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Diagnosis Day
Diagnosis Day
February 2nd, 2012. The day my then 11-year old daughter was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. Excuse my language, but: shit. This diagnosis stole a lot from us: it stole my precious girl’s chance at a “normal” youth, it stole her sense of security, it stole countless hours of time
The Most Overlooked Wellness Essential
The Most Overlooked Wellness Essential
SUNLIGHT — nature’s full-spectrum light — is the most overlooked wellness essential. Without the sun, there would be no life on this planet. Research shows that our genes are programmed to respond to exposure to full spectrum light now believed to be critical for the healthy development, growth and maintenance of your
The Challenge of Teaching Self-Care to Teens
The Challenge of Teaching Self-Care to Teens
Remember when you were an adolescent? When you were unbreakable and thought that 50 was OLD (and now that you are 50, you feel like you’ve only just begun!)? You were no longer a child who thought that you could jump off of a cliff and not think about the
Essential Oils for Family Health
Essential Oils for Family Health
For years now, I have been a health information junkie! I have incorporated many wonderful and fascinating therapies, strategies, and healing modalities that have enhanced my family’s health and/or taught us something about ourselves and how to become more whole, healthy, and, well, functioning. One of the most profound medicines
Childhood Cancer Prevention and Treatment
Childhood Cancer Prevention and Treatment
I have been contemplating writing a newsletter about childhood cancer and considering all methods of prevention and treatment for quite some time now, but judging from the almost deafening silence around this topic, it seems to be a very touchy issue to explore. It is difficult to talk about cancer
How Movement and Posture Can Help Your Children...
How Movement and Posture Can Help Your Children Thrive
Parents and therapists worldwide are learning joyful, transformative movements that help children thrive. These special movements are both calming and stimulating and consist mainly of movements patterned after what babies do in the womb and early infancy. These automatic, innate neurodevelopmental movements—both rhythmic and primitive reflex movements—provide the foundations for
5 Ways Tylenol Can Harm Your Children
5 Ways Tylenol Can Harm Your Children
With regards to children’s healthcare, and the healthcare of anyone in our western population, for that matter, administering medications for each symptom or discomfort or dis-ease state has become the standard of care. The use of medications has been seen to manage and sometimes cure our broken bodies and make
The Sugar Aftermath
The Sugar Aftermath
Do your children’s pupils dilate when you mention the word candy?! OK, you made it. Halloween is over! The costumes, the trick or treating, the parties, all fun! But what about the candy? What about that huge pillowcase full of “treats” you now need to manage?! Do you allow your
Why Do You Need a Coach?
Why Do You Need a Coach?
Health coaching has become quite the phenomena as of late. Well, that is, in the health and nutrition field. But to many of us, it may be new, foreign, or even bizarre that people might need someone to coach them through health challenges. You might be saying: “but isn’t that
The Child Obesity Project
The Child Obesity Project
When I was approached by David White, host of the Child Obesity Project, to be a speaker for his online summit, I thought, hell-yeah, and jumped at the chance. Not only did David and I become fast friends, but his mission seemed to evolve before my eyes as he got
Who Is Here for Me and My Family?!...
Who Is Here for Me and My Family?! We Need Better Care
The other day I mentioned in a newsletter that I had not one, not two, but three incidences with medical professionals in one week that left me feeling deflated, daunted, frustrated, and utterly alone. Being the warrior mama that I am, I soon picked myself up and pulled myself together,
Becoming a Fearless Parent!
Becoming a Fearless Parent!
Might this be you? You have been up late with an ill child or teen, or you have played cards with your child to while away that 6 hour wait in the emergency room, or you have had to ask over and over again for testing from a hesitant doctor
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