Holistic Approaches to Wellness

By Brenda Pearce, RN

I remember the day I set my fate over 30 years ago. I was 20 years old, and in my final year of nurses training. I had just lost my dad to heart disease, and I thought, "If I make it to 48, I will be great". My dad was 48.

This programming due to the trauma of losing my father so young set in motion a soundtrack playing in my subconscious; a soundtrack playing out in my health and wellbeing. Did I consciously want to die at 48? NO, but the gnawing of this did put into place the events that could have caused me to die at that age or even sooner.

At 46, I developed ovarian tumors and went into emergency testing, and surgery. Thank goodness they were benign tumors and the internal mess left behind could be taken care of. I am now a healthy gal in her 50s and on the other side of that programming. It is like signing your death certificate based on the actions taken by another and resigning to that. That had a very strong emotional and spiritual component that played out in a very physical way.

It is also like, how the actions taken by others are put as risk factors to your own like, health and wellbeing as are often reported by our Drs. Your dad had it, your grandfather had it, so you will have it too. Not looking at the fact that I eat a healthy diet, don't smoke, don't drink, and have a deeply spiritual practice. Risk factors for heart disease do not have to be revisited upon future generations, but are markers as to what could happen if one follows the same path.

Deeply held emotions do play a very real component in our outcomes. Just ask my dear friend Lorraine Cohen. She is experiencing breast cancer at a stage 4 level, and she thanks it for bringing forth deep emotions held at bay and in the background, which she is dealing with in a very profound way and the outcomes are manifesting in a way that usually do not occur when breast cancer to that degree is diagnosed.

It is like the famous phrase of Henry Ford … "If you think you can, or you think you can't, you are right!"

What are you manifesting in your life from deeply held thoughts and beliefs, emotions and blocks?

Sharing with you this amazing podcast I recently had with Lorraine, and may this bless you with better outcomes - http://www.blogtalkradio.com/efactorbrendapearce/2015/05/18/living-with-breast-cancer-with-lorraine-cohen

Food and Allergies

By Charlene Doak-Gebauer

Food allergies are very difficult for doctors and parents to determine. Children react in many ways to an allergen that is causing their bodies distress.

Many of my clients have had severe constipation when they come for a consultation. Children as young as 9 months to five years will have bowel movements either biweekly or once per week. People need to realize that bowel movements should happen daily. If a child is having bowel movements as infrequently as biweekly, they are severely constipated. This indicates that whatever they are consuming is causing a disturbance in their entire digestive system. They are very toxic, which will affect their overall health, particularly sleep and mood.

Indicators for children that there is an allergy can be a headache, hyperactivity, irritable mood, stomach upset, gas, alternating constipation/diarrhea and the like. Children will have a heightened mood after consuming foods that irritate their system. A food diary is extremely helpful when trying to determine what foods might be causing an issue.

The food diary should include breakfast, lunches, dinners, and snacks. Also recorded should be mood changes, bowel movements, amount of fluid consumption (preferably water). Bowel movements should be recorded by time of day, and if solid or diarrhea. 

Determining food allergies is a family/nutritionist team effort with children. Too many children in schools are labeled hyperactive and it is suggested that they be medicated. MEDICATION should be the last choice, if ever a choice. The pediatric clients in my practice who have been able to avoid medication after having a nutrition consultation, has been ALL of them. Parents need to avoid being “forced” into medication as being the only option. Nutrition should be considered the first issue for hyperactivity, concentration issues and the like.

I have also determined food allergies for adults, as old as 75 years of age. Their symptoms all of their lives have only escalated because of unknown allergens. It is never too late to feel better!