Whole Health Blog

en you think you’ve got a handle on what you are supposed to do to be healthy – the information changes.

The other day, my 17-year-old daughter was watching a reality television show about high school students who were treating each other quite badly. The lack of respect that many of them showed towards other students was stunning. What was even more disconcerting was their lack of awareness that the people they were taunting and verbally abusing had the same range of feeling they did; wanted to be accepted and valued as they did and wanted to belong within their peer groups, ju

Beliefs are powerful things, and what we tell ourselves and others tells us can make us better or worse. We all have “our story,” and we tell it over and over again both to ourselves and to others. We believe it, we expect it, and we project it.

he Amish do not experience autism or any of the other learning disabilities that plague our technological society. The Amish live in a society that consists of outdated technologies and ideals, by contemporary standards. Their diet consists of eating organic, fresh, locally-grown produce, and they do not follow the established vaccination routines. This lifestyle has resulted in healthier people who are void of our [most common] chronic diseases.