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8 Ways To Naturally Defeat Spring Allergies

  What is the number one health reason that patients dread spring? Seasonal allergies, hands down.   For many folks, the first thing that comes to their mind during spring isn’t pedicures and bare feet, picking fresh strawberries and blueberries, gardening and sunshine… …it’s allergies: puffy eyes, sneezing attacks, runny noses and difficulty breathing. Well that stinks. But I’ve got your back! Because I don’t want you to drug up on antihistamines and watch your lovely spring season go by in a blur of grogginess. (And, did you know that long-term antihistamine use isn’t that great for you anyway? It’s …

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How To Get Grounding Tools Into The Hands Of Those Who Need It Most

  It’s so simple, it will only take 2 seconds of your time, and it might be a game changer for someone who really needs some extra support to make it through.     Every day I get asked for donations of grounding tools to help under-served, under-staffed, under-supported organizations that work in crisis support in communities all around our country and the world. And as I know first hand, the comfort of connecting to the earth can truly be instrumental in getting through hard times. Grounding can be a game changer for someone who is in pain, someone who …

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A New Way To Measure Stress… Your Hair

  We all know someone’s who’s hair has literally seemed to turn grey overnight from stress… …it’s a very real thing.   I know during the time when, years ago, my kids and I were unexpectedly abandoned by my then-husband who disappeared one night (and the stressful subsequent divorce that ensued) I got my fair share of grays that seemed to pop up daily and have remained in place right now, even 5+ years later. We also know during times of chronic stress, hair can become markedly thinner, falling out strand by strand or in clumps, even clogging your shower …

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The Vitamin Combo That’s Saving Lives

Sepsis is an overwhelming infection of the body which triggers widespread inflammation that carries a very high death rate.   Sepisis is one of the leading causes of hospital deaths, even when treated with the most advanced intravenous antibiotics and life support. Yet a recent study (published in June 2017) has shown that a simple vitamin cocktail can reduce the rate of death in sepsis from a 40% death rate down to a 9% death rate! Dropping deaths to less than 1/4th the original death rate, just from adding on a simple vitamin + steroid combo. This is big news. …

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The Healing Process Of Grief

Grief after experiencing a sudden loss or unexpected change in circumstance can knock your feet right out from under you.   Whether from the death of a loved one, a trauma, a job loss or divorce, severe illness, surgery, or any other unexpected change, it can be hard to endure… …both emotionally and physically exhausting. But it can also make room for growth. For survival, for strength, and ultimately, for a new you to emerge. Even if you are forced to become a new version of you that you never even wanted to be… …the process of grief is actually …

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Childhood Trauma Increases Risk Of Self Harm. Here’s Help.

  Children who are maltreated in any way — physically, sexually or emotionally — are more likely to inflict self injury to their body later in life.   And it’s important to note, if your child has suffered any of these types of traumas — even if they are not depressed or suicidal — this study still applies. Researchers found that children who were maltreated but had no suicidal ideation were still over three times more likely to harm themselves as peers who were not abused, a new study published Nov 28, 2017 in Lancet Psychiatry finds. So be kind …

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If You Could Start 2018 Off Knowing This One Healing Truth

If there was one thing I would want to give you to start your next year off in the best possible healing mindframe, it’s this truth: Look at what is possible in health. What is possible is where your healing lies. What you feel is possible for YOU defines exactly how far you can go with your healing. You can go as far as you feel is possible for you to go and no further.   So let’s start 2018 off reminding ourselves: You are always full of healing potential… always. No one can tell you what is true for …

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