April Newsletter

April Tuneup
Upcoming Lobella Events: Loren Slocum
Reclaim Your Essence Welcome to our April newsletter! Spring is in the air
June 9-13 and It’s giving me the kick I need to get started on all
The Platinum Hotel the different projects I’ve been dreaming up! What
Las Vegas, Nevada challenges will you conquer this spring?
$995 non-Lobella Members
$795 Lobella members I always think of spring as a time to move forward
and gain momentum. Winter can allow us to be lazy
and lethargic, but the fresh spring air, beautiful trees
Reclaim Your Health and shining sun give me the motivation I need to get
November 9-14 going. This spring I am working on spreading the
St George Utah word about eating healthier and planning for my June
Red Mountain Spa Lobella event in Vegas – Lobella Reclaim Your
$1995 includes hotel, meals, speakers and Essence. It will be an amazing event with fabulous speakers, I cannot wait
activities and I hope to see you there!

Just for Moms

Wynn Hotel I hope this newsletter inspires you to eat more healthfully, get more sleep,
May 14 (reception) event is 15 and 16 work toward your vision and go for your goals!
$395 non-Lobella members
$295 Lobella members Stay true,
Loren
To learn more about upcoming events,
please visit our events page:
http://lobella.com/events-facilitators.htm

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Communications Tuneup Friendship Tuneup

Mary "Eeeenergy" Garcia, Los Angeles, CA Carrie Kish, Valencia, CA

Worthiness, A Garment to be You Are Greater Than Your

Worn! Circumstances

Mother Teresa said, "First, I am to

love myself rightly, and then to love Listen up! Life happens! The only
my neighbor like that." So often we people who don’t have problems are
believe that when we achieve this dead people. I guess they had some
goal or attain that possession, we problems that got them dead, but
will then become worthy. they aren’t really suffering them any
Worthiness, however, is a choice more. I don’t mean to be callous, just
and when we choose to wear it and direct.
live it, our dreams become so much more attainable.
Wear worthiness like an honor, like a right....wear We have this distorted idea that happiness is a destination
worthiness like a garment. No one can take this gift from and that life shouldn’t be so hard. I know I get caught up in
you. First we wear worthiness and then we step into our that. Every time I think my life couldn’t possibly get any
dream. harder, it does. Mother Teresa said, “I know God will never
give me more than I can handle. Sometimes, I just wish he
Reasons you are worthy: didn’t trust me so much.” Well, I hear ya sister!
Some people think that happy people are happy because
they are lucky, rich, thin, in a good marriage, have perfect
Because you are alive and all life is sacred. kids, are successful, etc. But, those are just circumstances.
Because you are connected to the Divine and when we Happy people are happy because they choose to be happy.
love God’s creations we love ourselves.
Because we are beautiful, more beautiful then our
children are to us, are we to our creator.
Because God has bestowed unique gifts to each of us and
we allow those gifts to shine and impact others.
Why are we worthy? Because we were born!
So love yourself freely and find yourself loving others more
deeply. Wear the royal garment of worthiness like a
sovereign!
Relationship Tuneup
Susan Baker, Highlands Ranch, CO
This month’s newsletter theme is
about keeping the momentum going
in your life. When it comes to your
relationships I think that it is
important to get back to basics in
order to keep your relationship
moving in a positive direction. One
of the most important things to
keep your relationship moving in a
positive direction is to give your
relationship time.
Sometimes, we get lost in all the things we have to do in
our busy lives and forget to make spending time together
a priority. This can be especially true if you have been in a
relationship for many years. To keep your intimate
relationship moving forward I challenge you to pick
something off the following list and try it out this month:
z Have a date night each week that is not negotiable.
You will go no matter what!
z You and your partner should both sit down and
write a list of things that make you feel good.
Trade lists and then pick one thing off the list to do
for your partner during the week.
z Write your partner a heartfelt note and tuck it in
their briefcase, suitcase or car to find during the
week.
z Plan something to do with your partner that he/she
likes to do.
z Initiate some action in the bedroom- this usually
makes your Man feel great!
z Each write a list of your ideal date nights, trade lists
and each of you pick an activity to do together off
the others list.
Have fun getting back to basics and remember that
sometimes you have to step back to spring forward!
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They realize that no matter what is going on in their life,
that they can overcome it, learn from it, bear it or just plain
be with it AND find some things to be happy about at the
same time.
You are not your circumstances! You are you and your
circumstances are your circumstances. Put them back into
perspective and remember that you ARE greater than your
circumstances and act accordingly!
Fashion Tuneup
Stephanie Jackson, Bainbridge Island, WA Facilitator
Well Lobella Ladies, I just got back a
few weeks ago from our Lobella
Reclaim Your Life Event in Vegas and
I have to say it was one of our best
events ever! From the amazing
speakers we had that weekend to the
ladies who participated it truly was an
honor to be apart of and I am excited
for the future of Lobella.
With that said, I met an amazing
women named Liana Chaouli who is an Image Stylist who
spoke to the group. She gave us all some amazing fashion
tips to take home with us and I would love to share a few
with you this month!
Liana asked us "If it is possible to change our lives through
changing the way we dress?" She reminded us that the
clothes we choose to wear reveal how we perceive ourselves
and how we wish others to perceive us.
One of the tips that stood out for me that weekend was that
Black is not a color, it is the absence of color and it truly is a
barrier making us seem unapproachable and intimidating. I
have made a conscious effort to wear more color at least at
my face level and it has proven to really work and make a
difference on how I was perceived by people. On the days I
wear color people are more likely to approach me with
compliments and/or are just happy to talk and engage with
me. Just a small "tune-up" like that has made a wonderful
difference.
Liana also said our TOP color we should wear is our eye color
and also our hair color (our REAL hair color!), again both
make us seem more approachable and trustworthy to
others. Test these few things out and see the response you
get, you never know how these small changes could get you
everything you want! That job, that man, etc.!
Till next month continue to "stay true to yourself" and be the
light in the world!
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Nitti, San Diego, CA Carly Maxwell, Grants Pass, OR Facilitator

This week in particular has been one of many If you have spring fever and
of life's hard and true tests for a few close want to keep up your energy
friends. From the loss of a loved one, loss of try this Blueberry Bliss!!!
job, divorce and the upsetting news from a
doctor to an athlete that they may never run
again. Ingredients:
1c blueberries frozen or
All of these circumstances are extremely fresh.
devastating in their own way and will forever 1c fresh spinach
change the course of these individuals’ lives 1-2 scoops protein powder
and how they have had been building and 1/2 c or 3/4 c water or milk.
keeping momentum going. A few ice cubes

Don't we all have something in our life that has changed our daily Blend and pour into glasses. This is great in a hurry
life unexpectedly? It may not have shown up as dramatically as one when you need a fruit and a veggie and the kids
of the above examples but it still threw us 'off course'. like the purple color.

These 'set backs' can show up as both positive (even harder to

Enjoy spring it’s beautiful and bursting with color
identify as something setting us off course) and negative elements.
and life!
Here are a few examples:

* Cheating on a diet
* Missing out on a few workouts
* Fighting or arguing with a friend or spouse
* Taking on a new job or change of schedule
Parenting Tuneup
Regardless of how these have shown up in your life, we all choose Danielle Lansburgh, Miami, FL Facilitator
how we are going to allow the 'set back' to affect our lives. Will we
blame, hate, mistrust, hide, justify? Ask yourself how you have Make it Happen!
reacted in the past when you have lost momentum. What did you
let it mean? Identify it so when this shows up again for you, you Spring forward through
can break this pattern and not allow yourself to let more time go by hosting a vision board party
before you realize you're off track. with your kids and friends!

Are you refocusing and rearranging your goals immediately so you Simply gather magazines,
don't lose momentum or are you blaming, hating, justifying and poster board, glue, scissors
letting unnecessary time go by? and allow your party to
follow their dreams by
Just because you may be paddling instead of running doesn't mean cutting and pasting all their
you've lost momentum, it just means the vehicle has changed. wants and desires. Then place vision/dream board
on a wall where the creator will be able to see it
A friend shared with me a fantastic motivational quote that I try to everyday. Subconsciously their visions will become
keep in mind whenever life throws anything at me, big or small: their reality. You can find all the details on vision
“momentum is far easier to maintain than it is to regenerate." boards in Loren's Life Tuneups book which you can
purchase at your local bookstore or on Amazon. It
is so fun to watch the "magic" and works for
With that in mind, when a challenge comes your way don’t allow parents and kids! Go for it
yourself to give up, just keep on moving!

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Expert Tuneup
Tamara Sachs M.D.

Sleep

The average night's sleep in the industrialized world has decreased since the beginning of the last century,
from 9 hours to 7.5 hours or less. Some of us have tried giving up sleep in order to make room for more
work and leisure. A bad mistake, I assure you, there are few quicker ways to damage your metabolism than
by burning the candle at both ends. An appropriate amount of sleep is just as important to your wellbeing as
proper nutrition and exercise. You can live longer without food than you can without sleep, and while the
effects on the body of each type of deprivation are very different both are very serious.
 As a matter of fact, a chronic lack of adequate sleep is associated with a prolonged stress response, weight
gain, diabetes, muscle pain, fibromyalgia, accelerated aging, multiple hormonal imbalances, depression, anxiety, difficulty
concentrating, memory loss, just to name a few. Alarmingly, such damage may be only partially reversible. At the extreme,
people predictably go insane if they are not allowed to sleep at all for several days on end. Is sleep beginning to seem less
optional?

Sleep a Waste of Time?

Although sleep may appear to some to be a monumental waste of time, there is actually a great deal of important activity going
on in your body. During sleep, your brain does not have to process massive amounts of visual, auditory, and tactile stimulation
and intellectual information. It is therefore able to rest, which allows the re-allocation of the huge amount of energy generally
used for consciousness. Healing of all kinds therefore takes place mostly during sleep: recuperation from illness, repair of
physical injuries, as well as regular daily wear and tear to the body. Detoxification and biotransformation, emotional healing,
spiritual or energetic healing also take place primarily during sleep.

While most cells have some detoxification capabilities, the liver is the major organ of detoxification. One of the liver’s main tasks
is to take toxins from the circulation and transform them from fat soluble, charged toxins to safer, water soluble compounds that
can then be eliminated via bile, stool, urine, sweat, and breath. You guessed it. The bulk of this work occurs at night, during
sleep.

Not surprisingly, the biochemistry and physiology of the resting body at night differ from those of the active body during the day.
Many critical nighttime functions will not occur at any other time. For example, melatonin is made from serotonin during the
night and seems very dependent on darkness, among other things. If you miss the unique chance at night to make melatonin,
you must wait until the next night’s sleep to try to produce it again. That is not only a problem in regards to the sleep function
itself, but also has profound consequences for other cell functions. For example, melatonin is important in cancer prevention.

Lack of Sleep Related to Diabetes?

Researchers have shown that just one week of sleep deprivation altered subjects’ hormone levels and their capacity to
metabolize carbohydrates. Granted, people who trade sleep for work or play may get used to it and feel less fatigued over time,
but the health costs are high. During sleep-deprivation, the researchers found that the male participants’ blood sugar levels took
40% longer to drop following a high-carbohydrate meal, compared with the sleep-recovery period. The ability to secrete and
respond to the hormone insulin, which helps to regulate blood sugar, dropped by 30% in this study. These changes echo the
effects of insulin resistance, a precursor to type 2 diabetes. In addition, the sleep-deprived men had higher nighttime
concentrations of the hormone cortisol, which also helps regulate blood sugar, and lower levels of thyroid-stimulating hormone.

The raised cortisol levels mimic levels that are often seen in older people, and may be involved in age-related insulin resistance
and memory loss. In this study, subjects' blood sugar and hormone concentrations were restored after the sleep-recovery
period, but it is unclear at what point this restoration may cease to occur or how long it may take. Also, these were healthy
volunteers; some of us are not so lucky!

Sleep debts cause a certain type of physiologic stress. Most sleep-deprivation research has focused on what it does to the brain,
but it is obvious that sleep has many functions. Muscle pain, joint pain, general malaise, and exacerbation of chronic injuries or
health conditions are common with a lack of adequate sleep of only one or two nights, and especially as we get older.

Healing requires sleep. There are no exceptions to this rule.

Not sleeping is a serious problem and it must be addressed in order to be healthy. If you think you snore, if you wake with a
headache frequently and /or have excessive daytime sleepiness, you may need a sleep study to rule out sleep apnea. If you
wake up restless or anxious in the middle of the night, you are probably experiencing low blood sugar and should try having a
small healthy snack before bed.

Occasional insomnia happens to many of us, but if restful sleep eludes you most of the time, find a holistic healthcare
professional to help you find the cause and the remedy.

Sweet dreams to all!