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I’m just gonna leave this here ❤️

hope is often
so much quieter
than my fear

hope is the whisper
between screams

hope is the nearly inaudible
sound of your tears drying
on the rose of your cheek

hope is the hushed wind passing
through a tall Wyoming pine

hope is the noise of you
softly exhaling while
looking for God in the mirror

hope is the sound of stars winking
at us from across the cosmos

hope is the babbling river
hope is the snoring baby
hope is the thumping heartbeat

hope is the lightly
beeping hospital monitor

hope is the sound
of butterfly wings
moving in the spring

hope is the noise ice
makes as it melts on a lake

hope is the gentle scratching of
a flower as it claws its way
out of the earth to sunbathe

hope is never loud
hope is never fussy
hope is never announced

- in fact, you might miss hope’s
arrival if your not listening for it

hope is more piano
than it is saxophone

hope is humble
hope is stealthy
hope doesn’t wear a name tag

hope is so often so silent

but that what 
makes hope so
powerful

because it can
surprise us at a moments notice

hope is always present
it’s the beat between musics notes
it’s the lips smack before the kiss
it’s the deep breath before the eulogy

hope is the quiet voice of God
that is endlessly begging us to
not surrender to the crawling shadows

and the voice is always
saying the same thing:

“Hold on, my love, hold on, my love.”

if you give it a moment of silence
you will find that hope is a real
chatter box

it won’t stop talking to you
if you let it get started

hope is everywhere
even in places where
you won’t expect to find it

it’s in your blood
it’s in your wrinkles
it’s in your grief

hope is relentless
amid the noise of
this clanging world

just listen

I swear,
my love,

if you just listen
to the noiseless hope
that surrounds you

I swear

you’ll never give up again

(John Roedel)

“We have to recognise that every breath of air we take, every mouthful of food we take comes from the natural world. And that if we damage the natural world, we damage ourselves. We are one coherent ecosystem. It's no a just a question of beauty, or interest, or wonder - the essential ingredient of human life is a healthy planet. We are in danger of wrecking that. We are destroying the natural world and with it ourselves.”
Sir David Attenborough

I recently discovered the beauty of these flowers. Nature's healing tools are varied, in abundance and completely powerful in serving the parasympathetic nervous system.
If you are able at least take a walk outside in fresh air. This alone can be a great therapy both mentally and physically. While your at it think about 3 things you are grateful for.

A wonderful view about our place in the world.

The following video is very educational about sugar. It is particularly important during covid as eating sugar compromises the immune system.
Keeping the immune system strong is so very important of course, and one of the single most important things you can do to ward off unwanted flus and viruses. Through a healthy diet, exercise and supplementation of C, D3, extra zinc and probiotics are helpful in keeping the immune system in order.
Managing stress through deep breathing techniques such as the 4-8-8 method is also important. Inhale for a slow count of 4, exhale for a count of 8 and hold for a count of 8. Doing this periodically throughout those stressful moments helps to activate the parasympathetic response slowing down the stress response.
More about this later.

VIDEO: Sugar: The Bitter Truth Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, explores the damage caused by sugary foods. He argues that fructose (too much) and fiber (not enough) appear to be cornerstones of the obesity epidemic through their effects on insulin. Recorded on 05/26/2009.

Yes!

From a past teacher of mine...

https://www.facebook.com/135473923150032/posts/3579170755446981/?substory_index=0

We cannot arrive at the solutions for our health care crisis only by improving access to care and medical quality and reducing errors or waste while still applying the same 20th century diagnostic and therapeutic methods.⁣⁣
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We cannot arrive at a better health care system by doing the same things better. We must transform medical education, research, practice, and policy to match the current scientific shift from reductionist, organ-based medicine to a more ecological understanding of health and disease based on systems medicine. We cannot otherwise get to the solutions for our health care crisis, or solve the problem of chronic disease.⁣⁣
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Functional medicine is the best-kept secret in science and medicine today. That must and can change by implementing initiatives in research, education, collaboration, and policy on a large scale to support and nurture the seed of a viable health care system nationally and globally.⁣⁣
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I believe that functional medicine is one of the most important ideas of our time — an idea that can help relieve the unnecessary suffering of millions. I encourage you to explore, learn, investigate, question, and become re-enchanted with medicine alongside me, through the doorway of functional medicine.⁣

Happy Holidays and for Your new year ...

I find this recipe to be one of the highlights of summer...Watermelon Cucumber Smoothie with Thai Basil and Mint.

I have always loved trees for their wisdom and magnificence.

What did you have for dinner?

Many people always ask me as a health coach
"What do health coaches do?"
This good article explains a piece of it.

http://health.usnews.com/health-news/blogs/eat-run/2015/02/04/whats-a-health-coach