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Healthy Chicks in the Community Week 6: A Sweet Southern Spinach-Loving Gal

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Good afternoon ladies and Happy Valentine’s Day! You can check out my thoughts on Valentine’s Day & 40 Days of Gratitude Project here. But in the meantime, I’ve got this week’s spotlight for Healthy Chicks in the Community, a sweet Southern gal who hearts yoga and sweaty workouts. I’ll let Sara take it from here…

NAME/AGE: Sara, 26

BLOG/TWITTER (If Applicable): fitfunfemme.com / SaraWiles on twitter

CURRENT CITY: Atlanta, GA

PHOTO TAKEN: Maui, Hawaii

WHAT YOU DO FOR WORK: Corporate Event Planning

NUMBER ONE PASSION: Spreading love and happiness

I FEEL MY HEALTHIEST SELF WHEN I AM: Sweating lots and eating good, clean foods.

BUT I AM ALSO A REAL GIRL & SOMETIMES: I eat copious amounts of cheese. I.LOVE.CHEESE.

TOP THREE KITCHEN STAPLES: Spinach (I throw it in everything…eggs, salads, sandwiches), Olive Oil, Dark Chocolate.

NUMBER ONE GUILTY PLEASURE: Macaroni and Cheese

EXERCISE THAT MAKES YOU SHINE: Yoga

FAVORITE COMFORT FOOD: My mom’s creamed spinach topped with Vermont sharp white cheddar.

MESSAGE YOU’D LIKE TO SHARE WITH OTHER HEALTHY CHICKS: Know that Rome wasn’t built in a day, and neither was a happy, healthy lifestyle. Read wellness blogs, learn healthy recipes, and try new workouts. Slowly, you’ll find … Read More!

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Healthy Chicks in the Community Week 5: A Traveling, Twenty-Something Librarian

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Good afternoon ladies! Sorry I’ve been M.I.A the past couple of days. I’ve been super busy working and living, including my day trip yesterday to Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health. It was truly one of the greatest experiences I’ve had in a long time, and I can’t wait to update you on everything I ate, learned and did!

In the meantime, I’ve got this week’s spotlight on Healthy Chicks in the Community for you, a twenty-something who loves her veggies, traveling and lazy days spent watching New Girl. She’s also a past client of mine, who increased her energy, and reached her goal of running a Half Marathon while working with me! How amazing is that? I’ll let Courtney take it from here…

NAME/AGE: Courtney, 26

BLOG (If Applicable): http://wanderlusting02.wordpress.com/

CURRENT CITY: Casablanca, Morocco

PHOTO TAKEN: Hiking in Costa Rica

WHAT YOU DO FOR WORK: I’m the elementary school librarian at the Casablanca American School in Morocco. I basically get kids excited to read books and learn!

NUMBER ONE PASSION: Traveling. I am so lucky to be living in a country that is exotic AND close to Europe.  My next trip is … Read More!

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Healthy Chicks in the Community Week 4: A Motivated Mom on the Move

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Good afternoon ladies, and welcome to week 4 of Healthy Chicks in the Community. This week’s spotlight is a pay-it-forward, soup-loving mother of two, who also happens to be my beautiful cousin! I’ll let Marissa take it from here…

NAME/AGE: Marissa, 36

CURRENT CITY: East Hampton, CT

PHOTO TAKEN: At an art party for my daughter, Jaelyn.

WHAT YOU DO FOR WORK: For my career, I am a School Based Occupational Therapist working with children in regular and special education to be able to reach their full potential in school. In my private life, I am a mother of 2 young children which is another job altogether. Of course, both of these lines of work give me skills to use in the other job, so I am lucky in that respect!

NUMBER ONE PASSION: This is a tough one. Being a mom definitely takes priority so, as many other mothers know, passions and hobbies can easily be forgotten or lost along the way. I would have to say, at the heart of almost everything I do, is a passion to make a better world for my children and those around me. I am a firm believer in “paying it … Read More!

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Healthy Chicks in The Community Week 3: Words of Wisdom from Casablanca, Morocco

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This week’s Healthy Chick in the Community is studying in Casablanca, Morocco, is a family girl at heart and loves baguettes. I’ll let Melissa take it from here!

NAME/AGE: Melissa Mitchem, 24.

BLOG/TWITTER (If Applicable): N/A

CURRENT CITY: Casablanca, Morocco

PHOTO TAKEN: December 2012 with my nephew

WHAT YOU DO FOR WORK: In terms of life goals, I’m working towards getting a PhD in Education by first teaching for a few years. In terms of fitness/health goals, I’m working on maintaining a balanced, protein-rich diet as a vegetarian and keeping up with my 5-6 day-a-week workouts (usually running, using an elliptical, or yoga).

NUMBER ONE PASSION: This is a tie- my family and education. I love my family so much, but we all live in very different parts of the world. It’s simply the best when we all get together for a holiday or vacation. As for education, I have always loved learning and teaching and envision a perfect society as one with highly educated citizens.

I FEEL MY HEALTHIEST SELF WHEN I AM: in my daily routine of work, exercise, and diet and have a low level of stress.

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Healthy Chicks in the Community Week 2: Bre the Yoga Queen

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I am super excited to announce this week’s star of Healthy Chicks in the Community. Bre is one of those all around cool gals, who I always enjoy catching up with (especially over gourmet coffee). I truly admire her positive attitude towards life, love and all those good things! I’ll let Bre take it away from here…

NAME/AGE: Bre, 26

TWITTER: @brenourse

FACEBOOK: Bre Nourse Yoga

CURRENT CITY: Boston (North End)

‬‪​WHAT YOU DO FOR WORK: I teach yoga, dip my toe in the design and photography pool and from time to time I sling $100 yoga pants at that big yoga clothing store we all know and love.

‬‪​NUMBER ONE PASSION: Teaching people to connect with their bodies through movement and meditation.

‬‪​I FEEL MY HEALTHIEST SELF WHEN I AM: Being kind to my body, fueling myself with foods that make me feel good and doing the work during my meditation. Its not just about the physical body, without a healthy mind we’d have nothing.

‬‪​BUT I AM ALSO A REAL GIRL & SOMETIMES:
I like to eat dessert for breakfast and watch all the shows in my dvr!

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Sweet News

Good afternoon, friends! Hope you are all having an amazing week so far. This week has been one of those fascinating, life-changing weeks for me, you know the kind. For one, I’ve landed the part-time job of my dream, assisting with marketing and community relationships at sweetgreen in Boston. If you haven’t heard of them, I urge you to check out their website, including their zesty menu! I totally have my eye on the January salad.

They are expanding to the city in early summer, and I’m going to help spread the word and make their launch as successful as possible. sweetgreen currently has locations in PA, MD, VA and NY and will soon be coming to my city aka Boston (which is your city for many of you) in June.

While their company is essentially a healthy, eco-friendly restaurant (for example, their proteins are hormone & antibiotic free and their packaging is 100% plant based), they are much more than that and take great pride in their mission in spreading the sweet life. I couldn’t be more thrilled to a part of their company, especially when their mission is something I so firmly believe in.… Read More!

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