7 Tips for a Healthy Nursery
August 28, 2012
By Guest Blogger
A child’s nursery is a sanctuary of sorts – a safe, peaceful place away from the hubbub of the household and the din beyond its doors. Most parents pay close attention to detail as they create the space, lovingly choosing just the right shade of paint and decor to reflect their child’s budding personality, and bedding that hopefully helps promote long hours of tranquil slumber. But one thing that’s often overlooked is creating an environment… Read More >
Three Tips for Raising Self-Confident and Spiritually Aware Kids
August 2, 2012
By Guest Blogger
Just yesterday, I worked with an eight-year-old client named Ava. She is highly creative and intelligent, yet also struggles with her self-confidence. So I asked her, “Would you like to paint today?” and she replied, “I am not sure if I can do it.” Of course, this is a clear sign that she continues to need help building her sense of outer to inner confidence. Since I also know her family as a spiritual but… Read More >
Tumors in Children: How One Family Thrives
November 28, 2011
By Guest Blogger
I write this as I sit in an MRI room while my 8-year-old son Sami is scanned for the umpteenth time. Here we go – this is a big one. It is a follow-up scan from one just over a week ago. Enhancement. A possible brain tumor. All the other tumors are stable and I am told not to worry yet. This is not possible. But this is not where our story begins. It actually… Read More >
Nutrition Intuition for Kids
April 18, 2011
By Guest Blogger
by Gretchen Tseng We all have an inborn nutrition intuition, and it is up to us to decide whether to listen to it. In our current culture, unless we actively pay attention to it, our nutrition intuition slowly fades away as we are bombarded with the Standard American Diet (SAD) of processed food, fast food and the incessant advertising for both. When children are very young, they stop eating when they are full, just as… Read More >
How Meditation Changes Your Life
April 1, 2011
By Rolf Gates
“The ego is a dysfunctional relationship to the now.” Eckhart Tolle I did not start meditating in earnest until my daughter Jasmine was born. Twelve years before I had bought a book on Zen meditation and began a seated practice on my own. The results were dramatic. A few weeks after I started, a friend of mine asked, “Rolf, what happened to your car? It’s clean!” I smiled and said, “Meditation.” I have always loved… Read More >
The Yoga of Parenting
February 9, 2011
By Elena Brower
When I’m asked how yoga has impacted my parenting, I parse it down to one point, which every other type of work on myself has corroborated for the past 13 years. In every moment, I magnetize my own state. Translated: However I am behaving will be reflected in everyone around me, especially my kid. There are many simple examples of this popular topic. If you’re happy, people smile at you. If you don’t trust yourself,… Read More >
The Quick and Easy Way I Helped My Kid Cut Dairy
December 23, 2010
By Guest Blogger
Here is the story of why and how I removed dairy products from my now 7-year-old son’s diet, and one great suggestion on how to make healthy substitutions work in your life and in the lives of your favorite peeps. My son’s name is Riley, but this story starts with me … no shock there! In 2007, I removed all dairy products from my personal food intake. Prior to this action, I drank a little… Read More >
When is the Right Time to Tell Your Children About Your Diagnosis?
September 23, 2010
By Guest Blogger
Your children are playing with medieval characters – horses and knights, dragons and ladies-in-waiting. You watch them from the doorway of the room. The room needs dusting, you think. I should return those library books, you think. I have cancer, you think. Your children, absorbed in their make-believe, are laughing. It is the most perfect moment, sunlight sinking through the window, the softness of being in your home with your family and its smells and… Read More >
My Son’s Journey with Down Syndrome: How Nutrition Improved His Health
July 20, 2010
By Guest Blogger
I live in paradise. Yes, the kind on the postcards: palm trees, coconuts, sunshine, blue sky, all that. Costa Rica has been my home for 12 years. I came in search of paradise, and in the end I got it. The funny thing is that it didn’t look anything like the postcard I’d imagined. In 2005, my second child was born with Down Syndrome. Addison’s journey into this world would become a trip into healing… Read More >
Our Power to Create the Sacred
May 7, 2010
By Rolf Gates
“We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.” -Tao Te Ching One of the rituals my young family has embraced is the last-minute search for something essential before leaving the house to do anything. Our initial rituals involved “the finding of the socks.” There were only three pairs of socks my daughter would wear to pre-K, and they never seemed to be where we put them… Read More >
Entrepreneurial Mama
February 10, 2010
By Juli Novotny
How do I juggle my life as an entrepreneur and full-time mom and still find time to feed my kids a healthy diet? The truth is that it is almost impossible to build a business, raise two small babies, feed them well and dress them right 100% of the time. But, there are a few tricks to do your best and do it right 90% of the time. First, ask yourself: do you have to… Read More >
The ABCs of Vitamins
December 1, 2009
By Latham Thomas
As a wellness practitioner and vegan mother with a growing 6 year old boy, I am constantly getting questions from clients and other mothers about what vitamins they should take, how many they should take, what’s the best label for prenatal vitamins and kids brands, etc. Supplements can be a helpful way to ensure you are getting certain vitamins and minerals on a regular basis, but it doesn’t mean that you are necessarily assimilating those… Read More >
Our Family’s Journey with Autism
July 30, 2009
By Guest Blogger
By Tracy Fox When my youngest son Ethan turned 18 months old, I told my husband Charlie, we’re going to have a problem. I had just called the pediatrician to make Ethan’s 18 month checkup appointment, and in my gut, I knew that something was wrong. I didn’t know exactly what, but having a 3 year old son Ben helped me see what Ethan should and shouldn’t be doing. And at that moment, I saw,… Read More >
