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Finding space for moving pieces

February 27, 2014 by Jessica 1 Comment

I appreciate that parenting is an amazing opportunity for personal growth, but I kind of feel like my psyche is about to explode. I can’t say that it’s my brain, because that would imply a boast about smartifying, which I’m decidedly not. And I can’t say that it’s my heart exactly, because it’s not the…

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Top 10 Natural Strategies for Conception (aka How to Get Pregnant!)

March 8, 2011 by Jessica 38 Comments

Welcome to the March Carnival of Natural Parenting: Natural Parenting Top 10 Lists This post was written for inclusion in the monthly Carnival of Natural Parenting hosted by Hobo Mama and Code Name: Mama. This month our participants have shared Top 10 lists on a wide variety of aspects of attachment parenting and natural living….

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Filed Under: Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: acupuncutre, alternative medicine, birth, chiropractic, conception, craniosacral therapy, energy work, health, hormone testing, pregnancy, TTC, yoga

My child is my mirror – January Carnival of Natural Parenting

January 11, 2011 by Jessica 20 Comments

Welcome to the January Carnival of Natural Parenting: Learning from children This post was written for inclusion in the monthly Carnival of Natural Parenting hosted by Hobo Mama and Code Name: Mama. This month our participants have shared the many lessons their children have taught them. Please read to the end to find a list…

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Filed Under: Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: craniosacral therapy, family, home, joy, organization, priorities, toddler talk, writing mother

Mama gets the sniffles

January 25, 2010 by Jessica Leave a Comment

Here is a health-focused piece cross-posted from my main blog, Crunchy-Chewy Mama. I had been putting more health-focused pieces here and more snippets from life on the alternative mainstream divide over there, but I now that I am writing for The Washington Times Communities at “Reading Ingredients: Tales of a Health-Conscious Mom,” I’m re-evaluating my…

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Filed Under: Holistic Health Tagged With: acupuncture, craniosacral therapy, flower essences, food, healing, homeopathy, nutrition, yoga

Craniosacral therapy for my son

December 2, 2009 by Jessica 1 Comment

I don’t claim to understand exactly what craniosacral therapy (CST) does, but I believe in it. I’ve read some books by Dr. John Upledger, and I’ve talked a whole lot with my practitioners about my body and my son’s body. And I’ve seen its results firsthand. I’ve been getting CST for six years, since I…

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Healing a Face Wound (and more?)

November 15, 2009 by Jessica Leave a Comment

Almost a month ago, I went to the grand re-opening of Holeco Wellness Medi Spa, the first holistic/wellness medispa recognized by Green America as a Green company and listed in their Green Pages. The owner is a wonderful woman who recently spoke at a Holistic Moms meeting. They are in a building that just underwent…

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The kind of health coverage I want

November 10, 2009 by Jessica 1 Comment

“This is why health care costs are so high,” hissed my endocrinologist when she looked at the results of the labwork my holistic physician had ordered. To her, the additional blood tests were a waste of time and money. But the information – a full, more complete picture of my thyroid levels and antibody levels–…

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Helping children with aggression

September 21, 2009 by Jessica Leave a Comment

“But he showed remorse,” said my kind friend when I called her crying to apologize that my son had bitten hers at school. “What more could you want?” Um, for him to not do it at all? Really, what I want is for my son not to feel that kind of out-of-control anger. I know…

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Filed Under: Holistic Health Tagged With: acupuncture, aggression, craniosacral therapy, dairy, gluten-free, priorities

Fighting the flu naturally

September 10, 2009 by Jessica Leave a Comment

I haven’t been pro-vaccine for a long time, since I got the flu vaccine in my 20s and felt terrible. Now that we’re facing a potentially bad flu year, there is a lot of talk about vaccines for flu and specifically for H1N1/Swine Flu. I’m hoping that the alternative folks are right that the best…

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Filed Under: Healthy Eating, Holistic Health Tagged With: acupuncture, craniosacral therapy, exercise, flower essences, flu, healing, homeopathy, nutrition, stress

Dropping some silver on supplements

February 15, 2009 by Jessica 2 Comments

I just spent $132 at the Vitamin Shoppe. Wow. My husband has an eardrum that has been ruptured for over 48 hours and still hurts a lot. I bought some tea, colloidal silver supplement and nasal spray, grapefruit seed extract ear drops and nasal spray, some probiotic (on sale), calendula tincture (seemed like a good…

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Filed Under: Healthy Eating, Holistic Health Tagged With: acupuncture, craniosacral therapy, fertility, goals, healing, nutrition, priorities

Taking a Fall

January 18, 2009 by Jessica Leave a Comment

Two weeks ago, I fell taking a step onto a neighbor’s basement stairs. My foot just slipped on the carpet and I was about to bounce down the stairs on my bottom. Having sprained my ankle in September 2007 two weeks before I was going to run a half-marathon, I was determined not to let…

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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

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