Recipe: Sunny Buckwheat

This buckwheat recipe has squash, green beans and pumpkin seeds. It is easy to prepare, quick to cook and full of flavor! It's also super-healthy and full of calcium, vitamin E and the entire gamut of vitamin B complex.

3 Facts About Buckwheat:

1. Buckwheat is an important component of traditional Jewish cuisine.

2. When toasted, buckwheat is known as "kasha" and becomes a reddish brown color.

3. Buckwheat is not technically a grain, but it is a seed from an herb that grows in northern climates and is a relative of rhubarb.

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Success Story: Holly Shelowitz - Truckin' Away

Before coming to Integrative Nutrition I was living in Manhattan working as a commercial photographer and had four books of my photography published. It was heavy-duty work that was very stressful and exhausting. My back went out completely, so that I couldn't move, twice. For twenty years I had been reading everything I could get my hands on about nutrition, health and food. Clients, friends and family were always asking me health and cooking questions. I had no intention of giving up my career because I had worked from being a starving artist to a very successful photographer, but I went to the school anyway.

One day in school Joshua said "who we are and what we do for our work shouldn't be different, because if you have become someone different at work than who you are at home, that is spiritual schizophrenia." I was fully identified with being a successful young woman photographer, but every magazine and book I read had to do with health or nutrition. It became clear that who I really am is sharing this knowledge with other people. I took a huge risk, gave up professional photography and never looked back.

My life is totally different now. I moved out of Manhattan and into the country in Upstate New York, where I always wanted to live. I am a full time holistic health counselor, seeing clients individually and in corporations, leading private and group cooking classes and teaching anywhere I can about health, food and nutrition from the perspective I learned at school. I teach classes at the Natural Gourmet on creating healthy skin from the inside out, understanding your cravings and I also just finished leading a ten month Nutrition Program for UPS drivers.

UPS wanted to provide support to some of their overweight employees and hired me to lead groups for six different divisions, each with 30-60 drivers (all men!). The drivers came on their own time at 7:30am to learn about health and nutrition. Each session had a focus, such as reading labels, learning about how sugar affects the body or how each organ works and they were so excited to be learning. They asked incredible questions, shared the information with their families and started telling other people in the company. The class kept growing. It was the most amazing thing to happen in my career so far.

Every day, I cook amazing food, read and learn about health and support people in making positive changes in their lives. My life feels very purposeful, and I never felt this way in my photography career.

To read an article published in Newsday about Holly's work with UPS, click here.

Holly Shelowitz
Certified Holistic Health Counselor
www.nourishingwisdom.com

Feature: What You are Seeking is Seeking You

Are you seeking a new, better, more satisfying, more fulfilling life? That life is also seeking you. Now is the time to fulfill your dreams and the vision you once had of what your life could be. If you don't go for your dreams now, when will you? You have something unique to offer and the world needs what you have to give.

Your heart has its own geography, where it prefers to be. It may be in the mountains or by the ocean or in a city. Your mind, body and your soul also have their own geography, where they prefer to be. Maybe your mind prefers books on romance, your body loves working out with weights and your soul loves generosity. Every person is different and identifying your favorite geographies will help you fulfill your dreams. The clearer your vision of what you seek, the closer you are to finding it.

When thinking about your dream job it's important to have a picture of you too, not just the job. This way you can construct a dream job that matches you. It's amazing how many people get their dream job or career. Sometimes it happens all of a sudden and sometimes in stages, but the more you don't cut down the dream because of what you think you know about the real world, the more likely you are to find it. Hold onto all of your dream. If you decide to pursue your whole dream, your best dream, the one you would die to do, you will find it and it will find you.

Adapted from What Color Is Your Parachute?: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers by Richard N. Bolles Ted Speed Press, $17.95

Nourishing Quote

Let that which we love be what we do.

- Rumi