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:

Why I Am Not Vegan Anymore

January 19, 2017 Paula Youmell, RN

I am asked these questions around food and eating quite frequently:

What is the healthiest way to eat?
You aren't going to tell me I have to be vegetarian or vegan to heal my health problems?
What happened to you?!... You were vegan, you had it so right, why did you change?

Just what is healthy eating? Ask that question of 10 different people and you will probably get 10 different answers... some spewed forth with the enthusiasm of a food fanatic. Hey, I only say this as I know, I could be mildly fanatic in my hey day.

5 Easy Ways To Shift The Energy Of Your Life's Path

December 16, 2016 Paula Youmell, RN

Easy is a relative word and is subject to much subjectivity.

1. Practice being mindful in every moment.

Excerpted from an article I wrote in 2012 for the Potsdam Food Coop's newsletter, {in my day, you know the uphill both ways to school - barefoot AND in the snow, mindfulness was simply called yoga, ; ) }

I have always urged and supported others to practice some form of mind, body, spirit "exercise" to bring a centered awareness into their life as this daily habit makes the process of healthy lifestyle change flow with ease & grace (seriously my friends, I am not pulling your yoga leg here!):

Skip Excuses, Find A Way!

October 23, 2016 Paula Youmell, RN

We Intuitively Know When Something Needs To Change In Our Lives; Something Needs To Shift.

Self Healing begins with making change; shifting habits in our daily lives.

Make the shift; create the change you need, you crave, now. Skip making more excuses.

Try these life changing steps:

Calming Digestive Tract Woes With Your Mind

September 26, 2016 Paula Youmell, RN

Meditation - Visualization for Healing Your Gut Health

All Disease begins in the gut. Hippocrates

Health begins in the gut. The reverse is also true: disease begins in the gut. Taking steps to reduce the angst in your life reduces the angst in your gut. Over the long haul of life... this is a gut healing gift to yourself!

Grab a blanket or two, maybe a yoga mat, and some pillows or props to make yourself comfy.
Lie down on your back supporting your head and knees to keep your lower back happy.

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1. Practice being mindful in every moment.

We Intuitively Know When Something Needs To Change In Our Lives; Something Needs To Shift.

Meditation - Visualization for Healing Your Gut Health