Category: Healing

Healthy Holidays Tip #6: Drink Your Water in Winter – Especially Winter!

We are more prone to dehydration in the winter than in warm weather and I think this is the number one reason most people get sick when the weather turns colder.  (Of course there is that wee bit of increased stress during the holidays that many people experience, which really cranks up the likelihood of […]

UTIs (Bladder Infections) Are Awful. Here’s Help.

Urinary tract infections (aka cystitis and bladder infections), are really a pain.  Literally.  While women are more likely to contract this type of infection, men can get them too.  But, Ladies first!  The guys will get their own post with suggested remedies. Do You Have a UTI? The symptoms of a bladder infection vary depending on […]

Holey Jeans, No Internet, and Loads of Kindness – A Thanksgiving Story

A most eloquent and touching Thanksgiving story from my friend, Jonathan Byrd.  It’s no surprise that his (true) story is also chock full of proof for the Epidemic of Kindness. “Happy Thanksgiving. I’m avoiding the internet lately, but I’d like to take a moment to tell you where I’ve been. What I’ve seen this past […]

It’s An Epidemic!

There’s an epidemic spreading across the globe and it is seriously infectious, contagious, and addictive.  No one is exempt from its effects. Fasten your seat belts, folks, because this disease is changing the world in exponential ways with every person it touches. It is The EPIDEMIC OF KINDNESS. My “20 something, 82-years young” friend Bev, has […]

Will You Build Trust or Will You Betray?

I took some time out early this morning and watched Brene Brown’s The Anatomy of Trust, one of Oprah’s Supersoul Sessions.  It was very moving: Dr. Brown’s research, wisdom and perspectives on trust explain how we build trust and how we destroy it. “Trust is built in the smallest of moments.”, says renowned researcher Brown, author of […]

Gratitude is More Than an Attitude: It’s a Way of Living

The word gratitude has been tossed around more in the last decade than ever before.  That’s a very good thing. Practicing gratitude is more than just a flip of a word or phrase when the obvious blessing comes your way.  But does the word, the thought of it, or the practice of expressing it come […]

Love is the Most Important Force in the Universe

Parisien Antoine Leiris’s Facebook post to those responsible for his wife’s death during the Paris attacks on November 13, 2015, went viral.  Why? Our true nature is divine love.  Each being knows within their heart and soul, consciously or unconsciously, that Love is the most powerful force there is.  Fear (the true opponent of love), […]

Reiki for Cows? Absolutely.

Sophie is my dear rancher friend in Montana.  She’s been struggling: her 170 calves were having a really rough go during their post-weaning time this year.  The calves are super stressed during this adjustment period due to the separation from their mothers, the change to different food (no more udders around) and the variable winter weather. […]