Embrace Your Sacred Cow

April 14, 2017 Paula Youmell, RN

Cows gracing peacefully at The Lands At Hillside Farm, Shavertown, PA

Cow? Really Paula... where can you possibly be going with this? Get as big as a cow? Be gentle like a cow? Have gorgeous, long lashes like a cow?

Nah, something much more practical! Chew like a cow people. Chew long, luxuriously, peacefully, and gently.

95% of the clients and students I work with have some sort of GI Tract upset. Their digestive tract is struggling to do the job of, well, digesting. So many more of your bodily processes (all of them really) rely on your digestion so the rest of your body's functions can happen effortlessly.

Active Vs. Passive Medicine

March 10, 2017 Paula Youmell, RN

Healing oneself takes an individual's active participation in the process. This participation can be physical (body), emotional (mind), or spirit work. Often times, all three woven together into a beautiful Self-Healing tapestry is your healing magic in action.

We live is a culture that generally works from a space of passive health care.

One western medicine scenario:

Not All Vitamin Supplements Are Created Equally

February 16, 2017 Paula Youmell, RN

Nature Made? Hmmm, name sounds safe enough. It is Nature made, correct?

People grabs these cleverly named supplements off the shelves of drug stores, grocery stores, and discount department stores feeling confident in something that was nature made.

Cheaper department store vitamins are enticing. Who doesn't like to save a few bucks when and where they can. Money is the currency of our life force energy and we only have so much (life force energy) to burn up in our time on this planet. Is saving a few bucks on cheaper vitamins worth it?

Shopper's Rut: Why do I need to avoid this?

November 20, 2016 Paula Youmell, RN

Shopper's Rut Defined: buying the same 'ole fruits and veggies every week:

bunch of bananas
few apples
an orange or two on occasion and maybe a pear here or there
stock of broccoli
pre-washed & prepared lettuce of some sort
carrots
maybe a cuke or bell pepper
perhaps some celery because it is easy

Why Should You Avoid This Same 'Ole - Same 'Ole Produce Shopping Experience... (Hint: to avoid eating the same things day after day, week after week!)

Bone Broth: What Is the Hype?

September 20, 2016 Paula Youmell, RN

Jar one: bones soaking in apple cider vinegarJar two: finished bone broth — Jar one: bones soaking in apple cider vinegar
Jar two: finished bone broth

Perhaps you remember your mom or grandma feeding you chicken soup when you were ill. Most chicken soup, stock, was made with the bones, cartilage, and the hunks of attacked chicken meat. (If you are vegetarian or vegan… don’t bail on me just yet. I have plant based gut healing suggestions as well. Bare with me on this bones thing.)

Animal bone broths have been used for hundreds of years, thousands really, for their nourishment and healing benefits. People inherently knew the healing benefits of the daily food and life choices they made. Modern living somehow now requires scientific proofthat what we are doing is worthwhile. Research into the benefits of bone broth is available and plenty to satisfy the scientifically inclined.

Simple & Sensible Reasons To Take Magnesium

August 14, 2016 Paula Youmell, RN

A week or so ago I sent a newsletter (not a blog post) titled #1 Supplement I Recommend about the magnificent mineral magnesium. Below I will quickly list and explain, in simplest terms, some of the benefits of taking magnesium: meaning the ill health symptoms you experience from your magnesium insufficiency will buzz off and leave you alone when you actually have enough magnesium in your system for your body cells to use.

Natural Health Education Blog

Shopper's Rut Defined: buying the same 'ole fruits and veggies every week:

Why Should You Avoid This Same 'Ole - Same 'Ole Produce Shopping Experience... (Hint: to avoid eating the same things day after day, week after week!)