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Who wears short shorts?

July 5, 2008 by Jessica 1 Comment

It’s time to show my knees again. A year ago, last July 4th, a trip to a friend’s pool pushed my skin irritation over the edge. The dermatologist had called it likely psoriasis, and my knees were red, itchy and flaky. It was getting bad on its own, and I was already embarrassed to wear…

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Filed Under: Holistic Health Tagged With: healing, nutrition, skin

What bruise?

June 19, 2008 by Jessica Leave a Comment

“What did you give him?” This was my friend’s question after she saw my two-year-old son a few days after her son rolled a rock down a slide onto my boy’s head. There was hardly a mark on my son where we both expected a goose-egg or at least some royal shades of blue. First…

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Filed Under: Holistic Health Tagged With: healing, injury

Drinkin’ and a-Runnin’

June 7, 2008 by Jessica Leave a Comment

Who knew that May 31st was the day before June 1st? When my friend’s husband asked if I was available to come to a surprise birthday party for her, I didn’t put it together that the half-marathon I’d just registered for was the following morning, Sunday, at 7:00 a.m. – a hour away. We talked…

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Filed Under: Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: craniosacral therapy, essential oils, flower essences, nutrition, running

Tired for the Very First Time

May 25, 2008 by Jessica Leave a Comment

It was like I’d forgotten what it meant to be sleepy. I wrote a few weeks agoabout trying to see sleep as the gentle restorative time it’s supposed to be rather than the time I’m not getting things done – cleaning, cooking, writing, exercising. That was all a nice idea, but I was still pretty…

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Filed Under: Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: craniosacral therapy, sleep

Getting the Groove Back

May 18, 2008 by Jessica Leave a Comment

Back in August, I sprained my ankle two weeks before I was going to run a half-marathon (what would have been my longest race). It’s been a long recovery that I’ll write about from various perspectives in the future. What I’m feeling good about right now is that I am starting to imagine exercise being…

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Filed Under: Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: injury, priorities, running, yoga

Flower essences and trauma

May 16, 2008 by Jessica Leave a Comment

I’ve been taking a class recently on using flower essences with infants and children. I’ll go further into my experience with them in the past once I merge it in my head with the more detailed info I’m learning. For now, I want to highlight Emergency Trauma Solution by Perelandra (available online only). I’ve given…

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Filed Under: Holistic Health Tagged With: flower essences

Sleep is not an adversary

May 12, 2008 by Jessica Leave a Comment

When I decided to undertake a cleanse and make some changes in my diet, I also set out to change my sleeping habits. My natural tendency has always been that of a night owl, even when, as now, I’ve been without caffeine. For the past several months, I had been in the habit of staying…

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Filed Under: Holistic Health Tagged With: priorities, sleep

Food + JH = TruLv4Evr

May 3, 2008 by Jessica Leave a Comment

I usually try to avoid using the word “change.” It implies that there is something bad or wrong, and it doesn’t provide a vision the way a more descriptive, active verb would. And yet, when I tell people I’m doing something of a cleanse, the phrase I keep coming back to is, “I want to…

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Filed Under: Healthy Eating, Holistic Health Tagged With: Spring cleanse

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I also publish the resource blog Mindful Healthy Life of Metro DC. To learn about my writing and appearances and for details about the writing, editing and consulting services I offer, visit JessicaClaireHaney.com.

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