by Taslim Jaffer | Mar 12, 2018 | Books, Wellness
‘Strong is the new skinny’ is a common phrase these days, sprawled across tank tops on sweaty bodies at the gym, and on memes floating around Facebook. I’m glad the emphasis has gone from losing weight to gaining strength. I’ve had my own...
by Taslim Jaffer | Feb 28, 2018 | Wellness
When I hear the words ‘heart attack’ I automatically think of a man. Not necessarily an older man, because young men (in their 30s and 40s) in my family have had heart attacks. And my father-in-law died suddenly from coronary artery disease just after his...
by Taslim Jaffer | Nov 6, 2017 | Wellness
If you’ve been following along on my #TaslimGetsFit journey (mostly on IG Stories) you know that I’ve been moving a lot more these days. Mid-summer this year I realized just how sedentary my lifestyle was and I couldn’t recognize this woman who kept...
by Taslim Jaffer | Oct 23, 2017 | Wellness
Last year, my husband and I watched the Netflix documentary Forks Over Knives and it seriously gave us some food for thought. (No pun intended). It was the night before New Year’s Eve, the kids were in bed and it was the perfect opportunity to start dreaming...
by Taslim Jaffer | Mar 15, 2017 | Yoga
A meditation party? Is that an oxymoron? To be honest, I had to read the details twice when they first floated into my inbox. I kept imagining a bunch of people sitting on pillows and trying so desperately hard to squash all the thoughts in their heads. And not much...
by Taslim Jaffer | Feb 8, 2012 | Yoga
In the planning process, things don’t always happen smoothly. There’s nothing profound in that statement; we all kind of know it as fact. Increasing the number of uncontrollable factors, and if you recallI am not a fan of uncontrollable factors, will most definitely...
