About Leah Spinrad

I am an extremely healthy and happy lady.

I wasn’t always.

When I was a child I dealt with back pain, neck pain and chronic headaches. I have been managing digestive issues that seem to finally be clearing up at last. I suffered from mild to severe feelings of depression and social anxiety throughout school. As long as I can remember, I felt as though some part of me had left and there was a gaping wound in the center of me. I had a desperate longing to return to a state of wholeness, although I did not know how to get there or what it would look like.

Through my teens and early twenties I worked diligently to put my life together. To figure out what seemed to come to other people easily. I struggled to develop routines and habits that would support me in every way. You know, put together an outfit, wash my hair, actually eat in a self directed manner, that kind of thing. At 16, I began to study Reiki and other types of energy healing. At 22, I became a massage therapist. I learned how to truly nourish myself with whole foods, and a rich fulfilling spiritual practice. Eventually everything came together.

I was raised by two chefs and cooking has always been a part of my life. I was put in charge of making a full dinner once a week at age 11 (with supervision of course). Throughout the years I have tried different ways of eating and find that traditional foods work for me the best. If you find I use a little too much butter, go ahead and adjust my recipes to your taste.

If you feel at all similar to the way I felt, even in just one area, you understand how chaotic and unbalanced life can seem. What I do is take my years of experience helping myself and others like me and bring what you want into your life using measurable steps that you take one day at a time

I believe that the most profound growth happens in the everyday. If you go to a weekend retreat, week, or even monthlong retreat you will experience amazing growth and development. However, you then have to go home and implement these changes. Believe me, I’ve been there, and it can be painful. On Learning to Live Well gives you tools and templates for creating those leaps and bounds in the day to day life. Ways to grow, not despite the trips to the grocery store and getting the kids off to school on time, but because of those actions. Partnering with the tasks that we perceive to be holding us back to instead propel us forward.

As I have grown older every year has been better than the one before it, and I see no reason that that shouldn’t continue