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Though beautiful, fit, and healthy, Mariel Hemingway is not your run-of-the-mill celebrity.

For starters, she’s Ernest Hemingway’s granddaughter. She grew up far from Hollywood, calling Ketchum, Idaho home. She was in her first film at only 13. And then, there’s the Oscar: Hem-ingway won one of the statuettes — for her role as Tracy in Woody Allen’s Manhattan — before her 18th birthday. To top it off, she champions a lifestyle one doesn’t associate with the realm of celebrity: Hemingway has become a voice of holistic balance, health and wellbeing within the alternative community.

With an overarching goal to help others be the best they can be, Hemingway tackles a myriad of topics, from gardening to interiors and healthy diet to meditation.

Mariel Hemingway’s Simple Tips for Living a Healthy Life

Starting with Finding My Balance, a personal memoir about a life’s journey honed by yoga and meditation, Hemingway has published three books that promote a top-to-bottom healthy lifestyle. In 2007, in Healthy Living from the Inside Out, Heming-way provided a how-to guide for finding and enhancing personal balance and health through self empowerment. Eventually, her focus expanded to include diet, and her most recent publication — Mariel’s Kitchen: Simple Ingredients for a Delicious and Satisfying Life — provides ways to easily and deliciously “turn your kitchen into the heart of your home.” The publication was also marked with the launch of a company that produces food products that care for the health of the body, mind and spirit. As if that’s not enough, Hemingway also supports her vision and passion for

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personal growth and the Body Mind Spirit movement with an online community that provides secret tips and seasonal recipes, recommends books and websites, and offers teleclasses and personal coaches — all geared towards helping people become the best version of themselves.

Soup-to-nuts healthy living can oftentimes be overwhelming, especially for someone that lives an active, busy lifestyle and doesn’t have time to focus on the details. But if anyone’s an expert on making the time, space and energy for a shift towards a wholesome body, mind and spirit, it’s the ever-busy Hemingway. Luckily for all of us, she shares the journey behind her success and some simple tips anyone can implement with The Whole Person Calendar — somehow, healthy living suddenly seems easy.

Whole Person: Have you always lived such a health-oriented life?Mariel Hemingway: Health and wellness have always been a priority for me. There was a lot of illness in my family and I knew that food and life was important for good health.

WP: Was there a turning point when you consciously made a change?MH: My knowledge grew over time, mostly by trying different healing modalities and ways to eat. I found that the answer to my best health and happiness lies within me.

WP: How did you educate yourself on a healthier lifestyle?MH: I studied health my whole life — the way to eat, ecology, the environment — all of it plays a part of your lifestyle.

WP: What made you decide to “go public” with your discoveries, write about them, and ultimately create a community centered around them?MH: When my ex-husband got cancer and then recovered, we healed him through my beliefs in food, meditation and home environment. I had a thought — I realized I needed to share my passion for living well.

WP: What are the basic components of your healthy living?MH: Home, food, exercise and silence are the corner-stones. Bobby [Mariel’s partner] and I are learning the deeper meaning of the connections between nature, breath, thought, water and food. We are launching a company called The Willingway — Bobby has the will, I have the way. It’s about the male-female perspective on a healthy lifestyle through good adventure, nature and healing. We have both studied our whole life and want to share our experiences in hopes of inspiring others to be the healthiest, happiest and most vital person they can be. It is about being authentic and turning on your own personal intentions to be who you are meant to be. Learning what is good for you, from the inside out, and slowing down to relish the basic elements life has to offer can lead to a healthier, more fulfilling and enjoyable life.

WP: What are your personal eating habits like?MH: I eat raw, sprouted, steamed, cooked and live food. I am not a vegan, though I was for years. Now I eat animal protein, but never abused animals. Both Bobby and I make sure our food is local, not abused and,

EXERCISE

HOME

FOOD

SILENCE

“Wonderful things come from silence. It allows more to be revealed: during conversation, if one person keeps quiet rather than talking, the other person will inevitably say more. Silence is profound and grounding. Just as exercise can allow you to feel emotions you might otherwise repress, silence allows your true desires, hopes and dreams to surface.”

“Sustainability starts with the most essential part of life, eating. I created an earth-friendly kitchen by challenging myself to make one small change per week to my regular routine.”

“There is a reason people try to make exercise about the purely physical — exercise breaks down barriers, and releases emotions, and that can be pretty damn scary sometimes. If you’ve ever been to a kundalini yoga class, you’ve probably seen people in tears by the end. Real exercise — exer-cise with intention — blows out all the baloney, and forces you to feel the emotions and thoughts you’ve repressed behind “to-do” lists, work assignments, and plans for the weekend.”

“Gardening is an art, great exercise, productive, and a refuge … time spent gardening can be therapeutic, meditative, restorative, and grants a singular sense of immediate achievement as you weed, hoe, plant, and harvest. If you’re trying to cultivate a more intentional, peaceful, and enriching life, cultivating a plant (or two, or ten) may be just the key to unlock some quiet time to appreciate beauty … both in the garden and in yourself.”

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whenever possible, organic or biodynamic.

WP: What inspired you to create a cookbook?MH: Mariel’s Kitchen is more about eating locally, creating a green kitchen, eating simply and healthfully and, of course, going gluten free when possible.

WP: Diet, fitness, the home environ-ment. Healthy living can be over-whelming. Where does one start, and what “tips” can you share?MH: If you want to change your food, start with breakfast. Watch a sunrise or sunset daily. Find an adventure you love. Drink water out of a glass. One of the most important things you can do is laugh — it makes you younger, healthier and happier.

Creating a healthier body and mind allows us to do more and live a longer, more vibrant and meaningful life. It is my belief that the choices we make, the information we seek and the food we eat are integral to our well-being.

To learn more, join timeless beauty, actress, author and businesswoman Mariel Heming-way at The Health Freedom Expo at The Long Beach Convention Center in a new location - Expo Hall C - at 300 East Ocean Boulevard, Long Beach, California 90802. Detailed info: http://www.healthfreedomex-po.com or call 888-658-EXPO.

Rachel Hochhauser is a freelance writer who lives in New York City.

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One of the most important things

you can do is laugh — it makes

you younger, healthier

and happier.