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Hope and Healing in Adoption

The moment of adoption is a joyous occasion for parents who have prepared their hearts and homes to ...

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How Your Gut Health Impacts the Brain

Over the past few decades, a growing collection of  research  has explored a connection between the ...

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Everything Energy

Everything surrounding us and within us is made up of energy—energy that affects how with think, see...

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Essential Oils for Moving Forward and Releasing the Past

Three years into her husband’s first term as president and after a somewhat discouraging day in earl...

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Healthy Social Interactions Can Change Your Life

If I were teaching a class and asked students to list several factors that lead to being both health...

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Managing Family Interactions over the Holidays

A popular saying goes “At Christmastime, all roads lead home.” It’s a wonderful sentiment that hints...

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Nutrition: A Holistic Approach to Treating Depression

Sadness is a part of life, something that ebbs and flows with the ups and downs of living in a world...

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5 Tips for Practicing Gratitude

It’s that time of year when we gather around the dinner table with family and friends to give thanks...

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Five Lessons from Nature

As the rust-colored hues of autumn give way to the barrenness that will become winter, there is much...

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Using Exercise to Fight Depression

One in ten Americans suffers from depression, a crippling disease that is the leading cause of disab...

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How To Take Control of Your Time—and Your Life!

Despite movies, books, and television telling us otherwise, we can’t bend time, travel back in it, o...

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Sharing Family Stories

Last month, I took my sweet grandsons to visit George Washington’s vast estate on the Potomac River—...

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Why Is Anxiety Plaguing College Students?

In decades past, college was both rigorous and fulfilling. Students took their classes, studied, pla...

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Are You Hurting Others?

Most of us have heard the well-known adage that “sticks and stones may break my bones but words will...

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8 Must-Have Essential Oils that Enhance Your Exercise Experience

The benefits of regular exercise are many and well-known.  Exercise reduces the risk of heart diseas...

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6 Essential Oil Tips for Hair, Skin, and Nails

This week, I’d like to examine the benefits of essential oils to the physical body, specifically the...

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Is Mother Nature a Friend or Foe?

I love the phrase, “Mother Knows Best” --probably because growing up I trusted that my mother knew ...

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6 Must-Do Mood Changing Health Habits

Most people don’t realize that the quality of our mood is a direct result of our health habits. Ther...

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Adding Essential Oils to Your Daily Routine

For many people, the word routine brings to mind two other words: boring and tedious . In reality...

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3 Simple Tips to Strengthen Self-Worth

Many varying beliefs pervade our families and affect our self-worth and our ability to give and rece...

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