Eczema is more prevalent now than ever before. Conditions like this don’t just suddenly develop on their own affecting hundreds of thousands without any real source. The rise of these conditions correlates with how society has changed from years ago – more chemicals in our food, more chemicals in our environment, more chemicals being injected, more…
Why the World Has Screwed up Views on Breastfeeding (And How To Change Them)
In today’s world, it is so important for women to educate other women and men when it comes to breastfeeding. Our babies are too important not to! When I first read this post, written by Kate, over at Kate Surfs, I knew it had to be shared wide and far. “Every time I call my grandmother,…
Mindful Parenting At Trying Times
Turning a Negative Situation into a Positive One Today, when I was on the way out of the grocery store, my three year old started getting a bit stubborn, as he can be when he’s tired. As I put him into the car, he decided that he wasn’t going to get into his carseat. When…
Why Your Family Should Be Eating Flaxseed
Getting some extra nutrition and fiber into your snacks and meals is easy if you know what to put where. In this case, the WHAT is FLAXSEED, and the WHERE is just about anywhere! The health benefits of flaxseed are numerous. The nutrients in flaxseed fight cholesterol, bone loss, diabetes, heart disease, excess fat, inflammation, constipation,…
Getting Kids Into Veggies
Lips sealed, arms crossed, “I don’t like this.” Meanwhile, he’s never even tried it before. Sound familiar? All of my kids love fruit and they each have a few select vegetables that they will ask for, but none of them willingly eat a wide variety of vegetables. Being that I want them to get the nutrients…
Choosing a Non-Toxic Shower Curtain
Did you see the title and roll your eyes? I know. I’ve been there. There’s only so much you can do to protect your family from the toxins of the world and just when you think you’ve got a lot of it covered, you learn about something else to avoid or change. Here’s the thing, when…
Healthy Ears Start with A Healthy Nervous System
This article is written by by Dr. Jason Tabick, D.C. of New York Specific Chiropractic, P.C. Though pediatricians have been urged to not treat ear infections with medicine right away, this type of infection continues to be the most common reason medical practitioners prescribe antibiotics for children. Unfortunately, it is proven that the infecting agent…
How Cover-ups & Lies are Affecting an Entire Generation
One Family’s Story of Vaccine Injury and Autism This has been brewing for awhile and I’m mustering all my courage to share our story. Everybody handles things differently. I am a person that needs to research things from every angle to be sure that my own biases don’t play into decisions I make. When my husband…
Doing This One Simple Thing Will Help Your Newborn Thrive
There’s a photograph of me taken a few days after my first child was born. I am wearing the same pajamas I had on for the full day before, my hair has a greasy shine, my eyelids are drooping as if they need a prop to keep them open and, though it can’t be seen,…
What The NYTimes & Forbes Aren’t Telling You About Vaxxed
Making myself a hot cup of tea and sitting down at my computer Monday night, I found myself shocked when an article written for Forbes came across my screen. In it, the author boasts that Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe, the film I had just seen that very morning with my husband and son, had…