Common Activities That Can Improve Your Health
Last month I told you how to get excellent medical care from your doctor or other health care provider. This month I’m going to tell you some things, besides exercising and meditating, you can do on your own to improve your health without a doctor. [...]
Eating-Out with Food Allergies
Eating out at restaurants can definitely be challenging for anyone with food allergies. But having allergies certainly does not mean a life sentence of boring or only home-cooked fare. Below are some tips to help you dine out more easily, while also being sure that [...]
Destination: Change
If you’re ill, part of getting better is figuring out how you got sick in the first place. You need to ferret out the causative roots of your dis-ease. Having done that, you still have the challenge of addressing those roots and that almost always [...]
Spring Vitality
Spring is the season for awakening the body; our senses, our minds, our every oscillating cell. The foods that grow natively act accordingly with our bodies needs. In the springtime, new shoots of green emerge and share their life-giving, cleansing and nourishing nutrients in abundance. [...]
Recipe – Spring Salad Ingredients
Lisa Marie’s Spring Salad Ingredients: ● 1 heap of assorted spring greens (don’t forget the dandelion greens in the garden) ● 1 sliced pear (drizzled in lemon juice to keep from browning) ● 1/2 cup of goat feta or chevre ● 1/2 cup chopped lightly [...]
Heal Disease, Flush Toxins & Rejuvenate
Great news: I have a brand new healing protocol for which I've completed all the preliminary testing, and now I'm ready to roll it out and give the entire 4-step process a trial run. This is one of the main benefits of being a JPT [...]
Safe, Gentle Detox For Sensitive Bodies
I’ve been writing and speaking about detoxification for decades. Ever since I realized that the purity of the body was being breached beyond our ability to detoxify, I have advocated safe and gentle ways to cleanse. Cleansing is always the first step in any healing [...]
A Limited Belief System Restricts Healing Potential
A few weeks ago, when I was working with a new telephone client, ‘Anna’, she stated, “Bad things happen to good people: it’s always the good people who get sick”. Now, I have no way of either refuting or proving this, but she believed it [...]
How To Get Excellent Medical Care
There are primarily two ways to get excellent medical care. They are: 1) create a partnership with your healthcare providers, or 2) become a savvy medical service customer. Some of you are fortunate enough to find an excellent doctor, or other practitioner, to give you [...]
What Initially Causes Serious Illness
One of the questions on my EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) client intake form asks “Are you on any medication?” Many of my clients can easily list several forms of medication they are taking; ranging from blood pressure pills, to diuretics, to painkillers, to anti-depressants. These [...]
Osteoporosis And Chronic Diarrhea
In the previous issue of Good Health Is Real Wealth, I wrote about the loss of nutrients due to diarrhea, and the best way to replace lost electrolytes. In this issue, let’s look at how to prevent nutrient loss so that osteoporosis will not develop. [...]
Great Answers To Common Questions
Great Answers To Common Questions Q: How can I find a local practitioner with experience with a specific health issue (e.g. digestive disorders, irritable bowel disease, cancer, heart disease, etc)? I wish there was one easy answer because this question is one of the most [...]
Gluten-Free: Should you be
My client Elizabeth came to see me after struggling for three years with IBS: chronic bloating, distention, and severe constipation. All diagnostic tests were normal (colonoscopy, blood tests, etc) and so she was taking a combination of four laxatives that her doctor suggested, with little [...]
Do You Have A Strong Enough ‘Why’
“He who has a strong enough ‘why’ can bear almost any ‘how’.” – Friedrich Nietzsche Holistic healing is hard. That’s a bare-bones fact. If you’re dealing with a serious illness, holistic healing is not for the faint of heart. You need to be a strategist, [...]
Recipe – Coconut-Lime Chicken Soup
Lisa Marie’s Coconut-Lime Chicken Soup Ingredients: ● One quart (4 cups) homemade (organic/free range non-medicated) chicken stock ● One large onion ● 1 tbsp organic butter ● 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil, cold-pressed ● One large parsnip (scrubbed, not peeled) ● 3 stalks of [...]
Chronic Illness & The Family Dynamic
There are many different factors that contribute to childhood chronic illness; ranging from environmental and nutritional factors, through to emotional and psychological factors. In my experience, if a child becomes ill and remains ill, it is rarely, if ever, just about the child. Obviously, the [...]
Letting Go of the Guilt Attached to Being Ill
When I work with clients who are seriously ill, one of the strongest negative emotions they often feel around being ill is guilt. They feel guilty because they can’t work or do the things they once did, guilty for needing care and support, guilty for [...]
Freedom From Chronic Pain Part 2: The Power Of Metaphor
When I was first introduced to EFT at the beginning of 2004, I was desperate to alleviate the intense and chronic pain I was experiencing as a result of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). In particular, pain in my knee joints, thighs and neck, as well [...]
Boswellia & Berberine Fight Intestinal Inflammation
By Jennifer Mann MA While browsing in a bookstore recently, I came across the Collins Alternative Health Guide by Steven Bratman, M.D., and began flipping through it idly. My husband has Crohn’s disease, so I’m often drawn to the natural healing section of a bookstore [...]
When Supplements Do Not Work
When I sat down to plan this article, I was originally going to write about a new supplement I started taking, but… it morphed into something else. Let me give you some background, to explain what happened. I’ve been prone to eczema for about eleven [...]
Recipe – ENERGY Balls
Ingredients: ● 1 cup raw organic sunflower seeds ● 1 cup raw organic pumpkin seeds ● 1/2 cup raw organic cashews/almonds ● 1/2 cup raw organic pecans ● 1.5 cups organic nut butter ● 1.5 cups pure maple or brown rice syrup/agave nectar/raw honey ● [...]
Good Digestion Starts In The Kitchen
Before they even get to our mouths, many of our foods need some form of pre-digestive preparation in order for us to receive adequate nourishment from them. This also ensures that they properly break down (digest), without irritating our digestive tracts and putting stress on [...]
The Right Sized Minerals
My topic this month is why size matters in electrolyte and fluid replacement for people with chronic diarrhea. Physicists tell us that the channels that allow minerals to enter our cells are 4-5 angstroms in diameter (between a nanometer and a picometer-very tiny), yet most [...]
What If You Cannot Listen To Your Gut
Some people are able to tap into their body wisdom and follow their gut, listen to the ‘still, small voice’ or ‘feel’ what they should do. And some people cannot. If you have tuned out your body for a long time and just lived in [...]
