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Using Adaptogens to Decrease Pain & Anxiety-Increase Health, Energy & Well Being

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Where did the duck go when he was not feeling well?
TO THE DUCKTOR!!!! I quack myself up!!!!LOL

Good Day To All!  I thought today, I would carry on with a topic of alternative medicine and blog about medicines called Adaptogenic Herbs, which are plants that can help our bodies adjust and adapt to life’s stressors.  These are medicines to help aid in giving energy, which in turn reduces stress, mental anguish increase energy and overall health.

Some people feel too nervous or ashamed of having to admit we need help sometimes, and unfortunately as of late, we have seen how this can have very sad and devastating outcomes for those with mental illness and for those they leave behind. Something sooooo urgent and sooo unpredictable as mental illness truly needs to be spoken about openly and allow us as a human race to heal.  We need to educate and create awareness to help our loved ones and neighbors to have the opportunity to heal and to be able to feel that it is ok to be overwhelmed, depressed, saddened, scared, anxious and know there are avenues that can help before some make a decision that there is no turning back from.

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Loving A Pet With Diabetes…Part Two

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Penny went everywhere with us, even on most family vacations, especially after she was diagnosed with diabetes.  It was too hard leaving her behind because any change in her routine would make her very sick.  Truth be told, I just didn’t have the heart to leave her behind either, I was just as much attached to her as she was to me.  She was my little shadow, no more then 2 feet away from me at any one time. She would come on what we called “parking lot duty” with me, when I would wait to pick up my daughter after school. She knew when it was getting close to parking lot duty time everyday like clockwork.  It was very endearing.  But during Dec of 2017 she didn’t seem as excited and even used to wince when I would try to pick her up.  That sent up a red flag because parking lot duty was her life.

Parking Lot Duty

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Loving A Diabetic Pet..Part One

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A few posts ago, I had blogged about my little puppy who was returning home from another visit to the vet hospital with probiotics to take after her antibiotic medications, (The Probiotic Army). I had mentioned how shortly after she was diagnosed with diabetes.  That was a very heart wrenching experience.  So after all the blogs on getting some energy restored, cleaning things out and hugging special “someones” or things in your life, I decided to blog about the experience with one of my special “someones,” my puppy, Penny.

We found Penny on a “for sale” page and fell in love with her immediately.  She was the tiniest, cutest puppy I had ever seen.  She was a beautiful copper color so my daughter immediately named her Penny, her lucky Penny.  (Crap, I have tears already, I should warn you before you read any further you may need some tissues).  I called the lady to ask if this little puppy was still for sale and she said she was. So I asked if I could come by that we were about an hour away and that my daughter had already had her named. She asked what the puppy’s name might be and I told her, Penny.  She then informed me it was their family name and the name of the street they lived on. With that I said “well if she has 3 legs and no tail we’d be there to get her,” because it just seemed meant to be. CRAZY!!!

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STOP The Circle Of Anger

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I watched a movie the other day called “Friends With Money.”  I wasn’t feeling well and was pushing myself beyond what I should have been doing.  So I stopped myself and made myself sit down.  I turned on Netflix and this movie popped up so I figured “hmm, why not?” …What an eye opener.

I have been feeling a little down myself and my attitude has not been the best at times and I started to connect with the characters in the movie.  These characters were becoming bitter with life and I could draw parallels with their attitudes and mine, of late.  Everything had become annoying, daunting and just down right ridiculous.  I could feel and see my attitude in “their” portrayal of their character’s lives.  By the end of the movie, their character lives had been summed up, but mine went on, un-summed. 

I could see how my attitude has looked at times and it was good to see, because like them it was not the real person who I was, it was due to circumstances and just life’s progression in general.  Which once again, had me reflecting about the only thing I can control is my reactions to other’s actions.  I’m pretty sure I have said that here before.  It was a very “back and forth” argument with myself that, others do not worry about their reactions so why should I worry about how they feel when I react.  Because…..I am the one being left upset, so my reactions matter to me and to my health.  So then we are left with… ok, how do I control my reactions and go on from there without constantly coming back to this circle of anger.

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Reduce Migraines – Purify Your Environment & Restore Your Energy

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Good Morning, Good Day or Good Evening to You, depending on when you are tuning in again.  My last post was on the basic fundamentals to help re energize your daily lives.  It does not take new potions, drinks or expensive recipes to restore your energy you need to re-introduce the basic routines of drinking good water, eating regular meals, introducing healthy sleep routines and getting rid of the toxins that build up inside us when we are able to use the facilities routinely.  Basic, Basic, Basic things can hydrate, nourish and regenerate our energy supply. It is difficult to write about increasing or sustaining ones energy throughout the day and only write one blog so I am continuing today about purifying your environment which once again has added energy inducing results and reduces stress, headaches, migraines, mental stress and illness, colds, flus, runny noses, respiratory illness, skin rashes, digestive ailments and the list keeps going.

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Natural Ways To Energize

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In todays busy world we sometimes push ourselves beyond our natural tendencies, then push ourselves again with energy bars and energy drinks and caffeine, extra expresso we push, push, push, our bodies to their breaking points.  As the 16 hour day wears on, we start to droop our shoulders, blink our eyes profusely to see the computer screen, and try to will our brains to KEEP GOOOIIINNNGGGgggg…. then we CRASH!!!!  

This can be avoided!

It takes routine and a few tricks to the trade but it’s well worth it.  No matter where you are in your life or at what stage, what can keep one prepared for the day and ready to conquer whatever it throws at us, is having a routine and implementing natural ways to energize.  We all fall prey to the couch every now and again or need Cohens to surgically remove us from our mattress, but in order to reduce the stress, pain and illnesses in our lives lets get the routine in place baby!

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Prebiotics

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When we last spoke the topic was about probiotics then life took a massive turn for me and I have been absent for a while.  During the next few posts I will let you in on my travels and events, that had first put me in a head spin, but now I have learned the lessons from the recent events and am once again back on track and ready to continue.  Through these recent events that have transpired  I have also learned that I need to do “this” for myself as well, because I do enjoy connecting with you all and letting you know a few tid bits that sometimes the doctors forget to remind us of with their crazy schedule.

Well looking back over my last post “Probiotics,” which came about when my vet gave my puppy probiotics when she was sick several times to help her heal, (later my puppy also had a diagnosis of diabetes, and later again she passed away, which I will blog about all the details of raising a puppy with diabetes in the near future)  but I found I must add on to the last probiotic post with this post about feeding your probiotics.  OHHH yes, you actually need to feed these little buggers to get the best out of them.  Its like having a mini monkey fish experiment in your belly, well your intestines to be exact.  In order to get them growing well and working efficiently you need to feed them PREBIOTICS.

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Sooo Happy To Be Back!!

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Hi there friends. I am returning from quite the upheaval over the past while. I had many plans to return here but life had other plans that I did not know about. Unfortunately, my immediate family has had quite a few catastrophic events happen, as does in many families, and I had to focus on “us” for a duration and not on my wants. We have had 6 deaths within 2 years of human family members and beloved family pets. The human illnesses have been very abrupt and had us on a fast rollercoaster to sadness, our beloved pets were of natural aging and one of an illness that was heart wrenching. We have experienced cancer, influenza, diabetes and changes in family member’s mental states of Autism, social anxiety and anger. We have had our share of emotional turmoil and I believe we are on the upswing again and I will be able to give you my insights to our trials and methods of how I tackled these overwhelming circumstances.

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The Probiotic Army

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Probiotic's For Man and Man's Best Friend
Probiotic’s For Man and Man’s Best Friend

Hello there friends. I’m sorry I haven’t gotten back here for a week that will change as school starts again. Well my little puppy has been very sick for the past 6 days and 2 visits to the vet later she is finally coming around. She seemed to have picked up a virus probably on one of our walks to the park seeing it has been so warm and no rain, that it is a perfect breeding ground for viruses to grow. Funny thing is that her medicine she is taking was given to her with probiotics so that we can replace the bad bacteria that is growing with good bacteria once the medicine does its job. Now just saying, the veterinary world knows this and probiotics are being given as a rememdy for animals, why have our human counter parts not jumped on this train??????

It was quite coincidental that I have put off my probiotic blog to take care of my puppy and here I am coming home with probiotics for her to take after her antibiotics…funny world.

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Omega 3… Curing The Impossible

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Omega 3 Oils
Omega 3 Oils

Good Day Everyone! Hope you all are feeling fantastic and are full of Vitamin B, lol. Today I am going to introduce Round 2 of what I felt helped to cushion my brain and make my belly smile again, which led right back to a happy brain. My next few blogs will be about Omega 3’s, Probiotics and a Gluten Free Lifestyle.

I must say so far I truly find that when I take my Vitamin B complex, update…which has now been increased to 2 in the morning, I feel like my brain is not as angry with me. I actually feel like it is happily suspended in its cerebrospinal fluid like layer, which is better then it feeling like I have my ninja friends back in doing their acrobatic sword routine. I ask my family sometimes if they ever felt their brain at all, because there is hardly a day that I don’t. To them it sounds funny, but to me I can only wish to go through a day not feeling that it is aching somehow. I have somewhat achieved this by replenishing my vitamins and minerals and increasing the vitamins and minerals that I need for my brain and body to repair itself to the best of its ability.


 “Replenishing” is my basic daily kale based vitamin that gives my body a booster everyday and “Increasing” is increasing what I need to help reduce my health ailments on top of my daily vitamin… we need both. This is where I think we sometimes fall short.

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