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Natural Living in a Regular Family {Raising Healthy Families}

May 17, 2013 By Anne Simpson

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 learn about the power of tea and some great homemade recipes.

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Stock Your Natural First Aid Kit for the Summer! {Raising Healthy Families}

May 10, 2013 By Anne Simpson

Go Play in the Dirt! {Raising Healthy Families}

May 3, 2013 By Anne Simpson

Essential Oils Instead of Surgery {Raising Healthy Families}

April 26, 2013 By Anne Simpson

By Jennifer Lambert of

Learn about how I massaged my daughter out of a major leg surgery using essential oils and the power of prayer. After visiting several doctors, specialists, and physical therapists, we turned to natural methods – prayer, essential oils, massage, and yoga to heal my daughter’s legs and feet. Read our story at
Royal Little Lambs

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Natural Sources of Folic Acid {Raising Healthy Families}

April 20, 2013 By Anne Simpson

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.

Written by Justyn Lang of Creative Christian Mama.

When a woman is pregnant or is trying to conceive, she is usually told to start taking a folic acid supplement to prevent birth defects. Did you know that this synthetic form of the vitamin folate has been shown in many studies to cause cancer? Please visit Justyn over at Creative Christian Mama to get the scoop on what folic acid is and how to get plenty of the natural sources of folate in your diet!

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5 Simple Ways to Detoxify Your Home and Body {Raising Healthy Families}

March 22, 2013 By Anne Simpson

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.

Today’s post is written by Stacy of A Delightful Home.

The fact that we live in a world full of chemicals, pesticides, and other harmful substances can’t be denied.

Sure, we strive to eat good food and use natural cleaners, but what do we do about the unclean air and the unhealthy things that have already made their way into our homes and bodies?

Stacy shares 5 simple ways to detoxify your home and body so you and your family can live the healthiest life possible (and they are not as crazy as you might think)!

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Turn Your Power On with Chiropractic Care {Raising Healthy Families}

March 15, 2013 By Anne Simpson

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This week’s installment of Raising Healthy Families is brought to you by Rachel of day2day joys. Come back next week for another great tip on keeping your family healthy in a not-so-healthy world!

For you to be able to turn your car on, you must have gas in the tank, for you to turn on a light in your room, you must have a light bulb, for you to even use your iPhone or laptop to read this now, the power has to be turned on and your device must be charged.

And to turn things on correctly, you have to take care of them because if you don’t, eventually they will break or run out of power.

Well, your body, namely your spine isn’t any different. But the majority of people do not know this concept.

What does that mean to turn your power on anyway? Please hop on over to Rachel’s blog to read the rest!

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A Post-Flu Quest for Simplicity

March 11, 2013 By Anne Simpson

A big welcome to my friend Stephanie, The Cheapskate Cook, who generously offered to guest post for me as I’m in the middle of moving and re-settling. I’m currently tied up in knots at the DMV where I need 5 – yes, 5 – personal documents (that pretty much exhausts my repertoire of personal documents) just to transfer my drivers’ license. So while I’m waiting in line at the DMV, you can enjoy Stephanie’s thoughts on recovering from the flu.

The flu came to visit my house. Not just a quick visit, An extended one. The kind that drags on and on and until you can’t remember the last time you left the house and everyone was healthy at the same time and you ran out of easy food two days ago but no one feels healthy enough to go buy more, so you’re stuck dragging yourself to your feet and whipping together whatever you can that you still have ingredients for, and it doesn’t matter if this is what you eat for all three meals, because it’s probably all gonna come back out again in some nasty way.

That kind.

So our lives were stripped down to basics for a few days: sleep, eat, drink, sleep, change diapers, sleep.

And that’s about all we did. And TV. Lots of TV.

When we have weeks like this, I’m really hard on myself. My husband and I are down to our last nerves, trying to hold it together and take care of the kids and each other. We’re not actually mad at each other, but the reality is, the only people around to get mad at is… each other.

The kids watch far too much TV. Not only are they sick and listless, but if we dare turn off the tube in an attempt to rally something constructive (or at least non-electric), it’s amazing how quickly those listless kids muster the strength to protest.

Am I the only one in that boat? Am I the only one who’s had to call a time out on everything but the basics of life?

Interestingly, this time the worst part wasn’t the stage where we were really sick. It was easy to prioritize then. It was easy to only do what needed to get done.

It was when we were recovering that I melted down. It was during that awkward middle ground where we just weren’t healthy enough to do everything… but all I could see was everything that needed to get done.

The laundry piled high (flu laundry at that – ugh), dishes piled higher (if possible); I didn’t remember the last time the floor had been swept or vacuumed. And food? We’d eaten crackers for three days straight, Not even good, slightly less-processed crackers. Just saltines. For three days.

Oh, where to start?

Somewhere between pushing myself too hard one morning and laying around like a plague victim that afternoon, I realized something.

Sometimes I can’t do it all. Sometimes – wait, no-matter-what-the-time, I can’t do everything that needs to be done. I can’t do everything I think my kids deserve, that my husband deserves. I can run my self ragged trying to chase it all.

I can however, choose what is important to me and my family. I can choose what I will put my precious 24 hours a day to. And I can let the rest go.

In the quest for authentic simplicity is the beauty to choose. To decide to do things homemade, natural, organic, and sometimes to decide to buy pre-made and conventional. It’s our choice. It’s our simplicity, and it’s our job to choose it.

So the next day, after peeling myself out of bed, I chose to hold my sick little toddler and cuddle him on the couch. I chose to listen to my body and lean more on my Heavenly Father. I chose to look at picture books with my kids (reading was out the question because I had lost my voice). I chose to serve leftover chicken and rice soup for both lunch and dinner because, well, I chose to do some laundry instead of make dinner. And yes, I chose to turn on the TV. One step at a time. One choice at a time.

And you know what? I felt much, much better.

When Stephani and her husband got married, they lived in a renovated shed and had a grocery budget that matched. As a passionate whole-foodie, Stephani was determined to continue eating healthy, minimally-processed foods on their shoestring budget. So The Cheapskate Cook was born. You can follow the fun on her blog, where healthy meets frugal, or keep up with it via Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.

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Supplements You Need {Raising Healthy Families}

March 8, 2013 By Anne Simpson

Learn what supplements you should be taking by Clarinda over at A Jewel In The Making in this third post of Raising Healthy Families series.

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You may be thinking that you eat pretty healthy and you don’t need these supplements or if you don’t eat too healthy what would be a great way to help your body become healthy (besides actually eating healthier) so what supplements does she recommend and why should you take them? Included are her quality brand recommendations.

Head on over to her blog to learn more in Do You Take These Supplements? If Not, You Should!

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Do you Know What’s in Your Mattress? {Raising Healthy Families}

March 1, 2013 By Anne Simpson

This is the second post in a series brought to you by Positively Real Media. Join us each Friday for a new installment filled with great ideas to keep your family healthy in a not-so-healthy world!

We spend an average of eight hours a night sleeping. That’s fifty-six hours per week, or about one third of your whole life. It’s even more for babies and children!

Logic would dictate that we would desire a healthy and toxin-free spot to rest our weary heads each night, but unfortunately that can be difficult to find.

Conventional mattresses (and even many labelled “organic” or “natural”) contain toxic flame-retardant chemicals that off-gas continuously. Since you are laying directly on it for eight hours every day, this is most definitely a problem. There are multiple links between the toxins found in our sleeping environments and many health issues that plague our society today, such as asthma, allergies, headaches, and SIDS, to name a few.

You may be wondering what can we do about it. Is it really so bad? What if I can’t afford an organic mattress? Our family recently took steps to make our sleeping environments safer.

Click over to Red and Honey to read more!

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Natural Living in a Regular Family {Raising Healthy Families}

Stock Your Natural First Aid Kit for the Summer! {Raising Healthy Families}

Go Play in the Dirt! {Raising Healthy Families}

Essential Oils Instead of Surgery {Raising Healthy Families}

Natural Sources of Folic Acid {Raising Healthy Families}

5 Simple Ways to Detoxify Your Home and Body {Raising Healthy Families}

Turn Your Power On with Chiropractic Care {Raising Healthy Families}

A Post-Flu Quest for Simplicity

Supplements You Need {Raising Healthy Families}

Do you Know What’s in Your Mattress? {Raising Healthy Families}

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