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Video: Recovering From Adrenal Fatigue
Enjoy our first live-stream video recording on recovering from adrenal fatigue using essential oils! (Sorry for the poor quality for my portion – I’ve added an external mic to the shopping list!)
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Are Your Adrenals Dragging?
Join us for a live stream, beginning tonight, Wed 10/9, at 8pm! Live Stream: Are Your Adrenals Dragging? I don’t know how many times I have asked my doctor, talked to a friend, read a book, or searched the internet for ways to help my adrenals. Our adrenals are small but busy glands producing hormones that regulate our body systems. Their most important role is helping us deal with stress. Dr. LeAnne Deardeuff says that, “The adrenal glands of a person who lives a stress-filled life are constantly secreting cortisol in an effort to deal with the stress.” This can wreak havoc on both our hormones and immune system. Adrenal…
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Why Cleanse?
“True health is self-made”. Have you heard that before? Can we personally affect our health, or is a pill our only option for allergies or infertility? I’m going to challenge the status quo, and ask, “What if it’s not our only option after all?” Don’t get me wrong, doctors are an asset and the medical field is much needed. If you are in a car wreck, you need a hospital. If your little one breaks a bone, you need a doctor. And there are certainly medications out there that are absolutely necessary. Doctors are a blessing. And so are alternative options, whenever possible. What does Dr. Leanne Dearduff, author…
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Top Ten Responses to Essential Oils – A Husband’s Journey
Enjoy my husband’s take on his intro into the world of essential oils! 10. “Essential what? Well it sounds like the fad of the week to me. Can’t be that essential if we’ve been doing just fine without them up to this point. (Hey honey, where are the pain relievers?) Alllllrighhhtt go ahead and get some.” -whatever it takes to keep the wife happy. 9. Every time I walk in the house it smells like a different flower, fruit, or tree. 8. Every time the kids walk in with bug bites, scrapes, or are starting not to feel so good, she douses them. 7. I wonder what that Ylang Ylang…
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Top Ten Things I Do Differently With Baby #3
As moms, we live and learn. Here are a few things I’ve noticed that I do differently with #3: 1. Instead of diaper rash cream, I have a jar of coconut oil at the ready next to the changing table. 2. When M got his first cold, I took him to the chiro. Just a few hours after his adjustment, all his symptoms were gone! 3. He sleeps on his tummy and I don’t worry about him. 4. I don’t “shush” my other kids when M is asleep on the floor of the living room. He sleeps right through the bedlam. 5. If I want to bolster his immune system,…
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My Water Birth Experience
It’s not easy deciding on a photo for a post about water birth. Most photos show… more than I’m comfortable with. So, enjoy this picture of my new precious little man! 🙂 Look at those awesome lips. And enjoy the story about my water birth experience! 🙂 I have a history of quick deliveries. I was in active labor with my daughter for only a few hours before she arrived. No time for pain medication of any sort! I remember asking the nurse for Tylenol (or something!), and she just laughed at me. I delivered her completely unmedicated, but also completely unprepared for delivering ‘naturally’. It was not a pleasant…
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Two Natural Ways To Prevent Pre-Term Labor
I think I learn something new almost every day. 🙂 I had pre-term labor with my daughter, and I am really, really, really hoping to avoid with baby #3 (currently at 23 weeks!!) I’ve learned two completely natural ways to help prevent pre-term labor lately (beyond the usual “drink lots of water and take a warm bath”) and so wanted to share. Red Raspberry Leaves The first involves a supplement called Red Raspberry Leaves. You can drink the tea or take a capsule. I chose the capsule route since I’m not a huge fan of tea (except for my chai, of course, and the tea my S. African friend…
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Homeschooling Kindergarten: Phonics & Reading
As I shared in an earlier post, we have jumped into Classical Conversations for the general base of our homeschooling curriculum. In the younger years, we also need to teach reading and math. (I love watching kids learn to read – a whole new world opens up to them!) Pre-Reading My favorite, favorite tool for introducing phonics sounds is a dvd called Leapfrog Letter Factory. My kids entertain me because they correct ME when I get the sounds wrong. Can we say mommy is a tad bit tone deaf? My littlest watches the dvd each day (give or take) while my older one works on his reading work. She’s getting…
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Homeschooling: Taking The Plunge With Classical Conversations
Yes, we have joined the growing number of folks who are choosing to homeschool. We chose it for a myriad of reasons, but it started with wanting to protect my tender-hearted redhead. With a little girl down the street coming home from kindergarten with black eyes from the playground, and the administration turning a blind eye to it, I knew my sweet boy would have TARGET written all over him. After researching several different programs (there is a vast number of choices!!), we have landed on several that work well for our family. In this first post, I want to share about Classical Conversations, and how to get started in…
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The Road Less Traveled During Pregnancy
I had a great ob doctor for my first two deliveries. He wasn’t quick on the interventions, and I liked his balanced approach. Even before all the debate about get-the-flu-vaccine-or-not, he recommended against it, because there wasn’t enough testing down on preggo mamas and babies. Then we moved and I got pregnant with baby #3. Rather than try to find a new ob and have to muddle through all their philosophies, I decided to investigate the midwife route. It helped that Samaritan’s Ministries, our version of health insurance, would waive our out-of-pocket if we used a midwife/birthing center. I started asking around and quickly came across a birthing center…
