greens! There are a few around and it can be mind boggling picking the right one. You can shop online, in a healthfood store, even grocery stores stock a range! So how do you pick one? Do you buy the most expensive thinking it’s the best? How do I know which ingredients do what on the label on the back? And which do I really need?
Knowing what I know already about nutrition and then doing some more research on top of that I’ve found Teami Blends’ Greens Superfood Powder to have all the nutrients I need without the sugar, stevia or agave some brands add to the mix! The experts at Teami only use the highest quality, non-gmo ingredients, no fillers or additives (that you have to look out for in a lot of other powders on the shelf!) and everything is vegan and cruelty free which is why I feel so confident recommending them to you. This greens powder also contains 16 superfood ingredients like wheatgrass, spirulina, chlorophyll, kelp, broccoli, parsley, dandelion root and matcha — just to name a few of my stand out favorites!
I make sure to incorporate a green smoothie regularly, especially when I’m traveling. It’s when I’m not preparing my own food every day that the veggie count can drop and this blend is going to boost energy and give me my daily veggie count. Having a smoothie each morning with a scoop of teami greens give me peace of mind for the rest of the day knowing that I’ve already given my body a heap of the nutrient dense greens it needs to feel, look and run it’s best!
My go to smoothies recipe is:
1 cup non dairy milk (my favorite is coconut)
1 serving scoop of Teami blends greens (linked)
1/2 a banana
1/4 cup frozen blueberries
1 heaping tbsp of almond butter
A handful of spinach
1 tsp of flax seed meal
You can swap out the blueberries for your favorite frozen fruit of choice and the almond butter for your favorite nut or seed
butter as well.
I have this smoothie over and over again and somehow still love it! It’s easy to make, flexible enough where you can utilize what you have around the house and the Teami blends greens make sure it jam packed with good for you nutrition!
On the go or stranded without some key ingredients?
You can always mix the Teami greens with just ice and non dairy milk to still get in your nutrients!
As you can see in the pictures, I even love traveling with a small portable blender because when I start my day with my go to greens smoothie, I have the energy and vitality for whatever comes my way. Adding just this one habit into my diet has made me feel significantly better not only physically and mentally — but more self-love because it’s a symbol of my priority to take great care of my body.
So this New Year, let’s toss the body judging resolutions and get to the core of things. Real, practical, nourishing rituals are the way to love your body up and help it look and feel it’s best. Click here and use CASSGREENS at checkout for 15% off.
As Ram Dass famously said, “If you think you’re enlightened, go spend a week with your family.”
Well the holidays are upon on us and that is often the time of the year even the most spiritually disciplined of us struggle keeping our peace and sanity. There’s nothing like traveling, visiting family, present shopping in chaotic stores, a full calendar of cocktail parties and end of year dead lines at work to drive even the most zen of us a little cray-cray.
But, as with everything, this year presents us with an opportunity to do the holidays in a new light. We’ve done a lot of work through out the year and now we are ready to handle whatever the holidays throw at us — we just need a game plan! (And to keep up with our daily rituals and meditation practice!)
If you are worried about navigating the holidays, have no fear, I’ve got you covered. Over on the podcast and on my YouTube channel, I have recorded two special episodes just for you all about handling the stress and the obstacles that come up at this most joyous time of year.
Part One: Navigating Food and Family Stress This Holiday Season
Part Two: Navigating Financial Stress this Holiday Season
Hope you enjoy these resources and that they serve you this Holiday Season!
Comment below and let me know what you are putting into action!
xo,
Cass
That’s right, I decided to try to kick my favorite habit for 15 days straight AND reinforce another, healthier for me, one in it’s place.
Many of you know from following me that my coconut milk latte habit is a delicious part of my morning ritual. I walk to my favorite cafe each day and take some time to journal for ten to fifteen minutes while I sip it and start off the day. However, for the past year or so, when I tune into my body and see what’s working for it and what’s not, I’ve been hearing, “please stop the coffee”. Naturally, I have been struggling to listen to it. In a lot of ways I feel like coffee (or lattes) are one of the few ‘treats’ I truly look forward to.
My body continued to keep communicating though and I soon realized how inflamed and anxious my morning delight made me feel.
I started switching over to Vahdam Teas Organic Green Tea every once in a while to switch up my morning beverage. I loved it so much that I reached out to Vahdam and asked if they wanted to collaborate with me on my project to release coffee and replace it with tea.
They took things even on step further and sent me all of their *caffeine free* tumeric teas based around this powerful superfood. I’ve been a huge fan of tumeric as an anti-inflammatory ingredient since I started going to yoga festivals a few years ago and noticed how much better my body felt when I consumed it. What a perfect way to not only get my body back on track and heal some of the inflammation that I’ve been dealing with but also a delicious substitute to help me shift the habit.
Watch the video below to see my 15-Day Tea Challenge Diary and the insights, challenges and results of me spending over two weeks going over to the tea side.
You can also listen to the Practical Musings Podcast episode of the revelations during this challenge and the importance of your daily rituals I’ll be sharing today!
Want to try it out for yourself or just start incorporating more tea into your regular routine? Click here to grab your own tumeric teas from Vahdam.
It’s so easy to feel overwhelmed when you start living a more conscious, holistic lifestyle — we want to do all the good things — eat all the healthiest, organic food, clear out all of our home products for more natural alternatives and go no-waste or more eco-friendly. I was thrilled when Thrive Market agreed to team up with me to share some of my easy-peasy eco-friendly hacks!
If you haven’t heard of Thrive Market before, they’re an online grocery store that sells all of your favorite non-GMO, organic products at 25-50% off retail price. They sell everything from pantry staples to beauty and supplements, even cleaning or household items. I love how easy and affordable they make healthy living. Read more about Thrive Market (and get a special goodie) by reading until the end.
These five little shifts will be practically effortless to add to your life, be super cost-effective and leave you feeling like you are on your way to living a more green and sustainable life while keeping all your healthy habits in check — double whammy!
1.Grab yourself a re-usable mug and USE IT.I’m obsessed with this “U-Konserve” mug because it feels like my coffee cup, isn’t as bulky as a lot of the to-go coffee containers and to be honest, just feels super chic! It’s important to genuinely like whatever re-usable mug you select because it will help you use it on the regular. Bringing my mug to the local cafe not only saves a paper cup and plastic lid every day but also usually saves me a $1 because I only get charged for a refill. This mug paid for itself in coffee savings in under 2 weeks and it’s a big ole high five to mother earth to not be going through all those coffee containers!
2. In a similar vein, grab yourself a glass bottle for your water and fill it up with your at home filtered water instead of buying plastic bottles. Again, super simple and not only helps the planet but also helps your bank account! I reuse a glass bottle that I got from a local juice shop with a green juice in it originally, VOSS also sells their water in glass bottles so you can grab one for around $3 and reuse it infinitely. Get yourself a nice filtered water pitcher of your preference or get a gallon of water delivered to your home monthly. I subscribe to a monthly gallon of water service and it costs me about $9/month — way cheaper than always buying water out and so much more eco-friendly. Do some googling to find one near you or ask at your local co-op!
3. Bring your own produce bags to the farmers market (or grocery store). Confession, I stopped using the plastic produce bags for my fruit and veggies long before I found these amazing re-usable produce bags but once these came out into the world I was hooked. These little roll-up-able produce bags hide in your purse and help you hold your favorite greens, veggies, and fruit in their own separate bags. They’re adorable and you get to feel good because your seasonal produce addiction no longer needs to create a surplus of plastic waste!
4. Get an amazing on-the-go meal set for you to bring your lunch, snacks or dinner on busy days. This is a win-win for your wallet, your health and the planet. It’s so easy on hectic days to succumb to ordering a sandwich at your local deli or stopping at your local fast casual spot but having a fun meal carrier will inspire you to make your own food to keep in the car or at your office. I have found that this reduces my own food waste by keeping me accountable for using what’s in my fridge and saves me money because I don’t buy excess food when I have a full fridge at home. Not to mention, you will undoubtedly make healthier choices when you pack your own meal instead of waiting till your ravenous to grab something on the go AND you will be reducing waste by not having all the extra plastic that ofter comes in to-go orders. Once again — wins all around!
5. Oh hi, have you met my new friend, the re-usable “ziploc” bag. Okay these aren’t ziplock brand but that’s pretty much what I call these kind of bags and what a great invention for those of us who were raised going through a few thousand plastic sandwich bags growing up. (Hey, our moms didn’t know!) I am all about using glass containers when I can for left-overs or prepped food but somethings are just easier (and lighter if we’re tossing it in our purse) in a bag! These re-usable bags are my favorite for airplane snacks and on the go nibbles, I rotate the several I have, clean them and feel better about not going through box after box of sandwich bags anymore.
Honestly, just writing out these five easy shifts out has me thinking of sooo many more, so if you enjoyed this post and would like more simple ways to be more sustainable while keeping your healthy lifestyle, be sure to let me know in the comments below.
I want to thank Thrive Market for partnering with me to bring you these tips as well as so kindly offering you a special discount so that you can get a FREE 30 day trial as well as 25% off their already low prices by clicking here. Most of the products above I got on Thrive Market super affordably and I even got a few little things for my healthy, eco-friendly pup, Carl, while I was at it! See below for his earth loving leash, collar and bio-bags! 😉
xo,
C
Of course, I couldn’t help myself but grab some goodies for my little fur nugget! Carl made out with a new leash and collar that are eco-friendly and made from soy as well as some bio bags for walks!
Summer’s almost here and therefore oftentimes, so are the negative thoughts around your body and triggering dressing room-bathing-suit-try-on-sessions. Oh my. This month a few of my clients and girlfriends have been hit HARD by the body frustration bug. It’s all too easy for SOOOOO many of us to get caught up in a whirlwind of negative thoughts around our beautiful God-Pod so I felt inspired to take some action around it.
As you know, my book “Eat with Intention” is all about making peace with your body, learning how to feed it what it truly needs to be nourished and starting to listen to it’s deep divine wisdom. A lot of my one on one work with bad ass Wonder Woman type women also involves a component of making peace with their body so they can utilize it’s incredible discernment in creating a life beyond their wildest dreams. We need to heal this core relationship in our life so that we can go out there and be PRESENT and joyful co-creators of our best life!
In this week’s Aprecity workshop, I dive into five different tools and tips for navigating negative body thoughts and I’ve decided to share it for free! As someone who has personally lived through disordered eating and struggled with a negative body image, these tools were some of the “in my back pocket” game changers for me. It’s been so important to me to share this work because I know first hand how impactful healing these negative beliefs and making peace with your body can be for truly living your best life. I hope you enjoy! If you’d like to dive deeper with me, I’m offering a “Love Your Body Bootcamp” that begins June 15th and goes for 8 weeks. More details on that below the video! xx C
If this video resonated with you and you are ready to dive even deeper with me this summer, I invite you to join me for my Love Your Body Bootcamp. It’s eight weeks (from 6/15-7/30) of support, tools and coaching to help you navigate this summer like no other!
In the eight weeks together, you will:
The entire 8 week program with weekly group support is only $397 and because this work can be amazing to do with one of your already existing girlfriends (although you will be sure to make new ones in the group) I’m offering a bestie bonus, where you each pay only $347 (savings of $50) when you sign up with a friend.
SPOTS ARE LIMITED TO KEEP THE GROUP INTIMATE SO IF YOU ARE FEELING CALLED AND YOU ARE READY FOR THIS TO BE THE SUMMER THAT YOU FINALLY HAVE A BREAKTHROUGH AROUND LOVING YOUR BODY EMAIL ME ASAP TO RESERVE YOUR SPOT.
To apply to join the Love Your Body Bootcamp:
If there’s one thing that comes up in almost every week of coaching my clients it’s “how to make the most aligned decision” or how to get clarity on the next most heart-centered step for some situation in their life. I mean, it makes total sense, we are decision making machines and the quality of our choices directly correlate to the quality of our lives soo naturally once we wake up to how powerful we are we are also hyper conscious of our decisions.
Also, for those of you who haven’t worked with my one on one yet, my style is always to teach you HOW to fish and lean away from just giving you the fish. I want to teach my clients how to tap into their soul’s gps and listen to the voice of their inner guidance system so that they can use that skill for everything in their life. There are so many ways to do this and one practice I love is body wisdom but the technique I walk you through in this video may even be simpler — and I find super eye-opening and confirming for those of you who may struggle around important decisions.
I recently used these three steps on a really important business decision that I had be sitting with for weeks. I was in sooo much pain around this decision (probably because it was kind of a big deal for me!) and it wasn’t till I finally got to STEP 3 that the fog cleared and I got my big “ah Ha!”
Watch the video below and let me know what happens when you apply it to something that you need more clarity around right now! Also be sure to SUBSCRIBE and support my YouTube channel — I’m really working on building it up right now so it would mean a lot to me! 🙂
Did the video make you want to dive even deeper? Would you like to get my ear one on one to discuss a business or personal decision that you are craving greater clarity around? You can check out my one one one offerings here: click here for personal or body related and click here for business.
As always, thanks for watching, see you next time!
xo,
C
In this week’s episode of Eat with Intention TV, Cassandra makes her tofu waldorf salad, it’s a great, easy healthy lunch for yourself or when you have guests. You can find the full recipe in her book “Eat with Intention” as well as tons of other great, intentional, plant-based meal options!
This salad is a weekday favorite of mine for something nourishing, delicious and ‘restaurant’ feeling with out the fuss, price or sneaky ingredients! It’s also one of my favorite dishes to serve as a first course (on small plates!) when I’m hosting people for a dinner party!
Making the Tofu Waldorf Salad is pretty simple as you can see in the video but here’s a little grocery store “cheat sheet” to help you stock up on all the ingredients before you dive in!
TOFU WALDORF SALAD GROCERY LIST:
MANTRA: “My health is my greatest wealth.”
MEDITATION: Body Love Meditation
more in the book 🙂
Hey loves,
So many of you reach out to me about the moons and I am going to start giving you little LIVE YouTube musings for each moon to help you learn a little more about what is going on energetically and how you can align your intentions and actions with it to capitalize on these juicy waves of transformation and growth!
First thing first, New Moons are a time for new beginnings, they are a time for you to set intentions, begin new projects and plant seeds from what you would like to see grow in the next month and beyond.
Each moon has its own “personality” based on what sign it sits in and what is going on with the other planets at its own time which is why I always find it helpful to dig even deeper.
Enjoy these musings, comment on the video and let me know what resonates and if you are interested in taking me up on a “Moon Magic Session” where I dive deeper into the section of your chart that Taurus is activating right now, chat about what is coming up for you right now and give you some ideas for aligned actions and intentions to set this moon as well as a personalized ritual to do to lock in the energy. Spots are limited, email me at CBODZAK@gmail.com to reserve yours.
Happy New Moon,
Cass
In this week’s blog I wanted to share with you my favorite healthy travel companions. So many of you LOVED my instagram stories of everything I was packing right before I left for Israel and New York for two weeks and requested different links that I wanted to put it all together for you in a nice little blog post + video.
As so many of you already know, I am no stranger to traveling and over the years I have gotten more and more savvy about what I need to pack in my carry on so that I can feel happy, healthy and lit up while venturing away from my home base. With summer just around the corner, I am sure a lot of you are also planning vacations, week-end getaways and even little road trips to enjoy the beautiful weather and get some R+R or do some exploring so I’m hoping these products that I’ve totally fell in love with (and keep me sane and feeling good on the road) are useful to you as well.
Traveling is the BEST when you are feeling rested, nourished and present but it can quickly be the worst when you feel exhausted, hungry and like you are running on empty! Let’s rig ourselves for travel bliss by planning ahead and adding small touches to keep our wellbeing rituals on track regardless of where in the world we are.
Check out my video below for a little sneak peak into my carry on goodies and check out the links below to grab any of my go-to’s for yourself this summer!
So there you have it! My travel must haves, my secret sauce for staying refreshed and balanced even after traveling all over Israel and then spending a week with back to back meetings in NYC. I can safely report back that no only was I healthy the entire time, I was in great spirits and felt very loved up! Also, Israel was probably the most epic trip of my life thus far but I will have to save the details on that for another blog post. 😉
What are your favorite travel companions? How do you take your well-being rituals on the road? I want to know! Comment below or underneath the video!
Here’s the thing, there is a magic to cleanses (juice cleanse, raw food cleanses, etc) that all of us are drawn to. We love the idea of committing to something, perhaps something even a little extreme, for a week or two. On a deep level we connect with this as a sacred ritual of transformation, a catalyst from where we are to a cleaner, lighter, more aligned us. So while I certainly have used cleanses in my eating disordered days for naught, wanting only a quick fix to make me feel skinnier, a cleanse with the right intention can be a really beautiful and healthy thing to do.
This week, I’ve decided to embark on a cleanse of my own making and thought I would share with you what it is and how you can “create your own reboot cleanse” with a clear, love-based intention to help refresh, rejuvenate and cleanse your God pod. The inspiration for my cleanse was primarily my upcoming trip to Israel (ahh!!) and then my trip to NYC immediately following. My body is still exhausted and readjusting from France and Spain at the end of February and I want to make sure it’s feeling as strong and vital as possible before I head on another long travel jaunt! The secondary inspiration for my cleanse is that we just had a full moon in Libra and Easter, both with great recalibration and resurrection energy — the perfect time to really rise up and realign with your priorities and purpose.
I think having both a spiritual and a physical reason for a cleanse is fantastic because both with hold you through the commitment and will power needed to complete it.
What would you intention be for a cleanse? Do you want to simply take a stand for loving your earth suit up? Is there a life transition you want to tap into the ritual of? Perhaps a behavior or pattern that you are literally going to “cleanse” yourself of?
Once my intention was clear, the next step was to decide what foods would hold the energy for that intention. I had been reading a lot of Anthony William’s (aka Medical Medium) books and loved his theories, food prescriptions and tools — I just hadn’t particularly resonated with the entirety of his detox program. Mainly, if we are being totally honest here, because the spinach and tomato raw soup you are supposed to have for dinner just sounded gross and I knew I’d be pretty miserable if that was my only dinner option, haha. Hey, know thyself, right? So I used some of his staples as my jump off point.
Morning lemon water
Followed by pure organic celery juice
Fruit forward smoothie with bananas, greens powder, mango, wild blueberries and coconut water
Then I added something that felt particularly nourishing while still being clean, my creamy tomato soup from Eat with Intention. I knew that I’d want some sort of healthy comfort food to hold me through any hunger I might experience, something that would satiate me with out sabotaging my cleanse process.
And then a great big salad with all sorts of greens, roasted cauliflower or broccoli, onions, apple and the homemade avocado orange juice dressing from Anthony’s book.
This cleanse, for me, is not about going hungry — its about jam packing lots of yummy nutrients in and eliminating inflammation increasing foods so that my immune system has a chance to reboot!
When thinking about your own DIY cleanse, ask yourself what foods are going to be in line with your intention. You may even want to look up certain smoothie recipes or meals that are good for your specific situation and cleanse objective and then mix and match with what you find. I really love having people use Eat with Intention to build their own cleanse because each recipe already has an intention connected with it (and a meditation — if you really want to amp up the energy!) so you can literally have a day that sounds like..
“Focus Potion Juice” (it’s intention: I am focused on my divine purpose) to kick off the morning,
“Grounding Salad” (it’s intention: I am grounded and steady) to anchor in the afternoon,
And “Cauliflower Rosemary Soup” (it’s intention: my patience is precious) for a light but filling dinner.
— sounds pretty bad ass, no? I mean who doesn’t want an intentionally curated, whole foods, plant-based cleanse?
Well if I’ve got your juices flowing and you are craving an outline to start off with, feel free to download my FREE 7 day Mind Body Soul Reboot here — it’s a sample meal plan, starter morning ritual routine, plus deep diving soul reflection exercises in your inbox each day! Take what you love and make it your own!
And of course, grab my book, Eat with Intention, and mix and match your favorite intention smoothie, juice, salad and soup recipes for the perfect prescriptive combination for what you need right now in your life!
