Daily bowel movements are a very important sign of health. If you or your child are not having a well formed bowel movement first thing in the morning (within 20 minutes of waking), that is a sign of constipation. It is recommended that someone also have another bowel movement in the afternoon. For a description of quality colors and forms of HEALTHY BMs, refer to the Bristol chart. The ideal is to be in the middle. The large bowel is…
Last November, I was at a holistic healing event to learn about natural cancer therapies with some of my dear friends. At the end of the day, a cancer survivor and now friend, Tami, shared about her journey after cancer in healing herself. She found Arbonne to use natural products such as makeup, deodorant, toothpaste, bath, and nutrition products. I was strongly encouraged at the time to join as a consultant, and after much prayer and hesitation, I jumped in,…
After I had my first son, my energy, especially my hormonal energy, was going away. I didn’t completely feel like my vibrant self. After I had the boys, I went through time periods of feeling exhausted and not having the same energy to take care of the house, the family, friends, work, and my marriage. Can you relate? During my second pregnancy, I went to an acupuncturist because I was experiencing lots of intense emotions from stress and hormonal imbalances….
As a practitioner and mom, I see many ways how physically and emotionally taking care of ourselves is vital to the health of our kids. However, it has been something that has been reflected back to me more than usual in the last month. Over the last few weeks, many unexpected situations came up where I took care of all three kids in our house by myself all day during the summer, and I had some interesting realizations about self-care…