Category: back pain

Why Holistic Health is Life Changing: New Book by Dr. Crippen

back pain, chiropractic, chronic pain, fitness, food allergies, healthy eating, heart disease
why holistic health care is life changing

Today I asked Dr. Jeff Crippen to write a guest post here to share with us about his new book on holistic health. Dr. Crippen is the author of this book and also a practicing chiropractor. His journey into a cure for his migraines led to his expertise on holistic health. This form of medicine treats the body as a whole, instead of just throwing medications at symptoms and hoping they go away. Anyone who has had a health problem […]

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Top Back Pain Tip from the Arthritis Lady

back pain, chronic pain

  Last week Mom and I had to take an unexpected trip to Kansas. My aunt was in the hospital, in ICU. Mom and I were worried, so we trekked on out there. I’m the arthritis lady that has to take a special trip to the doctor’s office so I can make it through an airplane and car trip. I have to schedule walks down the airplane aisle to keep my legs from going crippled. Good news: My aunt DID […]

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My Chronic Pain Battle: Fake Sciatica, Tendonitis, Muscle Strain, Whatever

back pain, chronic pain, prayer

Note: Chronic pain blogs are mostly only interesting to other people with chronic pain. We eat this stuff up. Soooooo, friends, do not feel like you have to sit through this one.  Ha! Or feel free to scan and read only the one line paragraphs. I do that a lot too. My Chronic Pain Battle: Fake Sciatica, Tendonitis, Bursitis, Muscle Strain, Whatever it is! The first time I developed “sciatica”, whether it ever actually was sciatica or not, I have […]

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Can Open, Worms Everywhere: The Back Pain, The Stress, and The Home Schooling

back pain, home school, stress
Can Open, Worms Everywhere: Why We Decided Home Schooling Isn't for Us

Such an anti-climactic couple of days around here. Do any of you have chronic back pain? I sure do. Upper back, lower back. It goes down the side of my right leg. It pops up in my wrist. I’m always hurting, some days worse than others. When I want to pretend like I feel fine, I pop an Advil 800 and head out into the world. When I want to sleep, I take Tylenol PM. I lay on hot packs. […]

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A Quiet House, Thankfulness, and Sweet Relief

back pain, homeschool, thankful

My house is quiet! My house is quiet! Did I mention my house is quiet?? The oldest children are off on a play date. JD is taking his nap, and the house is quiet. Can you feel the excitement??  I’m so excited; I could dance around and make carpet angels……if I had more energy. However, I’m old, and I spent all of my energy on teaching them and making their lunch, so instead I’m going to throw a VIRTUAL party, sitting […]

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Why it is So Important to Focus on the Big Picture Rather than Our Daily Difficulties

accomplishment, attitude, back pain, family, parenting

Today the boys and I had to walk all the way to the mini-mart, which is all of 1/2 a mile. I put JD in the double jogger, that way I could put the milk I needed in the empty seat. How did we let ourselves run completely out of milk? Families of six cannot do such a thing! I didn’t let anyone ride bikes, so Caleb ran most of it. One of Daniel’s biggest wishes is to beat Caleb […]

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The Basics of How to Use Essential Oils

arthritis, back pain, essential oils

Like many of you, essential oils are a brand new concept to me. They first began to show up in my Facebook news feed the last year or so. At first I thought, “What in the world are they talkin’ about?” But the friends mentioning the oils were all people I thought a lot of, so I was intrigued. Then the move happened. All of the main characters in the days of our lives changed completely, and we landed square […]

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Frumpy Momma: Why It’s Time to Start Taking Care of Myself Again

back pain, goals, parenting, stay-at-home mom
frumpy momma: time to start taking care of myself again

I can’t believe that’s me. This is not me. Oh, but it is…oh, but it is.

I don’t know about you, but life definitely goes in cycles for me. I have phases where I’m like, “I got this,” and I wear make-up everyday, exercise regularly, smile at people,

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