Crafting Healthier Thanksgiving Traditions

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Once upon a time the American Thanksgiving holiday was a source of emotional pain and angst for me. There was expected travel, food and drink completely outside my healthful guidelines, and awkward family interactions lacking my hopeful feelings of connection, love, support, understanding, and warmth. By choice (theirs and ours) my husband, daughter, and I […]

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The Ancient Essenes on Colonics

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The practice of colonics or colon hydrotherapy seems to many to be some new-age, crazy pseudo-therapy. In actuality, it is a very ancient practice dating back to the Essenes from the 2nd century BC who are considered to be the authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Colony hydrotherapy is a useful modality especially when one improves […]

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All the Reasons You Need Beautiful Glass Straws

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I could tell you that you need to be using drinking straws to prevent the staining of your teeth or to spare your teeth of excess sugar from sweet drinks, but I’m more inclined to advise you to avoid drinks that stain or are loaded with sugar. The main reason to use a straw…and not just […]

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How to Halt a Candida Bloom

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What is candida? Candida is a fungus, a type of yeast, that naturally occurs on the skin and in the mucous membranes of human bodies including the intestines, eyes, ears, bladder, stomach, lungs, and vagina. Candida albicans is the most common species and we always have some in our system…and that’s a good thing! Discomfort […]

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How I Trained for the Most Perfect Marathon

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This past Saturday I ran the full Savannah Rock ‘n Roll marathon – my first! To say that it was a perfect experience is an understatement. I’ll tell you what motivated me to register to run, how I trained successfully, what were my challenges, and what I would do differently next time. First let me […]

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How to Get 4 More Hours Out of Each Day

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I am often asked how it is that I do so much and get so much done in a day. It’s a strange inquiry to me because to me I’m just living. I sleep, I get up, I do my stuff, then I go back to bed. (I actually really love to sleep and I […]

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The Summer Mono Visited Our House

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On July 28, 2014 I got a phone call from the summer camp nurse saying my daughter, Bella, had ear pain and that she was taking her to the nearby medical clinic. The doctor who saw her said that she did not have an ear infection, but did have fluid in her ear and recommended […]

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You’ve Seen #Cowspiracy. Now What?

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The new documentary, Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret, has created ripples in the environmental world. The independent film, released on 26 June 2014, points out that the following popular environmental organizations have done little to nothing to educate the public about the ravaging destruction of animal agriculture. These trusted environmental organizations have failed to guide the […]

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