When common sense ‘flu’ the coop

When common sense ‘flu’ the coop

You can’t take 5 steps into the Walmart parking lot without encountering that many flu shot signs.

What the heck?

If you are considering getting a flu shot, please educate yourself first. To learn, really learn about the flu shot (what’s in it, what the potential side effects are, etc.), you owe it to yourself to set aside the time to watch at least one of the experts on the topic, such as Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, so that you can make an informed health decision. Note: This video includes valuable information about other vaccines as well, if you want to listen to it in its entirety here.

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Think Peach for Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Think Peach for Breast Cancer Awareness Month

I know it doesn’t rhyme, but consider thinking Peach for breast cancer awareness and prevention this October, not Pink.

The person who created the idea to distribute peach ribbons for Breast Cancer Awareness and Prevention was Charlotte Haley in 1991. She was unhappy that only about 5% of the money being raised for breast cancer prevention by The National Cancer Institute (NCI) was actually going to research. The rest was going … elsewhere. What she did was pin peach ribbons to cards that said (in part):

“Help us wake up our legislators and America by wearing this ribbon.”

Read more here: Charlotte Haley

Why not do this: Find out exactly where the money you are donating to any breast cancer entity is actually going. Do that. Keep reading

Nurses are the conscience of healthcare

Once we begin questioning that what we are being told by doctors, agencies (such as the FDA and the CDC), and other healthcare entities might not bethe truth, we start falling down the proverbial rabbit hole.

I remembered a quote from the movieThe Matrix about ‘the red pill and the blue pill’ that kept playing in my mind, so I looked it up.             

I was shocked by how this scene is an allegory for what I am talking about here!

One way you can take the ‘red pill’ right now it to sign up to watch The Truth About Cancer: A Global Quest. All nine episodes are currently available to watch for free. Sign up here:

The Truth About Cancer: A Global Quest

If you are unsure about signing up for the entire series, watch episode one and then decide.

To my nurse colleagues: I believe that we have a professional obligation to watch this. Keep reading

Learning New Methods of Energy Healing

I have been practicing energy healing in different forms for many years: Therapeutic Touch, Reiki, Oracle Cards, Crystals. I was fortunate to experience the Jane Fecteau Energy Healing method in action and had great respect for it.

When the opportunity arose to learn with Jane, I jumped at the chance!

I applied and had the great good fortune to be accepted for the maiden voyage of Jane Fecteau’s Emerging Healers online course.

Jane Fecteau

I had several ‘aha!’ moments as I worked my way through the 6 week course.

The weekly modules were available in the Facebook Group so they were easy to find and access. They were short and sweet but powerful. I appreciated the conciseness of the instruction because I’m already very busy. The assignments were pertinent and do-able. Feedback was readily and thoughtfully provided by Jane, but there was the added benefit of the community that developed in the Facebook Group that was very helpful. The icing on the cake was the two live sessions on Zoom. Jane demonstrated the techniques she’d taught us previously and answered questions that arose and further clarified any points requested by students who wanted a more in-depth discussion.
The completion of the course came with unexpected bonuses: a heartfelt message from the instructor as well as a certificate! Keep reading

Toeing the line

I was receiving a distance energy healing session yesterday when something the healer said brought up a memory of a past event.

When I was twelve, we had a rule about going to a friend’s house: if the parents weren’t there, I wasn’t allowed to go. Period. I knew not to even bother trying to argue the point.  So, one day my friend invited me over after school. I knew her parents were both elsewhere, but I heard myself saying, “Sure!” and I went anyway.

They had a free-standing couch and while I was talking to my friend, I was standing behind it with my forearms resting on the back of it. I thought it would be fun to pick my feet up off the floor, allowing my weight to cause the couch to start to tip backward and then put my feet back down right at the last minute to keep it from actually tipping over. Keep reading

My fat jeans are too tight!

I am working on losing weight (yes, still; yes again) and it occurred to me that although misery loves company, maybe victory does, too.

Also, I know that accountability is a very important component of achieving any goal–at least, I’ve discovered this truth applies to me.

I decided a week ago that it was time to dust off my Weight Watchers food scale.

I am a health coach and I talk to people every day who say they want to weigh less, but they are not really doing much (if anything) about it. I offer to help them and they decline. Why do they do this?

Because they already know how to do it.

And, let’s face it. Isn’t that the truth? We already know (probably on many levels) what is best for us. We just don’t act on that information. Keep reading