Cassandra Bodzak

I'm a happy, healthy lifestyle guru in the fabulous NYC. I love baking vegan-gluten free cupcakes and doing yoga + meditation daily. My business is all about helping people stop stressing, stop dieting and finally lose weight and LOVE their body + their life! Visit GoSweetandSkinny.com for more recipes, tips, inspiration + more and check out GoSweetandSkinny on YouTube.

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Yes, they did! Love this @amberibarreche - some of the hardest times in my life helped mold me into the light filled person I am today. They brought me to my knees, had me fully surrendered and in a place where I finally let go and realized there had to be a better way. They've lead me toward a new relationship with food and my body and then transformed the way I see the world. If you want to hear about two of the incidents that shaped me and a little bit more about me, head over to YouTube.com/gosweetandskinny (link in bio) and watch my new "about me" video. I hope it inspires you to make some light of any darkness you may be facing! Xo, C #LightMaker #gobigshinebright #amberibarreche (at youtube.com/gosweetandskinny)

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Had some fun getting artsy + making inspirational New Years love notes! Which one is your favorite?! Mine is "authenticity is magnetic" but I love them all..☺️#nevertoooldforpaintandmarkers #artsandcraftsontheregular #snailmailbestmail #LightMaker

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"Ultimately light is the mother of life. Where there is no light, there can be no life. Light is the secret presence of the divine. It keeps life awake. Light is a nurturing presence, which calls forth warmth and color in nature. The soul awakens and lives in the light." - "anam cara" by john o'donohue // some "light" reading with a glorious view on my flight. ✨#LightMaker ✨ #let2015LIGHTyouup (at in the clouds)

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Breakfast in the light this AM before saying goodbye to my lover (NYC) for a few weeks. Strawberries and cream chia seed pudding parfait - so decadent and delicious. Now who has some good healthy spots for me in Vegas? ☺️ #letfoodLIGHTyouup #LightMaker #nyciloveyou

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These past few days of working on the new website and saying good bye to gosweetandskinny have been scary and exciting at the same time. It's like saying good bye to an old friend, I started go sweet and skinny (or the blog that would become it when I was 21) and it has been so good to me over the years. It was my passion project for years in college and surviving my first few years in NYC. It's so close to my heart and it's going to feel weird being without it. All the content will still remain - no worries! And the vlogs, recipes and meditations will keep coming but I just felt like it was time to say good bye to the girl I was (go sweet and skinny) and welcome the woman I am (Cassandra Bodzak). I've become so much beyond healthy versions of sweet snacks and I felt like the name was no longer serving me and the breadth of what I do. I just wanted to be ME - no hiding behind a cutesy title, haha. The new site will launch this Sunday - so be looking out for that but I'm taking the leap on instagram right now. Maybe the goodbyes in your life are a little different but in many ways, I bet they are the same. Often goodbyes require us to recognize a situation that's no longer serving us and venture out from the comfort of the familiar to the uncharted waters of a new hello. When we follow our heart, listen to what makes us feel expansive, we always know what the right choice is. And I firmly believe that if you are brave enough to say goodbye to what's not serving you - the universe will make sure to reward you with a wonderful new hello! Thank you guys for being so amazing during this exciting time of transition! ☺️ #GSSisCassandraBodzak ✨

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Another Barbie breakfast bowl! 😛 This super powered bfast has coconut milk, strawberries, almond butter, hemp seeds, blueberries and @pitayaplus inside. Lots of beautiful fuel to keep you shining bright all day long! Who says "detoxing" foods have to be bland or gross?! #justeatcolorfully #letfoodLIGHTyouup #butreallyilovethecolor #rocketfuel 🚀

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If loving cherries or cashews is wrong, well I frankly don't care about being right. Kicking off the new year recipe testing for an article on breakfast bowls that will make you "unstoppable". My first creation: ⚡️super-powered oats ⚡️ this bowls is loaded with magic - coconut milk, gluten free oats, flaxseed meal, oat bran, maca powder, cinnamon, cashew butter, cherries and garnished with chopped raw cashews and more open faced cherries. Lots of fiber for digestion, good fats / omega 3s, cinnamon to help balance your sugar cravings (and so they don't spike from the ever so delicious cherries), feel good nutrients from cashews and maca to help give you sustained energy and balance your hormones.. just in case you need that. 😉. #letfoodLIGHTyouup ✨ #tasteslikedessert #breakfastforeverymeal #notasmoothiebowl (at the test kitchen)

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Brunch with my dad and giant cups up apple cider. Warms my soul. Happy New Year. ☺️✌️💓 #let2015LIGHTyouup

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This year, are you going to be able to say YES to your adventure regardless of what it may be?! Last night I learned a really big lesson in saying YES to exactly what's in front of you, embracing the moment and accepting it as a beautiful part of my adventure. My New Year's Eve plans changed when I woke up to a call from the hospital and hopped on a bus out of NYC in my pj's to get there as fast as I could. I ended up being stuck on a bus for almost nine hours because of a big tractor trailer accident on 84. At first I got frustrated, texting my loved one about how I didn't know when I was going to make it. But then I experienced a miracle (a shift in perception) - I said a prayer for the families of everyone involved in the accident and I realized that right there in that bus was exactly where I was supposed to be. So I decided to say yes to it, a soft smile fell over my face and I opened my laptop and started writing about it. 2015 might bring you twists and turns, excitements and disappointments and it's going to be easy to say NO at times to the present moment. But if you practice saying YES and embracing each moment, finding the light in each situation, and the gratitude for whatever assignment at that time might be part of your adventure. I can promise you that you will have a transformational year. Here's to a year full of YES! [ more on this and my fave rituals for the new year in my email today - if you want it, leave your email! The beautiful site is still under construction and I don't want to wait to share this with you!💋] (at leave your email! :))

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I don't do resolutions anymore, they feel like some sort of to do list which doesn't excite me in the slightest. For me, New Years is about taking time to reflect on what you've learned this past year, all the things you are grateful for and then creating a vision for the new year. Take a few minutes, close your eyes tonight or tomorrow and walk yourself through a day in your ideal life circa 2015. How do you feel when you wake up? What kind of thoughts are going through your head? How does your work environment feel? Your relationships? Soak in these magical feelings with every cell of your being. Connect to that FEELING and hold the vision gently. Allow the vision to be whatever it is as don't hold yourself back. Your are limitless possibilities. Connect to that vision and more importantly those feelings each morning, hold space for it in your life. You can find a guided meditation from me leading you through this in my latest @mindbodygreen article on my facebook/gosweetandskinny or just search my name on MBG. I can't recommend it highly enough, I do this every day and let me tell you, I've watched so much of my vision become a reality this year, it's magical. I wish you all an extraordinarily happy new year! Let 2015 be the year that LIGHTS you up! Xo, C #LightMaker ✨ (at facebook.com/gosweetandskinny)

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Sometimes you have to be romantic with your own self. Green juice in a wine glass, relaxing by the fire and reflecting on all the wonderful lessons I learned in 2014.. thinking of sharing them in tomorrow's email blast.. What do you think? Let me know, tomorrow's email will be all about my new year rituals for you to play around with! Leave your email below if you want in - blog is under construction while we make some very exciting changes! ☺️✌️💓 #LightMaker #letloveFLOW #2015

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Green apples + cashew butter is my favorite sweet treat when I'm craving a sugary snack but want something that will energize and keep me focused. When I stopped restricting myself and started letting myself take the power back with food, I started making decisions based on how I wanted to make my body feel and how focused I needed my mind. When we start listening to our body, these decisions become effortless. ☺️✌️💓 #letfoodLIGHTyouup #LightMaker

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Well hello there gorgeous. My go-to Montana salad w quinoa, black beans, avo and greens. Plus 2x the mustard vinaigrette because it's insanely delicious. 😍 Spent all morning at #jivamukti - amazing class with Jules followed by smoothies, clients and lunch. It's my unofficial office these days. Tearing myself away for an afternoon full of exciting collab meetings and phone, Skype and in person meetings with my lovely clients. Feeling the powerful pull and energy of 2015 already! All my New Years sessions are booked up for 2014 but if you want to start January with a launch in the right direction, email me today - [email protected] have a few spots open for the first week and then booked till mid-jan 😳☺️ #letfoodLIGHTyouup #make2015magic #LightMaker ✨ (at Jivamukti Yoga School NYC)

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My heart is pounding with gratitude (and when my soul speaks it's always in French). Your regrams, your kind words, they are filling me up with so much love for what I do and for all of you and your tremendous support and it's only the second day of the contest! ☺️ ✨One thing I've always loved about myself is that even before I found my spiritual path, way before I was as tuned in as I am these days, I always had the self-knowledge to press pause when life was going incredibly and I was floating on clouds and just soak in the moment and appreciate being right exactly where I was for that minute. Situations may change, moods can shift but a little piece of me still sits in all those beautiful moments I've collected in my life so far. So thank you for the gift of this beautiful moment where I look around me, I look within me and I could burst with love and gratitude. My heart is pounding for you, for this moment and for life and I feel so alive! It reminds me in every fiber of my being why I do what I do and how important it is to help more people get to experience this. Thank you! I hope to help as many of you as possible shine even brighter, feel the love within you and live a life that lights you up in 2015! ✨#LightMaker thanks to @frenchwords for these words + to @frenchisbeautiful for helping me speak my favorite language. 💋

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Confession: I'm obsessed with collaging! (Also brussel sprouts but that's nothing new!) I started snipping out inspiration for my vision board and am hooked on making inspirational collages. Warning you may see some of this art of the future, hehe. It's such an artistic release for me, like painting but with scissors and glue! 😛 Took a break to chow down on some delicious food to fuel up for my three client sessions this evening! Roasted brussel sprouts w pecans and cranberries in a dijon horseradish glaze and some of my homemade cornbread stuffing left over from the fam. May look like a mess but trust me it's just perfect for tonight. [dont forget you can still enter my shout contest celebrating 17k by #regramming any wuote or pic that you like of mine, tagging me in it + #GSSisCassandraBodzak plus tagging two friends you think would like my acct in the comments below! I'll announce the first round of shout outs this Fri! ☺️✌️💓]

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Post-yoga guac and toast game on point, third day in a row and I even got it at my mid-morning meeting today. #itsthelittlethings #guacamoleeverydamnday #cantstopwontstopeatingavocado #rocketfuel 🚀✨ (at Noho Star)

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Monday morning vibes // tea + meditation + miracles before my new favorite addition to the routine, 8am yoga at #jivamukti. Love Monday mornings because they feel like a clean slate, a new beginning, even more so than other mornings. Monday's are my favorite! **if you've been thinking of starting your year off with a New Years launch session and getting clear about what you're leaving in 2014 and what you're creating for the new year, email me today or check out the details on the blog. Let's kick this year off right and get you living a life you don't need a vacation from already! 😉 [email protected] ❤️❤️ #LightMaker #gobigshinebright #GSSisCassandraBodzak (at my love nook)