Postpartum Elation, Part 1: Where Should My Baby Sleep?

The Road (to Sleep) Less Traveled New parents have a lot of questions. Some of the most basic are the most controversial: • For how many months (or years) should I nurse my baby? • When should I wean my baby and how? • Where should my baby sleep? With so many commercial interests in …

Book Review: Is Your Hair Made of Donuts? (Children’s Nutrition)

Whether the subject is religion, education, politics, or even eating — when you swim against the current, you’d better be strong, confident, and resilient.  Parents who work to feed their children nutritious foods know this well. The Sea Change Around the world and throughout time, the choice of what to eat has been made by …

Your Intuition Compass – LaRue Eppler

Listen to LaRue Eppler’s talk at the Wellness Expo on April 16, 2011 You were born with an internal guidance system installed, but what gets in the way of trusting it? LaRue will debunk two common myths that inhibit or block your ability to recognize, trust, and follow Inner Guidance, with certainty. LaRue Eppler is …

NAET: A Holistic Approach to Allergies

Have you ever experienced a bad feeling that just won’t go away? It could be caused by an undiagnosed and untreated allergy. Nambudripad Allergy Elimination Technique (NAET) is a holistic method to approaching allergy treatment. NAET uses muscle response to detect where the allergen is located and how it is disrupting the body. Created by Dr. …

Swimming in the Bliss of Natural Birth

I’d always imagined a natural birth. In our 20s my cousin, Christina, and I would joke and laugh about squatting in the shade of a tree to have our babies—and we were just joking…but not completely. Through my 30s I watched not one or two, but almost all my friends enthusiastically enter the hospital in …