An almost-teenager waking with nightmares every night… Allergy symptoms that reappear after many months of reprieve… Sudden and dramatic anger outbursts over small things… A mouth sore that makes eating and talking a little painful… These have all come up in our little family in the past few months. I’m sure you could make a list of your own. Life gives us new challenges fairly frequently. Re-Learning How to Respond It’s easy enough to revert to the solutions that our parents used or that we have become culturally schooled in or that we are just used to. There are over-the-counter medicines for just about everything. For many of us, these…
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Self Care While Your Kids Are Sick (or during other unexpectedly hard weeks)
On Sunday evening, we were having a lovely meal and game night with one of our favorite families. They had invited us to come over a couple of times over the past month, but it hadn’t worked out for various reasons. I was so happy that we were finally having this fun evening together, when my 5-year old walked up to me and whispered, “My tummy hurts. I think I might throw up.” Of course, we made it only halfway to the bathroom before his dinner came up all over the shiny hardwood floors (so very happy it wasn’t carpet, though!). That was how my week started. The night that…
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Celebrate {Come Back to Center Day 5/5}
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Connect {Come Back to Center Day 3/5}
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Create {Come Back to Center Day 2/5}
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Breathe {Come Back to Center Day1/5}
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by Katie Palmer, Certified Herbalist and FDN-P Do you find yourself stumbling around, glaring at everyone, and murmuring words of frustration at the sun until you’ve had your first cup of coffee? Are you the type of person that constantly repeats the phrase, “Sorry, I haven’t had my coffee yet”? If so, this may be a sign of adrenal dysfunction.
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