Blog Bio

Tiffany Lafferty is an artist, musician, and Holistic Practitioner living in Tempe, AZ.  Her words and hands touch people, and inspiring change and providing comfort.  She specializes in Thai Yoga Massage, Reiki, Yoga, Neuromuscular Massage, and Life Coaching.  A musician, Lafferty writes songs inspired by spirituality, yoga, and understanding our beautiful earth.  Finding peace and silence in the midst of chaos is a reoccuring theme in her music.  She uses her art and intuition in every aspect of life. 

News Release

1. News Release: Write and post a news release on a topic of your choice.

Yoga and Anxiety

A Holistic movement is sweeping through our country.  Yoga!  People are seeking out this beneficial activity for a variety of reasons including health, vitality, increased flexibility, inner peace, and finally coping with anxiety.

People with anxiety expereince an array of symptoms, varying in severity.  Some may experience feelings of anxiousness, while others have symptoms so severe they experience sweating, increase in blood pressure, heart rate- in some cases leading to cardiac arrest.  While the medical community has acknowledged this disorder as mental illness and treat it with a variety of drugs such as xanx, there are holistic alternatives that don't come with the unfavorable side effects that xanx includes.

Often times anxiety is self induced by sounds, chatter of the mind, interpretation of outside sensations.  Yoga is focused on centering, journeying within the mind and body, and quieting the chaos with peace and breath.  Many people report improvements after as little as one yoga class, and feelings of being balanced and centered.

One may experience a yoga class at your local gym, a yoga studio, or even in the comfort of your own home with an instructional DVD or private instructor.

Creating Writing Sample

2. Creative Writing Sample: Choose an inanimate object in your workspace. This could be a chair, desk, plant, pencil, or whatever catches your eye. In a blog, write about the following

It's so empty in here.  I hope the baby arrives soon.  I'm Randy the Rocking Chair.  This is my second home.  I spend the first years of my life with the Owen Family, holding Clara and she rocked Adam to sleep.  I get it... Kids get older, they don't need rocked anymore.  Not that they don't need it, they just don't think they do.    This is when it's hard for me.  I go into the garage.  The cold and dusty garage.  Sometimes the family cat would curl up on me which was nice, but other than that I had little connection with things.

Now thanks to Craigslist, a new family has brought me home.  I belong to a little girl, two little girls actually.  The mother is so young and beautiful, a ripe 19 years old.  I hope she will sit in me and together we can rock her new baby to sleep.  They say the baby arrives any day now.  For now, I'm just taking it all in.  The walls are green and pink.  There are other toys, cribs, accessories waiting to be used.  The relationship I will have with the girls will be quite different.  They love me.  I provide them comfort, peace, centering, sleep.

I hope little momma loves this child... Sits in the comfort of my arms while she comforts her little one.  I have come to understand that babies are the closest I have ever felt to god.  Newly arrived straight from the source, bringing light and love to the world.  If I could tell little momma one thing to make sure of, it would be... Let little one know your love her.  No matter what... Touch her little face and sing her sweet lullabies as I rock you and support you in my arms.
• What is its story?

• Imagine it sitting next to another object of its kind but of much better of much worse quality. What is it thinking about that other object? How does it feel being compared to it?

• Now, what advice would this object give you if it could talk?

Creative Writing Sample

• 1.  Creative Writing Sample: Where do you seek inspiration in your daily life? How can you apply that inspiration to your writing? Does your inspiration guide your writing style? Does your writing style block your inspiration?

Most of my writing goes hand in hand with my music.  I seek inspiration from honesty, human emotion, the universe, and people and situations that I encounter on a day to day basis.  Most of my music is uplifting, happy, inspiring- but I do honor those songs that are less up beat that also tell the story of the human experience.  It's all part of the journey!  8-)  

I only feel blocked when I'm trying too hard.  Most of the time I sit down to write a song, I finish it in those moments.  When I try to force creativity, my inner muse has a temper tantrum and won't cooperate. 

Chlorella part 2

In my research, I found the following benefits to Chlorella.

• Depression
• Severe liver damage and liver disorders
• Intestinal ulcers
• Hemorrhoids
• Asthma
• High blood pressure
• Constipation
• Bleeding gums
• Infections
• Inflammation of joints and tissues
• Body odor / breath odor
• Various degenerative diseases
• Essential fatty acid deficiencies
• Mineral deficiencies (magnesium is a common deficiency)

Both chlorella and spirulina are particularly useful for:

• People with poor digestion and assimilation (these micro-algae are easy to digest and absorb)
• People with poor vitality and anemia
• Individuals who consumer large quantities of animal protein (the micro-algae protein, in contrast, is easier to digest and offers a far healthier balance of minerals)
• People who eat refined or processed foods
• People who take prescription drugs (spirulina protects the kidneys and liver)
• People who are overweight or obese
• People who engage in physical exercise and / or strength training
• People with low energy levels (feeling depleted, exhausted, etc.)

In fact, both chlorella and spirulina have been described as "the perfect food:"




I am mostly excited to experience increase in energy, I have low energy levels at times.  i'm also excited to see how my body feels after having the toxins cleaned out that have been there for YEARS.

Chlorella part 1

Choose between one and three supplements you discussed in week one. Answer the following questions about them: What time of day should they be taken? Should it be taken with or without food? What are you hoping to achieve or experience with these supplements? What is the therapeutic dose of the supplement? For the next two weeks, write a new blog post answering these questions, and documenting your experiences with these supplements for each week.

• Chlorella can be taken at any time of the day. It can be taken all at once or it can be taken in small dosages throughout the day, which is preferable. It is best taken 20-30 minutes before mealtime so it can help with digestion and intake of nutrients. Morning is also a good time to take Chlorella, but never just before or after drinking coffee or a soft drinks since caffeine is extremely detrimental to the digestive process
• Three to four grams per day is a good maintenance dosage of Chlorella for a person to take. With this amount, you will not notice significant changes, and your body will get many of the nutrients it must have to function properly such amino acids (protein), vital minerals, vitamins, carbohydrates and enzymes. However, a person taking 5-7 grams per day is quite common and at this level you will notice significant changes in digestion, energy and overall health. At higher dosages such as 10-12 grams per day, a person could stop eating meat and feel confident that they were getting an adequate amount of protein and other necessary nutrients that meat provides.

Supplements

• For your first blog entry, explain what your experience has been with supplements. Do you take them? Why or why not? 

I currently do not take any sort of supplements.  I have taken 'gym' supplements when I was working with a personal trainer.  I am interested in taking supplements and learning more about them, up until now I haven't taken them because I didn't know what to take.  The more educated I become on this subject the more I will immerse myself and try new supplements.