Toxin-free Turkey Anyone
So the holidays are coming and you want to eat a little, well, if not healthier then cleaner. What better way to assuage your guilt over that extra helping of stuffing than to opt for certified organic foods? The “certified organic” label refers to food [...]
The Other Side of Money
My last infoletter article was about paying for natural healing. Since then, we’ve had some exciting times – round-the-world reverberations from major bank failures, a massive government bailout of the credit market here in the U.S., stock markets on a wild rollercoaster ride, heightening apprehension [...]
Recipe – 3 Bean Salad
3 Bean Salad ● 2 cups soaked, then cooked until soft, aduki beans (soak overnight in filtered water) ● 1 cup soaked, then cooked until soft, mung beans (soak overnight in filtered water) ● 2 cups green beans, cut in strips and cooked until soft [...]
A Natural Approach to Candida Overgrowth
Candida, a yeast-like fungus that exists in the body, is a dampness issue, as per Traditional Chinese Medicine. This means that there is a pathological excess of damp-related symptoms in the body. Candida overgrowth (I say “overgrowth” because it always exists at low-levels) presents several [...]
Keeping Hope Alive
When life is difficult, as it often is when we have IBS or IBD, one of the most important things that help us keep going is the prospect of a better future. But given the many challenges, hardships, and disappointments that can come with IBS [...]
Unearthing the Downside to Being Well
I have just started a new six-week teleclass series on chronic illness, Tap Into Your Healthy Self, and in the first teleclass we discussed, and used EFT on, the downside of being well and healthy. This is a theme I have mentioned in a previous [...]
The Flow of Money
The flow of money is a principle talked about by even the most dogged entrepreneurs. Many top business gurus (like Dan Kennedy and Robert Kiyosaki) advise their clients and readers to donate a percentage of their profits no matter what their financial situation is. Robert [...]
DMSO: Natural Healing Wonder
Lately I’ve been experimenting with an amazing natural substance called DMSO (dimethyl sulfoxide). It’s gotten the most press as a topical application for relieving arthritis. However, that application is merely the proverbial tip of the iceberg for this multi-tasking healing aid. In many ways, it [...]
Dealing With Others When You Have a Chronic Illness
When someone wants coaching session with me, I send them a questionnaire to fill out before the session so I can get a better sense of how to help them. In the questionnaire, I ask how the person feels supported by their family and friends, [...]
Overcoming Subconscious Resistance to Change
When I work with new clients, I’m always interested in why they have chosen to learn and use EFT. The answer is usually in the negative, “I’m very ill”, “I’m overweight”, “I procrastinate”, or “I don’t have enough money in my life”, etc. As a [...]
Gluten-Free, Naturally
About two and a half years ago, I learned that I was highly intolerant to gluten, which was actually something that I had suspected for years. At first, I was happy to have discovered this; it seemed to be an opportunity to further improve my [...]
Paying For Natural Healing
“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” - William Arthur Ward Not too long ago, Danielle Walter (who handles customer service for the Holistic Health Shoppe) got an e-mail from a customer who’d just purchased [...]
Recipe – Zucchini Chocolate Chip Loaf
Zucchini Season is upon us! I’ve just eaten up my first 2 big ones and what a delight! Freshly picked zucchini is a wonderfully vital whole food that provides many vitamins and minerals, antioxidants and much more. Farmer’s markets are the freshest source, after your [...]
Natural Treatment for Ear Infection
Young children are often prone to ear infections (even if they do not eat pasteurized dairy products) - due to the straightened angle of their Eustachian tubes and sometimes very narrow ear canals, which further prevent proper drainage of mucus. Without going into the entire [...]
The Role Of ‘Letting Go’ In Healing
In a recent interview, I was asked, "What are the top things you've seen get in the way of people's healing?" As I thought back over all the emails I've received, plus my private consultation clients, several concrete saboteurs came to mind, which I shared [...]
Deserving Wellness
When I was severely ill with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), the one constant factor in my somewhat restricted life was the unequivocal support I was given by my parents and my husband. If I hadn’t received their love and encouragement on a daily basis, I [...]
Hung up on Cell Phones
Viewers of the Larry King Live show got quite an eye-opener on the potential health effects of cell phones during the May 27, 2008 broadcast. The show, sparked by recent controversy about the relationship between cellular devices and brain tumors, featured prominent doctors and researchers [...]
Chewing
How many times do you chew each bite of food? I never actually had thought about this before I attended nutrition school. One day in class they gave each of us a patty of cooked brown rice (for lack of a better way to describe [...]
How Long Is Healing Going To Take
One of the most common questions I’m asked - and one of the hardest to answer - is how long should I expect healing to take? To start my answer, I’d like to quote from Jini Patel Thompson in Listen to Your Gut: “Dependent upon [...]
Recipe – Power-packed Summer Berry Smoothie
Power-packed Summer Berry Smoothie This smoothie is packed with antioxidants, vitamins and minerals, fibre, healthy fat, protein and no refined sugar whatsoever! Ingredients: ● 1 cup organic strawberries (organic a must) ● 1 cup blueberries or other desired berry in season (huckleberries are great but [...]
Stop Beating Yourself Up!
Having coached people with chronic illnesses for the past five years, I’ve learned that many of them often feel inadequate, guilty, and beat themselves up because they can’t do all the things for the important people in their lives that they formerly could. For example, [...]
Spiritual Healing
I have a book called, Miracles of Healing by Brad Steiger and Sherry Hansen Steiger that outlines a wide variety of miraculous, unexplained healing events. Highlights include a man falling 3,000 feet out of a plane, with no parachute, and suffering only minor bruising and [...]
Turning On The Sprinklers
Over a decade ago I viewed with amazement a published study reporting that the previous year the American public had spent $27 billion dollars on natural medicines, foods, vitamins, minerals, teas, herbs, etc. And this enormous sum had been expended in a great majority of [...]
Composting
Composting is essentially nature’s recycling system where living or once-living materials are broken down into a rich soil. Composting is a convenient, economical, and sustainable way to handle your yard and food waste – right in your own backyard. Building Your Pile Designate an area [...]
