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Nourishing Healthy Hope

Nourishing Healthy Hope

HOPE is absolutely my favourite word and favourite topic! Where do we find it when we are lost? How can we nourish it in times of adversity? How do we support others to find it? Wendy Schlessel Harpham is a physician, a cancer patient and a healthy survivor of her disease. She has written multiple books related to her cancer journey and has some very inspiring things to say […]

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Nurturing Buoyancy As A Caregiver

Nurturing Buoyancy As A Caregiver

We all know what we "should" do when we find ourselves overwhelmed and overtired in a role where we are asked to care for someone else. Whether we are an overworked mother or a husband caring for a wife with Parkinson's disease, the challenges are similar. Our friends and family happily remind us that we need to care for ourselves and ask for help but we often feel irritated […]

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Video Honouring Caregivers

Video Honouring Caregivers

Caregivers are the silent voice in many families. They often work until they are exhausted to offer the very best they can to the ones they love. Research shows that the incidence of illness is over 50% greater in people who give up a significant amount of their time and energy to care for someone else. While lovingly caring for those who can't care for themselves is a wonderful gift, […]

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Loving Kindness For Ourselves

Loving Kindness For Ourselves

Today is my very first posting on my new blog! It is also the beginning of a more unified vision for my business that more closely reflects what I do and what I want to do. A marketing book I read asked the question, "What are you selling" and, after much reflection, I decided what I wanted to sell was HOPE. Not the kind of HOPE that makes us […]

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Adversity: Living With What Is While Hoping For More

Adversity: Living With What Is While Hoping For More

It is now August 5, 2009 and it has been 6 months since I made my first posting on my new blog. The reason for this time lapse has been my own health. Despite all my diet knowledge and my commitment to a healthy lifestyle, an ecoli infection I had over 20 years ago came back with vengeance to make my life challenging. The auto immune disease that resulted […]

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Coping With a Chronic Illness

Coping With a Chronic Illness

The diagnosis of a chronic illness often brings about a reaction of shock and confusion. Finding a way to move forward and find the help and support you need is often very difficult. Clarifying what really matters to you and using this as a basis for moving forward often makes the journey easier. Consider these ideas as stepping stones to dealing with your feeling of being overwhelmed. If you work […]

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Grain Free Diet a Lifesaver!

Grain Free Diet a Lifesaver!

After a brief delay in posting on my blog because of family illness, I am delighted to again offer a little bit of the information that has transformed my own health. I have an autoimmune disorder called "Henoch Schonlein Purpura" - a fancy name for a problem that can impact my joints, my digestive system, the blood vessels under my skin and in my brain as well as my […]

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