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Healthy Fruit and Cream Bars

June 14, 2013 By Jennifer Lambert 2 Comments

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Welcome back to the Raising Healthy Family Series!

In this final installment, Kelly at The Nourishing Home is sharing a healthy way to beat the heat of summer without compromising good nutrition.

Making your own homemade ice pops and frozen treats is so easy and it’s fun too! And best of all, you’ll feel good knowing that your family is enjoying a healthy boost of wholesome nutrients in each and every yummy bite!

So be sure to join Kelly at The Nourishing Home as she helps us celebrate summer with some delicious and nutritious real food frozen treats certain to bring a smile to your kids faces, while keeping the ice cream man at bay!

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Natural Mothering eBook Bundle

June 10, 2013 By Jennifer Lambert 3 Comments

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Have you ever wished motherhood came with a manual? Whether motherhood makes you feel overwhelmed or whether you feel like you’ve found your stride as a mother, we are here to help you be the best mother to your children that you can be. We can also help you deal with infertility and prepare you for giving birth confidently and joyfully.We’ve got the resources you need to help your kids be healthier, to raise your children to be polite, caring people, to live more eco-friendly, and to make your home non-toxic.For 1 week only, get a downloadable package of 35+ e-books specifically designed to encourage and equip mothers to nurture their families (and themselves!) naturally for just $29.97.

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The eBooks

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This Bundle contains digital downloads in ZIP and PDF formats, so there is no shipping involved. You will receive your unique download link immediately after download. Please note that this Bundle is provided as is: no refunds, no exchanges, and no late sales will be provided.

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How To Get Your Kids To Eat More Vegetables

June 7, 2013 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

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Welcome to the next post in the Raising Healthy Families Series – a fun and informative series designed to help you and your family thrive!

I hope you’ll join us each Friday as we take a look at different ways to keep your family healthy and vibrant in a not-so-healthy world.

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Getting a child to eat vegetables can be a monumental task that most moms hope to accomplish in their lifetime.

We all know that many kids balk at vegetables.

Moms therefore try to find ways to “hide” vegetables in meals and casseroles, hoping their children do not notice the “green and orange stuff” hidden within their food. They whisper to their older children that they “better not say the word ‘vegetable’ or their younger siblings won’t eat supper!”

My girls eat vegetables every day. I’m not talking about vegetables hidden in food; I’m talking about fresh, raw, healthy vegetables! My girls cheer when they see I’m chopping up a plate of celery, carrots and green pepper!

Hop on over to Jill’s Home Remedies for fun and practical tips on teaching your own kids to eat more vegetables!

Note: This series is designed as a fun and informative compilation to help you and your family thrive. Each post is the opinion of that particular blogger, not necessarily mine or Positively Real Media’s.

Filed Under: Homemaking, Raising Healthy Families series Tagged With: foodie, health, kids, natural, vegetables

Where Food Comes From

May 31, 2013 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

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Welcome back to the Raising Health Families series. Join us each week as we take a look at different ways to keep your family healthy and vibrant in a not-so-healthy world.

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Written by Emily McClements of Live Renewed

As you push your child in a cart down the aisles of the grocery store, they are bombarded by brightly colored packages and more choices then they would ever know what to do with. The produce department is a full rainbow of fruits and veggies from around in the world, all looking like they’re at the peak of ripeness. And the cereal aisle is a rainbow full of sugar, artificial vitamins and minerals, and toxic dyes that are meant to attract your child’s attention.

So how do we teach our kids what real, seasonal, and local food actually is? Emily McClements of Live Renewed gives us easy ideas to help us teach our kids what’s on their plates, and where their food really comes from.

Filed Under: Raising Healthy Families series Tagged With: food, health, local, natural

Homemade Tea Recipes

May 24, 2013 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

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Over the last 50 years, we’ve had a major shift in the American diet. We’re now consuming more of our calories by drinking them. In fact, the average American is now drinking approximately 400 calories per day!

Soda, fruit juice, energy drinks and sports drinks. My kids ask for them, do yours?

Reach for a healthier alternative: tea. Full of potent antioxidants, studies have proven tea is good for your health. Can any soda say that? Plus, with so many flavorful recipes, you’ll have no problem convincing your family to drink more healthy tea.

Andrea Green from The Greenbacks Gal shares her Homemade Tea Recipes that are sure to become family favorites.

Filed Under: healthy living, Homemaking Tagged With: health, natural, tea

Natural in a Normal Family

May 17, 2013 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

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Welcome back to the Raising Health Families series, join us each week as we take a look at different ways to keep your family healthy and vibrant in a not-so-healthy world.

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Written by Sara from Your Thriving Family

Many of us are trying to eat real food and get back to natural products, for what we believe to be the best for our families. The wall we sometimes hit, unfortunately, can be our well-meaning and loving extended family.

How do you continue along your journey and keep the peace with the extended family? Natural Living in a Regular Family, is about finding the balance and putting relationships first. Click on over for finding the grace in what goes in and on your family.

Next week is learning about the power of tea and some great homemade recipes.

Filed Under: healthy living Tagged With: choice, family, food, health, kids, natural

Raising Healthy Families: Play in the Dirt

May 3, 2013 By Jennifer Lambert 1 Comment

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Welcome back to the Raising Healthy Families series! Join us each week as we take a look at different ways to keep your family healthy and vibrant in a not-so-healthy world.

By Susan Vinskofski of learningandyearning.

Did you realize that our health is intimately connected to soil? It plays a role in our mental health as well. Read learningandyearning’s Go Play in the Dirt! It’s Good for your Health to learn more about a very special bacteria found in soil which boosts serotonin in our brains. The post has lots of ideas for getting dirty, too! As if you needed help with that.

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Essential oils instead of surgery

April 26, 2013 By Jennifer Lambert 20 Comments

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Welcome to the next post in the Raising Healthy Families Series – a fun and informative series designed to help you and your family thrive!

I hope you’ll join us each Friday as we take a look at different ways to keep your family healthy and vibrant in a not-so-healthy world.

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Now it’s MY turn!

Here’s my eldest daughter 10 months ago. She’s 12.5 years old.

I’ve been using essential oils on Elizabeth since January.

We first became concerned about her a year or so ago. She walked on her toes and said her feet and legs hurt. She was unable to place her heels on the floor.

I got her new shoes, in the correct size. She hadn’t told me for several months that her boots were too small. She loved those boots that much. I felt like a bad mom.

It didn’t completely help the problem.

So, we took Elizabeth to the doctor. And another. And then a specialist.

The doctors said she needed surgery on her legs. Her tendons were too tight. She had hammer toes. Her spinal column was too short. Her ankles were weak. She needed pins in her ankles to straighten and strengthen.

They all said different, scary things, and they all wanted surgery.

We bought Elizabeth yet another pair of shoes – expensive, super stiff-soled walking shoes with rigid ankle brace inserts.

We did yoga. Pi-yo. The whole family encouraged. All the other kids wanted to do stretches too. It was great.

Liz wasn’t very successful at running track last season because she was almost in tears after practices and therefore didn’t do well in the races. She was in constant pain.

So we went the physical therapy route for a while, last spring and summer. It helped some. They ended our sessions with the comment that she wasn’t progressing because she feared pain, even though she wasn’t experiencing it any more. They had done all they could for her.

It seemed strange that she could run barefoot through the yard just fine.

I think it was improving, but when she thought about it, that fear of pain came back. When she didn’t think, she walked and ran fine.

We let it drop for a while since she wasn’t complaining of pain.

Absence of pain isn’t always the best answer.

Then, I noticed that Elizabeth seemed to be getting worse again, instead of better. She still walked up on her tippy toes and cried that it hurt to place her feet flat on the floor.

I still remind Liz nightly to do her stretches, assigned to her by the PT. We do yoga most mornings and more stretches. I encourage her to walk barefoot in the house and yard, reminding her that it’s heel to toe, and even to stomp, if it helps.

A real miracle at work has been the essential oils. I massage Elizabeth with the Raindrop method. We begin and end with Valor (it’s been called “chiropractor in a bottle”). It’s supposed to help her body naturally realign her spine and nerves.

The Raindrop Technique is a method of using Vita Flex, reflexology, massage techniques, etc., and essential oils applied on various locations of the body to bring it structural and electrical alignment. It is designed to bring balance to the body with its relaxing and mild application. It will help align the energy centers of the body and release them if blocked, without using hard pressure or trying to force the body to change. ~Young Living

The Raindrop Massage uses seven single oils and two oil blends: Aroma Siez, Basil, Wintergreen, Cypress, Marjoram, Oregano, Peppermint, Thyme, Valor, along with Ortho Ease Massage Oil and V-6 Mixing Oil.

And I pray over her. Every night. Every morning. Multiple times per day. For physical as well as spiritual and mental healing.

When it became possible in our budget, my husband took her to his chiropractor. He also uses essential oils in his practice and is very into natural healing methods.

Dr. Jeffery “turned on” all her core muscles. They were all off! That certainly was much of the problem. Only 5 sessions were needed to get everything working properly. He affirmed that Elizabeth should do the stretches prescribed by her PT. Now I know she’s really on the road to recovery.

And Liz is now in Civil Air Patrol – with all the marching and standing at attention, it’s all coming together and her posture is much improved. She passed both her physical training tests last month, running 1.5 miles well under the necessary time, along with many sit ups and push ups. No pain. The boots help her stand straight with her heels down. And the good peer pressure to conform to the flight helps her to try harder to stand at attention well.

Here is Elizabeth on Easter morning. Her posture is so much better than it was!

I am so thankful that surgery hasn’t been necessary. I just felt in my heart that we should look to alternative medicine to heal and her growing body would adjust itself with time. We’re still praying. Still doing stretches, still monitoring and still massaging with essential oils.

Still encouraging her and thanking God that there’s been no need for surgery.

Filed Under: essential oils, healthy living, Raising Healthy Families series Tagged With: chiropractic, feet, health, legs, miracle, natural, ortho, panaway, surgery, valor, young living

Detoxing Your Cleaning Supplies

April 5, 2013 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

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Welcome to the next post in the Raising Healthy Families Series – a fun and informative series designed to help you and your family thrive!

I hope you’ll join us each Friday as we take a look at different ways to keep your family healthy and vibrant in a not-so-healthy world.

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Written by Hilary Kimes Bernstein of Accidentally Green

Welcome back to the Raising Healthy Families series. Today we’ll take another look at how to keep our families healthy in a not-so-healthy world.

Unfortunately, many commercial cleaning products are toxic. But the great news is that you can make your own effective, safe cleaners. Before you start your spring cleaning routine this year, choose your supplies carefully.

Please check out Accidentally Green’s Detoxing Your Cleaning Supplies to learn more about toxic cleaning supplies and non-toxic, homemade options.
Note: This series is designed as a fun and informative compilation to help you and your family thrive. Each post is the opinion of that particular blogger, not necessarily mine or Positively Real Media’s.

Filed Under: healthy living, Homemaking, Raising Healthy Families series Tagged With: cleaners, healthy, housework, natural

Confessions of a Cloth Diaper Convert

March 26, 2013 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

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Check out all the deals and promotions for Launch Week!

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*Note: Shipping is NOT included. Weigh the pros and cons of the bundle before buying the book. I feel very confident this book (over 200 pages!) is worth more than $9.95, and will save you money, but it is very important that you know there is not free shipping with the freebies.

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