Home, Sweet, Sacred, Home "I think everyone needs a place in their home where they can set up their silence. Find a place that is just yours. Ask yourself what speaks to you at your heart? This space can change based upon how you grow and develop as a spiritual being and it should. But make it yours and make it sacred. My space looks totally different than my husbands, but we both each have our own quiet place." Mariel's advice on success "Quite simply, be yourself. You don't have to fit into a mold that is not your mold."

Food, Glorious Food! "Eating is good for you! I know that sounds normal and rational, but at different points in my life I actually didn't believe this. I would be on the brown rice diet or the raw diet or the fruitarian thing. I tried everything! The idea for eating is to pull back on noisy foods (like sugar and caffeine) that cause agitation in order to return to our neutral zone that help us find the silence necessary to listen to our bodies. We know what those foods are and it's about making different choices. I don't need to tell you how to eat right! We all know what's good for us and what isn't. But if people would see that food really affects how they feel, they might make different choices." M Hemingway