Whether it’s for chocolate, theater popcorn, or even celery with peanut butter, we all get cravings.

There’s really no sense to it. Many times the cravings are for something bad for us.

Is there any reason a healthy body should crave something unhealthy?

What if cravings are our bodies shouting up towards reality, our subconsciousness communicating with the rest of us… but what could it be saying?

Those that came before us so many centuries ago had a lot of stresses; stresses we don’t really have today.  While they were worried about death, disease, food and shelter – every single day – we worry about shoveling the driveway, screaming kids, and a world filled with constant noise and chaos.

Our bodies and minds weren’t built for these types of stresses and it probably takes an in-tune individual to know how to stay perfectly balanced in the world we live in… for the rest of us the cravings might just be a way our bodies are reaching out to us, trying to navigate it’s way through all the chaos and tell us something…

What is your body saying?

Your body and mind is fully capable of facing this world successfully, but that doesn’t mean we don’t need a break from the chaos.  A simple indulgence like a fresh baked chocolate chip cookie can go a long ways to help us stay… sane.

Yet even a chocolate chip cookie represents stress, we hear all the time to eat healthier, avoid sugar, avoid butter, avoid oil, avoid eggs.  Yet that kind of stress can be just as unhealthy.

An hour at a spa is more than just an indulgence; spa treatments can melt away weeks and weeks of built up tension.  And afterward, we’ll have a chocolate covered butter mint waiting just for you, a bit of unhealthiness to top your perfectly healthy indulgence.

Which if you ask us, is the best way to live.

Come in on Friday November 26th, purchase $100 worth of Sego Lily Gift Certificates and you will receive one of the following:

• Make your Gift Card purchase between the hours of 8am and 9am, receive a FREE 60 minute service of your choice!*
• Between the hours of 9am and 10am, receive 50% off a 60 minute service of your choice!*
• After 10am, enjoy 25% off a 60 minute service of your choice!*

*The Rules and Restrictions:
Free and discounted services must be received before Christmas Day, 2010. Only one free or discounted treatment per person. To qualify, gift certificate(s) may be purchased in any denomination and in any quantity as long as the total value equals or exceeds $100.

Choose any 60 minute service from the menu – the only exception being our medical spa treatments. Management reserves the right to make changes to this promotion at any time, without notice. Though we have no plans on doing so!

Please note!
Both Spa locations will be opening the doors at 8am (one hour earlier than normal) for this special, once a year offer on Friday November 26th, 2010.

Additionally…
Enjoy 15% off ALL retail products all day for anyone and everyone!

It’s not a trick question!

Join us at either spa location the day after Thanksgiving, Friday November 27th, 2009 and with your purchase of $100 (or more) in Sego Lily Gift Cards we will give you one of the following:

• If you are in line between the hours of 8am and 9am receive a 60 minute service of your choice, FREE!
• If you are in line between 9am and 10am receive 50% off a 60 minute service of your choice.
• If you come anytime after 10am enjoy 25% off a 60 minute service of your choice.
• Additionally – Enjoy 10% off any and all spa retail products all day!

ADDITIONAL DETAILS:
Both our Layton and Midvale locations will be opening at 8am (one hour earlier than normal) and closing at 9pm for this special once a year offer on Friday November 27th 2009.

Free and discounted services must be scheduled before December 25th, 2009. Only one free or discounted treatment per person and/or per qualifying purchase. To qualify gift certificate(s) may be purchased in any denomination and in any quantity as long as the total value equals or exceeds $100. Management reserves the right to make changes to this promotion at any time, without notice. Though we have no plans on doing so!

Happy Holidays!

Sego Lily Spa Management

I want to especially thank and congratulate our other finalists, the choosing was difficult and the smiles you put on hundreds of people’s faces (including mine) with ALL your posts really made my day!  Thanks so much for sharing your talents with us!

First off, we want to thank ALL of the wonderful bloggers that entered.  We could only select five but way more than five of you won our hearts and smiles with your fabulous entries.  Thanks so much!

After an INTENSE selection process we are very excited to announce the five finalists in the Search for the Sego Lily Blogger!  And without further delay, here are your five finalists!

Angie Lucas – link

Heather Herbert – link

Jodi W. – link

Amanda Calton – link

Robin Konie – link

How the Judging Process Worked?

Narrowing down so many great entries required a bit more time and brainstorming than we originally anticipated. Here are some details on the selection process we used.

To select these finalists we assembled all of the entries and distributed them to our five-person management team at Sego Lily.  Each person on the team could nominate any entry as a “semi-finalist” which gave us a list of 14 of our favorite entries.

From that list each Sego Lily Manager was asked to rank them in order, 1 being their favorite and 14 being their least favorite.  These five scores were averaged together giving each blogger a final score.  The top five scores were selected as finalists

The voting was EXTREMELY close, there was a .75 point difference between 6th and 5th place. Everyone that entered should be very proud of the wonderful work and we hope to see you next year when the contest begins again!

What Happens Next?

All of our finalists have been contacted by phone and have a treatment scheduled, once the treatments are finished they will all have an opportunity to write a post on this, the OFFICIAL Sego Lily Blog about their experience and then the public will help us choose by voting (using the comment section of each blog post) for their favorite.

The top vote getters will be ranked in order and this number will be averaged with a separate ranking by the Sego Lily Management team.  The blogger with the top average score will win the title of Sego Lily Blogger and the dream year will begin.

That Won’t Be the End!

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