#25 Welcome to our first Insight Monday! Build healthy habits, practices, and resolutions during 2017 with Sydney Faith Rose

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2017 is here. Happy New Year, friends! I'm starting something super fun. Shorter (specific topic) episodes. Insight Mondays. An insight means seeing into the true nature of reality. (woah...deep). 

To me, it just means having a true sense of "knowing" something. Knowing it deeply in my bones. Sometimes it'll be just me, sometimes I'll have a guest join me, to dissect topics from a buddhist/dharmic perspective. Because really, Buddhism (which I view as an embodied philosophy as oppose to a religion) has been such spiritual medicine for me the past 8 years. 

I've chosen lots of great topics- but curious, do you have any you'd like me to discuss? Today's episode is all about actually COMMITTING TO YOUR NEW YEARS INTENTIONS (ahem- those "fun" resolutions) you set for yourself. Aka, building healthy habits. And making this year YOUR best year yet.

I'm joined by Sydney Faith Rose. Sydney is a buddhist teacher and teaches regularly at Dharma Punx NYC, a holistic health coach, yoga teacher, and lifelong meditator. She's brilliant and one of my closest friends. We're also housemates (with two other lovely humans) and have these conversations all the time, so it felt very natural to have her on the show! If you'd like to reach her you can at sydneyfaithrose@gmail.com 

​We talk about: 

• Why it's so hard to construct healthy habits and what you can do about it 
• Building a regular meditation  
• How Intention plays a role in creating healthy habits 
• How we're not wired for change, and how you can make change happen anyway!  
• The top 4 tips to building NEW healthy practices into your life 

Enjoy! What are some of your intentions for 2017? I'd love to hear them below.