Tag: health

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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The Ultimate Guide to Native American Remedies

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I’m excited to bring you a guest post today about a new book that I’m currently reading. What drew me to this book, by Samantha Deere, is that it contains an exhaustive lists of plants that grow in North America and how to use them for the health of your family. For example, did you know that in 1536, Jaques Cartier boiled pine needles to cure his ship crew from scurvy? I learned that in this book. I asked Samantha […]

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What can a Fitbit Charge II do for you?

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****This post does contain affiliate links.****** I received a Fitbit for Christmas. I have been wearing my Fitbit Charge II a month now, and I’m obsessed. I love this thing. I sleep with it, I check it 50 times a day, and by the way, I now always know what time it is. Plus, I see my text messages faster. I wrote a full review on all the neat-o things this technology can do, over at Monterey Premier. Here’s a […]

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When Your Problems Won’t Go Away

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Have you ever had a problem that no matter what you tried, it would not go away? Ten years ago, I thought it was a fluke. I thought it just needed to be quickly fixed, and then we would move on with our lives. It took longer than I figured, but it did mostly eventually go away. Until it didn’t, because eventually it showed back up, bringing a friend with it. So now there were 2 problems. The medical people […]

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Eat Better, Feel Better

food, food allergies, funny stories, healthy eating, ventricular tachycardia

This week I have two cardiology appointments. The one yesterday was fairly easy, and all went smoothly. John David, my faithful sidekick, tagged along for that one. I think he fully entertained the cardiac floor of the hospital. My favorite part was the bit he did with the crayons. See, I brought a brand new box of 24 crayons along. New crayons interest people more than old ones. JD enjoyed the crayons very much, but I’m not sure that he […]

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A Scary Wake-Up Call and My 3 Part Plan to Return to Health

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20 minute a day to a healthier body

I reached a low point the other day. I was standing in the Wednesday night supper line at church with my two smallest boys, and I had what could only be described as some sort of hypoglycemic brain shut down. As in, my brain stopped functioning for a solid 2 minutes. It was embarrassing. I know those women in the supper line will probably always think I’m bonkers now. John David and Daniel were standing beside me, clinking their trays […]

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The Move, My California Health Crisis, and The Grocery Store Scuffle

chronic pain, moving, parenting, psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, ventricular tachycardia
The Move and the California health crisis

The Move Yesterday I started cleaning out the kitchen cabinets and drawers. No, I’m not packing myself. Alan’s job hires people to do that, so why would I? What I’m doing is trying to eliminate all things that I do not want or use so that I don’t have to unpack them in a few weeks. We have way too much junk. Junk. Just junk. How do we all accumulate so much of it? Is it the result of retail […]

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What to Expect at a Heart MRI

heart disease, ventricular tachycardia
What to Expect at a Heart MRI

Yesterday was my heart MRI. It wasn’t bad, but we didn’t get to do it exactly as planned. I had no idea what to expect, so I thought I’d write this for newbies like me who’d like a heads up, complete with my humorous commentary, of course. I’d had MRIs before, but a heart MRI is performed much differently than a musculoskeletal one, as I’ve had in the past. I was a little nervous to begin with about the IV and […]

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The Water Challenge

accomplishment, exercise, friends, weight loss

Something wonderful has happened to me lately, as a result of working with Coach Justin Cox.  No, I haven’t lost any weight yet. It’s only been three weeks. Actually, I’ve gained 3 pounds, so let’s not focus on that… What I’m actually referring to is this. Some of you may remember that I have terrible psoriasis of the fingernails, and it has hit an all time high level of UGLY this year. I didn’t even know it was possible for […]

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Life in Northern Cal: Modeling Good Habits and Helping the Homeless

accomplishment, baseball, blessings, Classical Conversations, exercise, faith, family, homeschool, moving

There are so many exciting things going on in our chilly little Northern Cal world, it’s hard to keep my head on straight! Alan is in the middle of a mid-term schedule that has him pretty stressed. He actually has to go out of town later this week to test out a drone parachute that he designed. Woohoo! Alan and I are so different. No one would ever, in a billion years, ask me to design ANYTHING. Thanks to this […]

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