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publisher’sletter Yin Yang Gratitude

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s per my January publisher’s letter, 2015 was to be a wonderfully transformational year, filled with positive revelations in all aspects of life. To my surprise, I woke up on January 1st with the worst pain and ringing in my ears I’ve ever experienced. It was all downhill from there. A non-stop myriad of odd incidents and health challenges which included my kitchen flooding. As if some higher power decided to test my resolve, the floodgates of Yin opened.

What I came to realize, is that Yin can’t exist without Yang. It is the concept of duality creating a whole. For the most part, the average “Joe” fails to see how God (or whichever name you use for your higher power) wants us to view these challenges. They are truly meant as opportunities for spiritual growth. Foolishly reacting negatively and even becoming resentful serves to diverge us from that path.

Life’s challenges are the perfect moments for self evaluation. They are instruments to help us gauge our level of commitment to the whole–body, mind and spirit. We attend church, revivals, workshops, and lectures in search of a deeper understanding of our purpose. Nonetheless, when we are faced with a difficult or challenging situation, we return to fear, mistrust, and demonstrative faithlessness.

Considering that these are not opportunities to think less of ourselves, we should remember the lessons learned and integrate our positive core believes and values creating actions and solutions that involve peace, love and the ultimate trust that there IS a purpose to all. These are the perfect opportunities to surrender worries and fears.

The practice of examining our human reactions to “negative” occurrences is a mechanism which is meant to generate new positive patterns of behaviors and beliefs. The KNOWING that all will turn out in divine order, will catapult our soul into understanding that the fundamental aspect of our human values lies in the ability to connect to what we inherently already know. Our interaction with each other, our reactions to life’s challenges, is the measure of our humanity. Not losing sight of why we are here is our Yang.

My kitchen was completely remodeled, something I’ve wanted to do since I bought my home. My health issues fearlessly inspired me to seek higher avenues of solutions, which in turn taught me a great deal. Reaching out for help brought new wonderful souls into my life, many of whom ended in newfound quality friendships. So there’s my Yang to my Yin. I’m grateful for every single experience, challenge and seemingly negative opportunity in my life. For it is because of them that I’ve learned that life IS about gratitude.

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24 NATURAL FACIAL ESSENTIALS

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26 SHARING OUR BOUNTY Food Drives Need Healthy Donations

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28 WHAT’S YOUR CHILD’S EQ?

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newsbriefs Holistic Dentist Offers Ozone Therapy

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eading holistic dentist, Dr. Theodore Herrmann, DMD, excitedly announces new ozone therapy technology for advanced holistic dental care in Miami, Florida. This past year, Assure A Smile announced the arrival of ozone therapy, a new minimally invasive technology designed to eliminate hard to reach bacteria during cavity restorations, root canals, gum disease treatment, and routine dental cleanings.

“Ozone therapy uses ozenated water and ozone gas to gently penetrate oral tissues and neutralize bacteria,” explains Dr. Herrmann. “Because oral bacteria are so closely linked with other serious illnesses, like heart disease and stroke, ozone therapy may significantly improve holistic health.”

For over 20 years, Assure A Smile has established itself as Miami’s premier provider of holistic dental services. Patients traveling from throughout South Florida and the Caribbean take advantage of the advanced dental technologies and the holistic, patient-focused care offered. Last year, Assure A Smile welcomed Miami families to a new office conveniently located between Coral Gables and South Miami. Floor-to-ceiling glass windows fill the office with natural light and sunshine, easing patients of all ages as they slide into the dental chair for procedures and routine check-ups.

Assure A Smile is located on 9220 S.W. 72nd Street, Suite 205, Miami FL 33173. Natural Awakenings readers are invited to learn more about Assure A Smile and ozone therapy by contacting the office directly at 305-274-0047. See ad, page 5.

Chinese Dragon Boat Festival

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he United Chinese Association of Florida (UCAF) brings us one of China’s most colorful and exciting festivals right to our doors. The annual South Florida Dragon Boat Festival is a fun-filled day of cultural celebrations, including lion and dragon dances, martial arts performances, great food, and kite contests. There will be food, kidszone with bounce houses and face painting, and, of course, the exciting dragon boat race with teams of rowers and drummers that characterize this ancient Chinese tradition.

Established in 2003, UCAF is a 501(c) 3 not-for-profit communitybased organization whose mission is to enhance the harmony of this diverse society, through the sponsorship of social, cultural and educational activities. Membership is open to everyone regardless of ethnicity.

This event, free to the public, takes place on Sunday, November 8 , from 9am – 5pm, at Haulover Beach Park Marina, 10800 Collins Avenue in Miami Beach.

For more information and race schedule, visit www.miamidragonboat.com or call 305-345-8489. th

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newsbriefs New Ownership, Dogs Go Walking

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ith Americans set to spend nearly $60 billon on their pets this year and a chance to spend more time near home, new owner Daniel Wohlstein’s decision to purchase Dogs Go Walking was an easy one. The home-based company founded in 2004 offers services such as pet walking and sitting, private boarding, transportation and more. Plans to expand throughout the entire state of Florida within 12 months are underway, and when complete, will add approximately 45 jobs.

“Dogs Go Walking is the largest dog walking /pet sitting service company in South Florida and we intend to continue to offer our customer base the best service possible,” says long-time dog lover Wohlstein, who also founded and manages the long-time Miami Beach live music venue Jazid and runs the Legal Translation Group. The company’s carefully-vetted and contracted pet specialists also watch over and care for cats, lizards, rabbits, turtles and just about any other domesticated small animal, in addition to larger pets such as horses.

Dog obedience training is also available. They are always looking for new contracted sitters – an online application is available at bit.ly/DGWApp. Beginning last month, 5% of the company’s net earnings are being donated to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA).

For more information call 305.877.4061, email info@dogsgowalking.com or visit www.DogsGoWalking.com.

Celebrating DELICIOUS!

Seed and Food Wine Festival is back he experts agree that eating a plant-based diet lowers cholesterol and high blood pressure as well as the risk of obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and even cancer. Welcome to the Seed Food & Wine Festival (SFWF), an event that will gather some of the most talented vegan chefs around, as well as vegan celebrities, athletes, and health experts from around the country. This five day event promises to be educational, enriching, but most of all delicious. Events include a film screening, Burger Battle, auction, Yoga Brunch, 5K run, children’s event and two upscale dinners, all leading up to a large-scale festival featuring food, wine, beer, juice, music, giveaways, organic body care, clothing, and everything that celebrates conscious plant-based living.

“Seed Food and Wine is the premiere conscious plant-based festival of its kind in the country,” explains co-founder Alison Burgos who after a battle with rheumatoid arthritis that left her temporarily confined to a wheelchair adopted a primarily plant-based diet, which improved her health dramatically. “The transformation I experienced inspired me to educate others on the benefits of plant-based diets, and that inspiration culminated in the Festival.” Whether vegan, veggiecurious or just into Meatless Mondays, anyone who enjoys fresh, locally-sourced food will appreciate SFWF, which begins Wednesday, November 18th and runs through Sunday, November 22nd.

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General Admission to the Seed Festival day and Tasting Village on November 21st is $45 Early Bird, $50 Regular Price and $55 at the door. VIP tickets are $85 Early Bird, $90 Regular Price and $95 at the door door. Children ages 3 to 18, $20.

General Admission Ticket includes: food, wine and beer sampling all day. Follow the Seed Food & Wine Festival on Facebook.com/seedfoodandwine, or visit seedfoodandwine.com. See ad, page 29.

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Miami Book Fair

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he Miami Book Fair International produced by the Center for Literature and Theatre at Miami Dade College is one of the nation’s finest literary gatherings. It is 8 days of book parties, readings, street fairs and the highlight “Festival of Authors” which with over 350 participating renowned names in the literary world, who knows who you will run into.

But it’s more than reading and books, it offers lots of activities for everyone including kid’s arts-and-crafts, storytellers and performances, and cooking demonstrations for the adults.

And for the Latin American readers, there will be a variety of fantastic Spanish authors and books from all over the world. Love comics and graphic novels? Look for comics publishers among the exhibitors, but don’t miss panels with creators such as Craig Thompson, Scott McCloud, Jennifer Hayden and others — most taking place in the MAGIC Screening Room (first floor of building 8).

The Fair will open on Sunday, November 15th, with the popular Evenings With… series featuring 6 nights of readings and discussions with noted authors. The Street Fair is Friday through Sunday, November 20-22nd, with many other events held throughout the week.

The Miami Book Fair International takes place at the Miami Dade College Wolfson Campus, 300 N.E. second 2nd Avenue. Friday, November 22nd is FREE but tickets are needed for the Street Fair and the Evenings With... series author presentations. Saturday and Sunday, November 23rd and 24th: $8, children (13-18) $5, and seniors +62 $5. For more information, tickets, confirmed authors and schedule of events, visit: www.miamibookfair.com.

Wet Acupuncture Effective & Drug-Free FIU’s Walls not so new therapy has emerged. Acupuncture Point of Color: A Injection Therapy (API) or “wet acupuncture” is the injection of saline, homeopathy, vitamins (especially B12) The Murals of or Chinese herbs into acupuncture or trigger points. This technique, also known as Biopuncture, has been used in TraHans Hofmann ditional Chinese Medicine for decades, but gained notoriety when featured on the Dr. Oz Show (2014) as “…effective, natural treatment for pain.”

The application includes fine, sterile hypodermic needles gently inserted into acupuncture/trigger points just under the skin or into the muscle. This modality is highly effective for acute injury and chronic pain where the interstitial fluid may become congested with inflammation from injured tissue, preventing the efficient nutrient and waste product transfer between the cells and the bloodstream. API therapy stimulates the acupuncture point for a much longer period of time, and on a deeper level, thus enhancing the therapeutic benefit—think of it as amplified acupuncture.

It is a very useful modality for chronic conditions and is indicated for rheumatoid arthritis, lumbar/neck/shoulder pain, tennis elbow, carpal tunnel, sports injuries, fibromyalgia, tendonitis and migraine headaches.

Local resources: • Acupuncture Center for Wellness - 7550 Red Road Ste #116, Miami, 305- 669-6699 • TCM Acupuncture – 8603 S. Dixie Hwy, Suite 208, Miami, 305-720-9895 • Dr. Hui Shao – 3300 Ponce De Leon Blvd, Suite 250, Coral Gables, 305-4614046 • Caroline Faxas – 110 N. Federal Hwy, #204, Hallandale, 305-912-3262 • ZenZations Holistic Center - 7520 SW 57th Ave, Suite K, Miami 305-7407800 • Wanda Cintron Acupuncture Clinic, 717 Ponce De Leon Blvd, Coral Gables, 305-445-4494.

Fun for Everyone!

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w!!! the holidays are here and there are so many events to participate in where the whole family can reunite, share and create wonderful memories. From Run/Walk races that raise money for charities to colorful parades celebrating our Thanksgiving Day and the beginning of a wonderful holiday season, events around town beckon for your participation and support. Here are just a few to get you started….

North Miami Thursday, November 26th, 10am - 41st Annual Winternational Thanksgiving Day Parade along 125th Street from N.E. 6th to N.E. 12th Avenue. Information: 305-895-9840, 305-893-6511, or visit www.NorthMiamiFL.gov/Celebrate.

Kendall/South Miami The Falls 2015 Holiday Parade, Saturday November 21st 10am. Parade route begins in front of the Mall. Information: call Doris Rassi at 305-255-4571. The Falls, 8888 S.W. 136th St, (305) 255-4570 Kendall/South Miami Baptist Health South Florida’s Turkey Trot, Novemeber 22 at 7:30 a.m. and includes three races that are perfect for every member of the family.

7900 S.W. 40th Street, 305-278-8668. www.miamiturkeytrot.com.

Duck Key Hawks Cay Turkey Trot 5K Run/Walk, November 22nd 9am. An event for the entire family. 61 Hawks Kay Blvd, 305-289-4906, www.hawkscay.com.

Refer to our calendar on page 54 for other events around town.

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ne of the largest free-standing art museums in South Florida, the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum has welcomed more than 40,000 visitors per year since its founding in 1977. And today they invite the community to experience the art of Hans Hofmann–a towering figure among postwar New York School painters–through the subject of the exhibition, Walls of Color: The Murals of Hans Hofmann.

The exhibition explores Hofmann’s public mosaic projects through paintings, mosaic studies and project drawings. The complex structures of Hofmann’s abstract canvases explode with vivid hues, each work a distinct expression of his highly evolved “Search for the Real,” the title of his influential books of essays of 1948. This exhibition is also the first to focus on Hans Hofmann’s varied and under-appreciated mural projects. By incorporating a number of the finest examples of the artist’s contemporaneous easel paintings (as well as key paintings leading up to and following his mural work), the exhibition will demonstrate the continuity and evolution of Hofmann’s oeuvre, culminating in the late, great so-called Slab paintings, where both the assertive planarity of the murals and the modular, colored mosaic elements achieved their final, sublime expression.

Situated at the heart of FIU’s Avenue of the Arts (10975 S.W. 17th Street), the Frost Art Museum’s lakeside building will host the exhibition until January 03, 2016. For more information call 305348-2890, or visit: thefrost.fiu.edu and click on exhibitions. Museum is open until 5pm daily-closed on Mondays.

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WEDNESDAY, November 11

Annual Veterans Day Parade

Miami Beach Annual Veterans Day Parade - In celebration of Veterans Day, Miami Beach will hold the annual parade along Washington Avenue from 17 to 11 streets.

There will be floats, veteran marching bands and an all veterans parachute team that will come in for a landing at Flamingo Park for a wreath laying ceremony and free picnic.

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n honor of Veterans Day, Miami Beach will hold their annual Veterans Day Parade, featuring a free picnic, an array of floats, veteran marching bands and an all veterans parachute team which will land at Flamingo Park for a wreath laying ceremony.

Miami Beach had a major role in World War II as the Army Air Corps Veterans played a major role in the history and developed the city. As a training ground for air servicemen in the 1940’s, many South Beach hotels were used as housing for the troops during their regular marching drills and exercise programs in preparation for their upcoming deployments.

Originally named the county Causeway, now MacArthur Causeway was named so in honor of General Douglas MacArthur. After the war, many of these same veterans returned and made Miami Beach their permanent home.

The special Miami Beach centennial float will be debuting at the parade, and it will later be available for photo ops at Flamingo Park Baseball Stadium.

The route takes place along Washington Avenue from 17 to 11 streets. So come on out to Honor our Veterans, enjoy the beautiful Florida sunshine, and celebrate Miami Beach’s interesting history in WWII. For more specifics, including the parade line-up and ceremony program/speakers, visit http://tinyurl.com/o9gvwur.

SUNDAY, November 9 36th Annual Miami Lakes Veteran’s Day Parade – will take place at 6800 Main Street. Mark your Calendars for yet another Veteran’s Day Parade from 10am-12am. 15700 NW 67th Ave, Route follows Ludlam Road and

finishes 6100 Main Street (Town Hall).

Please contact the Town of Miami Lakes for more info Contact Clarisell De Cardenas, Committees & Special Events Coordinator phone at 305-3646100

City of Hialeah Veteran’s Day Ceremony – 11 am at Triangle Park. Starting Point will be at City Hall (Palm Ave & 5th St) and ending at Veterans Park (Palm Ave & Okeechobee Rd). Call 305 889-5701 for more details.

Sunny Isles Beach Veterans Memorial Wall Ceremony - 9:30 am - Music by the Norman S.Edelcup Elementary School Band, retired flag stars presented to veterans by Girl Scouts courtesy of the Major Stuart Adam Wolfer Institute. Heritage Park (19200 Collins Avenue). Residents of Sunny Isles Beach who have served in the United States Military and have completed a nomination for veterans’ wall application, will be added to the Heritage Park History Wall (19200 Collins Avenue) The Village of Pinecrest Veterans Day Ceremony - will be held from 11am -1pm at Veterans Wayside Park, 11111 Pinecrest Parkway. Please join them in a salute to our brave military personnel. The event includes an honor guard, presentations, music, and a complimentary picnic lunch.

RSVP by contacting the Pinecrest Community Center, 305-284-0900 or on their website.

Key West Veteran’s Day Parade - at 4:00p.m. The Veterans Day Parade will travel down Duval Street, with a reviewing stand near Fleming and Duval. Everyone is welcome to come cheer on the marching units and pay tribute to service members past and present. Organizations are encouraged to sign up to participate in the parade.

For more information, please contact: Chief Torres at 305-292-7527. ***Free Entry at Florida State Parks for Everyone on Veteran’s Day (sponsored by Visit Florida)

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The ZooRun5K (3.1m) around the zoo is for folks of every speed – from cheetah to tortoise – so no matter your pace, come out for fun and exercise. The ZooKidsDash is a race for kids ages 2 – 9. With distances ranging from 100 to 525 meters and opportunities to interact with Gigi, Kaz and Pio – the popular Zoo Squad mascots. Dress or accessorize like your favorite animal to win prizes at the costume contest. “…With over 4,000 race participants last year, we know that children and families want to be at Zoo Miami to experience this amazing park. Come take a walk (or run!) on the wild side!” said Ron Magill, Zoo Miami Communications and Media Relations Director.

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wo studies from Baylor University have confirmed that materialism can lead to feeling less satisfied with life, while a sense of gratitude reverses some of the negative effects of the pursuit of things.

The research, led by Professor James Roberts, Ph.D., included questionnaires sent to 246 marketing students from another university, focusing on happiness and satisfaction with a 15-minute survey that included a 15-point materialism scale. The study found that individuals that focused on achieving material goals were less satisfied with their lives, less happy and had lower self-esteem. Meanwhile, the study found that grateful students found more meaning in their lives and felt a greater sense of satisfaction.

“Individuals high in gratitude showed less of a relationship between materialism and its negative affect. Additionally, individuals high in materialism showed decreased life satisfaction when either gratitude or positive affect was low,” note the researchers.

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ccording to the Centers for Disease Control, autism spectrum disorder (ASD) now affects about 1 in every 68 children in the U.S., up from 1 in 150 in 2000. This includes 1 in 42 boys and 1 in 189 girls.

Contact with animals may help ameliorate this troubling trend. A recent study of 114 children between 5 and 12 years old has found that autistic children having greater contact with animals have less anxiety related to social situations.

The research was led by Marguerite O’Haire, Ph.D., from the Center for the Human-Animal Bond at the College of Veterinary Medicine of Purdue University, in West Lafayette, Indiana. Colleagues from the School of Psychology at the University of Queensland, in Brisbane, Australia, also participated in the study.

The researchers divided the 114 children into 38 groups of three. Each group had one ASD child and two children without ASD. Skin conductance, which provides an objective way for researchers to gauge social anxiety, was measured among the children as they read silently and aloud. As expected, skin conductance was significantly higher among the ASD children as they read aloud in front of their peers. In successive sessions, when researchers introduced pet guinea pigs for the children to pet prior to their readings, the ASD children’s skin conductance levels dropped significantly.

“Previous studies suggest that in the presence of companion animals, children with autism spectrum disorders function better socially,” says James Griffin, Ph.D., of the Child Development and Behavior Branch of the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

“This study provides physiological evidence that the proximity of animals eases the stress that children with autism may experience in social situations.”

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The researchers utilized a scientific method called CytoSolve to analyze 6,497 diverse laboratory studies conducted by 184 scientific institutions in 23 countries worldwide. The study data showed that GMO soybeans significantly accumulate formaldehyde, a class-one carcinogen.

The research also found that genetic modification forces a depletion of glutathione among the plants, which weakens their immune system. This contrasts with the proposals put forth by the GM industry that GMO soybean plants are stronger, allowing them to endure environmental hardships better than non-GMO soybean plants.

The research was led by V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai, Ph.D., a biologist trained at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and published in the peer-reviewed journal Agricultural Sciences. “The results demand immediate testing, along with rigorous scientific standards to assure such testing is objective and replicable. It’s unbelievable such standards for testing don’t already exist. The safety of our food supply demands that science delivers such modern scientific standards for approval of GMOs,” states Ayyadurai.

Former Environmental Protection Agency Senior Scientist Ray Seidler, Ph.D., comments about the study, “The discovery reported by Ayyadurai reveals a new molecular paradigm associated with genetic engineering that will require research to discover why the extent of formaldehyde and glutathione concentrations are altered, and what other chemicals relevant to human and animal health are affected. We need the kinds of standards Ayyadurai demands to conduct such research.”

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The researchers tested 3,789,330 pregnant women between 2000 and 2010. Of these, 128,950 took at least one prescription for antidepressants during their pregnancy.

High blood pressure among children of mothers that didn’t take antidepressants was about 21 percent. Children that were exposed to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressant drugs during pregnancy experienced high blood pressure in 31.5 percent of the cases. Those that were exposed to non-SSRI antidepressants experienced high blood pressure 29 percent of the time.

This represents a 50 percent increased risk of hypertension for babies of mothers that take SSRIs during pregnancy and a 40 percent increased risk for children exposed to non-SSRIs.

In their conclusion, the researchers note, “Evidence from publicly insured pregnant women studied may be consistent with a potential increased risk of persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn associated with maternal use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors in late pregnancy.”

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The researchers furthered a hypothesis called the theory of nail plate adhesion that links the nail’s healthy growth to the side-to-side curvatures of the nail plate.

The researchers identified that when this nail plate adhesion becomes weakened through trimming, it can result in one of three potential nail conditions: spoonshaped or pincer-shaped nails, or ingrown nails.

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Published in the journal Oncology Research, the test used an incubation system that simulated the ability of these cancer cells to grow within the body.

The researchers found that the clove extract stopped such development. The active constituents they identified within the clove extracts include oleanolic acid and eugenol. “Clove extract may represent a novel therapeutic herb for cancer treatment, and oleanolic acid is one of the components responsible for part of its antitumor activity,” the researchers commented.

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Agricultural Drones May Boost Sustainability Beginning November 15, farmers will be able to implement flying drones to perform important tasks in their fields. That’s when changes in Federal Aviation Administration regulations will loosen many of the current restrictions on this new technology.

Advocates believe the devices can improve precision agriculture management that uses GPS and data collection to boost crop yields and profits while aiding water conservation. For the first time, the drones will be operated legally during an entire growing season, allowing companies to test their business models and technologies together. This boost in crop intelligence should make farms more efficient and help smaller operations compete with well-funded big agribusiness conglomerates whose fields are typically rife with genetically modified (GMO) crops.

“This is the first year we’ll actually be able to see, by the time the growing season is over, the impact on the farmer and the impact of the quality of the grapes,” says David Baeza, whose precision agriculture startup Vine Rangers uses drones and ground robots to gather data on vineyard crops. “The biggest thing to watch is what’s going to happen to giants like Monsanto. How you define this market is changing, and the incumbents are in for a battle.”

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Global Rise Bolsters Sustainability On November 15, thousands of events in communities nationwide will celebrate America Recycles Day (America RecyclesDay.org). A program run by national nonprofit Keep America Beautiful since 2006, the event is dedicated to promoting recycling in the U.S. via special material collection drives and educational activities.

Materials available to groups include advice on setting up collectibles stations and customizable templates for promoting activities to increase recycling awareness, commitment and local action. There’s plenty of room to grow: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that the amount of waste that the average citizen composts or recycles has increased from 17 percent in 1990 to 33 percent today.

Some other countries have been conducting their own national programs longer. For the 19th year, Australia will celebrate a weeklong National Recycling Week (RecyclingWeek.PlanetArk.org) in November. More than 90 percent of Aussies feel it’s the right thing to do.

Recycle Now (RecycleNow.com), England’s national program, supported and funded by the government and implemented by 90 percent of municipalities, conducts its annual weeklong program in June. Organizers contend that six out of 10 citizens now describe themselves as committed recyclers, compared to fewer than half when the campaign launched in 2004. Germany also celebrates recycling for two days in June; many other countries do so in July.

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Monsanto Pushback More Countries Ban Toxic Roundup

Countries are gradually banning the use of Monsanto Roundup herbicide around the world as a danger to the environment and human health, and Bermuda is one of the latest to join the ranks. These moves come soon after a recently published metastudy conducted by the World Health Organization International Agency for Research on Cancer published in The Lancet Oncology determined that glyphosate, the main ingredient in Roundup, is probably carcinogenic to humans.

Colombia stopped using Roundup to kill illegal coca plants. France banned the sale to homeowners, and Germany is poised to do the same. A group of 30,000 Argentine physicians are calling for a ban there, where it’s blamed for boosting birth defects and cancer. Others, including the Brazilian federal prosecutor, are demanding that Roundup’s active ingredient, glyphosate, be pulled off the shelves.

In the U.S., the Institute for Responsible Technology (IRT) is assisting efforts in cities, counties and school systems to enact immediate bans of glyphosate-based sprays. IRT is also calling for schools to measure the amount of glyphosate residues in school meals and to take steps to eliminate them if found.

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France Tackles Food Waste with New Law French supermarkets will be banned from throwing away or destroying unsold food and must instead donate it to charities or for animal feed under a law set to crack down on food waste. Supermarkets will also be barred from deliberately spoiling unsold food so it cannot be eaten. Larger stores will have to sign contracts with charities by July 2016 or face penalties. The law will also introduce an education program about food waste in schools and businesses, and follows a measure enacted last February to remove best-before dates on fresh foods.

The Gars’pilleurs, an action group founded in Lyon, warns that simply obliging supermarket giants to pass unsold food to charities could give a “false and dangerous idea of a magic solution” to food waste, failing to address the core issues of overproduction in the food industry and wastage in food distribution chains.

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Researchers Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock and Joseph A. Allen have written in the Journal of Applied Psychology about their research into the effect of group humor on workers by studying the behavioral patterns of 54 real-world teams from two businesses. Humor and laughter were examined and each interaction was coded, based on recordings made at meetings. Performance ratings were collected immediately afterward and also several years later.

Results showed that levity can reduce body pain and stress and help with relaxation.

Cognitively, it bolsters creativity, memory and problem-solving ability. Humor reduces anxiety, elevates mood and increases self-esteem, hope, optimism and energy. In terms of society, it attracts connections, promotes bonding and altruism and leads to happier partnerships.

The researchers also found, “At the team level, humor patterns [but not humor or laughter alone] positively related to team performance, both immediately and two years later.” The positive aftereffects of humor on team performance include question-asking, proposals of innovative ideas, new people speaking up and kudos given for jobs well done or problems solved.

While sustainability is often categorized as a long-term strategy to mitigate both corporate reputational and financial risk, a small but growing number of companies are beginning to tie environmental goals to executive compensation. That means leaders of participating firms now must weigh operational variables such as greenhouse gas emissions against short-term financial outcomes.

In a report published by Sustainalytics and the sustainability nonprofit Ceres, 24 percent of the 613 largest publicly traded companies have now tied sustainability to executive compensation, up from 15 percent in 2012.

“At the end of the day, people are motivated by their pocketbooks,” says Veena Ramani, Ceres senior director of corporate programs. “I think investors have come to recognize that if you want companies to take this stuff seriously, you’re going to have to link it to people’s compensation.”

The shift is part of a broader push to tie corporate social responsibility areas such as environmental, social and governance metrics, as well as labor and local community impacts, to core business models.

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A Soulful Celebration of Body, Mind and Spirit Making the most of the original spirit and intention of the season’s holiday of gratitude feeds mind, body and spirit. Consider these happy and healthy choices.

Turkey: Free-range and organic gobblers are less likely to carry diseases and contain synthetic additives. Heritage turkeys are raised outdoors, freely roam pastures, are genetically diverse and eat the varied diet that nature intended (SustainableTable.org).

Spare a bird: Turkey alternatives include fun, seasonal staples such as vegetable lasagna, butternut ravioli and acorn squash filled with onions, beans and dried fruits.

Beverages: Serving locally made apple cider, beer or wine supports local farmers and businesses, plus avoids the carbon footprint that distant choices incur in transport.

Festive preparations: Refrain from using Styrofoam, as it isn’t recyclable and can emit chemicals when meeting up with hot turkey; use washable cloth napkins instead of paper brands that go to the incinerator or landfill; and ask guests to bring a container to take leftovers home to avoid food waste.

Get kids involved: Tinyurl.com/GreenThanksgivingTips suggests giving children construction paper that can be made into decorations and recycled later. Baker’s clay, a mixture of flour, salt and water, can also be molded into creative pieces.

Revive the traditional atmosphere: The first Thanksgiving was a communal affair, so invite neighbors to join family members. Besides enhancing friendships, their proximity reduces auto emissions by keeping them off the road or encouraging shorter trips.

Honor peace and brotherhood across all races and ethnicities by sharing with guests the essence of the first successful summer harvest by pilgrims in 1621. According to Listening to America, by Stuart Berg Flexner, members of the Native American Wampanoags were also invited to the celebration because the tribe had taught them to plant native Indian corn, a key to recovery after their first difficult winter. Perhaps read a passage from the Iroquois Thanksgiving Prayer, encouraging us to “return to our mother, the Earth, which sustains us.”

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Bill McKibben and May Boeve, co-founders of 350.org, encourage everyone to particularly follow November 28 and 29 events working to influence summit participants and spread news of their stance through social media. Volunteers are encouraged to travel to Paris to help ask all attending government officials, politicians and business leaders to pledge to work toward divesting state and local government and university pension and endowment funds of all fossil fuel stock holdings.

In addition, individual investors are urged to direct their financial advisors to eliminate fossil fuel stock holdings and switch to alternative energy companies. Graduates and college students can promote a movement to pressure their alma maters to similarly shift investments. More than 300 institutions worldwide have already made such commitments, including the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Norwegian Soverign Wealth Fund, University of Glascow, World Council of Churches, the California Public University System and Syracuse University.

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“Imagine an economy in which life is valued more than money and power resides with ordinary people that care about one another, their community and their natural environment,” says David Korten, Ph.D., the co-founder of Positive Futures Network and author of Change the Story, Change the Future: A Living Economy for a Living Earth.

“When we choose real wealth,” says Korten, of Bainbridge Island, Washington, “we can have exciting hobbies and adventures; work that challenges and stimulates us; and spiritual connection with a universe that’s infinitely larger than a stock portfolio. Instead of more stuff in our alreadystuffed lives, we can have fewer things, but better things of higher quality—fewer visits to the doctor and more visits to museums and friends’ houses.”

Step One: Taking Inventory of Our Stuff

Suze Orman, owner of the Suze Orman Financial Group, in Emeryville, California, and the bestselling author of The Courage to Be Rich: Creating a Life of Material and Spiritual Abundance, ponders whether having stuff is worth it and suggests we take an inventory of what we own. “Think about the value of each object—what it cost you when you bought it, what it’s worth in dollars today, and what it’s worth in an Earthly, material representation of who you are now,” she says.

Orman suggests that we go through every closet and cupboard and recycle or throw away items that no longer serve us well, and then reconnect with items we cannot part with, such as family mementos. “Think of these items so precious to you and how little, in fact, they cost you,” she says. In this way we define for ourselves the true meaning of worth, and it’s never about the stuff. Once we have a handle on what we own, it’s time to turn to what we want and how we can get there.

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raditional economics has us thinking in opposites—in terms of assets and liabilities. We consider the value of the material things we’ve accumulated: We add up our assets, which may include stocks, bonds, real estate, bank accounts and retirement savings. Then we subtract what we owe: Our liabilities may include a home mortgage, credit card debt, insurance premiums and student and vehicle loans. The balance is deemed our net worth. Figured this way, our net worth changes every minute and can sometimes shift dramatically.

There is a better way to assess our wealth, because we are overlooking, dismissing or squandering valuable resources and benefits such as time, personal health, spiritual well-being, social connections or community in order to buy temporal things that will only depreciate over time.

Golden, Colorado, author David Wann explores this theme in his book Simple Prosperity: Finding Real Wealth in a Sustainable Lifestyle. He remarks, “The U.S. may be on top when it comes to spending, but we also lead the world in debt per capita, children in poverty, percent of people in prison, obesity and infant mortality.” In fact, the U.S. has recently been ranked 42nd among countries in longevity— right below Guam and just above Albania.

“So where is all the spending really getting us?” he asks.

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Just as we would do a personal financial assessment before we make plans to achieve financial goals, a life audit helps us determine our priorities for living happily and productively. Ximena Vengoechea, a design researcher for Twitter, Inc., in San Francisco, recently did this using 100 sticky notes during one dedicated afternoon.

She wrote a single wish, one thing she’d like to do, on each note.

During this “spring cleaning for the soul,” as How we spend she calls it, Vengoechea our days is, of reaffirmed her thirst for course, how we learning and adventure.

Taking it a step further, spend our lives. she analyzed how she spent her time and how ~Annie Dillard often she saw the people most important to her,

mapping the data as pie charts. She discovered that most of her time was spent in work-related activities and not enough in adventure or seeing the people she loved. Drawing it up in the visual medium of charts helped her identify her life goals and see the changes she needed to make. Doubtless, we can all find better ways to utilize our assets.

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Heeding the Call to Change

Finding and doing what “lights us up” will bring us abundance, claims David Howitt in Heed Your Call. The Arianna Huffington, of New York City, founder of The Portland, Oregon, Meriwether Group entrepreneur who Huffington Post, knows firsthand about having so many consults for consumer companies, maintains that finding demands on our time that days feel rushed, which can our heroic purpose (that heart-centered thing we feel increase our stress and negatively impact our producwe were meant to do) is the first step toward tivity. She says, “On the flip side, the feeling of true wealth. Howitt says the secret is in one having enough time, or even surplus time, is Finding and doing small word—and. Instead of choosing either/ called ‘time affluence’. Although it may be hard what “lights us or, our world expands with “and”. He urges us to believe, it’s actually possible to achieve.” to integrate the intuitive and analytic parts of Huffington recommends simple steps like getup” will bring ourselves: “poet and professional, prophet and ting enough sleep and putting time limits on us abundance. profit, soul and success.” work and online activities.

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Belinda Munoz, a social change activist in ~David Howitt making your community and your world a San Francisco who blogs at TheHalfwayPoint.net, better place through your work, he observes. observes, “Time is neutral. We either use it wisely or waste “You’re doing good in the world, and when you live that way, it, so the onus is on us to make it an asset.” Munoz can both money follows you.” let go of stress and be more productive when she blocks out day parts. “When I focus, I shut out interruptions, stop feeling Judith Fertig blogs about living well at AlfrescoFoodAnd rushed and get my work done with ease,” she says.

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Our Time

Our Health

One high-impact way to support personal health is to value food more, maintains Wann. “We need to spend more of our household budget for food, not less,” he says. “By rearranging both our household and national expenditures, we should give a higher priority to fresh, healthy food and a lower priority to electronic gadgets, shopping, cars, lawns and even vacations.

Our overall expenses don’t have to go up, they just need to be realigned with our changing values. By choosing higher quality food and supporting better ways of growing it, we also begin to reshape the American culture,” he says.

Our Community

The community, rather than the stock market, is the better source of real wealth—both personal and global—maintains Korten. “Your community economy is part of the glue that binds people together. It’s the key to physical and mental health and happiness.” Giving less control over our financial well-being to Wall Street and more to Main Street will help us think in terms of livelihoods, instead of mere jobs. For Korten, this equates to not only how we make money to live, but also how we live—valuing our homes, communities and natural environment.

Priceless social capital comes from investing our time and money in local communities. Korten observes how, when freely and wisely spent, these efforts can lower crime rates, make schools more productive and help economies function better. Korten cites Oakland, California’s Well-Being in Business Lab, which works with the Greater Good Science Center at the University of California, Berkeley, to provide

Conducting a Life Audit

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ere’s one approach to doing a life audit in order to both discern more keenly what’s important and figure out how to allocate resources better to make those things happen.

Step 1: Take a few hours and 100 sticky notes. Write a wish—something you’d like to do or have happen in your life—on each one. Arrange them on a flat surface.

Step 2: See what patterns evolve. Rearrange the notes by themes or categories, such as family, physical health, adventure, profession, giving back and skills. Those that contain the most notes indicate the realm of your most powerful wishes.

Step 3: Evaluate your time. Take stock of a typical day, week and month to analyze how you are spending it.

Step 4: Prioritize. Some wishes need to be fulfilled every day or soon, while long-term wishes aim for “someday”.

Step 5: Make a plan. Just as with a smart financial strategy, which typically involves investing money over time, you can now allocate your time to make your wish list happen.

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Natural Facial Essentials Few Skincare Product Labels Tell the Whole Story

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natural include synthetic The skin, your t age 25, Paula meaning that Begoun, author protective organ, is chemicals, the term organic doesn’t of The Original meant to be “worn” apply to the entire formula.

Beauty Bible and other are common bestselling books on for life. It is not a Fragrances synthetic ingredients, as is skincare, makeup and luxury, but a neces- the triethanolamine that’s hair care, read her first used to adjust the label on a skincare prodsity to take the best often pH or as an emulsifying uct she was using. Alpossible care of it. agent to convert acid to though she’d tried many a salt, or stearate, as the different products to con~Charlene Handel base for a cleanser. trol her acne and eczema To help consumers since age 11, she hadn’t avoid overpaying for skinthought about the concare products which may tents, which was partially why she was distraught to discover that not be as natural or organic as touted, Begoun encourages skepticism regardacetone (nail polish remover) was the ing marketing messages. She suggests fourth ingredient listed. that an important key is to choose the

That moment became the inspirabest formulation for an individual’s skin tion for Begoun’s lifetime devotion to type and specific skin concerns. skincare research and education and

“There are no U.S. Food and Drug customer advocacy. Today, as founder Agency-approved standards for the of the Seattle-based Paula’s Choice organic labeling of skincare products Skincare, she continues to help women sold in salons and spas or over-theunderstand when product claims are counter. The cosmetics industry hasn’t misleading or factual. agreed on one set of standards either.

U.S. Department of Agriculture certifiBuyer Be Aware cation is cost-prohibitive for most small One of Begoun’s core conclusions is that the terms organic and all natural are cosmetic companies that use clean, certified organic ingredients, so some largely responsible for fueling the misuncertified organic products exist and conception that all synthetic ingredients it’s wise to read labels,” explains Elina in cosmetics are automatically bad and that all organic or natural ingredients are Fedotova, founder of the nonprofit Association of Holistic Skin Care Practiautomatically good. She further notes tioners. She counsels that we Google that many products labeled organic and

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any unfamiliar ingredient to learn if it’s toxic or safe.

Fedotova, a cosmetic chemist and aesthetician who makes her professional skincare line, Elina Organics, by hand in a laboratory, compares the difference between salon and commercial products to fine dining versus fast food. “Salon products are made in far smaller quantities than mass-produced brands and offer higher concentrations of ingredients. They are generally shipped directly to the salon and have a higher turnover rate. Because they don’t have to be stored for indeterminate periods or endure warehouse temperatures, they are fresher and more potent,” she says.

Although a facial can easily be performed at home with salon or commercial products, Fedotova, who owns spas in Chicago and Kalamazoo, Michigan, recommends having a professional facial every four to five weeks. Charlene Handel, a certified holistic esthetician, holistic skin care educator and owner of Skin Fitness Etc., in Carlsbad, California, agrees.

Sequenced Steps

Handel chooses treatments that penetrate and nourish the layer of skin below the epidermis, the outermost layer, consisting of mostly dead cells, with 100 percent holistic (edible) products and freshly brewed organic tea compresses. “Without a gentle exfoliation, the first step in any effective facial, not even skincare formulas with penetration enhancers, can nourish the lower layer of live cells. One key nourishment among others is vitamin C, an antioxidant which brightens, protects against sun damage and promotes collagen production,” advises Handel.

She explains that skin cells produced in the deepest layer gradually push their way to the epidermis every 30 days and die. Dead cells can pile up unevenly and give the skin’s surface a dry, rough, dull appearance. As we age, cell turnover time increases to 45 or 60 days, which is why gentle sloughing is necessary. This can be done at home three times a week with a honey mask.

Another form of exfoliation performed in a salon uses a diamondtipped, crystal-free microdermabrasion

machine to gently buff away the surface layer of skin.

An additional option is a light glycolic acid and beta hydroxy acid treatment. This can be purchased over the counter or prepared at home using organic papaya (glycolic) and pineapple (beta hydroxyl) for more even skin tone.

These treatments, sometimes referred to as acid peels, can be applied to the face for no more than 10 to 15 minutes, typically every two to four weeks or every few months.

Treatment serums, moisturizing lotions and eye and neck creams are all elements of a complete facial. The simplest sequence of application is layering from the lightest to heaviest—eye cream, serum and moisturizer. Give them a minute or two to absorb. No facial is complete without a sunscreen with zinc oxide or titanium dioxide, applied last.

Linda Sechrist is a Natural Awakenings senior staff writer.

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Follow with organic toner per skin type.

Dry complexion: Cleanse the skin with a mix of baking soda and coconut oil.

Gently scrub on and rinse off.

Oily complexion: Cleanse the skin using a mixture of yogurt and baking soda. Gently scrub on and rinse off.

Refresh the skin after cleansing with distilled rose water or herbal tea, adding in a few drops each of lemon juice and a favorite essential oil. For dry skin, choose chamomile tea; for oily skin, go with burdock root tea and juniper berry essential oil.

Exfoliate the skin with a gentle, healthy alternative to chemical peels by massaging with organic papaya; its enzymes help dissolve dead cells.

It also infuses skin with beta carotene and other beauty nutrients.

After rinsing skin, apply a mashed banana mask, which benefits all complexions by nourishing and moisturizing the skin. It’s also high in antiinflammatory vitamin B6.

Remove the banana with a wet wash cloth, and then apply a favorite moisturizer. Dry skin does well with coconut oil. For very dry skin, use shea butter or sesame oil.

Use a zinc oxide-based natural sunblock, especially after a facial, because the skin is more sensitive to ultraviolet rays after exfoliation. Eating foods rich in antioxidants helps prevent sun damage.

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Annual Food Drives

Sharing Our Bounty Food Drives Need Healthy Donations

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Meat: Tinned tuna, hat’s on the Please be chicken and salmon store table can help generous at easily for use in salads or lower risks of stroke, heart attack, the holidays and casseroles, on a sandwich and in whole wheat cancer and diabetes, acyear-round. pasta, brown rice or cording to the American low-fat stir fries. Avoid the Heart Association. Not all bisphenol-A (BPA) associated with cans families are able to afford the healthiand plastic containers. Instead choose est foods, but fatty, high-sugar options BPA-free pouch packaging and cans can be avoided. The most-needed with BPA-free liners (see Tinyurl.com/ donations are nonperishable and high BPAFreeCannedFood). in protein, but low in sodium, sugar Soup and Stew: Containing meat and fats. and veggies, soups and stews provide

Give the best, most affordable filling, hearty comfort foods. products, according to these tips and Vegetables: Yams and whole-berry the food drive’s guidelines. Organic and cranberry sauce turn dinner into a non-GMO (genetically modified) foods holiday feast. Add color to the plate are welcome. Note that not all pantries with mixed veggies. Lentils, pinto, can store fresh produce, glass containblack and kidney beans in stew, chili or ers or personal hygiene items.

“Pantries rely on informed commu- salad provide fiber, calcium, zinc and iron. Spices add zing. Tomatoes, sauce nity support,” explains Jim Byrnes, diand salsa add flavor; choose glass jar rector of Pennsylvania’s Nazareth Area products only in order to be BPA-free, Food Bank. “Area churches, schools due to the acidic effect on cans. and businesses keep us supplied. We’ll

Pasta, Rice and Grain: In Kansas help 300 families this year, compared City, Missouri, Katie Thomas, owner to 100 in 2006, balancing nutrition of Crazy Daisy Cleaning, regularly with practical needs.” organizes food drives. She says, “Pasta

California’s San Diego Food Bank and sauce make a variety of dishes and feeds better choices to 370,000 people each month, including military families, extend the number of meals.” Whole grain pasta, brown or wild rice, quinoa seniors and children. Such community and couscous are better choices than efforts change lives.

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Local Boy Scout troops remind us to prepare for their annual food drive.

On November 7, be on the lookout for a door hanger reminder; on November 14, they’ll pick up food for delivery to local food banks.

The National Association of Letter Carriers’ (U.S. Postal Service) annual nationwide food drive is May 14, 2016. Since 1992, they’ve collected more than 1.3 billion pounds of food.

Feeding America’s drive benefits from a matching gift from motivational speaker and author Tony Robbins through December 3, aimed to provide a total of 100 million meals for the 49 million Americans that struggle with hunger. Each $1 given and matched helps secure and distribute 20 meals through its network of food banks. Donate at Tinyurl. com/TonyRobbinsFeedingAmerica.

white pasta. Bulgur provides nearly 75 percent of a day’s fiber requirement when added to soup or salad.

Cereal: Steel-cut or rolled oats, farina (Cream of Wheat) and grits are low-calorie and nutritious options for a warm start to the day. All can be found as organic; farina in whole wheat or white wheat that is certified kosher.

Cold cereals should list whole grains as the first ingredient and be high in fiber and low in sugar, like organic Oat O’s.

Snacks: Unsalted nuts, full of fiber, protein and vitamins, are highly prized at food pantries. Packed in juice, fruit cups make a healthy treat. Dried fruit and sunflower seeds are another favorite. Low-salt, low-sugar peanut or sunflower butter packs protein. Honey is a healthy sweetener.

Collecting Party: “A group of us collected and donated 600 pounds of food for babies, pets and adults to Ex-

Search for a generic food item at CalorieCount.com to see how brand-name products rank in nutritional value. tended Hands Food Bank,” says Dee Power, in Fountain Hills, Arizona. For babies, include food without added sugar or salt and single-grain cereal.

Alternative Giving: Especially popular during the December holidays, the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank offers prepacked bags to grocery store patrons, paid for at checkout.

Customers can see what’s included and the food bank picks them up. (Tip: Cash donations allow lower cost bulk purchases with no need to transport or sort items.)

Non-Food: Make sure the food pantry has storage space before donating wet or dry food for cats and dogs and birdseed; baby wipes, shampoo and soap; and adult soap, deodorant, shaving supplies, toothpaste, shampoo and toilet paper.

“A $5,000 grant gave us added storage space,” says Byrnes.

The bottom line is what food pantries need is much the same as what’s found in any healthy home pantry—comestibles rich in flavor, vitamins and fiber and free of unhealthy additives. Please be generous year-round, sharing well beyond the holidays.

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relationship in accomplishing good.

Using this six-part process of helpful concrete steps applies equally to the children and adults in our lives. n Become aware of the other person’s emotions.

What’s Your Child’s EQ? Six Ways to Raise Emotional Intelligence

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uch of our identity is shaped in childhood by key events and the emotions and perspectives we associate with them.

All Emotions Count

Emotional intelligence, sometimes referred to as EQ, is often overlooked as a skill set in today’s world. The recent animated film Inside Out calls attention to effective ways of addressing a child’s journey by embracing and better understanding their emotions; particularly those that don’t feel positive.

A recent study by the London School of Economics Centre for Economic Performance found that a child’s emotional health is far more important in determining future happiness than factors such as academic success or wealth. Parents can help ensure a healthy emotional upbringing by avoiding making three mistakes.

Disapproval of a child’s emotions: This involves being critical of a child’s displays of negative emotion and reprimanding or punishing the child for expressing them.

Dismissing a child’s emotions: This comes across as regarding a child’s emotions as unimportant, either through ignoring their emotions, or worse, trivializing them.

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Recipe for a High EQ

Parents can successfully form deeper connections with their kids by recognizing, respecting and acknowledging their emotional range, rather than telling kids they should feel a certain way. Telling someone how they should or shouldn’t feel only teaches them to distrust themselves and that there’s something wrong with them. As a communication aid, Inside Out may speak best to older children, because younger viewers may get the erroneous impression that emotions can control them, rather than that they can control their own emotional reactions.

The recipe for healthy bonding and emotional development is for all parties to model how they value the importance of each other’s feelings and respectfully listen for the feelings behind the words.

In opening ourselves to being understood, we open ourselves to understanding others. Good parenting involves emotion. Good relationships involve emotion.

The bottom line is that emotions matter.

We all struggle with negative emotions from time to time, and the way we address and deal with them influences our emotional health. The goal is to develop a trustworthy emotional connection with the other person that is important to us, which enhances intimacy and the effectiveness of the

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n Care about the other person by seeing their emotions as valid and important. n Listen empathetically to better understand the way they feel, allowing them to feel safe to be vulnerable without fear of judgment. Seek to understand, rather than to agree or redirect. n Acknowledge and validate their feelings. We don’t need to validate that the thoughts they have about their emotions are correct; instead, simply let them know that it’s valid to feel the way that they do. For example, if a friend says, “I feel useless,” we could validate them by saying, “I can see how you might feel that way.” n Allow the person to experience their emotions fully before moving toward any kind of improvement. We cannot impose our idea of when they should be ready or able to feel differently. This is when we practice unconditional presence and unconditional love. We are there as support, without trying to fix them or anything else. Don’t be offended if they don’t accept support that’s offered at this time. A benevolent power is inherent in offering love that exists regardless of what someone does or does not do with it. n Help the other person to strategize ways to manage the reactions they might be having to their emotions after—and only after—their feelings have been validated, acknowledged and fully felt. This is when we can assert new ways of looking at a situation that may improve the way another person is feeling. This is when advice may be offered.

When done successfully, this process can transform a conflict encountered in a relationship into solid gold.

Teal Swan is the author of Shadows Before Dawn: Finding the Light of SelfLove Through Your Darkest Times, on how healing hidden wounds reveals our authentic selves (TealSwan.com).

Inside Out will be released next month on DVD.

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Many yoga studios honor our nation’s veterans by offering complimentary yoga classes during Veterans Gratitude Week every November, to coincide with Veterans Day. Check your local listings for participating teachers and studios, and if you’d like to contribute your services, contact Veterans Yoga Project.

Barre Your Way to Better Fitness

Ballet-Inspired Workouts Create Long and Lean Muscles

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magine having a ballerina’s physique, grace, strength and flexibility. That’s the potential of barre.

“Barre is a combination of ballet, yoga and Pilates principles. We use small, isometric movements to temporarily fatigue muscles and make them long and lean. The so-called fatigue is what causes muscles to shake, and therefore, change,” explains Nadia Yokarini-Kotsonis, a certified barre instructor at Physique Fitness Studio, in Grove City, Ohio. Students use a ballet barre to support themselves while doing the exercises.

Yokarini-Kotsonis is among many former dancers that have embraced barre fitness. Trained in ballet, tap, contemporary and traditional dance in Athens, Greece, she discovered barre when she moved to the U.S. “I fell in love with how challenging it was and the effects and changes I saw in my body. I got certified a year later and have been teaching ever since. I’m still in love

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with practicing it, no matter how tired I might be beforehand,” she says.

Rather than a cardiovascular regimen, “Barre is good for developing core strength. You gain overall flexibility, muscle strength, improved posture and range of motion,” says Lisa Juliet, West Coast regional director of the teacher certification program (Barre Certification.com).

Not Just for Dancers

While barre has had some U.S. presence since the 1950s, “It’s having a resurgence now,” says Charlene Causey, a certified natural health professional and ballet body barre instructor in Pueblo, Colorado.

Newfound interest began on both coasts and is quickly becoming a Midwest mainstay, according to YokariniKotsonis, who says it’s one of the most popular classes she teaches, and other studios are following suit. She remarks, “Everyone wants to offer barre, and

everyone wants to come to a class and see what it’s about.”

“Seniors love it because barre helps improve their balance. It’s also perfect for people working to overcome injuries,” says Juliet. She notes that while women are predominant in classes, the tide is turning a bit toward more gender equity. “Men that enter classes as skeptical come out sweating.” One recently earned his barre teaching certificate.

Benefits of Barre

“What makes this workout brilliant is that the classes are designed to fit the goals and ability levels of all participants. Each set of exercises provides options ranging from the beginner to the more advanced barre enthusiast.

Effective, yet safe, low-impact techniques provide ongoing challenges,” says Causey.

Those that regularly practice realize many positive effects. “Your body becomes long and lean, similar to a ballet dancer’s. You learn to stand tall and become stronger with each class,” says Yokarini-Kotsonis. However, don’t expect it to be easy. “Even when you do

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Most teachers individualize modifications for beginners. “I tell my students to do what they can. There’s no judgment here,” says Causey.

Many yoga teachers offer barre classes as a beneficial complement to other sports and activities such as running. “It supplements your other endeavors,” notes Causey. Today’s barre classes feature bare feet and typical workout wear, specialized equipment and props, contemporary music and of course, the ballet barre. The whole experience is highly positive and upbeat, says Causey.

Most fitness experts would agree that it’s good to add variety to workouts, and trying something new adds spice to the mix. Plus, for those that keep at it, says Yokarini-Kotsonis, “Barre can be the fastest results-oriented program you can undergo. Expect to see a change in your body in a month if you attend three to four classes a week.”

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Toxic Ingredients to Avoid n Benzophenone

Dangers in the Cosmetic Bag

Choose Safe and Healthy Natural Beauty Aids

n Butylated compounds, including BHA, BHT n Carbon black n Ethanolamine compounds including DEA, MEA, TEA n Formaldehyde-releasing preservatives (quaternium-15, imidazolidinyl urea) n Heavy metals, including lead (may not be labeled) n Phthalates n PTFE (Teflon)

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e all want to look and feel beautiful, often enhancing our best features with assistance from cosmetics. Yet many of us may not be aware of the toxic ingredients contained in products we’re using.

“When the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act was passed 77 years ago, it contained 112 pages of standards for food and drugs, and only one page for cosmetics,” says Connie Engel, Ph.D., science and education manager at the Breast Cancer Fund and its Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, in San Francisco.

While most cosmetic ingredients must be listed on product labels, sometimes their names are hard to recognize, many are toxic and some of the most dangerous ones may not even be listed. Labeled toxins commonly found in cosmetics include endocrine disruptors that can affect our developmental, reproductive, neurological and immune systems. Here are just a few:

Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), also known as Teflon, is found in foundation, pressed powder, loose powder, bronzer, blush, eye shadow and mascara. It can even enhance the toxicity of other chemicals, according to Danish research published in the International Journal of Andrology, and due to its fluorine base, can disrupt iodine absorption, contributing to breast disease including cancer.

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are common preservatives found in lip products, liquid makeup and moisturizers that the European Commission on Endocrine Disruption cites as interfering with hormone function. They’ve also been shown to cause kidney damage, according to research from Spain’s Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

Formaldehyde in many forms, including quaternium-15, coal tar, benzene and mineral oils that are prohibited in the European Union and Japan, are classified as carcinogens by the International Agency for Research on Cancer.

These examples represent the tip of the iceberg of toxic chemicals of concern commonly used in cosmetics.

They further range from allergens and substances that cause non-cancerous and cancerous tumors and organ toxicity to developmental and reproductive impairment, miscarriage and bioaccumulation leading to toxic overload when not excreted.

Fragrances don’t have to be included in label ingredient lists, constituting another major concern, explains Engel.

“Most cosmetics, even eye shadow, contain fragrance, and those fragrances can contain several dozen unlabeled ingredients, including hormone-disrupting phthalates.”

The European Union is the authoritative source on all of these issues.

Based on its CosIng (cosmetic ingredients) database accessed via ec.europa.

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eu/consumers/cosmetics/cosing, it has banned scores of toxic chemicals from makeup sold in EU countries.

Safe and Healthy Alternatives Fortunately, safe alternatives are available to enhance our natural beauty.

“Become an educated consumer and read the list of ingredients,” advises Janice Cox, the Medford, Oregon, author of Natural Beauty at Home.

“Fewer ingredients and organic components mean safer products.”

Better yet, we can make our own more natural beauty aids. “One advantage of making your own is that you’re in control. You know yourself and your skin and sensitivities,” says Cox. DIY products are easy if intense color isn’t a requirement. “The color many people want is hard to produce with kitchen ingredients,” Cox explains. “You can make clear mascara and eyebrow tamer with castor oil. It’s easy to make lip balms and maybe get a little color by adding berry juice or beet root powder.”

For those that want the look of highquality makeup without toxins, other good alternatives come into play, says Hollywood makeup artist Lina Hanson, author of Eco-Beautiful. “I had been working in the industry for several years before I discovered the toxic ingredients in makeup; I was shocked,” she says.

Equally unsettling, “I also learned that many of the ingredients allowed in the U.S. are banned in the European Union because of their toxicity.”

That knowledge launched Hanson’s quest to create safe, organic, beauty-enhancing products for women, celebrities and everyday people alike.

“So many people these days pay close attention to what they put in their bodies, but not everyone is as careful about what they put on their bodies,” she says. “I want people to understand that you don’t have to sacrifice beauty in going green.”

Hanson warns against so-called “natural” cosmetics that abuse the term and may include harmful preservatives and synthetic ingredients. She assures, “Any product labeled ‘USDA certified organic’ contains 100 percent organic

ingredients.” Her book mentions numerous brands she recommends.

Beauty Bonus Tip Healthy, moisturized skin is essential to natural beauty, many experts agree, noting that younger women need to unclog pores to prevent acne. They don’t need much moisturizing, but skin generally becomes drier with age, making good moisturizers important.

Cox recommends jojoba oil to effect glowing skin. Hanson likes coconut oil, although she recommends rubbing it in, removing makeup

and then taking it off with a hot, wet towel.

The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics (SafeCosmetics.org) has created a helpful app for iPhone and Android users at ThinkDirtyApp.com. Simply download it and scan a store item’s barcode to immediately access information on the product’s toxic ingredients, along with recommendations for healthier alternatives.

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Kristen Bell on Planet-Friendly Living Eco-Activist Actress Takes Steps that Make a Difference

by Gerry Strauss

Which core beliefs catalyze your passion for consciously stewarding the environment?

I wholeheartedly believe: Every problem has a solution. We are all global citizens. Kindness is always in fashion.

We have to laugh at ourselves. There is strength in forgiveness. Honesty without tact is cruelty. No one can make me feel inferior without my consent. Ultimately, we are responsible for one another and for the creatures and places around us.

I felt good about caring for the world around me before I had kids, but now I also derive a ton of self-esteem from being a good example for them.

How has celebrity supported your role in speaking out on behalf of your favorite causes?

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My approach is to spotlight an issue while also shedding light on a solution. I particularly like talking about childhood malnutrition and telling people about ThisBarSavesLives (ThisBarSavesLives.com), which donates a life-saving nutritional packet to a child in need every time we buy this organic, gluten-free snack bar. I love their motto, “We eat together.”

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rom Veronica Mars to Forgetting Sarah Marshall, her face is unmistakable. Thanks to the worldwide popularity of Frozen, her voice is now unforgettable, as well. Kristen Bell, though, believes the greatest contribution she can make is embodying an ecofriendly lifestyle together with her husband, actor Dax Shepard, and their two daughters, finding ways to help the planet survive and thrive for generations to come.

What Earth-friendly actions do you and your family embrace in day-to-day living?

Our fun time revolves around being active outdoors. We love hiking as a family, walking a mile to dinner or biking along the river. We often go exploring and make up outdoor games such as: How far can you jump? How far can I throw this? and Let’s race! The kids like to get dirty and my husband and I like to breathe fresh air at the end of a workday.

We have a garden where the girls and I are learning about growing and caring for edible plants and how to cook what we grow. Our thumbs aren’t very green just yet but we are trying.

As PETA’s “Sexiest Vegetarian Celebrities” of 2013, why are you and Dax convinced that healthy vibrancy doesn’t rely on eating meat?

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I have been a vegetarian since I was 11.

I have never wanted to eat meat, even before I knew the positive environmental effects of a vegetarian diet. People need to be conscious of what they are eating. Most edible supermarket items aren’t real food. I like knowing where my meal comes from and who handles it. It makes both my mind and body feel better.

How did the animated film Frozen enable you to reach a larger young audience than ever before?

My goal with the character Anna was to play an imperfect princess, giving voice to the heroine I had been searching for when I was young: Someone who was awkward, clumsy, optimistic, too talkative, caring and didn’t have perfect posture. I wanted girls that feel like they don’t always fit in to have a fearless heroine to identify with. I want to be a real-life Anna, someone who doesn’t apologize for her flaws and stands up for herself and others because she’s strong.

Thanks to Frozen, I have been invited to do more projects that reach young people. I hope to extend my voice as a trustworthy source supporting projects that can benefit them.

You are passionate about the universal need for water conservation. What steps has your own family taken to be water-conscious?

Living in California and dealing with drought firsthand teaches about water conservation by necessity.

We carefully consider how the food we eat directly impacts water use; we all understand that producing meat and dairy is water intensive.

Replacing our lawn with AstroTurf cut our household water bill dramatically.

We never run water from the tap when we are brushing our teeth, and always ‘let it mellow if it’s yellow’, that is, flush selectively. We even reuse the water used to sterilize baby bottles to water houseplants.

Gerry Strauss is a freelance writer in Hamilton, NJ. Connect at GerryStrauss@aol.com.

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We can feel that way every day, in every aspect of life, awaking each morning excited to create the day ahead and enthusiastic about each moment and then falling asleep at night embracing a profound feeling of gratitude for all the good we know and have. Happiness is contagious and becomes an upward spiral of joy naturally shared with others.

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Robert Emmons, Ph.D., of the University of California-Davis, a leading authority in researching the science of gratitude and its impact on wellbeing, instructs his study participants, “Be aware of your feelings and how you ‘relish’ and ‘savor’ this gift in your imagination. Take the time to be especially aware of the depth of your gratitude.” In other words, don’t hurry through this exercise like a to-do list.

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Stepping into Health with Reflexology

By Ariana Rawls

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eflexology, according to Reflexology Association of America (RAA), “is a non-invasive complementary practice involving the use of alternating pressure applied to reflexes within reflex maps of the body, located on the feet, hands and outer ears.” A trained reflexologist uses specific finger, thumb and hand techniques to stimulate points and areas that correspond to the body’s organs and systems. Modern reflexology is actually based on ancient practices of working the feet that were found across four continents, including in China, Egypt and India. An American ear, nose and throat physician, William Fitzgerald, discovered the power of zones on the foot in the early 20th century. His Zone Theory was developed further by Dr. Shelby Riley and then by Eunice D. Ingham, a physical therapist; Ingham is mainly credited with researching, developing and popularizing the modern modality through the 1970s.

Reflexology can help with relaxation, stress relief, sleep, digestive problems, pain reduction and overall wellness – including “lending a helping hand” to mental health care management with depression, anxiety and post traumatic stress disorder. Reflexology has been used to support pregnant women with an easier birthing process and post-partum recovery as well. The modality has been used to complement medical care, especially in cases of cancer care to help with pain, nausea and anxiety.

Reflexologist Patrick Lucas (TheWellnessPathways.com), began studying after experiencing it himself as a client. “We live in a time-challenged society,” he states. “I could see the tangible benefits I received in my own body and the deep relaxation and stress reduction. That’s what drew me to study reflexology.”

Although there may be sensitive areas due to stress or ailments, a reflexology treatment should not be painful.

There are several areas that should be more tender, such as the adrenal reflex points. As your health improves through

continuous sessions, you can possibly influence your blood pressure and cholesterol levels and potentially reduce your reliance on prescription or over-the-counter drugs. “I have been a type II diabetic for more than 26 years, somewhat controlled with pills and, over the past five years, replaced with dosages of insulin. During this period my readings fluctuated between 165 dmo and 200 dmo daily. I started with reflexology…in November 2012 in order to rebuild my body and overall health and redevelop a sense of well being. Much to my amazement I noticed my need for insulin was becoming less and less. I went from 54 units daily to 20 units,” explained Melvin Bye, a client of Irina Breslav, a Stamfordbased reflexologist (IBHealing.com).

Although there is no required national certification to become a reflexologist, it is highly recommended to seek an American Reflexology Certification Board-certified (ARCB) practitioner in good standing either with RAA (ReflexologyUSA.org/Practitioners), ARCB (ARCB.net/Find-an-ARCBReflexologist) and/or the Reflexology Association of Connecticut (ReflexologyCT.org/CurrentMembers.html). This insures your chosen reflexologist has the training and knowledge needed to understand your health issues and goals. ARCB is an independent reflexology testing agency that certifies the professional competency of and sets standards for reflexologists nationwide.

Reflexology can help activate and balance the body’s healing powers by improving circulation, revitalizing energy, offering a relaxing place to release tensions, and reducing pain. “After suffering from a muscle injury in my back, I was in search of some type of healing. The pain I was experiencing was constant and nearly debilitating. I could not do my normal daily activities like driving, and going to the gym…I finally discovered the miraculous therapy of reflexology. Now I finally feel like myself again, and I’m able to do all of the activities I enjoyed prior to injuring my back…The effects are not instant but, by the day after therapy, you sure feel refreshed and find that your pain and stress will have dissipated,” said Josh B. of Stamford about his treatments in 2012 with Breslav.

Ariana Rawls is the editor of Natural Awakenings Fairfield County. A former nationally certified reflexologist, she practiced in the Tri-State area and in Israel and is a co-founder of the Reflexology Association of Connecticut.

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he old line, “He followed me home, can we keep him?” used to get a kid a dog or cat of his own. In today’s homes, it’s not that easy. Choosing a pet is a personal choice not to be taken lightly nor made on another person’s behalf. A surprise pet is a bad idea.

Rather than gift a pet during the holidays or at any other time, give a coupon to be redeemed after extensive and careful consideration. Involve the whole family in listing pros and cons, deal breakers and must-haves. Lifestyle adjustments by everyone are to be expected, but pets shouldn’t make all the sacrifices.

Available time and space, daily routines and costs all matter in determining the perfect pet.

Temperament

Account Coordinator for z11 Communications, public speaker and author Michael Holtz, of Knoxville, Tennessee, admits he would’ve fallen in love with any dog. His wife, Sarah, searched to find the one that would work best for them. Based on past experience, Sarah knew that she didn’t want a herding, massive, shedding or miniature pet. She was drawn to Labrador types and found Marley, a golden/basset mix rescue that moved in as Michael was undergoing cancer treatment.

“She’s calm, playful and wants to be near, but doesn’t smother, is stubborn, yet trainable, and mostly obedient,” Sarah says. “Plus, she’s content to nap or go on three-mile walks.

Walking Marley helped Michael’s recovery after surgery. She was good with just sniffing the green off of a blade of grass until he was ready to head home.”

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Small dogs and those that need extensive grooming were on Melinda Carver’s no-adopt list. “I read books, visited websites,

shelters, adopt-a-thons and rescue groups,” she When a dog or Take Two says. “As a single person with a full-time job, cat won’t do, try Herbert Palmer, of Morris Plains, New Jersey, I wanted a dog that would fit with my work, now with Green the Grid Group, worked for a volunteer and exercise schedules.” Riley, a something in a moving company when three kittens showed bloodhound/Lab mix, fit the bill. up near the loading dock. A co-worker took tank—

Shelter workers can project how large a one. Not in the market for a cat, much less two, dog will get when fully grown, as well as their freshwater Palmer tried to find them good, safe homes. Aftemperament and other breed traits. Carver ter five days, he realized, Lucky and Day had a fish, lizards was cautioned that Riley was an active animal, home—with him. “Sometimes we adopt them. needed long walks and would ultimately top or hamsters.

Many times they adopt us,” he confides.

100 pounds. Now age 11, he’s a companion Falling in love doesn’t depend solely on able 135 pounds. “I was surprised at how easy it was to what looks good on paper. Everyone deserves to find their change my routine to accommodate playtime, mile-long “heart” pet—when that first exchanged look proclaims, “He’s walks and training. He’s laid back and gentle for his size,” mine.” comments Carver, a blog talk radio show host in Parma, Ohio.

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The perfect pet doesn’t have to be perfect in looks or health. Dorie Herman, of Jersey City, New Jersey, a graphic designer for Martha Stewart Living, in New York City, is the human behind Chloe Kardoggian, a Chihuahua and puppy mill rescue, age 11, which she describes as “three pounds, two teeth, one giant tongue and an Instagram sensation.” Due to poor nutrition, mill dogs often lose their teeth as young adults, causing their tongues to hang out. She advocates for older dogs and an adopt/don’t buy policy. “With senior animals, you know what you’re getting. They have personality,” says Herman. “With my work schedule, I wanted an older pet, small and piddlepad trained.”

n Adult children boomerang home after college or a divorce, often with pets. A new baby also alters a home’s equilibrium. Many hours away due to work, school activities, elder care and/or volunteering can lead to a bored pet that will produce its own entertainment, often to the family’s dismay. n Some pets are easily washable, while others need professional grooming. Daily brushing minimizes shedding. n Family members’ tolerance for pet drool and snoring counts. n A yearly wellness exam, required inoculations, a microchip and pet insurance add to the tab.

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tion. Just as important, diets with more animal protein are prone to include less plant-based foods that provide many essential health benefits.

Is there any evidence indicating that a diet that includes 5 to 10 percent of high-quality animal protein is less healthy than a 100 percent vegan diet?

Dr. T. Colin Campbell on the Benefits of a Plant-Based Diet

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r. T. Colin Campbell, the Jacob Gould Schurman professor emeritus of Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell University, is the co-author of The China Study, author of Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition and was featured in the film Forks Over Knives. In his 70-plus years, he has written more than 300 research papers on diet, nutrition and health based on laboratory research and largescale human studies in China and the Philippines. He founded the nonprofit T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies, in Ithaca, New York.

The terms “vegan diet” and “plant-based diet” are often used interchangeably, but is there a difference?

In past years, most people that chose a vegan diet did so for ideological reasons, without fully understanding the scientific basis for this choice. As a result, the average vegan diet is not very healthy, nutritionally speaking— it’s much too high in total fat (about 30 percent of total calories) and refined carbohydrates (sugar and flour), often in the form of processed foods.

What are the main ecological and environmental benefits of a plant-based diet?

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Methane production by livestock is a major contributor to climate change, responsible for as much as 50 percent of current greenhouse gas production, according to some sources. Even the livestock interest group with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has estimated for at least the past 10 years that this contribution, although cited lower at 14.5 to 18 percent, outranks even the transportation sector.

The significance relates to methane production, which has a far higher capacity on a molecular level to trap and hold heat energy in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, although it has a shorter life. Its effect multiplies because a faster rise in temperature leads to permafrost melting and an additional release of methane. Other serious problems associated with livestock production include loss of topsoil, contamination of groundwater, depletion of deepwater aquifers and pollution of oceans and reefs.

Are all animal proteins harmful to health, or is dairy particularly detrimental?

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To my knowledge, absent published direct evidence, there is a strong commonsense impression that a 100 percent plant diet is better than anything less.

This is probably best answered by evidence from population-based studies showing a linear association of disease occurring with increasing consumption of animal-based foods, with zero disease at zero consumption of animal products. However, it’s also true that individual susceptibilities vary considerably.

My best estimate is that it’s easier and safer to consume no animal-based food because it better allows emergence of new taste perception.

What can healthy eaters do to spread awareness of the benefits of such a lifestyle?

Opportunities abound, including organizing a local showing of the film PlantPure Nation and a PlantPure pod program. You might enroll in the online plant-based nutrition certificate program partnered by the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies and Cornell University’s online curriculum and/or enroll in the Global Roots Health Experience conference this April in the Dominican Republic.

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Bone Broth: The Elixir of Life

By Patricia Singer

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one broth boutiques, an increasing store trend in locations such as New York City, are riding on an ancient tradition traced back to early China where the original alchemists were seeking the “elixir of life” – a blend of medicine and longevity – during a search for immortality.

Bone broth is an example of an alchemical process, of refining the ‘lead’ or raw materials – bone, vegetables, herbs and spices – through the heating process. It’s a reflection of the evolution of matter from one form to another, of taking something that is “heavy’ and from the earth, adding materials together and transforming those substances. In many ancient traditions, the alchemical brew was buried, heated and brought through a ritual of timing – dependent on the stars and the cycle of the moon – and cooked for a long period of time. When the transformation was complete, it was then exhumed and consumed.

‘Bone’ in traditional Chinese medicine symbolizes your essence, ancestry, and the building blocks of your DNA. Bone broth refers to an understanding that the essence of a long-cooked stock nourishes at the deepest of levels, the bones, joints, blood, building marrow, the kidneys, reproductive system and the brain. These long-cooked stocks are beneficial for those who feel depleted, run down, stressed or over-exerted. This elixir is stimulating, grounding, fortifying and nourishing and an easily digested medicinal food.

You begin with a recipe and the ingredients required for a specific dish. You put the components through a process of firing or heating via roasting, bubbling or brewing; over time the bone broth is formed. The broth is easy to make and can be consumed plain or used as the base for a more complex soup by adding vegetables, meats and beans. It may also be used as a base in place of water in cooking rice or other grains. Adding vinegar – an important key ingredient – extracts minerals like calcium and magnesium, collagen and marrow from the bones into the soup, making it easier for the body to digest.

• 4-6 quarts of water, enough to cover bones and vegetables. Add more to keep covered.

• 2 tsp vinegar per quart of water or per about 2 lbs of bones • 2-3 onions, coarsely chopped • 3-4 cloves of garlic • 3 carrots, coarsely chopped • 3 or more celery stalks, coarsely chopped • 1-inch slice of ginger, several sprigs of fresh thyme, parsley and other favorite herbs and spices • 2 bay leaves Directions: 1. Preheat the oven to 350°F. Bake brown bones in a roasting pan for 45-60 minutes (the roasting consolidates the bones). If there is meat on the bones, remove it and refrigerate or, with the long cooking time, it can get stringy and lose taste. Add it back once the soup is complete or use it in other ways if you only want to drink the clear broth.

2. In a stockpot, put in the roasted bones, cover with cold water, add the vinegar and bring to a low boil. Skim off the foam-like layer. Add vegetables, spices and herbs and reduce heat to a low simmer. You can also add the browned bones and vegetables to a slow cooker.

3. Allow the soup to cook anywhere from eight hours to one to two days; the longer cooking time yields a richer broth. You can add more water as it cooks down.

4. Strain the liquid into a large bowl and allow cooling. A layer of fat will settle on top of the stock, remove the fat so as to keep the stock clear. Divide the stock into containers. It will keep in the fridge for four days or freeze until needed. The cooled broth will have a jelly-like consistency due to the high gelatin content of the collagen.

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Sugar Free At Last!

How to eat/enjoy desserts

By Liana Werner-Gray

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hen my health hit rock-bottom at 21-years young, I knew it was time to reflect on the choices I had made. I found myself in the hospital with a stage-1 tumor the size of a golf ball in my lymphatic system, glandular fever, chronic fatigue and on the verge of leukemia. For five years prior, I secretly binged on junk foods on a daily basis. I had nutritionally deprived my body, filling it instead with chemicals, preservatives, toxins, poisons and genetically modified organisms. I came to realize that somehow, someway, I would break my addiction to junk foods and end this vicious cycle of suffering.

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pounds and pounds of sweets in one sitting, enjoying the sugar high but never being fulfilled. I knew it was not possible for me to live a life without cookies, cake, chocolate, ice cream and candy, but to heal myself and strengthen my immune system I had to take extreme self-care measures to meet my daily nutritional needs. I started to live by the philosophy of eating whatever I craved, as long as it was made in the most natural way possible. I asked myself, how can I enjoy my favorite foods while nourishing my body?

I experimented with recipes for raw chocolate using real, whole ingredients including cacao, maple syrup and almond meal. I made cheesecake using whipped cashews, lemon and coconut oil that provided my body with protein and antioxidants, while providing that warm experience of real cheesecake. I made cookie dough from almond meal, real salt, honey and cacao nibs that provided both antioxidants and a comforting experience.

At every dessert sitting, I contemplated the nutritional value. When we get vitamins, minerals and nutrients from our favorite tasting desserts, we get total fulfillment as well as peace of mind. With so many healthy delicious dessert options, there’s no longer a need to eat sweets full of gluten, dairy, refined sugar and soy. I made a choice to skip all those exhausting ingredients. Life is too short to be weighed down by chemical laden desserts when natural recipes exist to satisfy our dessert cravings. Finally, we can have our cake and eat it, too!

The following recipe is an excerpt from The Earth Diet, published by Hay House.

Raw Cashew Cheesecake

Yields: 16 servings Total time: 3 hours to soak nuts, 25 minutes preparation, 4 hours freezing For the Base: 4 cups almond meal 5 Tbsp maple syrup (or raw honey) 1 Tbsp coconut oil for the Cheesecake filling ½ cup lemon juice (approximately 2 large lemons)

3 cups cashew nuts, soaked in water for 3 hours to soften ¾ cup maple syrup (or raw honey) ¾ cup coconut oil 1 Tbsp pure vanilla extract 1 /8 tsp salt Make the base. In a bowl, combine the almond meal, maple syrup (or honey), and coconut oil. The mixture should be dry, but moist enough to hold together. Turn the base mixture into a deep pie dish (large enough to hold 2-½ quarts) and press it evenly to cover the bottom and sides of dish. Set aside. Make the cheesecake filling. Put all the ingredients in a powerful blender and blend until filling is very smooth and light in texture. Pour the filling into the prepared crust. Freeze for 4 hours. Once set, cut into slices and serve. Tip: To make a smaller cheesecake, halve the recipe. Variations: Spoon 1 Tbsp of cheesecake filling into each of 32 paper baking cups for mini cheesecakes. Top with a few fresh berries.

Calories: 368 | Total fat: 28g Carbohydrate: 23g | Dietary fiber: 6g Protein: 7g

Cookie Dough

Yields: 12 servings Total time: 15 minutes 1 cup cashew nuts 1 cup gluten-free rolled oats 1 tsp pure vanilla extract 5 tsp maple syrup ¼ tsp salt 2 Tbsp cacao nibs Blend the cashews and oats in a food processor so the mixture resembles the consistency of flour meal. (It should be slightly finer than all-purpose wheat flour.) In a large bowl, combine the nut-oat blend with the vanilla, maple syrup, and salt. Once the mixture is well blended, stir in cacao nibs.

Taste it, if more moisture is needed, add water; add more maple syrup if you would like the dough to be sweeter. Roll the dough into ½-inch balls and serve. Store uneaten dough balls—if there are any—in the fridge up to three weeks. In the freezer they will stay good for up to two months. Use vanilla beans if possible. If not use vanilla extract without added sugar—check the ingredients on the back! If using vanilla beans, scrape the beans from one pod and use them in this recipe. Substitute raw honey for the maple syrup if you prefer.

Substitute coconut sugar for the maple syrup if you prefer.

Use 3 Tbsp of coconut sugar and 2 Tbsp of water. You can make this recipe without the cacao nibs, however the nibs are what make it “chocolate chip.” These can be made without oats; just use 2 cups of nuts. These are also great made with almonds instead of cashews. Variations: Add 3 Tbsp peanut butter to make Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Balls. On a plate, roll the balls in 1-½ Tbsp cacao powder for ChocolateCovered Cookie Dough Balls. Add 1 Tbsp cacao powder for Chocolate Cookie Dough Balls. Use the crust in the Raw Cherry Pie recipe and fill it with this cookie dough mixture for

Cookie Dough Pie. Add a few balls to the Vanilla Smoothie for Cookie Dough Smoothie.

Calories: 315 | Total fat: 18g Carbohydrate: 34g | Dietary fiber: 4g Protein: 10g

Chocolate Balls Yields: 12 servings Total time: 5 minutes

Making healthy chocolate is easier than you may think. This is one of the most popular recipes I offer. This chocolate can stay fresh in the fridge for 14 days and in the freezer for three months.

1 cup nut meal (finely ground almonds or other nut) ½ cup cacao powder 3 Tbsp maple syrup or raw honey Mix the nut meal, cacao powder, and maple syrup in a bowl.

With this mixture, roll into balls. Tip: Add ¼ tsp salt and ¼ tsp pure vanilla extract for enhanced flavor.

Calories: 69 | Total fat: 4g Carbohydrate: 8g | Dietary fiber: 3g Protein: 3g Liana Werner-Gray is founder of The Earth Diet, Inc. She is a sought-after speaker and advocate for natural healing using a healthy diet and lifestyle. After healing herself of many negative health conditions including a pre-cancerous tumor, digestive issues and disorderly eating through embracing a natural lifestyle, Werner-Gray began lecturing and teaching about The Earth Diet internationally. Liana has visited 33 countries to date. For more information or to check out her new book tour visit TheEarthDiet.com, call 347-255-7046, or email Liana@ TheEarthDiet.org. Tune in with Liana on her weekly radio show every Wednesday at 6pm (EST) on www.HayHouseRadio.com.

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Get Unstuck to Live a Happier Life

Apply Feng Shui Principles to Your Home and Life

by Catherine Avery

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id you know that every room in your home is a reflection of your life? Feng shui is about designing your environment – home or office – to help facilitate bringing in more of what you want in life, whether it is to be happier, healthier or more prosperous.

Feng means wind and shui means water in Chinese. Wind and water are about movement or energy. When energy (qi in Chinese) is blocked, the energy can’t move and you remain stuck. This can be evidenced with clutter, such as a cluttered desk or mounds of paperwork. Clear those piles and you will help clear your mind.

Are there places in your life where you feel stuck? For example, do you ever feel that your money is going down the drain as quickly you make it?

You may have a leak in your plumbing or maybe one of your toilets is leaking.

Check your toilets, faucets and showerheads and even your water bill. Then call the plumber.

There are two major schools of feng shui: the Form School and the Compass School. The former uses the bagua, which consists of eight trigrams that represent the different areas of meaning in your life. If you overlay the bagua on your floor plan, you can see the meaning of each area of your home. You align the side that has Wisdom, Career 44

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and Helpful People along your main entrance. The Compass School uses the luo pang (pronounced “low pan”), which is a geomancer’s compass and involves elements of astrology.

Typically, the Chinese nobles used the bagua to determine the most auspicious location for building their homes or businesses but today that’s not practical as most neighborhoods are already built. How can you use feng shui practically without tearing down your home and costing a lot of money?

Let’s look at two of the areas on the bagua – ‘Love and Marriage’ and ‘Fame and Reputation’ – as examples.

Love and Marriage

Do you want to reignite the spark in your relationship?

As an example, a woman reported that her and her husband had lost the intimacy in their relationship. One glance at their bedroom, which is located in the Love and Marriage area of the home, told the story. The walls were covered in artwork by their children. The fireplace mantel had photos of their children and there were two chairs on opposite sides of the room.

The curio cabinet – housed in the love and marriage corner of the room – was filled with feminine mementos,

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a stuffed animal and photos of their children.

The first step was to remove the children’s artwork and photos from the mantel and replace them with a small landscape painting from another room, a silver box that her husband had given her as a gift, and photos of the two of them as a couple. The kid-focused memorabilia from the curio cabinet was cleared out and like items were paired together. In feng shui, pairing like or similar items is symbolic of being a couple. Finally, the two facing chairs were moved side by side to create another pairing. Now the room was about the two of them as a couple, not just about her and their children.

Fame and Reputation

How do you manage a job shift when you are in the midst of moving?

According to the Holmes-Rahe Stress Inventory, changing jobs and moving are two of life’s major stressors. As an example, a woman wanted to change jobs and move in the same year that she was becoming an empty nester. Her goals for changing her son’s study room into a home office included the desire for a quiet retreat. Completely paneled in wood, her son’s dark and masculine study room was located in the Fame and Reputation area of her home. Because of the pending sale, it was decide to skip the expense of painting the paneling.

Fame is represented by red in feng shui and is the color of fire, which was lacking in this “wooded” room. She didn’t like red so a cream and hot pinkcolored rug was chosen for the floor to lighten the heaviness of the space and to bring in the fire element. A comfortable feminine thinking chair was purchased to soften the space, and mementos of her career were placed on her bookshelf, candles on an end table and inspirational sayings on the walls. Finally, several lamps were added for the dark corners.

Just a few months later she made a thrilling job shift and, not long after that, she sold her home.

Catherine Avery delivers peace, comfort and productivity through interior design of home and office environments with a focus on feng shui, space clearing and personal branding. Learn more and connect at Resovate.com.

bookreview The World’s Healthiest Foods

by George Mateljan

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Simple Feng Shui Strategies You Can Implement Now • Go outside and come in the front door as though it’s not your home. What do you notice first? Walk through your entire home taking notes on what you love and the areas for improvement. This is an old real estate trick, so if you are getting ready to sell your home do this now.

• Declutter, declutter. Think how great you feel when your home has just been cleaned – lighter, fresher, more clear. Decluttering is overwhelming for most people; it’s best to take one corner at a time and set a timer for 10 minutes.

• Want to attract a partner into your life? Make space in your closet and empty at least one drawer in your dresser to symbolically hold space for that person. The bedroom should be cozy and romantic, not too frilly or child-oriented. Place similar items in pairs to help bring in the partner energy.

• Ideally, you will have a view of the door from your bed or desk. For the bedroom, you want to feel safe, protected and aware of your surroundings. For the desk, this is the power position.

• When designing your living room, choose your furniture more for comfort and safety than for aesthetics. There is no point in having a gorgeous uncomfortable chair that your guests are afraid to sit in. Make sure that you and your significant other try sitting in the chair you plan to buy.

• Add plants to your bathroom. The wood element helps to offset the water element. If you don’t have a green thumb, a piece of driftwood will work.

ith over 300 hundred new recopies, this long-awaited second edition and award winning nutritional blockbuster, The World’s Healthiest Foods (GMF Publishing, 2015), by George Mateljan is hitting store bookshelves January 1, 2015.

The definitive guidebook for a healthy lifestyle through eating and cooking the right foods, this encyclopedic guide spans more than a thousand pages. The book focuses on the top 100 foods we all need to maximize our health, including fruits and vegetables, eggs and dairy, seafood, nuts and seeds, legumes, grains, fish, meats and flavorings. There are foolproof tips on selection and storage, cooking to retain maximum nutrition, and how to combine foods for even more health-boosting potency. Hundreds of recipes (including 300 new ones) cover every meal including snacks.

Mateljan is a longtime leader in the revolution to healthy eating, and this latest edition is the culmination of years of wisdom. Based on proven science and the latest research, this authoritative book goes far beyond meal planning. It’s a tour de force for a healthy lifestyle, with comprehensive, updated information on nutritional benefits from vitamins to minerals, anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidants. Countless misconceptions and myths are replaced with helpful, genuine expertise, including “best way” tips for handling every ingredient. Moreover, some 10,000 new scientific studies were consulted for this edition.

For readers who are just getting started on the road to transforming their own health, or avid healthy living aficionados looking for the ultimate reference, this is the ideal guide, sure to become a mainstay in the healthy kitchen.

George Mateljan is a renowned expert on healthpromoting foods and healthy cooking, and a pioneer in the organic food movement. The founder of Health Valley Foods, one of the largest health food companies in the world, he is the author of eight best-selling books. Learn more at whfoods. org, which has more than 40 million unique visitors per year.

Whfoods.org, Mateljan’s Foundation, provides information on how to include nutrient-rich foods as part of your everyday life. One of the most comprehensive website with up-to-date information about the foods that are good for you, with the website supported by more than 10,000 scientifically based studies.

The World’s Healthiest Foods, 2nd Edition, GMF Publishing, 1064 pages, SRP $39.95. Available at amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com, and whfoods.org. Distributed by Nutribooks, Midpoint Trade Books. natural awakenings

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Get Healthier, Wealthier and Happier with Gratitude Journaling

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lthough Thanksgiving is the time of year most people give thanks for what they have, writing about gratitude daily could make your next Thanksgiving really GREAT! Keeping a gratitude journal is a simple process. Daily, write down five things for which you are grateful. The benefits of this simple process are transforming and often immediate. It’s true.

Be grateful for what you have and you will have more. What’s interesting about this phenomenon is that research now supports it.

Dr. Robert Emmons, a leading expert in gratitude research, believes that stress is responsible for up to 90 percent of all doctor visits. Dr. Emmons’ research measured the level of the stress hormone cortisol in participants at the start of the study.

Split into three groups, one group journaled gratitude daily for six weeks. One group journaled negatively and the third group was neutral. After six weeks, cortisol in the gratitude journaling group measured 23 percent less than the other groups. The gratitude group showed improved self-care, regular exercise, healthier diet and regular physical exams. They also reported better sleep patterns and increased energy levels. Overall health improved because practicing gratitude today reduces worry and anxiety about tomorrow.

Becoming healthier was not the only finding. Vanessa Buote, Ph.D. Psychology, studied workplace satisfaction, engagement, and performance at Plasticity Labs. Of those who 46

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by Christine Smith Sanchez Peterson and Nancy Dahlbom Libersky journaled gratitude, 88 percent were happier and more satisfied than those who didn’t.

Also, a longitudinal study found that happiness levels in college students could predict income 16 years later.

Cheerful students earned $25,000 more per year than their gloomy classmates. As an indication of wealth, consider Oprah Winfrey, one of the first public pioneers of the discipline. She often said that journaling gratitude was the most powerful Nancy process that she practiced and that it Dahlbom Libersky transformed her life.

Over the span of 15 years, Gratitude in the Moments has seen similar results with small groups and individuals. Christine Smith Sanchez Peterson and Nancy Dahlbom Libersky are gratitude coaches at Pathways Minneapolis and co-founders of Gratitude in the Moments. Contact them on Facebook at Gratitude in the Moments.

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Practicing Gratitude

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s we express our gratitude‌we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. ~ John F. Kennedy

When we live a life in gratitude and replace seeing what is not working with what is, we feel a shift in the way we become. In a time when we expect all information and events to occur quickly and immediately, it is easy to begin judging what went wrong and not see all that is right.

Living a life through the lens of gratitude takes practice. Today, we are programmed to be busy. Often, the busier we are, the more we sense our value. The drawback is the loss of time needed to allow for those special moments that take our breath away. If we do not give ourselves some time during the day for contemplation, we risk losing our ability to find anything towards which to be grateful.

Being grateful gives us peace. It takes what could be seen as everyday, regular stuff and turns it into knowing that what we have is enough. Finding reasons to give thanks helps us to believe that even the smallest of gestures can change something as big as the world. A smile, an embrace that lets us know we are not alone, watching

a beautiful sunset, all are reminders of everyday moments that, when added together, create a life full of gratitude‌ if we pay attention.

We are lucky. We have built right into the schedules of life a beautiful time of year that lends itself to the settling in that needs to occur. Fall, especially the latter part, seems to emulate exactly what it wants us to do. Nature becomes quiet and dims her colors as a show of solidarity for all that is around her. She wraps around us a blanket of comfort as the wind brings in what is to come.

Take time this season to become present in all that is.

If you are up in the northern region, watch for the twinkle of a small light illuminated by the reflection of the falling snow. Find meaning and purpose when gathering with those of importance. Seek common ground and be open to learning. Create a challenge to live each day, answering these questions: Was I my best self? Did I allow for others to be theirs? Did I appreciate even the smallest of events and give thanks for what it gave to me? Did I live the life I wanted to today?

Be forever grateful for the life being lived right now.

Give thanks for even the smallest of things...it will change everything.

In Gratitude‌ For more information about Kim Kane and practicing Gratitude email KimKane@tumblr.com, or visit LivingLifeInTandem on Facebook.

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communityannouncement

Health Insurance Coverage –What you should know!

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any of us who have health insurance are unhappy with the choices we have made, or are not sure that we could have made a better choice. Beginning November 1st, 2015 individuals have another chance to do the job right during open enrollment. What does it take to make a responsible decision about health insurance coverage?

We receive our health care from physicians, hospitals, pharmacies and other healthcare providers. Insurance companies, in turn, pay these providers. Although all of us wish that our insurance premiums were lower and our insurance coverage was more comprehensive, we have to make tradeoffs. But to do so requires information, and few of us know where to look for the information we need. Even though

Understanding the insurance terms • Premium: The amount the policy-holder or their sponsor pays to the health plan to purchase health coverage.

• Deductible: The amount that the insured must pay out-of-pocket before the health insurer pays its share.

For example, policy-holders might have to pay a $500 deductible per year, before any of their health care is covered by the health insurer.

• Co-payment: The amount that the insured person must pay out of pocket before the health insurer pays for a particular visit or service. A co-payment must be paid each time a particular service is obtained.

• Coinsurance: Instead of, or in addition to, paying a fixed amount up front (a co-payment), the co-insurance is a percentage of the total cost that insured person may also pay. If there is an upper limit on coinsurance, the policy-holder could end up owing very little, or a great deal, depending on the actual costs of the services.

• Exclusions: Not all services are covered. The insured are generally expected to pay the full cost of noncovered services out of their own pockets.

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the health insurance marketplace classifies policies as Platinum, Gold, Silver or Bronze, the provisions of each particular policy, as regards details like deductibles, coinsurance and copayments, are unique.

Finally, what about the finances? Depending on family size, individuals with incomes ranging up to almost $46,000, and families with incomes ranging up to $125,000 or more, who obtain coverage through the Health Care Marketplace, are entitled to assistance. Are you sure that you are receiving the assistance as you are entitled to?

Some of the information needed to make an informed choice is available on the website of the healthcare marketplace. However, much of the necessary information is not there: instead, you would need to obtain it from a variety of sources. Some of the information you would want is available on the Internet.

As a consumer, even if you have strong research skills, obtaining all of the information that should be considered in making a decision about health care coverage is, at the very least, time-consuming. Fortunately, you do not have to do with all yourself. The role of insurance brokers and agents is to assist purchasers of insurance in making an informed decision. The cost of their services is included in the marketplace premium-thus, the consumer pays no more for receiving this kind of professional assistance.

This year, then, when you obtain your medical insurance, make sure you are an educated consumer and that you take full advantage of all of the resources available to you.

For more information email Daniela Cantin of ACC Insurance Brokers at dcantin@accbrokers.com.See ad, page 25.

• Coverage limits: Some health insurance policies only pay for health care up to a certain dollar amount. The insured person may be expected to pay any charges in excess of the health plan’s maximum payment for a specific service.

• Out-of-pocket maxima: Similar to coverage limits, except that in this case, the insured person’s payment obligation ends when they reach the out-of-pocket maximum, and health insurance pays all further covered costs.

• Capitation: An amount paid by an insurer to a health care provider, for which the provider agrees to treat all members of the insurer.

• In-Network Provider: (U.S. term) A health care provider on a list of providers preselected by the insurer.

The insurer will offer discounted coinsurance or copayments, or additional benefits, to a plan member to see an in-network provider.

• Prior Authorization: A certification or authorization that an insurer provides prior to medical service occurring.

• Explanation of Benefits: A document that may be sent by an insurer to a patient explaining what was covered for a medical service.

communityspotlight

Pet Heaven Memorial Park & Crematory 10901 West Flagler Street Miami FL 33174 305.223.6515 800) 427-1669, Outside Miami-Dade www.pet-heaven.com

Celebrating the Life of a Beloved Pet

Your life has been blessed with a beloved companion. The best rule of all in memorialization is to do what best represents the life that you shared together.

“Established in 1968, Pet Heaven – fully licensed and insured – is dedicated to providing professional and compassionate services to all of our clients. All of our families include pet companions so we understand the pain that is experienced during a loss. Pet Heaven Memorial Park & Crematory is here to meet and exceed every client’s needs and is proud to be a part of The Pet Loss Center team, providing the highest levels of integrity and honor for all pets in life and death. Our pet crematories and pet cemeteries are held to the highest standards in the country.”

From basic funeral and burial services on their cemetery grounds, to communal and private cremations, they offer a complete range of funeral services for your pets. Annual Grave site maintenance and Flower Care is also available. Cemetery grounds are open for visitation 365 days a year from sunrise to sunset. Office business hours are Monday through Friday 9am-4pm and Saturday 9am-12pm.

For further information or to view their Services visit the website or call them directly.

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rom the unconditional love to the marking of a chapter of one’s life, today’s pet parent wants to know they have options for honoring the unique life shared with a beloved pet. They bring so much into our lives that honoring that love and the time shared together seems organic and the right thing to do.

For many pet parents, doing more in memorialization for a pet can elicit scrutiny and shame from well-meaning friends and family members. Pet lovers today are turning to a variety of ways to honor their pet. Consider these ideas for you and your beloved pet friend in either their end-of-life walk or to honor their death: Start a bucket list for a pet who’s just been given a terminal diagnosis Have a final photo session of your pet and family Give others that love your pet the opportunity to say their good-byes as well, either with a gathering before the pet’s death or after For those family members that can’t be present, use Skype or FaceTime Donate to a charity in your pet’s honor A beautiful necklace, to hold a bit of the pet’s ashes or their fur A family urn for all deceased pets A portrait painted with the ashes of your pet natural awakenings

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to avoid upsetting them, but allowing children to struggle and overcome challenges and reach their goals is a lifetime skill that builds real self-esteem. While learning to wait is challenging and requires patience, it allows us to slow down and appreciate the strengths and capabilities of children.

Set limits with kindness and firmness

Parenting Peace with Positive Discipline

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he daily grind of parenthood is hard work and there’s no instruction manual. When parents are overwhelmed and stressed, they may find themselves yelling more often, giving in to their child’s demands and losing their cool. Positive discipline is a parenting style that focuses on mutual respect and solutions that foster feelings of significance and belonging.

Assume positive intent It’s easy to take a child’s misbehavior personally and become frustrated with repetitive misbehaving, like whining, hitting or interrupting. Sometimes these behaviors are developmentally appropriate, though. For instance, a toddler learning to explore the environment gets pleasure and brain development from opening, closing and emptying the

contents of kitchen cabinets. Misbehavior can also be viewed as a child’s way to seek out needs, wants or goals in an unsophisticated manner. Children often misbehave when they feel insignificant. Understanding that the child is simply trying to fulfill a need or reach a goal in a mistaken manner can help shape parents’ attitudes when dealing with misbehavior.

Learn to wait and see A common parenting mistake is micromanaging. Janet Lansbury, author of Elevating Child Care, suggests that “wait” is the parenting magic word.

Waiting and observing our children gives them an opportunity to develop according to their own timetable, discover and learn without interruption, and gain mastery over skills in their own time and manner. Parents often try to remove obstacles or hardships

Finding Calm in a Hectic World

Introduction to Meditation

Learn the Basics to Quiet Your Mind and Improve Focus

Reiki Treatment and Classes Enhance Your Well-being with Healing Energy Peggy Gaines, RN BSN

1390 S. Dixie Highway Suite 2108 Coral Gables, FL 33146 (305) 609 4433 MeditationandReiki.com

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Setting limits keeps children safe and socialized. Learning to set limits with both kindness and firmness can help parents avoid the pitfalls of permissiveness and resist the urge for punishment.

Many parents mistake permissiveness for kindness, doing anything to please children or rescue them from difficult situations. It is okay, though, to allow them to strengthen their “disappointment muscles” and have faith that they can survive it in the future.

On the other hand, parents often think that firmness means punishment.

When parents set limits and enforce them with punishment and lectures, it invites rebellion, revenge and/or retreat.

Families can instead brainstorm together to limit TV viewing and dealing with curfews, chores or homework. Including children in the discussion—allowing them to talk at least as much, if not more, than we do—helps them understand why limits are important, what they should be and how everyone can be responsible to follow them. Children are more willing to follow limits they help create.

Decide what to do and follow through It can be very stressful when children become upset with parental limits. Children whine, cry, yell, cajole, bargain or bribe in an attempt to get their way.

Unfortunately, these kinds of behavior can be modeled by parents trying to get the desired behavior from children. Deciding what to do and following through is a parenting tool that prevents power struggles. First, plan what you’ll do and notify children in advance. For example, “We can go outside after you pick up your toys;” or, “I will drive you to your friend’s house after your homework is done.” The second step is to follow through with kindness and firmness.

Follow through with actions rather than words. Try to avoid lecturing, nagging or saying I-told-you-so, and let your ac-

tions be the guide. In this way, children learn that problem solving and cooperation are the most effective alternatives to a power struggle.

Allow children to do what they are capable of doing When raising children, never underestimate their capabilities. As children move through the developmental stages, they learn new sets of physical, mental and emotional skills. It’s important to let them face each milestone and struggle in order to gain mastery. Being in a rush to get out the door leaves parents zipping coats and buckling car seats for children that’re capable of doing it themselves. When teaching a new skill, allow extra time to avoid the pressure of rushing. As children learn more skills, they feel capable, significant and confident. As an added bonus, as children do more, parents can do less.

Mistakes are an opportunity to learn There’s no such thing as a perfect child or perfect parent. We strive for parenting perfection and feel guilty when we make mistakes, but instead, parents can use the opportunity to recognize and reconcile the mistake. Parental mistakes are also a great tool for modeling how to handle them with our children. They gain self-confidence and self-esteem when they are able to view mistakes as ways to learn rather than a failure. To provide children exposure to the value of mistakes in a safe environment, try inviting everyone to share a “mistake of the day” and what they learned from it during dinner time.

Everyone can embrace the courage to be imperfect by laughing and learning from them together.

For more information, visit PositiveDiscipline.com or check out the book Positive Discipline by Jane Nelsen.

Kristi Gmutza is a Certified Positive Discipline Parent Educator at Art of the Soul Studio in Indianapolis. She is an art therapist, in-home daycare provider and homeschooling mother of a lively 6-year-old. She offers positive discipline workshops, classes and private parent coaching. For more information, call 317-218-4653 or email Kristi@IndyParenting.com.

communityannouncement PlantPure Nation Film Inspires Pod Network

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s explained on their website, PlantPure Nation has created an online environment to both educate and provide a space for collaboration among groups who share PlantPure’s core beliefs. This is a free program that offers a comprehensive suite of support services to network for existing group leaders and their organizations, which they refer to as “Pods.” Pods create an environment where like-minded people can work together to spread the message of plantbased nutrition in their communities, but also to have fun and build friendships. Pod members will educate people on the connections of a plant-based lifestyle to our health, the environment, farming, animal welfare and food and health inequities. The Pods’ purpose is not to compete with existing organizations but to enable people and organizations that have worked separately in the past to come together around the unifying idea of plant-based nutrition.

Examples of these groups include local “meetups,” vegetarian/vegan societies, churches, schools, associations and even corporate wellness programs.

This gives existing organizations the ability to instantly offer a wealth of value-added services to their members, recruit new members, and connect into a more unified force to make a bigger impact in their communities. Pods will use the PlantPure Nation film, the 10day Jumpstart Program featured in the film, community-building online tools and events, and a video-based content stream in this effort. Pod support services are divided into three main categories: Training & Education, Advertising & Marketing, and Community Support.

Recently the documentary film, “PlantPure Nation,” played to packed house at the University of Cincinnati.

Viewers witnessed how the benefits of a whole food largely plant-based diet positively impacted the small town of Mebane, North Carolina, because of the

efforts of nutritional scientist and author T. Colin Campbell, PhD. “Pods will use the 10-day Jumpstart Program featured in “PlantPure Nation,” community building online tools and events and a video-based content stream to achieve its goals,” explains Karen Bosse, director of community engagement for the UC Center for Integrative Health & Wellness, and coordinator of the Pods program at the university.“We are committed to improving the health and wellness of residents in the Tristate,” says Bosse. “Our support for the Pods program is consistent with the Center’s vision to be a transformational leader in integrative health and wellness. We will offer Pods on the UC campus and support other Pods throughout Greater Cincinnati.”

Campbell, author of the best-selling book “The China Study,” came to UC as part of the “PlantPure Nation” screening and engaged local residents in a questionand-answer session after the documentary. Rekha Chaudhary, MD, associate professor in the Division of Hematology Oncology at UC, was a panelist in the session and also appeared in “PlantPure Nation.”

Chaudhary, initially a skeptic of the whole food largely plant-based diet, changed her mind about its benefits after hearing Campbell come to UC to discuss the link between cancer and nutrition in March 2014.“I think it is intuitive that food makes a difference in terms of heart disease. If you eat well you will not have fat clogging your arteries,” Chaudhary says. “I think it is intuitive that food makes a difference with diabetes. If you eat less sugar you are not going to get diabetes. But I don’t think it is as intuitive that food makes a difference with cancer. You have never really heard it before that if you eat right you won’t get cancer. I didn’t have that connection either and then I started reading and we invited Dr. Campbell. … When he came and spoke I was like, Wow.” For more information about how to create local pods, visit plantpurenation.com and click on the Access the Pods link.

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NOVEMBER 10 & 24

Free healing session with Cristovao Brilho –– 7:00pm – Instituto Cristovao Brilho – 2811 Coral Way – 33145 - call 786-295-8665 must arrive by 7:00pm

Tibetan Institute and Library members will continue to study “Beyond Religion” by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama., from 6:30 - 7:45 p.m., at South Miami Library, 6000 Sunset Drive, South Miami, FL 33143, contact 305-667-6121 or 305271-2772. Free and open to Public. Free parking at South Miami City Hall parking lot.

NOVEMBER 6 - 8 Annual Greek Festival - St. Andrew Greek Orthodox Church - A South Florida tradition. Immerse yourself in the lively and fun Greek culture for a day. Come enjoy traditional delicious Greek cuisine, wine, music and dancing. Parking is available as well as a shuttle service. Entry is $5. 7901 N. Kendall, 305- 595-1343

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7 Free healing session with Cristovao Brilho –– 5:00pm – Instituto Cristovao Brilho – 2811 Coral Way – 33145 - call 786-295-8665 must arrive by 5:00pm Coconut Grove Bed Races - is a hysterically fun 30 year-old tradition, teams of five competing at breakneck speed through the streets of Coconut Grove on their very own home-made beds. Race starts at 1:00 pm Bayshore Drive, Coconut Grove Village, Adults $5 (proceeds are donated to charity) Kids Under 12 Free. Go online for details.

NOVEMBER 7 & 21 Parkinson’s Talk - 4 to 5:30 pm - Free group classes for those with Parkinson’s disease or other neuromotor degenerative diseases. Participants may bring one caregiver with them. Contact us to reserve your spot. Aum Home Shala, 3104 Florida Ave., Coconut Grove, FL 33133. 1-305-441-9441

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11 Holistic Networking Mixer Greater Miami Holistic Chamber of Commerce hosts an evening of networking and connecting with other holistic professionals. Free to attend. For more information, contact Alexandra Figueredo at 786-390-1722

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14 Downtown Miami Riverwalk Festival and Boat Parade- This event is being organized in order to showcase the Miami Riverwalk to visitors and local residents. It will also continue to highlight and promote this new and upcoming area of Downtown Miami. 10am-4pm. Miami Riverwalk at One Miami. Free For more information, 305-416-6868.

Healing on the Spiritual Path - Medically Verifiable - Free Public Lecture –Speaker: Dr. Cornelia Wehr, MD, Austria member of the Medical Scientific Group of the Bruno Groening Circle of Friends 11:00 am - Clarion Inn & Suites, 5301 NW 36th Street, Miami Springs, FL 33166 (610) 783-6986

NOVEMBER 15 - 22 Miami Book Fair International- The book fair is an annual literary event that includes presentations by renowned author’s, book sales and exhibits, street fair and entertainment, book appraisals and displays education programs for children and young adults. 9am-6pm at 300 NE 2nd Avenue.

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18 PATH Meeting - Optimizing Self-Healing with Chinese Traditional Medicine Visualizations, 7pm - Dashi Kocica, AP. You Are What You THINK! The Interaction of Our Thoughts, Emotions and Physical Wellness, Iris Pitaluga, LMHC. Beth David Congregation. 2625 SW 3rd Ave, Miami, FL 33129. 305-275-3958.

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Seed Food and Wine Festival - Elevating and celebrating conscious plant based living.

Seed Miami, is the premiere conscious and sustainable plant based food and wine festival in the country bringing together thousands of patrons for five delicious days of whole foods, fine wines, craft beers, fitness, yoga, celebrity chef dinners, movie screenings, a 5k run, tasting village, sprout kids day and so much more.

Held in Miami and the beaches, visit http:// seedfoodandwine.com/festival for details.

NOVEMBER 19 - 22 Awakening The Illuminated Heart 4 day Merkaba Meditation Workshop. By Drunvalo Melchizedek, facilitator Tatiana Haggerty at Four Ambassadors Miami 33131. Call 305-878-8663 for more information, $333.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21 Cranksgiving Bicycle Food Drive Alleycat Race - Bring $10 to purchase food items. A bag & lock are essential. All bikes welcomed. Riders will go to 5 or 7 grocery store checkpoints and buy nonperishable food items from a checklist. There is no registration fee, the $10 goes to purchase the items.

All collected goods will be donated to Camillus House at the end of the race. 2 pm signup & 2:30 pm race begins at Government Center, 101 NW 1st Street in Miami, Fl 33128.

Toxins and Their Effects on Your Health 3:30PM Myriam Lluria Sitterson, Integrative Nutrition Health Coach,on how to detox and eliminate TOXINS in your food and home. Free. Zenzations 7520 SW 57th Ave. Suite K. South Miami 33143 Tel 305-740-7800

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22 MELT Method Workshop: 2 to 4 pm - Experience the revolutionary self-care method for easing chronic aches and pains and revitalizing your body’s energy and functioning. Aum Home Shala, 3104 Florida Ave, Coconut Grove. $40 through Nov. 16, $45 after Nov. 16, 1-305-441-9441.

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Christmas Tree Lighting and Food Truck Invasion at Bayfront Park - The official kick off to the holiday season in downtown Miami takes place the day after Thanksgiving as Bayfront Park unveils its 50-foot tree covered with glittering lights, accompanied by cheery holiday music and Miami’s legendary food trucks! 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm, tree lighting at 7:00 pm to be confirmed, Bayfront Park 301 Free. Go online for parking details

years of protecting paradise with the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary at this family friendly event, from 1-5 p.m. Visit the Conservation Village for family fun and games, or kick back and listen to live music while enjoying a pig roast. Kids can learn to fish at a free fishing clinic on the pier from 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. Guest speakers will share tales of the sanctuary’s history of protecting coral reefs, seagrass beds, and other natural wonders for future generations to enjoy! Event held at Islander Resort, MM 82.1 Oceanside.

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November’s Signature Event with panel of experts hosted by the Greater Miami Holistic Chamber of Commerce. $5.00 for members, $10 for non-members in advance. For more information, contact Alexandra Figueredo at 786-390-1722

Annual Key Largo Chamber of Commerce Annual Cook-Off - The culinary competition is open to professional and amateur cooks and chefs, as well as young aspiring chefs. Categories include soups and chowders, appetizers, main dishes, sides and salads, and desserts. Contact 305-451-1414

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MDC Live Arts presents Holoscenes Kyriakides Plaza - MDC Wolfson Campus - An epic performance art installation that embodies the trauma of flooding, explores our troubled relationship to water, and contemplates our capacity for empathy, adaptation, and long-term thinking. See Website for time listings.

Key Largo Bridge Run - 6:45am, Enjoy the sun rise where the Atlantic Ocean meets the Gulf waters during the inaugural run over part of the historic 18 mile stretch to “The Gateway to the Keys.” Every participant awarded a t-shirt & medal. For registration, visit Website for details. Key Largo, 835 Largo Road Key Largo, FL

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Freedom Celebration 24 hour Swim and Run Challenge - Join this two day event at Founders Park to honor our veterans and to help raise money for Gold Star Teen Adventures. During the event active and retired military personnel are to swim

and run in a relay for 24 hours starting at 9am on Saturday through 9am on. Sunday. Gary Trina 910-916-6561

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21 Aviation Day at Florida Keys Marathon International Airport - The Florida Keys Chapter of the Experimental Aircraft Association presents this family-oriented event that is free and open to the public at the airport, located at 9400 Overseas Highway bayside. As well as admission, parking for the event is free. Food and beverages are to be available for purchase. Contact: Marathon Chamber of Commerce 305-743-5417

NOVEMBER 25 - 28 International Sand Art Competition - The oceanfront Casa Marina Resort, located at 1500 Reynolds St., opens its gates to the public during Thanksgiving weekend to host the first International Sand Sculpting Competition held in Key West. Spectators can watch and marvel as six world-renowned sand sculptors compete against each other, creating intricate sculptures using their own unique designs and skill sets. 305-896-5503

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28 Big Pine & The Lower Keys Island Art Festival Highlights of this holiday event include live music by local entertainers, food, exhibits and booths featuring locally produced arts and crafts. Festivities traditionally take place on the grounds of the Lower Keys Chamber of Commerce, MM 31 Oceanside.

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Self-Defense for Women classes- Free. Also Wed. 7:15 – 8:30 pm at Bayfront park in downtown Miami.

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Shiva’s Circle of Fire: Yoga and Meditation in Motion. 3:00pm - 5:00pm. 1760 NE 144th St, North Miami, FL 33181. Call to schedule. 305.710.0516.

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Women Only – Free Chi gong for cancer survivors and voice lessons for healing and empowerment.

2:30 - 4:30, N & S Miami locations. Call 305948-6878 Dharma Meetings – 2pm. Tibetan Buddhist Dharma Center 3239 West Trade Ave. Unit 10, Coconut Grove. FREE. 305-775-7541.

Family Fundays at Fairchild- 9:30am-5pm.

Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden 1st Sunday of the month 10901 Old Cutler Road, Coral Gables.

305-667-1651.

Jazzercise® - $5. 10am. South Miami Community Center 5800 SW 66 St. Call Cathie 305-666-5457.

Miami Center for Spiritual Living- 10:30amFree. Non-denominational. 2490 Coral Way, Miami, 786-206-6355.

Sunday Services at SOUL Church – 11am at the SOUL Service at the Elks Lodge, 6304 SW 78th St in South Miami. Free pot-luck lunch. 305-221-6516.

monday Course in Miracles - 8pm. Free. 7855 SW Coral Way. Contact Mercedes 786-200-8410 or Nimia 305-261-3190.

Connected Warriors Free Yoga for Veterans, Service Members and Families. 5:30-6:15 pm - Sampoorna Yoga Miami, 10107 Sunset Drive, Miami, FL 33173 Power of Meditation – 9 - 9:45pm – 2nd & 4th Monday. Conference Call – 312-757-3121 code: 698805965. Free.

Massage Relief for Combat Veterans - 50% off therapeutic massages for our combat service personnel. Call 305-351-0819. Shala Spa 1119 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach.

Military Mondays at Hirooka’s - 50% off Kitesurfing or Paddleboarding for all Military and Public Service Personnel - Hirooka Surf & Sport, 2377 Collins Avenue Miami Beach, FL. 954-444-3942 Bereavement & Grief Support- 7pm, during school year. Children’s Bereavement Center, 7600 S. Red Rd, Suite 307. To register: 305-668-4902.

Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG)- Bilingual Support group. 305-666-1778.

Kripalu Yoga with Kevin O’Brien. - 10:30-12:00 PM- 7520 SW 57th Ave. Suite K, South Miami 33143. For more info call 305-788-0777 Yoga and Meditation Class- 6:30-7:30pm. Free.

West Dade Regional Library, 9445 Coral Way. RSVP Lawrence 305-926-3578.

Are you a VET living with PTSD? If so, call Banyan Holistic Healthcare Center for help, Miami Lakes or Pinecrest location. Call now to schedule, (305) 663-5696.

Yoga at Earth ‘N Us Farm - : 6:15 p.m. $10. 7630 NE 1 Ave. Miami. Contact Leslie: 786-282-3000.

Laughter Yoga Sessions - $5.00 each - 9:30-10:15 AM, North Shore Youth Center 501 72nd Street, Miami Beach 33141, 305-861-3616.

Yoga for Beginners – 7-9pm. $15. Acupuncture & Massage College, 10506 N. Kendall Dr. 305595-9500.

Iyengar Yoga class with Liora Haymann. 7:158:30 a.m. - $18 drop-ins/$75 for a 5-class series. Aum Home Shala, 3104 Florida Ave., Coconut Grove, FL 33133. 1-305-441-9441 Yoga and Qigong for Seniors - 11am -12:30pm.

Acupuncture & Massage College, 10506 N. Kendall Dr. 305-595-9500. $15.

Meditation and ethical discussion - 6:15 - 7:45 - Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Miami.

7701 SW 76 Ave. Miami 305-546-1556. Donation

wednesday Mind Body Weight, you are not a willpower weakling, 7-8pm - Group session nutrition coach/ counselor Susan Gerrish. Limited space, 8 week commitment. Call to schedule, 305 333 4703, Coral Gables.

Free Meditation - 1:15pm. Acupuncture and Massage College. 10506 N Kendall Dr, Miami, FL 33176.

You must check in at the front desk. For more information please call 305-595-9500 Guided Meditation - All levels welcome- 7 pmDonations-3390 Mary Street Suite 116, Coconut Grove- Please RSVP 305-607-8627 Kripalu Yoga & Meditation for Beginners. 7:008:30pm - $20 or discount pkg. First class Free. Kevin O’Brien Wellness, 7520 Red Road, Suite K, South Miami, 33143 Tel 305-788-0777

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Aromatherapy Workshop – 6PM – Free. For reservations, 305 598-2822. American Apothecary of Kendall 12232 SW 132 Court, Miami FL 33186.

Free Children’s Art Camp - Ages 6 and up, in the Miami Beach Botanical Garden, 2000 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach. 10 am-1 pm. Call 305673-7256 to register.

Connected Warriors - Free Yoga Classes for Veterans and Families of Veterans - 3pm at Brickell Hot Yoga 301 SW 17th Road, 33129 305-856-1387.

Free orientations for PTSD and pain relief with discount services for military or vets. The Banyan Holistic Please call 305-663-5696 to schedule Free Veterans Sailing – with Team Paradise, the Paralympic Sport Club of Miami. 12 – 12pm Team Paradise Sailing, Inc. 2620 S. Bayshore Drive, Miami 33133. 305-776-8778.

Drub-Dhe Meditation- 7:25-9:30pm. Freedonations are welcome. Regency House 353 West 47th St., Flat 7A, Miami Beach. Contact: Robert Phuntsog Ngo-drub 305-213-2577.

Hatha Yoga – 6-7:30pm – Free - King David Foundation, 17971 Biscayne Blvd, Aventura, FL Suite #117. Bennett - 305-949-0950.

Free Acupuncture for Combat Veterans – 1-2pm, Acupuncture Center for Wellness, Inc., 16663 NE 19 Avenue, Suite 111, North Miami Beach, Fl. 33162, (305) 940-7763.

Healing With Dance - South Miami Hospital for physical limitations from illness/surgery. No dance experience necessary. 9:30-10:30am. $5. 786-662-8106.

Jazzercise® - $5. M&W 6:30pm. South Miami Community Center 5800 SW 66 St. Ongoing classes available all week. Call Cathie 305-666-5457.

Meditation for overall well-being- 7:30- 9pm. 8150 SW 92 St, Miami. 786-556-7318. Donation.

Healing Meditation – 6pm – American Apothecary, $5, 12232 SW 132 CT. Miami, FL 33186, 305-598-2822

thursday A Course In Miracles (In Spanish) at 8 pm. Free Study Group at 7855 S.W. 24 St. (Coral Way). Contact Nimia 305 -261-3190 or Mercedes 786-200-8410 Connected Warriors Free Yoga for Veterans, Service Members and Families. Chair Yoga – 10-11am - Sampoorna Yoga Miami, 10107 Sunset Drive, Miami, FL 33173

ThetaHealing Release negative beliefs, emotions, and trauma blocking you from the life of your dreams!

Mind Body Weight, you are not a willpower weakling, 7-8pm - Group session nutrition coach/ counselor Susan Gerrish. Limited space, 8 week commitment. Call to schedule, 305 333 4703, Coral Gables

Coral Gables Art Walk – An art walk centered around downtown Coral Gables, with all the galleries between Miracle Mile and Ponce de Leon Rd. Free trolly transportation.

Introduction to Bach Flowers - 3rd Thursdays - 10 am-11:30 am - Free - 3390 Mary Street Suite 116, Coconut Grove- Please RSVP 305-607-8627

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Nutrition Solutions for IBS, Fibromyalgia, Arthritis & Migraines - $15, 7-8PM, Coral Gables, Alison Grewal, RD: 786-546-6800.

Weekly Yoga Classes $10 per Class! - 5:30-6:45pm Five Sisters…a spiritual journey. 8805 SW 132 ST, 786-250-4170 Postpartum Yoga at Key Biscayne, 10:15 - $20, 305-299-7826 Laughter Yoga Sessions - $5.00 each - 9:30-10:15 AM, North Shore Youth Center 501 72nd Street, Miami Beach 33141, 305-861-3616

Yoga with Drishti- 9:00 am - at Biscayne Park Recreation Center, 11400 NE 9th Court. 305-3357618.

Lincoln Road Art Walk- 1st Sat. of the month.

7-10pm. 40+ local artists, museums and galleries in South Beach. ArtCenter/South Florida 800, 810 & 924 Lincoln Road. 305-674-8278.

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Open House/Exhibitions – 2nd Sat. Meet ArtSouth studio artists & staff. Free. Refreshments. 240 North Krome Ave. 305-247-9406.

Monthly Free Reiki Healing Circle - 2nd Friday of the month at Five Sisters…a spiritual journey, 8805 SW 132 ST, 786-250-4170 Chair massage – 5-9pm - Enjoy 5 minute complementary chair massage every Friday Pecan’s Day Spa, 305-284-8636, 7800 SW 57th Ave Suite 120, Miami, FL 33143.

Free Acupuncture for Combat Veterans – 1-2pm, Acupuncture for Wellness Center, Inc., 7550 SW 57th Avenue, Suite 116, South Miami, FL 33143, 305-669-6699.

Dharma Meetings – 8pm. Tibetan Buddhist Dharma Center 3239 West Trade Ave., Unit 10, Coconut Grove. FREE. 305-775-7541.

Family Night- 3rd Friday of the month. 3-9pm.

Free admission & parking. Miami Children’s Museum, 980 Macarthur Cswy. 305-373-5437.

Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) - Free jazz concerts on the last Fri. Joan Lehman Building, 770 NE 125 St. 305-893-6211.

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Yoga-Style* Exercise, Prenatal - South Miami Hospital. 10:45 am-12:15 p.m. and 5:30-7pm. $10.

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floridakeys sunday Big Pine Key Flea Market- 8am. South of the only traffic light in town on U.S. 1.

Family Swim YMCA. 2-4pm. $3 Adults, $2 Kids.

FKCC swimming pool. 1-305-295-9622.

Movies at The Spiritual Garden - Spiritual up lifting movies. 1st and 3rd Sun. 7pm. Good will offering is $5. Unitarian Universalist fellowship 801 Georgia St. 1-305-394-2005.

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Yoga Therapy for 50+ - 10am-11:15am - 1760 N.E. 144th St, North Miami, FL 33181. Call to schedule. 305.710.0516. $10.00 Donation.

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Nightly Sunset Celebration - Free. Enjoy a spectacular sunset entertained by the various carnival performers and vendors. Mallory Square, Key West. 1-305-292-7700.

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Meditation- Free. 7pm. Unity Church, 9591 Overseas Highway, Marathon.

Tai Chi – 7pm. $15. Coffee Mill Dance and Yoga Studio, 916 Pohalski St, Key West, 1-305-296-9982; 1-305-735-3519.

Aerobic Dance - 1-1:55pm. CoffeMill Dance. 916 Pohalski St. 1-305-296-9982.

Yoga/Meditation – 8am. $7 Key Largo Community Park, MM 100 ocean side. 1-305-853-1003.

wednesday Ancient Indian Meditation - 6:30-8:30pm. 1-305292-6958.

Belly Dancing Class - $10. 7:30pm. All levels welcome.

Tai Chi for Inner Harmony - 9:30-11am on Sugarloaf Key. Call Lydia at 1-305-745-2811.

tuesday

Toddler Playtime Stories- Ages 10 months to 2 years and their caregivers. Free. 10:30am-12:30pm.

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Free Guided Relaxation Class - 7 -8 PM at Islamorada Fitness MM 85.9 bayside. Bring a towel or exercise mat and a pillow. (Sponsored by Keys To Peace. 305-619-0534.

Mothers and Babies Group - PhD for new moms, Miriam Steinberg, their babies and expecting mothers. Free. 1-3 p.m.

Holistic Psychology Healthy Start,and GatoJungian Bldg, 1100 Simonton St., Key West. 1-305-293-7516 or 1-305-293-7511.

Stories for Children - 10:30am. Key Largo Hypnotherapy Library, 101485 US1. 1-305-451-2396. Also Thur, 10:30am, Stories for children ages 2 ½ -6.

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Story Hour - ages 5 years & up. 10:30-11:30am.

Games & stories. Marathon Library, 3251 Overseas Hwy. 1-305-743-5156.

Key West WPA Walking Tour – Old Town Key West. 10am. $20. 1-305-296-3573.

Yoga/Meditation – 8:30am. $7 Key Largo Community Park, MM100 Oceanside. 1-305-8531003.

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