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Your Home Guide to Gemmotherapy III: Digestion Woes

In this continuing series on home use of Gemmotherapy, I’d like to offer a very simple alternative to antacids or any home-cure for indigestion. It’s important to remember this protocol, and all protocols in this…

Building Your Plant Based Kitchen – A Vitamix

Yes, you can run a highly efficient plant based kitchen without a Vitamix but having one does make the prep of everything from smoothies to sauces to soups just that much easier. It was our…

Your Home Guide to Gemmotherapy II: Acute Coughs

Today, as part of my series on home care with Gemmotherapy, I’d like to share some useful and timely information regarding care for acute coughs in either children or adults. Gemmotherapy actually provides several answers,…

Building Your Plant Based Kitchen – Pressure Cooker

I’ve been cooking family dinners a long time, like since I was ten years old and until a year ago pressure cookers were a mystical tool that definitely seemed out of my league. Because I…

Building Your Plant Based Kitchen – Immersion Blender

There are a handful of tools I put to work everyday in my kitchen. While my Vitamix is put to test for every morning meal, the immersion blender rules each evening. I use it for…

Welcoming 2016: Be Fearless

The past four weeks leading into 2016, I shared my thoughts and suggestions on intentions that could serve the body, mind, and soul in order to tap into your true self. The reward in discovering…

Lauren’s Kitchen: Building your Plant Based Kitchen for 2016

Cleaning out and organizing my kitchen is a task I take on each New Year and again when I return from my summer weeks in Europe. Both times present an opportunity for a fresh look…

Welcoming 2016: Intentions for your Soul

The last three weeks I have shared some intentions to consider for 2016 that will guide you to your true self. Accessing your true self is the necessary step to lead an authentic life, one…

Welcoming 2016: Intentions for your Mind

As 2016 moves closer in, we can all benefit from a few moments of quiet reflection considering how to deepen the connection to our true self. That connection only occurs by doing activities that nurture…

Welcoming 2016: Intentions for Your Body—Food, Movement and Sleep

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit. —Aristotle Last week I made the suggestion that in the weeks leading up to 2016 you consider some intentions for…

Welcoming 2016: Set Your Intention to Be More YOU!

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.  ― Lao Tzu What if you welcomed the New Year with a quest to deepen…

Healthful Holidays

It’s no coincidence that I see more acute flu, bronchial infections, digestive disturbances, and UTIs the ten weeks between Halloween and the first week of January than the next ten months all put together. This,…

Acute Care 101:  The Three Stages of Acute Care – Continued

Last week I shared Kelly’s story and discussed the early signs of an acute illness and the first two stages of treatment. In today’s post we’ll take a look at the third stage of care…

Acute Care 101: Three Stages of Acute Care

Last week I shared with you a story about Kelsey and how her acute symptoms appeared over the course of twenty four hours. The first symptoms, mental and emotional, were very subtle and are generally…

Acute Care 101: Acute Illness Warning Signs

Last week I introduced this series on caring for acute cases by explaining the difference between acute and chronic symptoms. Because each one requires a different approach, the protocols and care vary. Today I’m going…

Acute Care 101: Acute or Chronic?

What’s the difference between an acute or a chronic symptom? This post is the first in a new series with a focus on acute care. Just in time for allergy and flu season, I will…

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