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Easy Ways To Bring More Movement Into Your Daily Routine. Even In Winter, Even At Home.

  I truly believe that even with everything we are facing right now, even during the stress of social distancing over the holidays, we can feel healthier than ever if we set up some supportive, comforting and deeply healing health routines. So for the next several weeks, all winter long actually, I’m going to be giving you a weekly blog post full of uplifting ways to improve your health, right in the comfort of your own home. It’s a new mini-series I’m releasing for you to help improve your health over these next three winter months. Forward this newsletter to …

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Getting Outside Today… A New Idea I Tested Out For You And Loved

Time for some uplifting content.   In fact, for the rest of the year, I am planning tons of fun, uplifting blog posts that include fun “trying it out for you” videos (like the one below!) free access to my health ebooks, and even some uplifting artwork that I am painting right now! So today, with this beautiful fall weather arriving, I want to encourage you to head outside and get moving! To walk the walk, instead of just talk the talk, my friend Stacy and I went to a local Nia class and to try out a new form …

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What Grounding Does To Your Muscles

Our musculoskeletal system is the perfect conduit for grounding.   Your entire skeleton and all your muscles — as well as the connective tissues that hold all your organs and soft tissues in place — is a conductive conduit for healing is the basis for how and why grounding works.   When you touch the earth outside, your entire body is instantaneously grounded precisely because your entire musculoskeletal system is conductive — think of it as a conductive fiberoptic system that runs grounding instantly throughout your entire body, as easy as flipping a switch.   The musculoskeletal system is what …

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It’s Never Too Late To Extend Your Life Just By Getting Active

    Dammit. Now none of us have any excuse to not exercise.     All my life I hated exercising in the traditional sense — I loved playing soccer in school and I loved chasing after my kids as a mom and I love going on long walks after dinner as a middle aged adult… it’s not that I mind being active… but as far as an exercise program, I never could stick to it. Yoga classes, pilates classes, step aerobics classes, running, biking, even trying out a personal trainer… I could just never stick with it because I …

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Grounding To Support Your Heart Health

If the heartbeat of the earth resonates powerfully with your brain (as we talked about last week) …imagine what the heartbeat of the earth does for your own heart!     Your cardiovascular system is entirely electrically based, driven by the electrical impulse of the heartbeat which in turn drives the circulation through your body.This relationship has been extensively studied for the effects of grounding. The first study I want to tell you about was a double-blinded, placebo-controlled study of 40 patients. They had electrodes connected to their feet, and half of them were grounded for one hour (the other …

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What I Do To Stay Helathy When It’s Too Cold To Exercise Outside

The weather is getting unbearably cold for me, so I thought today I would share with you what I do whenever it’s too cold (or I’m too lazy) to exercise I hit my local Y and sit in the sauna to reap very similar benefits to exercising, but without the hassle! Medically proven! Now this is a healing modality I can really get behind, because I LOVE HEAT. And I love love love anything that boosts circulation — like grounding, sauna, steam room, hot baths, sleeping with a hot water bottle, massage, exercise (ok, maybe not exercise…) …it just feels …

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ADHD Raises Suicide Risk More Than Depression Does

  A new study (published Sept 19, 2016 in Pediatrics) found that children who die by suicide are more likely to have been diagnosed with ADHD than with depression.   The Study: A national database tracked violent deaths from 2003 to 2012 in 17 different states During the study period, there were 693 early childhood suicides   The results: Children aged 5 to 11 years old who died by suicide were more likely to have been diagnosed with ADD/ADHD than with depression. Almost 60% of suicide victims were diagnosed with ADHD, compared to only 33% having been diagnosed with depression. …

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