30 days to transform your health, happiness and habits for life

At the end of December 2015 I started making time to organise my plan for a Healthy Detox in 2016 starting the 30 days healthy living and beyond.

Last year 16 of us started in Jan & Feb and we had such incredible results and fun that we carried on using 80/20 rule for the whole year and continued to improve our health, weight and energy for a fuller life! We lost 2-3 inches each round out waists, cut cholesterol levels in half and up to a stone in weight for some of us and high energy and serotonin levels in the first 30days – We were unstoppable !!

it’s was fun to as we inspired each other with what’s app msgs, recipes and pictures! No wander we carried on! We want to offer benefits to other friends too and sharpen our regime again!

Although we have a few days to go before we officially start on the 4th January, we will begin by posting some questions about why we need to detox plus tips on how to get started.

The healthy living kit as Preferred client is reduced from £325 to just £194 and will last you 1-2 months depending on how many smoothies a day you do! And for us Consultants it’s just £163!! We get 50% off only available till the 31st Jan!

Www.katieyoung.arbonne.com

The ideas and snacks you can create or buy are packed with super foods and illiminate toxins and weight!

Also with regard to a shopping list; many of the items (with the exception of fresh foods) can be bought now, so that you are all ready when we start. For recipes and shopping lists go to http://www.beatynation.com. Dr Barbara Beaty has a PHD in nutrition and has built a business that sits at the top level of Arbonne and gave up her practice to focus on Arbonne as her patients recieved better results!

We will start the count down from 1st Jan. This will enable you to add anyone you feel will benefit from joining us and it will also begin to help align your mindset with the changes YOU PERSONALLY need to achieve. See below

Not everyone will be wishing to Detox for weight loss, in fact many of you may wish to realign in other areas of your life.

Remember this is a very HOLISTIC APPROACH to detoxing, following the Detox Bootcamp Group’s advice from experts, so we will be focusing on many areas, not solely on food!!

However, I think there are possibly some of us that have completely over indulged this Xmas, have had great fun in the process but will be ready to get started in January.

I highly reccomend joing the Facebook group Clean & Lean 2016

Happy Healthy new you and remember great glowing skin and health and comes from inside outside approach.
Love Katie x

Want your daughters to be successful? Be a working Mum

There might not be a single policy that can eliminate gender equality, but a new Harvard Business School study shows that being raised by a working mum comes close

My journey as a mother and business owner has been trial and error battle for that work / life balance. Starting of my ventures in the world of business as a fashion designer, I felt a profound passion for my work. But when I had my two girls, I became torn between independent financial success and fulfilment and being a stay-at-home mum.

It was truly incredible timing when I discovered Arbonne six years ago, I learned so many new skills which I have subsequently been able to apply to my other (successful!) businesses. As an Arbonne consultant, I can not only help my own family use the purest and healthiest products, but I am bringing two extra incomes into the home, (that’s one per daughter!)

Join my ever-growing global business and you too could help change Health, Wealth and Wellbeing of families around the world -as well as inspire your own children to do the same. After reading this Guardian article, I can cast aside any guilt society may have lead me to feel and relish in my pride of being a great role-model. Together we can challenge ourselves to grow, and to grow our businesses around our family. This, in turn, will inspire our children, boys or girls, to aim higher in life.

“Concerning and troubling”, “watching society dissolve around us”, “the disintegration of marriage”, “something going terribly wrong”, “hurting our children” and “tearing us apart”. These are just a handful of Fox News pundits’ responses to the revelation that 40% of American mothers have become their family’s sole or primary breadwinner.

These were not isolated opinions. In recent years, headlines across a number of publications have ranged from “Working mothers ‘damage their child’s health’”, to “Working mothers risk damaging their child’s prospects” to (at the more extreme end of the spectrum) “How feminism demeans women and destroys families.” And, according to a 2007 survey by the Pew Research Center, 41% of the US population agreed that the trend towards mothers working outside the home was a bad thing for society. Just 22% believed it to be a good thing.

But a new study from Harvard Business School’s recently launched Gender Initiative shows that working mothers are not the destroyers of marriage and society that some would have us believe. The as yet unpublished study of 50,000 adults in 25 developed countries found that women who grew up with working mothers not only earn more than their peers with stay-at-home mothers, but are also more likely to have supervising roles at work.

Kathleen McGinn, a professor at HBS and one of the authors of the study, sums up what the findings mean: “There is no single policy or practice that can eliminate gender gaps at work and at home. But being raised by a working mother appears to come very close.”

Contrary to widespread belief, the researchers also found little evidence to suggest that a mother’s choice to work or to stay at home has any major impact on their children’s happiness. “Controlling for education, employment, income and other demographic variables, children of working mums and children of stay-at-home mums report equal levels of happiness as adults – not happier, not less happy.”

The results suggest that instead of looking to demonise one set of mothers for getting it “wrong”, we can instead celebrate the fact that there are benefits to be reaped from a wide variety of women’s personal choices. “We hope these findings will challenge stereotypes about working mums ‘harming’ their children,” say the report’s authors, “and will help working mums feel confident that they are contributing to their sons’ and their daughters’ lives in lots of positive ways. We also hope the findings from our research will promote respect for the spectrum of choices women and men make at home and at work.”

So instead of criticising women’s choices for hurting their families, it is time to celebrate them for the varied and rich benefits they bring. And while we’re at it, we might also stop to wonder why fathers’ parenting decisions and career choices rarely appear in the debate at all.

Read the full article here

The Wedding – It’s not just a sister thing, it’s a brother thing too!

Well,

I am having the August of my life.  I have returned from a gorgeous, relaxing holiday in Turkey then a quick turnaround at home before dashing to Somerset for my brother’s Wedding. It was one of the most moving Weddings of my life.

My brother is a perfectionist! And WOW did that serve him well.

Andy and Sam have been together for 15 years and I have had the privilege of getting to know so many of their friends over the years. Which made for a warm, fun and intimate.

I was in tears and stressed for days building up to the service and yet I had no task but to turn up with my family looking fabulous and enjoy the show!

There is nothing quite so special than seeing the people you love all together showing how much they care about each other and brimming with pride.

This time it was my Brothers who stole the show! Lewis, my youngest brother was best man (pictured next to Claire on left). What you have to know is he is just 22yrs old and has only been to 1 Wedding before and that was my sister’s, Claire and John’s, 9yrs ago! He was 13! Yet he, as did Andrew the groom, spoke with Pride, humour and adoration of their brotherhood. I am so blessed to have them both in my life.

Mum and Dad, Thank you so much for giving us the gift of family. To make our differences, our strengths when we work together is magnificent to see in action when pairing together.

Claire and I are loving utilizing it with Arbonne. Helping like minded people to  create flexible, Lifestyle income, that could be their savior in many scenarios. But more importantly doing something that is giving, rewarding and courageous!

Go out and make a difference, heal an old wound or tell someone how much they mean to you. SEE what a difference it will make for them and yourself.

Katie x

Save the date:  12th October- An Angels and Arbonne charity Event is coming, sharing details soon……………..