Sheila's Insights

Fuel for Thought: Harnessing the Power of Mind-Food

The thoughts you feed your mind have a significant impact on your mental well-being and productivity. By focusing on positive thinking, you can rewire your mindset and shift from limitations to possibilities. This positive mindset not only boosts self-confidence but also enhances focus and concentration, reduces stress, and increases resilience in the face of setbacks. Incorporating health and wellness scans into your routine can further support your physical and mental well-being. By combining the power of positive thinking with a holistic approach to health, you can achieve balance and fulfillment in your life while maximizing productivity and success.
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Breaking the Chains: Stepping Stones to a Healthier You

Your health journey is made up of the choices you make every day. Each decision you make forms a link in the chain, shaping your overall well-being. Breaking the negative links that have held you back and building new, positive links can change the direction of your health journey. It starts with acknowledging the choices that have led you to your current health condition and taking responsibility for your actions. Then, you can create new links by making lifestyle changes such as incorporating regular exercise or seeking support from professionals. Patience, consistency, and perseverance are key, as well as eliminating any weak links that may still be present. Make it your goal to forge ahead on a new health journey, creating a stronger and brighter future.
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Hydration, Hydration, Hydration!!

We've all heard the importance of staying hydrated, especially during hot summer days or intense workouts. But did you know that it's not just about drinking plain water?
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Is Gluten Messing with Your Brain?

Have you ever experienced a brain fog or had trouble concentrating for no apparent reason? Or maybe you've felt anxious or depressed without knowing why?
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Exploring Eustress vs Distress: How to Harness Its Power for Success

One of the most common things that we hear about stress is that it's something negative that needs to be avoided at all costs. However, stress is not as black and white as we may have previously thought. There are actually two types of stress: eustress and distress.

While it may be impossible to completely eliminate stress from our lives, it's important to know that we don't have to handle it alone. There are resources and methods available to help us manage stress and use it as an accelerator moving us forward.
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My Freedom Journey

 
People, including doctors, thought we were crazy...all in our heads.  After all, how could normal, every day household and personal product smells affect your ability to function, to cause you to be incoherent and feel shaky inside, to have an emotional break-down?  Inside we were dying.  Outside we appeared normal. 
Fragrances were, and are, part of every day, normal life.....candles, laundry, cleaning, perfumes.  Everyone and their neighbor used them.  For us, we either had to isolate ourselves or suffer the following day or two with a toxic hangover.  Isolation is never a good option, especially with children.  During the summer it was impossible to go outside without inhaling someone's laundry or the recent lawn product application.  My husband was so bad one summer that he could eat constantly and, yet, still lose weight.  Every month I would get a sinus infection and/or chest congestion. 
Then came the food sensitivities and autoimmune disorders.  How could food cause my ears to be red and hot, my cheeks to flush, and cause my entire body to break out multiple times in a horrendous, red, itchy, inflamed rash only to burn when scratched and ooze yellow, sticky fluid?  Imagine, every day having gauze pads over the majority of your body under your clothes and hoping the rash doesn't drain so much that it soaks through your clothes.  It would take months to disappear.  People said "just get a cortisone/steroid shot" for relief.  They could not understand why that was not my choice. 
By discovering and eliminating my many triggers, finding a new, non-toxic way to support my immune system, my liver, and my thyroid, I have not had a major skin breakout for about 3 yrs and have been able to manage my autoimmune disorders without the use of standard medication. 
I finally found a way to acquire "Freedom from Toxins", "Freedom to Achieve Wellness", and "Freedom to Choose". 


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