Posted on December 12th, 2009
0Sep 22, 2009 Jennifer Graham (a different one)
Onions work well as sore throat remedies because they clear congestion and have anti-inflammatory properties.
Due to all of the warnings about giving certain cold medicines to children, some parents may feel more comfortable treating their little ones with natural cough remedies. Natural remedies can offer many of the same benefits of medication without the risk of side effects. A child can experience a cough for a variety of reasons and may need to be seen by a physician before alternative treatment begins.
In many cases, a cough occurs along with a cold or the flu. According to the National Institutes of Health, coughing is the body's way of eliminating mucous and allergens from the upper airway passages and lungs. Therefore, coughs do serve a purpose. The goal of treatment should not be to prevent the cough altogether. Instead, the focus should be on bringing comfort to the child.
Herbal Remedies for Cough
Herbal remedies for cough can help soothe a sore throat. Kelp is sometimes used for this purpose. Kelp is a brown colored seaweed that is found along the northern coasts of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, as well as the North and Baltic seas. It moisturizes the lungs and helps break up mucus.
Bamboo is another herb that is recommended in The Complete Guide to Natural Healing by Tom Monte (Penguin Group USA, August 1997). Bamboo is a grass that grows in a variety of different climates. According to Monte, bamboo reduces inflammation in the lungs and helps eliminate phlegm. Wild cherry and mulberry are also recommended as a cough treatment.
Cough Relief with Honey Mix
Honey is a popular treatment that is often recommended as a cough relief remedy for older children. However, young children 1 year old and under should never be given honey. This warning is to reduce the risk for infant botulism. To make the healing properties in honey even more effective, Andrea Candee and David Andrusia, authors of Gentle Healing for Baby and Child (Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group, December 2003), recommend combining honey with onion.
Read more at Suite101: Cough Remedies for Children: Sore Throat Treatments for Natural Healing | Suite101.com http://naturalmedicine.suite101.com/article.cfm/cough_remedies_for_children#ixzz0ZSCkCVGq
Posted on December 8th, 2009
1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not > show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion.
> When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in
> their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect
> the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size.**
>
> **2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person's
> lifetime.**
>
> **3 When the person's immune system is strong the cancer cells will be
> destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumors.**
>
> **4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has multiple
> nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, environmental, food
> and lifestyle factors.**
>
> **5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet and
> including supplements will strengthen the immune system.**
>
> **6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and
> also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow,
> gastrointestinal tract etc, and can cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys,
> heart, lungs etc.**
>
> **7. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and damages
> healthy cells, tissues and organs.**
>
> **8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce
> tumor size. However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not
> result in more tumor destruction.** **
>
> **9. When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and radiation
> the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence the person can
> succumb to various kinds of infections and complications.**
>
> **10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and become
> resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause cancer cells to
> spread to other sites.**
>
> **11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer cells by not
> feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply**. **
>
> ***CANCER CELLS FEED ON: **
>
> **a. **Sugar** is a cancer-feeder. By cutting off sugar it cuts off one
> important food supply to the cancer cells. Sugar substitutes like **NutraSweet,
> Equal, Spoonful, etc are made with Aspartame and it is harmful**. A better
> natural substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses, but only in very small
> amounts. **Table salt** has a chemical added to make it white in color.
> Better alternative is Bragg's aminos or sea salt.**
>
> **b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the
> gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk and
> substituting with unsweetened soy milk cancer cells are being starved.**
>
> **c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. **A meat-based diet** is
> acidic **and it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken rather than beef
> or pork. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and
> parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer.**
>
> **d. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds,
> nuts and a little fruits help put the body into an alkaline environment.
> About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices
> provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to cellular
> levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells. To
> obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable
> juice (most vegetables including bean sprouts) and eat some raw vegetables 2
> or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40
> degrees C).**
>
> **e. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high caffeine. **Green tea
> ** is a better alternative and has cancer fighting properties. Water-best to
> drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in
> tap water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it. **
>
> **12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive
> enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines becomes putrefied and
> leads to more toxic buildup.**
>
> **13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By refraining from or
> eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the protein walls of cancer
> cells and allows the body's killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.**
>
> **14. Some supplements build up the immune system (IP6, Flor-ssence, Essiac,
> anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs etc.) to enable the bodies own
> killer cells to destroy cancer cells. Other supplements like vitamin E are
> known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body's normal method
> of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or unneeded cells.**
>
> **15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit. A proactive and
> positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor. Anger,
> un-forgiveness and bitterness put the body into a stressful and acidic
> environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and
> enjoy life.**
>
> **16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment. Exercising
> daily, and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down to the cellular
> level. Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer cells.**
>
> **1. **No plastic containers in micro. **
>
> **2. **No water bottles in freezer. **
>
> **3. **No plastic wrap in microwave. **
>
> **Johns Hopkins has recently sent this out in its newsletters. This
> information is being circulated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as well.
> Dioxin chemicals cause cancer, especially breast cancer. Dioxins are highly
> poisonous to the cells of our bodies. Don't freeze your plastic bottles with
> water in them as this releases dioxins from the plastic. Recently, Dr.
> Edward Fujimoto, Wellness Program Manager at Cast le Hospital, was on a TV
> program to explain this health hazard. He talked about dioxins and how bad
> they are for us. He said that we should not be heating our food in the
> microwave using plastic containers. This especially applies to foods that
> contain fat. He said that the combination of fat, high heat, and plastics
> releases dioxin into the food and ultimately into the cells of the body.
> Instead, he recommends using glass, such as Corning Ware, Pyrex or ceramic
> containers for heating food You get the same results, only without the
> dioxin. So such things as TV dinners, instant ramen and soups, etc., should
> be removed from the container and heated in something else. Paper isn't bad
> but you don't know what is in the paper. It's just safer to use tempered
> glass, Corning Ware, etc. He reminded us that a while ago some of the fast
> food restaurants moved away from the foam containers to paper. The dioxin
> problem is one of the reasons. **
>
> **Also, he pointed out that plastic wrap, such as Saran, is just as
> dangerous when placed over foods to be cooked in the microwave. As the food
> is nuked, the high heat causes poisonous toxins to actually melt out of the
> plastic wrap and drip into the food. Cover food with a paper towel instead.
> *
by ~rawBella on December 1st, 2009
No ones life is free of contradictions. -Nikki Giovanni
Getting a life rich is dark green leafy vegetables is the key. Why? Because our bodies need the alkaline to balance the acid that comes from meats, fats, dairy and environmental factors such as pollution and stress. Acid is the cause of exhaustion, depression, pain and disease.
But why raw?
When food is heated about 118 degrees, it kills much of the nutrients we need, including the digestive enzymes.Enzymes are responsible for every metabolic process that takes place in your body from digestion to healing. Most prepared food is served with up to 100% of the natural enzymes destroyed. One hundred percent! When the lipase and amylase enzymes are destroyed, the body cannot digest fats or carbohydrates and they are stored in the body, causing you to gain weight.
When you consume living, enzyme rich food, it practically digests itself. This leaves you with a surplus of energy to play harder, work more efficiently and do more of what you love!
The best way to ensure your getting a diet rich in greens is to follow the raw food pyramid and drink a blender full of Green Smoothie EVERYDAY
Getting a life rich is dark green leafy vegetables is the key. Why? Because our bodies need the alkaline to balance the acid that comes from meats, fats, dairy and environmental factors such as pollution and stress. Acid is the cause of exhaustion, depression, pain and disease.
But why raw?
When food is heated about 118 degrees, it kills much of the nutrients we need, including the digestive enzymes.Enzymes are responsible for every metabolic process that takes place in your body from digestion to healing. Most prepared food is served with up to 100% of the natural enzymes destroyed. One hundred percent! When the lipase and amylase enzymes are destroyed, the body cannot digest fats or carbohydrates and they are stored in the body, causing you to gain weight.
When you consume living, enzyme rich food, it practically digests itself. This leaves you with a surplus of energy to play harder, work more efficiently and do more of what you love!
The best way to ensure your getting a diet rich in greens is to follow the raw food pyramid and drink a blender full of Green Smoothie EVERYDAY
by Jennifer B. Graham on
Inspired by the recent Facebook post of a friend of mine that read:
It is time to get rid of the dead weight for 2010; You know who you are, I began to think about the concept of dead weight in my own life as I move toward my goal of ever increasing wellness. I try to surround myself with like-minded, positive people who are generally on the same path. But there are times when I have met with dissention, egoism and negativity. Usually it is my own, but every now in then it comes in the form of a person close to me.
Others have shared similar experiences with me. In my recent foray into the world of nutrition and wellness counseling, I have come across many people who are ready to jump with two feet into a new eating lifestyle and exercise program. They have all the vigor, excitement, and energy and would like to learn more about what to do to access good health. They are done with the Monday morning diet-Friday evening failure syndrome, the yo-yoing, the false starts and promises. They are laying their fears aside, moving full steam ahead, turning over a new leaf and this time, going for the gusto!
Unfortunately, their programs have stalled and something is keeping them from getting off the ground. The problem? Surprisingly, often it is a loved one, a spouse, a parent, a child…. a highly significant other who they wrongly assumed would be their biggest supporter.
This is often not a surprise. Couples who start their relationships in leaner years, who grow together, in more ways than one, often find comfort together in food. I am reminded of the many trips my own grandfather took downstairs to get the late night snacks for he and my grandmother to eat while watching The Late Show with Johnny Carson. The vision of them, beyond pleasantly plump, peering over bellies and dinner trays, sitting up in bed, with the framed photo of a slimmer him in WWII uniform and a hourglass shaped her in 40s floral cotton apron on the beside table nearby.
Following his untimely death from a heart attack years later, she recounted to me “…our social lives were build around dining out with friends, Sunday dinners, backyard BBQs, and buffets lines. Food was our lives, and we just didn’t know any better. We tried to diet, but felt to change would be to ostracize ourselves from all aspects of how we related to the people we loved.”
My own attempt at dieting when a young mother was always thwarted, not just by a cabinet full of snacks for the kid, but by my own conditioning against waste. I found myself “finishing” my son’s food out of some moral obligation to the “starving children of Africa”. My obligation to my weakening waistline was left on its on, and soon forgotten. Seeking to ease the guilt, it became extremely easy to blame my kid for my inability to succeed on my quest for healthier eating.
What is one to do when your very goal is being sabotaged, intentionally or otherwise, by someone important in your life? This is particularly hard when you live with the person. When you have stocked your fridge with greens, fresh veggies, fruit, gluten free this and trans-fat free that and in they come with a bucket of piping hot KFC. What do you do when you feel usurped, undermined, unsupported and are ready to just join in the social eating club? How do you deal with their issued of want, need, abandonment and fear? Below are some tips on finding success on partnering on the journey to wellness.
Be an example. You may be spending the time thinking about how this person is holding you down and holding you back, but have you ever thought that you are there to inspire them? That they may need you more now than you need them. You may be the rock at this point. This is the nature of relationships. Sometimes you take them helm. Where you are weak, they make be strong and vice versa.
Thing of the shift in the relationship of being a child of an aging parent. Once they met your every need, kissed your skinned knees, soothed bruised egos and broken hearts, but in time the child become the anchor in the relationship, caring for the parent in many of those same manners.
When it comes to relationships and nutrition, you can make healthier meals, introduce items that will provide balance, like the Green Smoothie or Spirulina Bars, suggest new restaurant choices. Provide these items as side dishes or options to their less than healthy choices so as not to present a conflict. Allow them to see you reaching for these options without nagging them to make a hard and fast choice.
Walk the walk together. Walking has manifold benefits for those partnered in aspiring to greater health. Get the blood flowing toward your heads, hearts and all parts while getting a much needed opportunity to just talk. Our busy lives often do not afford many even the smallest opportunities just to download about our days. This can be done into the darker hours of the early evening that you may not being willing to do on the solo tip, but now that your are with a partner, you can take advantage of the “safety in numbers” aspect while listening and sharing about your respective days.
Brainstorm on Together on The New Social Paradigm.
If like many, you two have built much of your social life around eating activities, sit down and think of new activities to strengthen your bond that do not center on food. Family fitness day in the park. Camping. Boating. Backyard badminton. You will be surprised how receptive your social circle be when invited to these activities over a day of sitting around and eating. They will be grateful to both you for the inspiration.
Hire a coach. If it is financially feasible, enlisting the help of a professional nutrition coach. Sometimes it is harder for your partner to hear it from you. They may feel abandoned, even angry at you for ending your partnership in food. Hearing it from a professional may make it more palatable and takes the pressure off of you as a nag or a know-it-all.
Co-create. Make a plan. Set goals together. Create a vision for your future health. Make a vision board showing healthy food choices, healthy bodies with happy people engaged in fun outdoor activities. Discuss how you can enhance your relationship by reaching for wellness together. But be sure to do it in love and with respect to how your partner, parent, sibling, child, friend may feel about the joint venture.
Thank them often. Be sure to practice gratitude for having a partner. The journey is a difficult alone, and having a partner can be the inspiration you need to make it a success. Tell them regularly how thankful you are for having them in your corner. Speak victory over them. Start to harness the power of words as powerful weapons. Start talking to them about the way you would like them to make you feel. Start speaking those things you would like them to do for you, say to you, and think about you. Thank you for your influence over my life. You are my inspiration, and I am excited about our partnership toward ever increasing wellness. I am so glad you are on my team.
Most importantly, Pray. All precious gifts come from above and if you ask it is given. It is the desire of the Creator that we be in good health and to prosper. Through prayer and supplication, enlist the help of God to help you find ways to be an inspiration to your partner and vice versa. Ask for strength for both of you along the path. Ask for new eyes with which to see them and for them to see you. Remember above all. When we change the way we look at things, the things we look at change!
It is time to get rid of the dead weight for 2010; You know who you are, I began to think about the concept of dead weight in my own life as I move toward my goal of ever increasing wellness. I try to surround myself with like-minded, positive people who are generally on the same path. But there are times when I have met with dissention, egoism and negativity. Usually it is my own, but every now in then it comes in the form of a person close to me.
Others have shared similar experiences with me. In my recent foray into the world of nutrition and wellness counseling, I have come across many people who are ready to jump with two feet into a new eating lifestyle and exercise program. They have all the vigor, excitement, and energy and would like to learn more about what to do to access good health. They are done with the Monday morning diet-Friday evening failure syndrome, the yo-yoing, the false starts and promises. They are laying their fears aside, moving full steam ahead, turning over a new leaf and this time, going for the gusto!
Unfortunately, their programs have stalled and something is keeping them from getting off the ground. The problem? Surprisingly, often it is a loved one, a spouse, a parent, a child…. a highly significant other who they wrongly assumed would be their biggest supporter.
This is often not a surprise. Couples who start their relationships in leaner years, who grow together, in more ways than one, often find comfort together in food. I am reminded of the many trips my own grandfather took downstairs to get the late night snacks for he and my grandmother to eat while watching The Late Show with Johnny Carson. The vision of them, beyond pleasantly plump, peering over bellies and dinner trays, sitting up in bed, with the framed photo of a slimmer him in WWII uniform and a hourglass shaped her in 40s floral cotton apron on the beside table nearby.
Following his untimely death from a heart attack years later, she recounted to me “…our social lives were build around dining out with friends, Sunday dinners, backyard BBQs, and buffets lines. Food was our lives, and we just didn’t know any better. We tried to diet, but felt to change would be to ostracize ourselves from all aspects of how we related to the people we loved.”
My own attempt at dieting when a young mother was always thwarted, not just by a cabinet full of snacks for the kid, but by my own conditioning against waste. I found myself “finishing” my son’s food out of some moral obligation to the “starving children of Africa”. My obligation to my weakening waistline was left on its on, and soon forgotten. Seeking to ease the guilt, it became extremely easy to blame my kid for my inability to succeed on my quest for healthier eating.
What is one to do when your very goal is being sabotaged, intentionally or otherwise, by someone important in your life? This is particularly hard when you live with the person. When you have stocked your fridge with greens, fresh veggies, fruit, gluten free this and trans-fat free that and in they come with a bucket of piping hot KFC. What do you do when you feel usurped, undermined, unsupported and are ready to just join in the social eating club? How do you deal with their issued of want, need, abandonment and fear? Below are some tips on finding success on partnering on the journey to wellness.
Successful Healthy Partnering
Be an example. You may be spending the time thinking about how this person is holding you down and holding you back, but have you ever thought that you are there to inspire them? That they may need you more now than you need them. You may be the rock at this point. This is the nature of relationships. Sometimes you take them helm. Where you are weak, they make be strong and vice versa.
Thing of the shift in the relationship of being a child of an aging parent. Once they met your every need, kissed your skinned knees, soothed bruised egos and broken hearts, but in time the child become the anchor in the relationship, caring for the parent in many of those same manners.
When it comes to relationships and nutrition, you can make healthier meals, introduce items that will provide balance, like the Green Smoothie or Spirulina Bars, suggest new restaurant choices. Provide these items as side dishes or options to their less than healthy choices so as not to present a conflict. Allow them to see you reaching for these options without nagging them to make a hard and fast choice.
Walk the walk together. Walking has manifold benefits for those partnered in aspiring to greater health. Get the blood flowing toward your heads, hearts and all parts while getting a much needed opportunity to just talk. Our busy lives often do not afford many even the smallest opportunities just to download about our days. This can be done into the darker hours of the early evening that you may not being willing to do on the solo tip, but now that your are with a partner, you can take advantage of the “safety in numbers” aspect while listening and sharing about your respective days.
Brainstorm on Together on The New Social Paradigm.
If like many, you two have built much of your social life around eating activities, sit down and think of new activities to strengthen your bond that do not center on food. Family fitness day in the park. Camping. Boating. Backyard badminton. You will be surprised how receptive your social circle be when invited to these activities over a day of sitting around and eating. They will be grateful to both you for the inspiration.
Hire a coach. If it is financially feasible, enlisting the help of a professional nutrition coach. Sometimes it is harder for your partner to hear it from you. They may feel abandoned, even angry at you for ending your partnership in food. Hearing it from a professional may make it more palatable and takes the pressure off of you as a nag or a know-it-all.
Co-create. Make a plan. Set goals together. Create a vision for your future health. Make a vision board showing healthy food choices, healthy bodies with happy people engaged in fun outdoor activities. Discuss how you can enhance your relationship by reaching for wellness together. But be sure to do it in love and with respect to how your partner, parent, sibling, child, friend may feel about the joint venture.
Thank them often. Be sure to practice gratitude for having a partner. The journey is a difficult alone, and having a partner can be the inspiration you need to make it a success. Tell them regularly how thankful you are for having them in your corner. Speak victory over them. Start to harness the power of words as powerful weapons. Start talking to them about the way you would like them to make you feel. Start speaking those things you would like them to do for you, say to you, and think about you. Thank you for your influence over my life. You are my inspiration, and I am excited about our partnership toward ever increasing wellness. I am so glad you are on my team.
Most importantly, Pray. All precious gifts come from above and if you ask it is given. It is the desire of the Creator that we be in good health and to prosper. Through prayer and supplication, enlist the help of God to help you find ways to be an inspiration to your partner and vice versa. Ask for strength for both of you along the path. Ask for new eyes with which to see them and for them to see you. Remember above all. When we change the way we look at things, the things we look at change!
by Jennifer B. Graham on
Inspired by the recent Facebook post of a friend of mine that read:
It is time to get rid of the dead weight for 2010; You know who you are, I began to think about the concept of dead weight in my own life as I move toward my goal of ever increasing wellness. I try to surround myself with like-minded, positive people who are generally on the same path. But there are times when I have met with dissention, egoism and negativity. Usually it is my own, but every now in then it comes in the form of a person close to me.
Others have shared similar experiences with me. In my recent foray into the world of nutrition and wellness counseling, I have come across many people who are ready to jump with two feet into a new eating lifestyle and exercise program. They have all the vigor, excitement, and energy and would like to learn more about what to do to access good health. They are done with the Monday morning diet-Friday evening failure syndrome, the yo-yoing, the false starts and promises. They are laying their fears aside, moving full steam ahead, turning over a new leaf and this time, going for the gusto!
Unfortunately, their programs have stalled and something is keeping them from getting off the ground. The problem? Surprisingly, often it is a loved one, a spouse, a parent, a child…. a highly significant other who they wrongly assumed would be their biggest supporter.
This is often not a surprise. Couples who start their relationships in leaner years, who grow together, in more ways than one, often find comfort together in food. I am reminded of the many trips my own grandfather took downstairs to get the late night snacks for he and my grandmother to eat while watching The Late Show with Johnny Carson. The vision of them, beyond pleasantly plump, peering over bellies and dinner trays, sitting up in bed, with the framed photo of a slimmer him in WWII uniform and a hourglass shaped her in 40s floral cotton apron on the beside table nearby.
Following his untimely death from a heart attack years later, she recounted to me “…our social lives were build around dining out with friends, Sunday dinners, backyard BBQs, and buffets lines. Food was our lives, and we just didn’t know any better. We tried to diet, but felt to change would be to ostracize ourselves from all aspects of how we related to the people we loved.”
My own attempt at dieting when a young mother was always thwarted, not just by a cabinet full of snacks for the kid, but by my own conditioning against waste. I found myself “finishing” my son’s food out of some moral obligation to the “starving children of Africa”. My obligation to my weakening waistline was left on its on, and soon forgotten. Seeking to ease the guilt, it became extremely easy to blame my kid for my inability to succeed on my quest for healthier eating.
What is one to do when your very goal is being sabotaged, intentionally or otherwise, by someone important in your life? This is particularly hard when you live with the person. When you have stocked your fridge with greens, fresh veggies, fruit, gluten free this and trans-fat free that and in they come with a bucket of piping hot KFC. What do you do when you feel usurped, undermined, unsupported and are ready to just join in the social eating club? How do you deal with their issued of want, need, abandonment and fear? Below are some tips on finding success on partnering on the journey to wellness.
Successful Healthy Partnering
Be an example. You may be spending the time thinking about how this person is holding you down and holding you back, but have you ever thought that you are there to inspire them? That they may need you more now than you need them. You may be the rock at this point. This is the nature of relationships. Sometimes you take them helm. Where you are weak, they make be strong and vice versa.
Thing of the shift in the relationship of being a child of an aging parent. Once they met your every need, kissed your skinned knees, soothed bruised egos and broken hearts, but in time the child become the anchor in the relationship, caring for the parent in many of those same manners.
When it comes to relationships and nutrition, you can make healthier meals, introduce items that will provide balance, like the Green Smoothie or Marinated Kale and Tangerine Salad. Suggest new restaurant choices. Provide these items as side dishes or options to their less than healthy choices so as not to present a conflict. Allow them to see you reaching for these options without nagging them to make a hard and fast choice.
Walk the walk together. Walking has manifold benefits for those partnered in aspiring to greater health. Get the blood flowing toward your heads, hearts and all parts while getting a much needed opportunity to just talk. Our busy lives often do not afford many even the smallest opportunities just to download about our days. This can be done into the darker hours of the early evening that you may not being willing to do on the solo tip, but now that your are with a partner, you can take advantage of the “safety in numbers” aspect while listening and sharing about your respective days.
Brainstorm on Together on The New Social Paradigm.
If like many, you two have built much of your social life around eating activities, sit down and think of new activities to strengthen your bond that do not center on food. Family fitness day in the park. Camping. Boating. Backyard badminton. You will be surprised how receptive your social circle be when invited to these activities over a day of sitting around and eating. They will be grateful to both you for the inspiration.
Hire a coach. If it is financially feasible, enlisting the help of a professional nutrition coach. Sometimes it is harder for your partner to hear it from you. They may feel abandoned, even angry at you for ending your partnership in food. Hearing it from a professional may make it more palatable and takes the pressure off of you as a nag or a know-it-all.
Co-create. Make a plan. Set goals together. Create a vision for your future health. Make a vision board showing healthy food choices, healthy bodies with happy people engaged in fun outdoor activities. Discuss how you can enhance your relationship by reaching for wellness together. But be sure to do it in love and with respect to how your partner, parent, sibling, child, friend may feel about the joint venture.
Thank them with your language. Be sure to practice gratitude for having a partner. The journey is a difficult alone, and having a partner can be the inspiration you need to make it a success. Tell them regularly how thankful you are for having them in your corner. Speak victory over them. Start to harness the power of words as powerful weapons. Start talking to them about the way you would like them to make you feel. Start speaking those things you would like them to do for you, say to you, and think about you. Thank you for your influence over my life. You are my inspiration, and I am excited about our partnership toward ever increasing wellness. I am so glad you are on my team.
Most importantly, Pray. All precious gifts come from above and if you ask it is given. It is the desire of the Creator that we be in good health and to prosper. Through prayer and supplication, enlist the help of God to help you find ways to be an inspiration to your partner and vice versa. Ask for strength for both of you along the path. Ask for new eyes with which to see them and for them to see you. Remember above all. When we change the way we look at things, the things we look at change!
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