Natural Awakenings Twin Cities February 2022
Read the February 2022 edition of Natural Awakenings Twin Cities magazine. This is our annual Heart-Centered Living Issue which is focused on minding the heart and heart and mind connection. This month we feature articles on living on the frequency of love, truly making love, sound of your heart determines your health, fermenting for foodies, parents as role models and so much more! Be sure to check out our local content including News Briefs announcements, Community Resource Guide with providers throughout the metro who can meet your individual wellness needs, and all the happenings in the Calendar of Events. There is additional online-only content that can be found at NATwinCities.com. While you are there, be sure to sign up for our Newsletter and Digital Magazine and continue your reading with our archived articles from local experts.
Read the February 2022 edition of Natural Awakenings Twin Cities magazine. This is our annual Heart-Centered Living Issue which is focused on minding the heart and heart and mind connection. This month we feature articles on living on the frequency of love, truly making love, sound of your heart determines your health, fermenting for foodies, parents as role models and so much more!
Be sure to check out our local content including News Briefs announcements, Community Resource Guide with providers throughout the metro who can meet your individual wellness needs, and all the happenings in the Calendar of Events. There is additional online-only content that can be found at NATwinCities.com.
While you are there, be sure to sign up for our Newsletter and Digital Magazine and continue your reading with our archived articles from local experts.
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MINDING<br />
THE HEART<br />
Why the Heart-Brain<br />
Connection Matters<br />
SACRED SEXUALITY<br />
INTIMACY AS A HEALING FORCE<br />
HOW TO MODEL POSITIVE<br />
BEHAVIOR TO KIDS<br />
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As I prepared this month’s Heart-Centered Living issue, I am<br />
reminded of a time (not that long ago) when I believed that<br />
positive thinking was the cure to all that ails us. Please don’t<br />
get me wrong, I am a strong proponent of a positive attitude, but<br />
I spent decades of my life glossing over “negative” emotions in an<br />
attempt to feel better mentally, physically and spiritually. Whether I<br />
felt anger, frustration, sadness or grief, I would tell myself to not look<br />
at those emotions and instead focus on the positive things in my life. Candi Broeffle<br />
I would suppress anything that didn’t feel good to the point of using<br />
food and alcohol to numb myself so I did not have to face those emotions.<br />
The funny thing is those feelings never went away. They were always there—lurking<br />
just below the surface ready to rise up—sometimes in the most inopportune moments. I<br />
convinced myself that one day I would do the work, face the pain and fear, but it wouldn’t<br />
be today. Today there wasn’t time, and I simply didn’t have the energy. So, I suppressed<br />
and numbed and before I knew it, 20 years had passed. My son had grown up never getting<br />
to see me have a healthy relationship with my emotions.<br />
I am naturally a thought-centered person. That is until 10 years ago when I decided to<br />
feel all the feelings, good and bad. It was scary at first as I had convinced myself it was going<br />
to be hard to do my healing work. I started by reminding myself that I had to feel it in<br />
order to heal it. What I discovered was that it was not as bad as I imagined, though it was<br />
still messy. Along the way, I hurt people I loved, I was not gentle on myself or on others,<br />
and I made some terrible mistakes. But I have started to heal, and with this healing I am<br />
able to show up in a more significant way for my friends, family and colleagues.<br />
Unlike me, many of my loved ones are more heart-centered and live their lives from<br />
a raw emotional state, reacting to every negative emotion. This is just as destructive. We<br />
all must learn to find the balance of tapping into our emotions and logically evaluating the<br />
circumstances.<br />
There are many things in life we would like to change primarily because we think<br />
it will bring us more happiness and joy. By accepting and allowing what “is” rather than<br />
knee-jerk negative responses, we are better able to maintain the very thing we all crave:<br />
Peace (grown-up Love) and Joy, emanating from within and spreading outward..<br />
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<strong>February</strong> <strong>2022</strong><br />
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news briefs<br />
A Time to Heal<br />
These past two years have presented all<br />
of us with some of the most intense and<br />
challenging experiences of our lives and<br />
many feel we are wearing thin. To help us<br />
keep going when we feel depleted, Annette<br />
Rugolo is offering A Time to Heal, a threeweek<br />
webinar course taking place from 7 to<br />
8:30 p.m., beginning <strong>February</strong> 22.<br />
“I know it is difficult for some, especially<br />
with hectic schedules, but it’s important to<br />
take time to heal from what we have gone<br />
through and to recharge our systems,” relates<br />
Rugolo. “The healing we may need can be on the physical level as well as the emotional,<br />
mental and spiritual levels. We may feel a bit ‘beat up’ or as if we have been through the<br />
wringer, so it’s more important than ever to take time to do our healing work.”<br />
During this course, participants will be given simple yet powerful tools to begin or<br />
continue their healing journey. They will learn to tap into the conscious connection with<br />
the Healing Universal Principles, release old emotional and mental energies and consciously<br />
connect with high vibrational frequencies that will help them recharge. They will also<br />
gain tools to assist in healing while they sleep, and learn a method to support the healing of<br />
people in their family and community. All participants will learn how to access and direct<br />
light frequencies to heal their physical, emotional and mental bodies.<br />
“It’s important to remember during times like these that we are not alone on this journey,”<br />
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remember this and begin accessing the help we need.”<br />
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“We help clients every day to find the<br />
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Try Probiotics to Lower<br />
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Two new studies suggest that the<br />
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the 85 percent of pregnant women<br />
with nausea and for the 25 percent<br />
of fussy newborns with colic. In<br />
the journal Nutrients, University<br />
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which 32 pregnant<br />
women that<br />
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10 billion live cultures, mainly Lactobacillus.<br />
After 12 days, the number of hours<br />
participants felt nauseated was reduced<br />
by 16 percent, and they vomited one-third<br />
fewer times. Constipation was also reduced.<br />
Quality of life markers such as fatigue, poor<br />
appetite and difficulty maintaining normal social<br />
activities also improved. Examining biomarkers<br />
in fecal samples, the researchers found the probiotics<br />
increased vitamin E and a bile salt enzyme that helps<br />
prevent vomiting and nausea.<br />
In a second study published in Alimentary Pharmacology<br />
& Therapeutics, University of Naples researchers explored<br />
whether a particular probiotic strain (Bifidobacterium<br />
animalis subspecies lactis BB-12) could help soothe<br />
babies with colic, a common gastrointestinal disorder in<br />
the first three months of life that studies have linked<br />
to maternal postpartum depression, parental<br />
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Eat Fewer Sweets to<br />
Save the Planet<br />
Sugary foods and drinks don’t just expand our waistline<br />
and hurt our health, they also harm the environment, according<br />
to new research from the University of South Australia.<br />
Analyzing 20 studies on the environmental impacts<br />
of food consumption, researchers found that nutrientpoor<br />
foods like sugar-sweetened drinks, alcohol, baked<br />
sweets and processed meats account for 27 to 33 percent<br />
of food-related greenhouse gas emissions in Australia.<br />
Meat, grains and dairy contribute the most emissions,<br />
while fruit and vegetables are two of the lowest contributors.<br />
In New Zealand, the highest greenhouse<br />
gas emitters are meat, seafood and<br />
eggs at 35 percent, followed by<br />
highly processed foods such<br />
as pastries and ice cream at<br />
34 percent. “Discretionary<br />
foods have a higher<br />
cropland, water scarcity<br />
and ecological footprint,”<br />
says review author<br />
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the world’s population is<br />
projected to reach 10 billion<br />
people. There is no way<br />
we can feed that amount of<br />
people unless we change the<br />
way we eat and produce food.”<br />
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Consider Moxibustion to<br />
Reduce Chronic Fatigue<br />
About 1 percent of the<br />
global population suffers<br />
from the crippling fatigue,<br />
brain fog and joint pain of<br />
chronic fatigue syndrome<br />
(CFS), yet its origins remain<br />
obscure, and medications<br />
and therapy have<br />
been largely ineffective. A new meta-analysis from China’s<br />
Jiangxi University of Chinese Medicine points to moxibustion,<br />
a 2,500-year-old practice of Traditional Chinese<br />
Medicine, as a possible treatment. It involves burning a<br />
cone or stick made of ground mugwort leaves on or near<br />
a patient’s acupuncture points, typically on the stomach.<br />
Analyzing data from 15 studies of 1,030 CFS patients<br />
comparing moxibustion with either acupuncture or medications,<br />
researchers found that moxibustion significantly<br />
reduced fatigue more effectively than the other approaches<br />
and yielded minimal side effects.<br />
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data between April and June 2020<br />
from 3,000 participants throughout<br />
the country, they found that people<br />
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to five hours a week reported cutting<br />
back their exercise routines by 32 percent<br />
when pandemic restrictions kicked<br />
in. The same participants reported feeling<br />
more depressed, anxious and lonely. In<br />
a second study in the following months,<br />
people’s mental health generally improved<br />
as they adjusted to life’s new rhythms. “But<br />
for people whose sitting times stayed high,<br />
their depressive symptoms, on average,<br />
didn’t recover in the same way as everyone<br />
else’s,” says lead author Jacob Meyer, assistant<br />
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as well as walking around the block before and after the<br />
workday to mimic the pre-pandemic commute.<br />
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global briefs<br />
Silent Spring<br />
Sounds of Nature are Fading<br />
A study from the<br />
University of<br />
East Anglia<br />
School of Biological<br />
Sciences<br />
(UK) published in<br />
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Researchers used annual bird monitoring data collected<br />
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Scheme and North American Breeding Bird Survey, plus<br />
recordings of birds in the wild, to reconstruct the soundscapes<br />
of more than 200,000 sites over the last 25 years.<br />
Lead author Simon Butler states, “We’re living through a<br />
global environmental crisis with ongoing and widespread<br />
declines in biodiversity. This means that the quality<br />
of our interactions with nature is likely to be<br />
declining, reducing its potential benefits, but this<br />
has not previously been examined.” Other groups that<br />
contribute to natural soundscapes such as insects<br />
and amphibians are also declining, while road<br />
traffic and other sources of manmade noise are<br />
increasing. Butler explains, “As we collectively become<br />
less aware of our natural surroundings, we also start<br />
to notice or care less about their deterioration. We hope<br />
this study can help heighten awareness of these losses<br />
and encourage support for conservation through actions<br />
to protect and restore high-quality, natural soundscapes.”<br />
Confined Kitties<br />
Unfettered Felines Pose Toxic Hazard to Wildlife<br />
Almond Joy<br />
Nut Milk Carries Hefty Environmental Burden<br />
To grow one orange requires 14 gallons of water, a cup of<br />
coffee 35 gallons, one potato 100 gallons, a glass of dairy<br />
milk 48 gallons and a half-cup of tofu 61 gallons. One<br />
almond (technically a seed, not a tree nut) needs<br />
about 3.2 gallons to reach maturity; almost<br />
1,300 gallons are needed to grow a pound.<br />
The source of almond milk, although<br />
positioned as an eco-friendly alternative<br />
to cow’s milk, is usually treated with methoxyfenozide,<br />
which threatens honeybee health.<br />
With a global market of more than $5 billion, the beverage’s<br />
footprint is increasingly detrimental to the droughtplagued<br />
state of California. Walnuts, hazelnuts and pistachios<br />
consume as much water or more, but almonds are in<br />
higher demand. The “Eureka” state supplies 80 percent of<br />
the world’s almond supply, covering more than 1.5 million<br />
acres in the Central Valley. Water from ancient aquifers<br />
there is being pumped out for irrigation faster than it can<br />
be recharged.<br />
According to the California Department<br />
of Pesticide Regulation, almond<br />
orchards were treated with<br />
more pesticides than any<br />
other local crop in 2017.<br />
Harmful chemicals are<br />
sprayed year-round<br />
to combat ants, mites,<br />
leafrollers, peach twig<br />
borers and weeds. Also,<br />
fertilizer pollution can spike drinking<br />
water with hazardous nitrates. Instead, consumers can<br />
purchase milk that is packaged in sustainably sourced and<br />
recyclable materials and buy shelf-stable milk to conserve<br />
energy from refrigeration.<br />
A study by the University of British Columbia published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal<br />
Society B discovered that free-roaming cats are likely infecting other animals with Toxoplasma<br />
gondii, the parasite responsible for toxoplasmosis, a disease linked to nervous system disorders,<br />
respiratory and heart disease, and other chronic illnesses that can be passed to both humans and<br />
wildlife. Conservationists have long emphasized the interconnectedness of human and wildlife<br />
health. Forestry adjunct professor Amy Wilson says, “It is important to understand the risk factors<br />
for this infection, because toxoplasmosis can have severe impacts on susceptible individuals,<br />
but even in healthy individuals, hosts are infected for life.”<br />
Researchers analyzed more than 45,000 cases of toxoplasmosis in wild animals using data gathered from 202 studies<br />
that included 238 different species in 981 locations around the world. Only wild and domestic cats (felids) can spread<br />
the infectious form of toxoplasma into the environment through eggs, called oocysts, in their feces. “By simply limiting<br />
free roaming of cats, we can reduce the impact of toxoplasma on wildlife,” reports Wilson. “Domestic cats outnumber<br />
wild felids by several orders of magnitude, so when you consider their population size and that they can shed millions of<br />
long-lived oocysts intermittently throughout their life, the potential for environmental contamination is considerable.”<br />
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Friendly Flights<br />
Airplanes Soar on the Power of Sunlight<br />
Carbon-neutral fuels are crucial for making air and sea<br />
transport sustainable. Aldo Steinfeld, professor of renewable<br />
energy sources at Eidgenössische Technische<br />
Hochschule Zürich, and a team of researchers have been<br />
operating a mini solar refinery for two years. He says,<br />
“This plant successfully demonstrates the technical<br />
feasibility of ... converting sunlight and<br />
ambient air into drop-in fuels. The system<br />
operates stably under real-world solar<br />
conditions and provides a unique platform for<br />
further research and development.” The technology<br />
is now ready for industrial application. The plant will be<br />
used to produce synthetic liquid fuels that release CO 2<br />
extracted<br />
directly from ambient air during their combustion<br />
using solar energy. The process yields syngas, a mixture<br />
of hydrogen and carbon monoxide, that can be processed<br />
into kerosene, methanol or other hydrocarbons.<br />
Johan Lilliestam, a research group leader at the Institute<br />
for Advanced Sustainability Studies and professor<br />
of energy policy at the University of Potsdam, explains,<br />
“Unlike with biofuels whose potential is limited due to<br />
the scarcity of agricultural land, this technology enables<br />
us to meet global demand for jet fuel by using less than 1<br />
percent of the world’s arid land, and would not compete<br />
with the production of food or livestock feed.” Given the<br />
high initial investment cost, solar fuels will need political<br />
support while the price of solar kerosene is high and production<br />
capacities are low. This would have little impact on<br />
the cost of flying, but would promote the construction of<br />
production facilities and lead to lower prices.<br />
Mucky Luck<br />
Peat’s Potential to Forestall Climate Change<br />
Super Shader<br />
Solar Canopies Green Urban Parking Lots<br />
When large collections of photovoltaic<br />
panels are erected as solar<br />
farms on undeveloped land,<br />
they can harm underlying<br />
ecosystems. As an<br />
alternative, large parking<br />
lots make use of land that is<br />
already cleared and produce electricity<br />
close to where it’s needed. Plus, they<br />
can also shade the cars. A solar parking<br />
facility at Rutgers University, in Piscataway,<br />
New Jersey, boasts an output of eight megawatts<br />
of electricity. If Walmart converted all 3,571 of its U.S.<br />
super center lots, the total capacity would be 11.1 gigawatts<br />
of solar power, roughly equivalent to a dozen, large,<br />
coal-fired power plants.<br />
Most solar installation presently occupy croplands, arid<br />
lands and grasslands, not rooftops or parking lots, according<br />
to a global inventory published in Nature. Building<br />
alternative power sources quickly is important to replace<br />
fossil fuels and avert catastrophic climate change, and<br />
the process is cheaper and easier to manage by building<br />
on undeveloped land than on rooftops or in parking lots.<br />
Ironically, putting solar facilities on undeveloped land is<br />
often not much better than building subdivisions there.<br />
Rebecca Hernandez, an ecologist at the University of<br />
California at Davis, notes that developers tend to bulldoze<br />
sites, removing all of the above-ground vegetation. That’s<br />
bad for insects and the birds that feed on them. The trend<br />
to cluster solar facilities in buffer zones around protected<br />
areas can confuse birds and other wildlife and complicate<br />
migratory corridors.<br />
Although peatlands are often disregarded as anaerobic wastelands, Christian Dunn, a wetlands scientist at Bangor University,<br />
in Wales, claims, “Peat is the superhero of the natural world.” Whether they are called moors, bogs, fens, mires,<br />
swamps or sloughs, the acidic, low-nutrient ecosystems are the most carbon-dense lands on the planet and can safely<br />
store twice as much carbon as all forests combined in one-tenth the landmass for 1,000 years. Climate scientists know<br />
the role oceans and forests play in storing carbon and are now coming to appreciate the power of peat and the need to<br />
preserve existing bogs and to restore those that have been damaged. On the flip side, carbon already locked up can be<br />
quickly released, hastening a warming climate. Because peatlands store an estimated 30 percent of sequestered carbon<br />
in 3 percent of the world’s land mass, climatologists call its potential discharge a “carbon bomb”.<br />
Human agricultural practices are at the heart of the problem, as about 15 percent of peat has already been<br />
lost worldwide. Farmers have been paid to convert peatlands<br />
with government tax breaks and cash subsidies. Indonesia,<br />
one of the world’s top five greenhouse gas emitters, is clearing<br />
peat for palm oil plantations, with farmers burning soil that can<br />
smolder for months. Britain, one of the first countries to focus<br />
on peat in in a strategy to reach net-zero emissions by 2050,<br />
has pledged more than $1 billion by 2025 on peat restoration,<br />
woodland creation and management.<br />
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eco tip<br />
Purposeful Shopping<br />
How Fair Trade Can Change the World<br />
Fair trade is an alternative international business model that puts people and<br />
the planet first. It is designed to help growers and producers in developing<br />
countries achieve sustainable, fair relationships with exporters and consumers<br />
in wealthier parts of the globe. It focuses particularly on commodities<br />
like coffee, tea, textiles and seafood, and works to ensure sustainable<br />
prices, better working conditions and higher environmental standards.<br />
According to the Fair World Project, “The fair trade movement shares a vision<br />
of a world in which justice and sustainable development are at the heart<br />
of trade structures and practices both at home and abroad, so that everyone<br />
through their work can maintain a decent and dignified livelihood.”<br />
At least five fair trade organizations certify compliance. While the criteria of<br />
each varies, certification typically requires companies to allow a third party<br />
to audit their business practices and monitor production to ensure standards<br />
are met.<br />
Fair trade goods can cost slightly or significantly more than conventionally<br />
traded purchases, which may explain why ethical and fair trade products<br />
make up only 1 percent of the total market. But the trend is growing: In 2018,<br />
sales of fair trade produce in the U.S. rose by 30 percent, with 60 products<br />
available. International sales of a major German-based certifier, Fairtrade<br />
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International, increased almost 10-<br />
fold between 2004 and 2016, from<br />
$939 million to $8.9 billion.<br />
Consider these steps to achieve<br />
ethical, sustainable shopping:<br />
Protect the rights of produce workers.<br />
Fair trade bananas, avocados,<br />
coconut products and cashews often<br />
come from small growers in Africa,<br />
Latin America and Asia, where<br />
cooperatives ensure them a living<br />
wage and better working conditions.<br />
These products may cost marginally<br />
more, but are readily available at<br />
many supermarkets.<br />
Protect sustainable tea and coffee<br />
farming. On fair trade tea and<br />
coffee farms, agrochemicals and<br />
genetically modified organisms are<br />
strictly prohibited, sustainable farming<br />
methods are encouraged and<br />
stringent programs for water conservation<br />
and proper waste disposal<br />
provide environmental stewardship.<br />
Protect the oceans with fair trade<br />
cotton. Buying clothing made with<br />
fair trade cotton means less synthetic<br />
apparel, so washing won’t<br />
shed microplastics that make their<br />
way into the ocean, fish and then our<br />
dinner plates.<br />
Help build strong communities<br />
with fair trade cosmetics. When<br />
the shea butter, cocoa butter, sugar<br />
and coconut oil used in many skincare<br />
products comes from fair<br />
trade producers, a fair price is paid,<br />
decent working conditions without<br />
child labor are assured and a portion<br />
of the money is returned to infrastructure<br />
or community projects.<br />
Makers of fair trade cosmetics often<br />
use vegan ingredients and animalfree<br />
testing, as well.
inspiration<br />
Living in the<br />
Frequency of Love<br />
by Marlaina Donato<br />
Most of us refer to love as an emotion, but in essence, love is a verb, a powerful<br />
call to action. When we remember its true nature, we can answer its call with<br />
our unique signature. Some brave souls like Martin Luther King, Jr. leap into<br />
uncharted territory with authentic truths, while others sprinkle their quiet corner of the<br />
world with small gestures of kindness. Telling someone how much they mean to us, holding<br />
the door for a stranger, asking a cashier how their day is going or welcoming a new<br />
neighbor is like handing out a piece of light. Added up at the end of the day or a lifetime,<br />
we create a mural of stars against the darkness.<br />
The frequency of love not only inspires, but heals. The energy of giving and receiving<br />
is literally wired into our neurochemistry, flooding our bloodstream with endorphins<br />
that combat systemic inflammation, influence mood, accelerate recovery and raise the<br />
pain threshold.<br />
We can freely stream waters of genuine kindness, love and affection, but if there is no<br />
waiting vessel for love’s outpouring, the potential of its power is diminished and incomplete.<br />
Our willingness and that of others to receive activates kindness, awakens what is<br />
dormant inside of us and quickens our capacity to thrive.<br />
Mother Teresa once said, “We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only<br />
cure for loneliness, despair and hopelessness is love.” With our willingness to gift one<br />
another with our full and authentic presence, all else is possible.<br />
Marlaina Donato is an author and visionary composer. Connect at WildflowerLady.com.<br />
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Silver Fillings:<br />
Just ugly?<br />
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The Heart-Mind Connection<br />
How Thoughts and Emotions Affect Our Heart Health<br />
by Ronica O’Hara<br />
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your wife show you her love?” In a study of<br />
10,000 married men, this question turned out to be<br />
“Does<br />
revelatory. Among men with high levels of anxiety,<br />
a whopping 93 percent that answered “No” developed anginarelated<br />
chest pains within five years—nearly twice the rate of those<br />
answering “Yes.”<br />
This 1976 Israeli study was one of the first to clearly document<br />
how emotions affect the physical heart. Today, the research is so<br />
vast and compelling that last year, the American Heart Association<br />
issued a statement urging that psychological factors be taken<br />
into account in cardiovascular care—which may result in doctors<br />
asking patients about depression and anxiety as well as testing for<br />
blood pressure and cholesterol levels.<br />
“What’s on your mind really does affect your heart,” says leading<br />
researcher and cardiologist Michael Miller, M.D., author of Heal<br />
Your Heart and director of the Center for Preventive Cardiology at<br />
the University of Maryland Medical System. “Our hearts require<br />
emotional health in order to maintain cardiovascular health.”<br />
Two emerging fields are probing the mind-heart connection:<br />
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neurocardiology, which studies their neurological interplay;<br />
and behavioral cardiology, which examines how psychological<br />
and social factors lead to heart disease. Increasingly, researchers<br />
are documenting that the brain and the heart form an intricate<br />
feedback loop that works neurologically, biochemically and<br />
electromagnetically to optimize well-being. What hurts one—be<br />
it artery-clogging foods or angry outbursts—can hurt the other.<br />
What heals one—be it exercising or a good belly laugh—can heal<br />
the other. There’s good news in that, says Miller: “You can heal<br />
your heart by actively engaging in positive emotions each and<br />
every day.”<br />
Unveiling the Heart’s Role<br />
In Western medicine, the heart has been downplayed historically<br />
as a pump mechanistically taking orders from a bossy brain,<br />
but recently, the heart’s role is being reexamined: With 40,000<br />
neurons, it sends more signals to the brain than it receives. As integrative<br />
cardiologist Mimi Guarneri, author of The Heart Speaks,<br />
puts it, “The heart is a multilayered, complex organ, possessing<br />
intelligence, memory and decision-making abilities independent<br />
from the mind.”<br />
The electromagnetic field it generates is about 100 times stronger<br />
than the brain’s magnetic range and can be detected up to<br />
three feet away from the body, report researchers at the pioneering<br />
HeartMath Institute, in Boulder Creek, California. They found<br />
that one person’s brain waves can synchronize to another person’s<br />
heart and two hearts can synchronize to each other, which may<br />
help explain why people are drawn to or repelled by each other.<br />
When the heart’s rhythm pattern becomes erratic and disordered<br />
during stress and negative emotions, they report, the neural signals<br />
traveling to the brain’s emotional centers also get disrupted,<br />
hindering clear thinking and reasoning—which may help explain<br />
why we make dubious decisions under stress.<br />
The High Toll of Tough Emotions<br />
Although scientists debate whether emotions start in the brain,<br />
heart or from physical sensations elsewhere in the body, it’s clear<br />
through magnetic imaging technology that it’s the brain’s task to<br />
process and regulate emotions via the flow of neurotransmitters<br />
through the amygdala, hypothalamus, hippocampus, prefrontal<br />
cortex and other brain regions. Emotions like anger, fear, grief and<br />
anxiety set off a cascade of reactions involving the hormone cortisol<br />
and proteins called cytokines, creating an inflammatory response<br />
that, if it becomes chronic, can promote the accumulation<br />
of plaque in the arteries that can become unstable and rupture,<br />
triggering blood clots that lead to strokes and heart attacks.<br />
Surveying 25,000 participants in 52 countries, the landmark<br />
INTERHEART Study in 2004 concluded that about 30 percent<br />
of heart attacks and strokes are due to psychological factors, and<br />
ongoing research supports this finding.<br />
DEPRESSION. Adults that are depressed are twice as likely to<br />
develop heart disease. In one study, moderate to severe depression<br />
quadrupled the death rate in heart failure patients.<br />
ANXIETY. Researchers have linked chronic anxiety with a 48<br />
percent increased risk of cardiac-related death over 11 years. It has<br />
also been shown to be a risk factor for angina, heart attacks and<br />
ventricular arrhythmia.<br />
SHOCK. A sudden emotional or physical shock, like a death in<br />
the family or an earthquake, can trigger stress cardiomyopathy,<br />
known as broken heart syndrome, which resembles a heart attack.<br />
ANGER. An episode of intense fury—described as “body tense,<br />
clenching fists or teeth, ready to burst”—increases by 8.5 times the<br />
risk of a heart attack within the next two hours.<br />
LONELINESS. Being socially isolated and lonely is linked to<br />
a higher risk for cardiovascular death than hypertension and<br />
obesity—alarming information since more than 60 percent of<br />
Americans report feeling lonely, left out, poorly understood and<br />
lacking companionship, according to a 2020 survey.<br />
Boosting Both Brain and Heart<br />
“There’s no damage caused by negative emotions that positive<br />
emotions can’t heal,” says Miller. A large body of research has<br />
shown that cardiovascular disease risk can be reduced by up to<br />
half with optimism, a sense of humor, forgiveness, social support,<br />
religious faith, vitality, gratitude, altruistic behavior, emotional<br />
flexibility and coping flexibility. People that are optimistic are<br />
less likely to be rehospitalized or die from heart disease, Finnish<br />
researchers report.<br />
“For optimal health, maximize the health of both brain and<br />
heart. For example, if you eat well and exercise, but are still<br />
stressed out, your heart will suffer. Conversely, if you are not<br />
stressed out, but overeat and do not exercise, your brain will suffer,”<br />
says Miller. Some heart-and-mind-healthy strategies include:<br />
DOING THE BASICS. Exercising a half-hour daily and eating a<br />
largely plant-based, Mediterranean-type diet that’s low in saturated<br />
fats has been found in numerous studies to lower the risk<br />
of both cardiovascular disease and cognitive decline. Working<br />
with health practitioners to get blood pressure, blood sugar and<br />
inflammation levels under control, perhaps using supplements or<br />
medications, is also a key preventive step.<br />
GIVING AND GETTING HUGS. Oxytocin, the “love hormone”<br />
released from the pituitary gland during touching and hugging,<br />
lowers blood pressure and heart rate, and regenerates new<br />
heart tissue in animal studies. Proactively reaching out to family,<br />
friends, neighbors and co-workers can nurture affectionate ties,<br />
but if a human isn’t nearby, even hugging a teddy bear has been<br />
shown to release oxytocin—which may explain why 40 percent<br />
of U.S. adults sleep with stuffed animals. Owning a dog, but not<br />
necessarily a cat, makes us more likely to survive a heart attack,<br />
report researchers.<br />
MINDFULLY LETTING GO. As studies with police officers,<br />
healthcare workers and firefighters have demonstrated, mindfulness<br />
training effectively lowers anxiety and depression, even for<br />
those in life-threatening situations. “To be present, ever acutely<br />
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aware of our thoughts, emotions, feelings and how we are choosing<br />
to react is critical,” says cardiologist Cynthia Thaik, author of<br />
Your Vibrant Heart and the founder of the Holistic Heart Healing<br />
Center, in Los Angeles. “Once we are aware of our reaction, the<br />
ability to let go—of judgment, doubt, anger, resentment, fear, all<br />
our negative thoughts, emotions and feelings—is crucial to our<br />
healing process.”<br />
LAUGHING A LOT. Many of us have a chuckle deficit in our<br />
lives: The average 5-year-old laughs up to 300 times a day, the<br />
average adult only four. To lower the risk of heart attack and<br />
stroke, find ways to laugh long and hard—such as watching hilariprostockstudioo/AdobeStock.com<br />
ous films or videos on YouTube or TikTok. Physiologically, the<br />
endorphins released by a hearty belly laugh bind to receptors that<br />
release nitric oxide, relaxing blood vessels.<br />
BREATHWORK. To bring the mind and heart into a healthy,<br />
coherent rhythmic pattern, the HeartMath Institute suggests<br />
heart-focused breathing, which involves imagining that we are<br />
breathing in through the heart as we inhale in a smooth, comfortable<br />
manner to the count of five or six, then breathing out for<br />
five or six counts while visualizing that the breath is flowing out<br />
of the heart.<br />
MEDITATION. People that practice meditation are significantly<br />
less likely to have a heart attack or stroke, perhaps because it<br />
has been shown to lower heart rate, blood pressure, breathing<br />
rate, oxygen consumption and cortisol levels. Alzheimer’s expert<br />
Dharma Singh Khalsa, author of Meditation as Medicine, advocates<br />
kirtan kriya, a 12-minute, daily meditation that includes<br />
chanting, finger movements and visualization. Research has<br />
demonstrated that it slows cognitive decline, eases depression<br />
and increases anti-aging telomerase activity at a cellular level by<br />
43 percent in eight weeks.<br />
YOGA OR TAI CHI. In studies, yoga has been shown to lower<br />
inflammation and metabolic syndrome markers linked to heart<br />
disease and reduce atrial fibrillation episodes. The slow, graceful<br />
movements of tai chi reportedly lower blood pressure and<br />
strengthen the hearts of people with heart failure.<br />
MUSIC. Whether it involves listening, playing an instrument<br />
or singing, music has been shown to lower heart rate, reduce<br />
inflammation, enable longer exercise periods, ease anxiety after<br />
heart surgery and heart attacks, and help stroke victims regain<br />
the ability to speak. Choose music of whatever genre inspires joy<br />
and sing along for extra benefit, advises Miller. “If your partner<br />
is flummoxed by your enthusiasm for yodeling or your neighbor<br />
doesn’t exactly approve of your attempts at arias, kindly inform<br />
him or her it’s doctor’s orders,” he jokes in Heal Your Heart.<br />
Health writer Ronica O’Hara can be contacted at OHaraRonica@<br />
gmail.com.<br />
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The Sound of Your<br />
Heart Determines<br />
Your Health<br />
by Chelsea Kazmierczak-Goethel<br />
The heart is the most incredible muscle in the body. As the<br />
center of the circulatory system, it is the core of physical<br />
well-being. Each day, it pumps approximately 2,000 gallons<br />
of blood through our body. The heart beats (contracts and relaxes)<br />
over 100,000 times every day, 35 million times each year, and more<br />
than 2.5 billion times over the course of a lifetime. This continuous<br />
action circulates the blood and keeps the human body alive by<br />
delivering oxygen and nutrients to every tissue and organ, allowing<br />
them to function optimally.<br />
The importance of the heart goes beyond its physical pumping<br />
mechanism. This organ is also the center of our emotional wellbeing.<br />
It allows us to feel love, joy and affection. A well-nourished<br />
heart leads to a sense of optimism and vitality. The heart is also<br />
linked to experiences of apathy and depression.<br />
Caring for the heart is a key component of living a heart-centered<br />
life. In a world where medications related to heart conditions such as<br />
high blood pressure and elevated cholesterol are the most frequently<br />
prescribed, it is common knowledge that we must protect this organ.<br />
Eating a well-balanced diet, avoiding processed foods, reducing toxic<br />
exposure, staying active, and managing stress levels are all key to<br />
ensuring the entire circulatory system thrives.<br />
For those who want to determine if their current habits are supporting<br />
optimum heart health, consider the following: Instead of<br />
waiting until conditions like high blood pressure, heart palpitations<br />
or cardiovascular disease arise, seek a practitioner who utilizes the<br />
Heart Sound Recorder (HSR). This general wellness cardiac stress<br />
monitor uses a specialized microphone to translate the sounds of<br />
the four valves of the heart into a graph.<br />
The HSR graph displays a wealth of information, including the<br />
ability to assess three key health indicators without having to rely<br />
on the quality of the practitioner’s hearing or stethoscope. These<br />
include the heart’s:<br />
• Rate - the speed at which the heart beats.<br />
• Rhythm - the regularity of the heartbeat and the heart’s workto-rest<br />
ratio.<br />
• Tone - the strength and efficiency of the heart.<br />
Each of these measures are influenced by the nutrient and stress<br />
status of the body. The heart absorbs nutrients quickly and is the<br />
first organ to respond to nutrition. Analysis of the HSR graph allows<br />
practitioners to determine which nutritional deficiencies should be<br />
The heart absorbs nutrients quickly and is<br />
the first organ to respond to nutrition.<br />
addressed, and what dietary or supplemental interventions are priority.<br />
This may include B vitamins or specific minerals. Additionally, the<br />
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healing ways<br />
Truly Making Love<br />
Sex and Intimacy as a Healing Force<br />
by Marlaina Donato<br />
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Intimately connecting with a loved one is one of life’s most<br />
precious gifts, but it’s easy to lose sight of our innate sensual<br />
energy in the maze of the mundane. Through lovemaking,<br />
we can harness our life force, and according to abundant<br />
research, reduce the risk of heart disease, lower blood pressure,<br />
manage pain and improve brain health. A significant correlation<br />
also exists between higher ejaculation frequency and a<br />
reduced risk for prostate cancer later in life, Boston University<br />
researchers report in European Urology.<br />
Making love is also good for boosting our natural immunity.<br />
College students that engaged in amorous activity once or twice a<br />
week—especially with long-term partners—had 30 percent higher<br />
levels of the antibody immunoglobulin A in their saliva, concluded<br />
research by Wilkes University, in Pennsylvania.<br />
Stripping Down to Basics<br />
A few lifestyle adjustments can do wonders for worn-out romance.<br />
Quality sleep itself can be a potent aphrodisiac. Women<br />
are more likely to be “in the mood” after a good night’s sleep,<br />
even with just an extra hour of shut-eye, according to a 2015 pilot<br />
study in The Journal of Sexual Medicine.<br />
Therapist Kurt Smith, clinical director of Guy Stuff Counseling<br />
and Coaching, in Roseville, California, advocates limiting<br />
phone use and engaging in non-technological activities.<br />
“Phones have moved from being used as a communication<br />
device to becoming many people’s connection to the rest of the<br />
world. Unfortunately, when used as such, they pose a threat to<br />
the emotional connection with our partners,” he says. “With<br />
all distractions removed, sit on the sofa, face each other and<br />
talk. This suggestion can make many people very uncomfortable,<br />
because they have no idea what they’d say to their partner.<br />
Actually, talking to your partner without a purpose other than<br />
to just listen and connect with each other has become rare.”<br />
An element of fun can go a long way in the quest to stay connected.<br />
“Approach your sex life like a science experiment or<br />
an art project instead of a math problem,” says Jamie Elizabeth<br />
Thompson, a holistic intimacy expert in Austin. “It’s an exploration<br />
with no one right answer. Attitude is important when it<br />
comes to sex because people can take it so seriously and place<br />
crippling pressure on having this fantasy Hollywood sex life.”<br />
Aphrodite’s Plate<br />
Feel-good neurotransmitters like dopamine, serotonin and<br />
oxytocin all contribute to the pleasure response, and sharing<br />
luscious food with a lover can be sensuous, as well as endorphin-friendly.<br />
Nutritious foods such as almonds, walnuts,<br />
asparagus and avocados support reproductive health, and<br />
a dessert of dark chocolate and honey-drizzled fruits like<br />
berries, figs and cherries can support libido in both women<br />
and men. Nixing excessive alcohol and sugar is also a good<br />
romantic investment.<br />
Partnership as Sacred<br />
Deep relationship is only possible when we are willing to be<br />
vulnerable. “Porn is a drug that people unknowingly use to selfmedicate<br />
and manage uncomfortable thoughts and emotions,”<br />
explains Smith. “Many men have no idea what they’re missing<br />
because they’ve never had an emotionally intimate relationship<br />
without the negative influence of porn. Porn makes sex<br />
self-focused, rather than what it’s supposed to be, which is the<br />
intimate connection of two people. Porn is selfish, rather than<br />
loving, giving and sharing with a partner.”<br />
Thompson attests that lovemaking can help us align with the<br />
divine, especially “when people have reverence for the power of<br />
their erotic life force. When people open their view of what sex is,<br />
it can become an act of worship.”<br />
Love prompts us to become more ourselves. “When erotic life<br />
force is flowing freely, the body is vital and the system is turned<br />
on. When channeled properly, this energy is highly creative,”<br />
muses Thompson. “It’s the fuel of your vehicle, the charge of<br />
your battery, and when you are full on life force, it organically<br />
overflows into service.”<br />
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19
healthy kids<br />
Parents as Role Models<br />
How to Help Kids Discover Positive Behaviors<br />
by Sandra Yeyati<br />
Like the familiar adage, “Monkey see, monkey do,” children learn habits, attitudes<br />
and values by observing and mimicking their parents. This phenomenon, known<br />
as modeling, is a double-edged sword. Sometimes parents unintentionally teach<br />
their kids by example to smoke, eat too much candy or bully people. On the other hand,<br />
with awareness, planning and strategic modifications, parents can use modeling to instill<br />
in their kids good habits, positive attitudes, healthy emotional intelligence and strong<br />
self-esteem.<br />
“We parent what we know, very often on automatic mode,” says Debra MacDonald, a<br />
certified parenting educator at the Center for Parenting Education, in Abington, Pennsylvania.<br />
“How many times have you said, ‘I will never say that to my kids,’ and then fast-forward<br />
several years, those words are coming out of your mouth. Awareness is your first step.”<br />
“Look at how you handle stress or express anger,” MacDonald suggests. “If you slam<br />
the table, break something and yell, that’s what you’re teaching your children to do when<br />
they’re angry. To teach them constructive<br />
ways to express anger—like taking deep<br />
breaths or running around the block—<br />
you’ve got to employ those tools yourself.”<br />
Actions speak louder than words. “To<br />
teach your child good values, you have to<br />
demonstrate them through your deeds.<br />
If you tell your child that they must<br />
always be on time for school, but you’re<br />
late for work every day, your child hears<br />
one thing, but sees another,” MacDonald<br />
explains, adding that kids are adept at<br />
sniffing out these inconsistencies.<br />
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Saying, “Eat your spinach,” while regularly gobbling ice cream<br />
won’t inspire desired results. When MacDonald’s son was young,<br />
she realized she wasn’t setting the right example at the dinner table.<br />
“Slowly, over time, I began to improve our family’s lifestyle choices,<br />
and now that he’s in college, he knows how to cook healthy<br />
meals, practice portion control and clean up after himself,” she<br />
boasts.<br />
Tackling Childhood Anxiety<br />
Through Modeling<br />
In his 2021 book, Breaking Free of Child Anxiety and OCD, Yale<br />
University Professor Eli Lebowitz offers a scientifically proven<br />
parental modeling program called Supportive Parenting for Anxious<br />
Childhood Emotions (SPACE). Although the goal is to treat<br />
a child’s anxiety, parents meet with a therapist and learn tools to<br />
modify their parenting approach in two ways: being more supportive<br />
and reducing accommodations.<br />
On the support side, SPACE parents learn to show a genuine<br />
acceptance and understanding of their child’s distress and to communicate<br />
their confidence in the child’s ability to tolerate and cope<br />
with the anxiety. The support can be as simple as saying, “I get it.<br />
This is really hard. You’re upset, but I know you can handle this.”<br />
“Supportive statements aren’t always intuitive for parents,” says<br />
Lebowitz, director of the program for anxiety disorders at the<br />
Yale Child Study Center. “Sometimes they don’t believe that their<br />
child is feeling anxiety. They might think that the child is being<br />
manipulative or attention-seeking. Or, when parents do believe<br />
that their child is anxious, they want to protect, soothe and reassure<br />
them, but by doing these things, parents aren’t communicating<br />
their belief that the child can handle it, which is critical to<br />
helping them overcome the anxiety.”<br />
The second change that SPACE parents learn to make is to<br />
gradually and systematically reduce all the accommodations they<br />
have been making to help their child not feel anxious, such as<br />
sleeping beside a child that is afraid of being alone or not inviting<br />
company to the house to avoid upsetting a socially anxious kid.<br />
“Research indicates that even though parents are trying to<br />
help, accommodations that rush to the rescue tend to maintain<br />
or worsen anxiety over time,” Lebowitz says. “I worked with<br />
parents of a child who had panic attacks at night and would<br />
say, ‘My heart is racing. I can’t breathe. I think I’m going to die.’<br />
Feeling overwhelmed and scared, her parents would rush her<br />
to the hospital again and again, even after doctors assured them<br />
that she was healthy and didn’t need to come in. From the child’s<br />
perspective, when your parents rush you to the ER, that confirms<br />
that this is literally an emergency. You feel more worried<br />
and scared. When the parents were able to take a breath, give<br />
her a hug and say, ‘We know this is uncomfortable, but it’s going<br />
to pass, and you’re going to be okay,’ she began to learn that she<br />
didn’t need to be afraid of anxiety. She could handle it and didn’t<br />
need to avoid it.”<br />
Sandra Yeyati, J.D., is a professional writer and editor. Reach her at<br />
SandraYeyati@gmail.com.<br />
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conscious eating<br />
Fermenting for Foodies<br />
Preserving Food and Traditions<br />
by April Thompson<br />
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If fermented food is a trend, it’s the<br />
oldest one on the planet. More and<br />
more people are rediscovering the<br />
time-honored foodways of fermentation<br />
to promote health, boost flavor and preserve<br />
the bounty of the seasons. “There<br />
is huge potential to use high-quality fermented<br />
foods to enhance our health and<br />
well-being,” says Sandor Katz, a so-called<br />
“fermentation revivalist”, in Liberty, Tennessee,<br />
and the author of several bestselling<br />
books on fermentation, including the<br />
newly released Sandor Katz’s Fermentation<br />
Journeys: Recipes, Techniques, and<br />
Traditions from Around the World.<br />
Katz caught the fermentation bug after<br />
moving from New York City to rural<br />
Tennessee in the 1990s and being faced<br />
with the “positive problem” of an overly<br />
plentiful garden to preserve. He’s since<br />
wandered the globe teaching and learning<br />
about fermentation traditions, from<br />
Korea’s spicy kimchi to Mexico’s funky<br />
pineapple tepache drink.<br />
Fermentation is defined as the chemical<br />
breakdown of a food by bacteria, yeasts<br />
or other microorganisms. An estimated<br />
one-third of all foods are fermented,<br />
including coffee, cured meats, cheese,<br />
condiments and chocolate. Pickles<br />
and yogurt are traditionally fermented<br />
through lactic acid bacteria, while<br />
beer and bread are typically fermented<br />
through yeast. Kombucha, an ancient tea<br />
drink, is made using a symbiotic culture<br />
of yeast and bacteria.<br />
Pascal Baudar, a Los Angeles writer,<br />
instructor and self-proclaimed “culinary<br />
alchemist,” turned to fermentation<br />
techniques to preserve the precious wild<br />
ingredients of the fleeting seasons. His<br />
books and workshops cover unusual
culinary territory, like fermented and aged vegan cheeses from<br />
acorns and “seaweed” made from fermented broadleaf plantain,<br />
a common weed, using methods he’s studied and perfected. “I<br />
investigate new and lost flavors, and conserve them as gourmet<br />
foods through preservation,” he says.<br />
Fermentation with Benefits<br />
Fermentation transforms the nutrients in food in several ways,<br />
Katz explains. In a process known as predigestion, it breaks<br />
macronutrients down into more digestible forms (think proteins<br />
turned into amino acids) and renders minerals more bioavailable.<br />
Gluten, too, is broken down by fermentation, he says,<br />
as are potentially toxic compounds in foods such as cyanide<br />
and oxalic acid. The process also releases vitamins B and K and<br />
other micronutrients as metabolic byproducts.<br />
Fermentation reduces the short-chain carbohydrates that are<br />
poorly absorbed in the small intestine and are prone to absorb<br />
water and ferment in the colon, causing gas and bloating.<br />
Found in wheat, beans and other foods, they can pose digestive<br />
problems for people with irritable bowel syndrome and other<br />
conditions, says Tayler Silfverduk, a registered dietitian nutritionist<br />
in Columbus, Ohio, specializing in celiac disease.<br />
“The most profound nutritional benefit of fermentation is<br />
the live bacteria itself. You are ingesting a rich biodiversity of<br />
beneficial bacteria that can potentially improve immune function,”<br />
says Katz, an AIDS survivor who considers fermentation<br />
an important part of his healing process.<br />
No Starter Required<br />
“There is nothing you can eat that can’t be fermented, but the<br />
easiest and safest place to begin is with vegetables,” which<br />
need no special equipment or a starter like sourdough, kefir or<br />
kombucha, says Katz. To make sauerkraut, for example, simply<br />
shred cabbage, lightly salt and season it, and submerge it in a jar<br />
under its own juices, “burping” it daily for a week to 10 days to<br />
release the fermentation gases.<br />
Katz and Baudar both like to debunk myths that fermenting<br />
foods is difficult or dangerous. “You don’t have to sterilize everything<br />
or have precise laboratory control conditions. People<br />
have been practicing fermentation for years, and they began<br />
before they knew bacteria was a thing. To the contrary, fermentation<br />
is a strategy for food safety,” says Katz.<br />
While yeast or mold can grow on the top layer that is exposed<br />
to oxygen, Katz says “a lot of sauerkraut is needlessly discarded.<br />
Most such growth is harmless and normal, and can be skimmed<br />
off the top.”<br />
Baudar, a University of California Master Food Preserver, has<br />
kept foods he’s fermented for up to three years and only once<br />
encountered mold. “You need to work with the ferment,” he says.<br />
“That means regularly burping it, then shaking or stirring to promote<br />
the acidity that prevents bad bacteria from taking hold.”<br />
“If it looks or tastes bad, throw it away,” he adds. “Some of my<br />
early experiments tasted horrible, but I just took my failures as<br />
learning and kept experimenting. The more you understand the<br />
fermentation process, the more you can play with it creatively<br />
and push the envelope.”<br />
Connect with Washington, D.C., freelance writer April Thompson<br />
at AprilWrites.com.<br />
Fermented Pickled<br />
Carrot Sticks<br />
YIELD: 1 QUART-SIZE JAR OF PICKLES<br />
2 sprigs fresh dill<br />
1-2 cloves garlic<br />
2 lb whole carrots<br />
1 Tbsp sea salt<br />
1-2 cups distilled water<br />
Wash and peel the skins of the whole<br />
carrots. Cut the peeled and washed<br />
carrots into carrot sticks. Peel and<br />
finely slice the garlic cloves. Wash<br />
and dry 2 sprigs of dill.<br />
In a wide-mouth, quart-size jar,<br />
pack in the carrot sticks. (Tilt the jar<br />
to locate more places to squeeze in<br />
the sticks.) Add in the sea salt, then<br />
the sliced garlic and sprigs of dill.<br />
Cover the ingredients with distilled water (Be sure to leave<br />
about an inch of free space from the waterline to the opening of<br />
the jar.)<br />
Place an airtight lid on the jar and let it sit for a week or until<br />
the carrots have reached desired taste. Make sure to burp the<br />
jar at least every two days while fermenting.<br />
Once the carrot sticks have reached their desired taste, place<br />
the jar in the fridge for storage. Enjoy.<br />
Notes: If using organic carrots, leave<br />
the skin on and just wash the carrots<br />
very well before chopping into<br />
snacking sticks.<br />
When burping the jar, use<br />
this time to check on fermentation<br />
to make sure it’s<br />
growing healthy. Look for<br />
bubbles on top of the water<br />
and along the water line. Seeing<br />
mold is a sign that good bacteria<br />
is struggling to start a culture and<br />
we may need to try again.<br />
Courtesy of Tayler Silfverduk,<br />
registered dietitian nutritionist.<br />
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Pineapple vinegar,<br />
vinagre de piña,<br />
is delicious and<br />
super-acidic.<br />
Many Mexican<br />
recipes<br />
call for pineapple<br />
vinegar,<br />
although it can<br />
be used in place<br />
of any kind of<br />
vinegar. Since<br />
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are eating the pineapple flesh. This recipe<br />
was inspired by a recipe in The Cuisines of<br />
Mexico, by Diana Kennedy.<br />
YIELD: 2<br />
CUPS/500<br />
MILLILI-<br />
TERS<br />
2 Tbsp sugar<br />
Peel of 1<br />
pineapple<br />
(organic, because<br />
the skin is<br />
used; overripe fruits are fine)<br />
Combine the sugar with 2 cups/500 milliliters<br />
of water in a jar or bowl. Stir to dissolve.<br />
Coarsely chop and add the pineapple peel.<br />
Use a small plate to weigh down the pineapple<br />
and keep it submerged. Cover with<br />
a cloth to keep flies out.<br />
Ferment at room temperature. Stir daily<br />
while the pineapple peels are in it. Strain out<br />
the pineapple peels and discard after about<br />
one week when the liquid is darkening.<br />
Ferment the liquid for an additional two to<br />
three weeks, stirring or agitating periodically.<br />
Bottle and enjoy.<br />
From Sandor Katz’s book, Wild Fermentation:<br />
The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-<br />
Culture Foods (Chelsea Green Publishing,<br />
2016).<br />
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calendar of events<br />
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2<br />
Poetry Lovers Virtual Gathering – 6:30-8pm.<br />
Everyone is invited to read original or favorite poems,<br />
or just listen. In all languages, for all ages and<br />
all authors. Hosted by Golden Valley Library. Free.<br />
Online. HCLib.BiblioCommons.com/v2/events.<br />
Diamond Dowsing Basic Webinar – 7-8:30pm.<br />
Discover the principles of Dowsing to raise the energy<br />
of your home. Diamond Dowsing helps find the<br />
stress zones in your home that create lack of sleep,<br />
money, romance, concentration and healing. Once<br />
you learn how to dowse your space, you will sleep<br />
more soundly, attract more success, improve your<br />
relationships, become more focused, increase your<br />
ability to heal Discover the principles of Dowsing<br />
to raise the energy of your space. $298. Online. AnnetteRugolo.com/calendar.<br />
WEDNESDAY,<br />
FEBRUARY 2, 9, 16, 23<br />
Virtually Wild Yoga! – 7:45-8:45am. Join the Minnesota<br />
Zoo—from the comfort of your own home—for<br />
virtual yoga. On Wednesday mornings, your yoga<br />
instructor will be teaching live virtual yoga classes<br />
from around the Zoo. Each session will highlight a<br />
different animal or trail. $6/class for Members, $8/class<br />
Non-Members. Online. mnzoo.org/zoo-yoga/#winter1<br />
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3<br />
Spring Flower Show Opening Night – 6-8pm.<br />
Find inspiration for your spring and summer outdoor<br />
living spaces at this year’s Spring Flower<br />
Show, featuring more than a dozen vignettes built<br />
around outdoor seating arrangements. $10 members,<br />
$25 non-members, $5 for children. 3675<br />
Arboretum Drive, Chaska. Arb.UMN.edu/Content/<br />
Arboretum-Calendar-0.<br />
SATURDAY-SUNDAY<br />
FEBRUARY 5, 6, 12 & 13<br />
Winter Recreation Sampler – 11-4pm. Experience<br />
kick-sledding, snowshoeing, cross-country skiing,<br />
sledding and more. Whether you’re just curious or<br />
looking for something fun to do outdoors, this is your<br />
chance to try out a variety of outdoor winter recreation<br />
activities. Equipment will be available to check out<br />
free of charge. 2166 Maplewood Drive, Maplewood.<br />
RamseyCounty.us/calendar.<br />
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9<br />
How To Accelerate Your Healing – 6:15-7pm. Learn<br />
what steps to take to get better quicker, stay healthy<br />
longer and save money! Speaker: Dr. Martin P Furlong,<br />
DC - Holistic Health Practitioner Reserve a seat: 651-<br />
771-1703 or info@NutritionChiropractic.com.<br />
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10<br />
Make Your Own Chocolate – 5:30-7pm. Ayurvedic<br />
medicine prescribes warming spices such as cinnamon<br />
and clove to help boost energy. In this class,<br />
instructor Ishwari Rajak will make sweet, healthy,<br />
winter survival goodies by adding warming spices,<br />
nuts and oil to our beloved chocolates. Free. Online.<br />
MSMarket.coop/event.<br />
Hot Topics in Spirituality #5: Interpersonal<br />
Neurobiology (Part 1) – 7-8pm. Making the most of<br />
your life starts with understanding your life and your<br />
body. How do experiences affect our brain functions?<br />
How do our brains impact our emotions? $10. Online.<br />
WisdomWaysCenter.org/events-calendar.<br />
Winter Solar Webinar Series: Make <strong>2022</strong> Your<br />
Greenest Year Ever – 7-8pm. Over the course of an<br />
hour, All Energy Solar will illustrate how solar power<br />
has never been more affordable or easier to install.<br />
Free. Online. Social.NA<strong>Twin</strong><strong>Cities</strong>.com/solar222.<br />
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16<br />
Full Snow Moon Snowshoe Hike – 5-8pm. Snowshoe<br />
under <strong>February</strong>’s Full Snow Moon during this<br />
special after-hours event. Take the 1.5k loop lit with<br />
tea lights around Wood Duck Pond. Snowshoe rental<br />
is available on a first-come, first-serve basis for<br />
$7/hour. $5 for members, $20 non-members. 3675<br />
Arboretum Drive, Chaska. Arb.UMN.edu/Content/<br />
Arboretum-Calendar-0.<br />
Muscle Test Your Family – 6:15-7pm. Understand<br />
the basics of muscle testing and learn how you can test<br />
your family at home. *MUST BRING A TESTING<br />
PARTNER* Free. RSVP 651-771-1703. MetroEast<br />
<strong>Natural</strong> Healing Center, 6993 35th St N #2, Oakdale.<br />
NutritionChiropractic.com.<br />
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17<br />
Setting Up a Small Business Website or Blog – 6:30-<br />
7:30pm. Learn how to get started with your new blog<br />
or business website, including how to register your<br />
new business with the State of Minnesota and pick<br />
out a corresponding domain name from a domain<br />
name provider. Free. Online. HCLib.BiblioCommons.<br />
com/v2/events.<br />
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21<br />
Guided Trail Hike – 3:30-4:15pm. This 45-minute<br />
hike will give you a snapshot of Dodge in a guided<br />
setting—perfect for those new to the trails as well<br />
as seasoned visitors who want to explore with a<br />
group. Free. 1701 Charlton Street, West St. Paul.<br />
DodgeNatureCenter.org/event.<br />
WEDNESDAYS, FEBRUARY 22,<br />
29 & MARCH 8<br />
A Time to Heal – 7pm-8:30pm. How do we keep<br />
going when we feel depleted? The healing you<br />
may need can be on the physical level as well as<br />
the emotional, mental and spiritual levels. You<br />
may feel a bit "beat up" or feel like you have been<br />
featured event<br />
Discover Your Highest<br />
Purpose<br />
Sri Harold Klemp, the spiritual leader<br />
of Eckankar, shares wisdom through<br />
stories and spiritual insights that bring<br />
meaning, connection and humor to the<br />
workings of Spirit in everyday life.<br />
Fridays at 7pm<br />
Watch on Channel 6 or via MCN6.org<br />
For more information, visit Eckankar.org,<br />
TempleOfECK.org or Facebook.com/<br />
Eckankar. See ad, page 3.<br />
through the wringer, so it’s more important than<br />
ever to take time to do some healing. $48. Online.<br />
AnnetteRugolo.com/calendar.<br />
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24<br />
Social Media Marketing – 6:30-7:30pm. Learn the<br />
ins and outs of using social media apps Facebook,<br />
Instagram, Twitter and YouTube, and why having<br />
social media accounts can boost SEO. Free. Online.<br />
HCLib.BiblioCommons.com/v2/events.<br />
save the date<br />
11th Anniversary<br />
Midwest Women’s Herbal<br />
Conference Weekend:<br />
Honors Flora, Fauna<br />
and Funga<br />
Keynote speakers are Dr. Cornelia Cho,<br />
Misty Cook and Suzanne Simard, author<br />
of Finding the Mother Tree. Enjoy more<br />
than 60 workshops and plant walks,<br />
herbal education, personal growth<br />
workshops, singing, dancing, nourishing<br />
meals, swimming, campfires and a Red<br />
Tent communal space.<br />
Friday-Sunday • May 27-29<br />
Camp Helen Brachman, Almond, WI.<br />
MidwestWomensHerbal.com.<br />
EVENTS FOR KIDS<br />
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2 & 9<br />
Connect and Play/Aprendemos Juntos – 4-6pm.<br />
For children ages newborn-5 and their caregivers.<br />
Connect with your child during this drop-in<br />
program exploring early literacy activities. Free.<br />
Hosmer Library, 347 E. 36th St. Minneapolis.<br />
HCLib.BiblioCommons.com/v2/events.<br />
WEDNESDAY,<br />
FEBRUARY 2, 9, 16, & 23<br />
Virtual Family Storytime – 9:30-10am. For<br />
children of all ages and their caregivers. Talk,<br />
sing, read, write and play together in a format<br />
appropriate for young children, in a virtual<br />
setting. Share books, stories, rhymes, music<br />
and movement. Free. Online. HCLib.Biblio<br />
Commons.com/v2/events.<br />
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5<br />
Building with Snow – 1-2:30pm. Learn and<br />
practice winter engineering skills by constructing<br />
quinzhees, snow caves, forts and tunnels.<br />
You’ll learn the art and science of stacking and<br />
packing snow, how to use a snow saw, and what<br />
you can craft even when there’s not much snow.<br />
$12. 1701 Charlton Street, West St. Paul. Dodge<br />
NatureCenter.org/event.<br />
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ongoing events<br />
Please call or check the websites<br />
to ensure the classes or events<br />
are still scheduled for that week.<br />
Virtual Zoo Tours – $100 per tour (up to 25 people/<br />
devices). These amazing live 30-minute interactive<br />
tours include either a visit to Discovery Bay (Ocean<br />
Tour) or the Tropics Trail (Tropics Tour). Tours are<br />
designed to fit the needs of your group, sparking awe<br />
whether you are a family looking for something new<br />
to do together, a troop of girl scouts, or seniors curious<br />
to learn more about our animals. Online Event.<br />
MNZoo.org/virtual-zoo-tours.<br />
Free Online Classes – The University of Minnesota<br />
is among the largest public research universities in the<br />
country, offering undergraduate, graduate, and professional<br />
students a multitude of opportunities for study<br />
and research. ClassCentral.com/university/Minnesota.<br />
Midtown Global Market – Mon-Sat 10am-8pm.<br />
& Sun 10am-6pm. If you’re looking for a more<br />
unique shopping experience, head to the Midtown<br />
Global Market, where more than 50 vendors sell<br />
food and trinkets ranging from local produce to<br />
Somalian Pastries, Middle Eastern olives and<br />
Asian spices. There are also cultural events –<br />
from musical performances to Irish step-dancing<br />
lessons. Free. 920 East Lake St, Minneapolis.<br />
MidtownGlobalMarket.org/visit.<br />
tuesday<br />
Weekly Guided & Silent Meditation – 11-<br />
11:30am. Led by a Prayer Chaplain in the Meditation<br />
Room, this meditation is the same one going<br />
on concurrently at Unity Village. It alternates<br />
affirmative prayer and silence. Donation based.<br />
Online. UnityOfTheValleyMN.org /events-classes.<br />
wednesday<br />
Mindful Self-Compassion Workshop – 8:30-<br />
9:30am. Patricia Enstad, a licensed social worker<br />
and teacher, will provide a lively introduction to<br />
the practices of Mindful Self-Compassion. She<br />
writes: “As we consider the important tasks that<br />
lie ahead, we will need to support our action with<br />
compassion and resiliency. Subtle, yet powerful,<br />
these affirming and portable methods can be utilized<br />
anywhere.” Free. EastsideFreedomLibrary.<br />
org/events.<br />
thursday<br />
Free Meditation – 7-8:30pm. Join us for a free<br />
weekly meditation. Online. FreeMeditation.com.<br />
classifieds<br />
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word\per month. To place listing,<br />
email content to Publisher@<br />
NAtwincities.com. Deadline is<br />
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CLASSES/MEMBERSHIP<br />
PARENTING YOUR CONSCIOUS CHILD<br />
VIDEO PROGRAM – Do you have a child in your<br />
life that you would like to understand at a deeper<br />
level? Are you ready to see your child at their soul<br />
level? In this video program, you will learn: How<br />
to recognize Indigo, Dolphin, Crystal, and Moon,<br />
children; how to connect and communicate with<br />
your child’s soul; the importance of energetically<br />
protecting your child; how to recognize your<br />
child’s karma and how to clear it; and more. $48.<br />
AnnetteRugolo.com/Shop. See ad, page 24.<br />
SOUL BURSTS SUBSCRIPTION –Nea Clare<br />
presents this monthly subscription plan is for those<br />
looking for ways to develop a personal connection to<br />
Spirit. Every month, participants receive new channeled<br />
messages, guided meditations and recorded<br />
answers to client’s biggest questions, all to help them<br />
awaken to their highest knowing. Subscribers receive<br />
new content every month that will inspire and uplift<br />
them on the journey of spiritual growth. In addition,<br />
they will have access to monthly journal prompts<br />
and an archive of guided meditations and channeled<br />
messages from events.Clare has hosted over the years.<br />
$130/year for the first 100 people; $188/year thereafter.<br />
Courses.NeaClare.com. See ad, page 17<br />
.<br />
OFFICE SPACE<br />
OFFICE SPACE FOR RENT – SHOREVIEW –<br />
938 sq ft, first floor with windows on three sides,<br />
this space is perfect for a massage therapist, reiki<br />
practitioner, or small business looking for three<br />
office spaces, in suite bathroom and reception<br />
area. Building boasts surface parking, new HVAC,<br />
and hosts a holistic dentist and chiropractic office.<br />
Solar panels, monument signage and easy access to<br />
I-694 & Snelling Ave. Tenants choose carpet and<br />
paint. $13/sq NNN. Loopnet.com/listing/3434-N-<br />
Lexington-Ave-Shoreview-MN/17313196.<br />
SERVICES<br />
DISCOVER AND EXPRESS YOUR SOUL’S<br />
GIFTS – You will receive validation of your gifts<br />
which will give you the courage and confidence to<br />
move forward. You will know where to invest your<br />
time and energy. The more you align your choices and<br />
actions to how your soul is designed, the more you’ll<br />
tap into the abundance of your gifts and experience<br />
greater abundance in many areas of your life. $349.<br />
BarbaraBrodsho.com/Discover-Your-Soul-Level-<br />
Gifts. See ad, page 9.<br />
HEAL BODY, MIND, SOUL AND SPIRIT<br />
– Your soul is calling you to shed the old so<br />
the new can emerge. The issues that you’re<br />
experiencing will try to get your attention by<br />
becoming louder and louder and causing more<br />
unrest in your life. These are the ones that your<br />
soul is ready to release at this time. What makes<br />
clearing work effective is consciousness and<br />
understanding of the issues you’re clearing.<br />
You’ll learn what’s causing you limitations<br />
or restrictions, and you’ll learn how to clear<br />
and release them. $349. BarbaraBrodsho.com/<br />
Heal-Body-Mind-Soul-Spirit. See ad, page 9.<br />
KARMA CLEARING –The definition of karma<br />
is anything that is creating separation from the<br />
Oneness. When we release whatever has created<br />
the separation, we can come into greater wholeness<br />
within ourselves. During a Karma Clearing<br />
Session, the karma is seen and released and the<br />
heaviness is replaced with light. $250. Annette<br />
Rugolo.com/sessions. See ad, page 24.<br />
PERSONAL CLARITY SESSION – During<br />
your session, Nea will work with you to access<br />
the clarity and insight you are longing for. This<br />
session may include a variety of coaching tools,<br />
guided meditation, and channeled messages to<br />
help you access your highest knowing. In addition,<br />
you will receive clear actions steps to help you put<br />
this information into action. $200. NeaClare.com/<br />
Personal-Clarity-Sessions. See ad, page 17.<br />
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community resource guide<br />
Connecting you to the leaders in natural health care and green<br />
living in our community. To find out how you can be included in the Community<br />
Resource Guide, email Publisher@NAtwincities.com to request our media kit.<br />
ACUPUNCTURE<br />
BENJAMIN KOTHE, L.Ac.<br />
Bhakti Wellness Center<br />
7550 France Ave. S, Ste. 220, Edina<br />
Roy@BhaktiClinic.com • 612-859-7709<br />
Incorporating modern scientific<br />
knowledge and the ancient<br />
healing wisdom of the past,<br />
Kothe serves his patients with<br />
the empathy and compassion of<br />
one who understands the psychological<br />
and physical pain<br />
that comes with illness. See ad,<br />
page 2.<br />
BODY WORK<br />
MYOFASCIAL RELEASE &<br />
CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY<br />
Barb Ryan, LMT • 612-922-2389<br />
Bhakti Wellness Center<br />
7550 France Avenue S, #220, Edina<br />
Specializing in persistent and<br />
chronic pain and mysteries of the<br />
body. Also providing care to<br />
clients seeking the experience of<br />
deep relaxation and more selfconnection.<br />
Skilled and compassionate<br />
care. See ad, page 2.<br />
BREAST HEALTH<br />
AROMATHERAPY NATURE’S WAY<br />
Healthy Girls’ Breast Oil<br />
Joyce Sobotta • 715-828-0117 text or call<br />
Holistic breast health consults<br />
with education on the lymphatic<br />
breast self-massage for improved<br />
circulation. Consultations<br />
about pure essential oils for<br />
emotional and physical health.<br />
Custom blends created for you.<br />
See ad, page 21.<br />
CHIROPRACTOR<br />
CADENCE CHIROPRACTIC<br />
Dr. Amanda Haeg<br />
6409 City W Pkwy #105, Eden Prairie<br />
CadenceChiroMN.com • 952-855-7656<br />
Dr. Amanda Haeg is the<br />
only chiropractor in Minnesota<br />
offering the Pierce<br />
Results System. With a<br />
specific system of analysis<br />
and correction, your care<br />
will be tailored to your exact needs, providing you<br />
with precisely what will help you get your health<br />
back. See ad, page 9.<br />
COACHING<br />
ANNETTE RUGOLO<br />
Soul Coach, Author and Teacher<br />
AnnetteRugolo.com<br />
We are in a time of fast evolution<br />
and we have the opportunity to release<br />
deeply held emotional and<br />
mental patterns along with karmic<br />
lifetimes that are keeping us stuck.<br />
The tools I have acquired and honed<br />
for more than 20 years will help you<br />
move beyond the stuck places in<br />
your life and help you align with the light of your soul.<br />
You will receive tools of empowerment that will help<br />
you continue on your life’s path and soul’s journey.<br />
See ad, page 24.<br />
COMPOSURE COACHING<br />
Candi Broeffle, MBA, CPC<br />
Candi@ComposureCoaching.com<br />
763-270-8604<br />
ComposureCoaching.com<br />
Master your business so you can<br />
practice your passion. Business<br />
coaching for purpose-driven entrepreneurs<br />
to clarify your vision,<br />
build your confidence and create<br />
a soul-centered strategy. Call today<br />
for a free Discovery Session<br />
and get on your path to business<br />
success. See ad, page 24.<br />
SOUL PURPOSE COACH<br />
& HOLISTIC HEALER<br />
Barbara Brodsho, MA<br />
612-444-9751 • BarbaraBrodsho.com<br />
Providing spiritual guidance to<br />
help live your purpose and thrive<br />
utilizing your soul’s Akashic<br />
Record. Discover your soul’s<br />
innate gifts, create a vocation that<br />
aligns with your soul’s passion,<br />
and gain new perspective, clarity<br />
and insight about your life’s<br />
challenges by understanding the<br />
lessons your soul chose to experience. Schedule a free<br />
discovery session to learn how to create a purposefilled<br />
life. See ad, page 7.<br />
COACHING<br />
TRANSFORMATIONAL LIFE COACH<br />
AND SPIRITUAL TEACHER<br />
Nea Clare<br />
NeaClare.com • Nea@NeaClare.com<br />
Long for something or someone<br />
to help you break through your<br />
doubt and shine? I work with<br />
bright, successful women who<br />
have spent their careers uplifting<br />
others but struggle when it comes<br />
to time for themselves. Together,<br />
we will explore how transformational<br />
life coaching can take you<br />
from feeling stuck and move towards living a more<br />
fulfilling life, by becoming more confident in yourself<br />
and your capability to create a life you really want.<br />
Book a free strategy call with me today. Nea@<br />
NeaClare.com. 612-227-3854. See ad, page 17.<br />
DENTIST<br />
HEALTH CENTERED DENTISTRY<br />
N7915-902 St<br />
River Falls, WI • 715-426-7777<br />
HealthCenteredDentistry.com<br />
Whole Person Dentistry observes<br />
and deals with the mind,<br />
body and spirit, not just your<br />
teeth. This approach to dentistry<br />
encompasses both modern<br />
science and knowledge<br />
drawn from the world’s great<br />
traditions in natural healing.<br />
NATURAL SMILES DENTAL CARE<br />
3434 Lexington Ave. N., Suite 700<br />
Shoreview • 651-483-9800<br />
<strong>Natural</strong>SmilesDental.com<br />
We’re an integrative<br />
practice committed to<br />
promoting dental wellness<br />
and overall assistance to<br />
the whole person. We<br />
desire to participate in the<br />
creation of healthier lives,<br />
while being sensitive to physical, philosophical,<br />
emotional and financial concerns. See ad, page 13.<br />
PURE DENTAL<br />
Dr. Amy Ha Truong<br />
6230 10th St. N., Ste 520, Oakdale<br />
651-731-3064 • PureDentalMN.com<br />
Pure Dental offers integrative,<br />
holistic, alternative and biological<br />
dentistry for your dental health.<br />
We take pride in providing<br />
quality, holistic dental care and<br />
service for our patients. See ad,<br />
page 16.<br />
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DENTIST<br />
SEDATION AND IMPLANT DENTISTRY<br />
1815 Suburban Ave, St. Paul<br />
ToothBuilder.com<br />
651-735-4661<br />
We are a holistic dental practice<br />
devoted to restoring and enhancing<br />
the natural beauty of your smile<br />
using conservative, state-of-the-art<br />
dental procedures that result in<br />
beautiful, long lasting smiles! We<br />
specialize in safe removal of<br />
infected teeth as well as placing<br />
ceramic implants and restorations. See ad, page 19.<br />
TOOTH BY THE LAKE<br />
1401 Main St, Hopkins<br />
952-475-1101 • ToothByTheLake.net<br />
We build a foundation of trust<br />
by treating our patients as<br />
individuals. Understanding<br />
how uneasy some patients<br />
may feel about their dental<br />
visits, we make a difference<br />
by providing a relaxing and<br />
positive experience. See ad, page 6.<br />
EDUCATION<br />
NORTHWESTERN HEALTH<br />
SCIENCES UNIVERSITY<br />
2501 W. 84th St., Bloomington<br />
NWHealth.edu • 952-888-4777<br />
Learn about the leading health<br />
science programs including<br />
Acupuncture and Chinese<br />
Medicine, Massage Therapy<br />
and more. Prepare for success<br />
at a leading natural integrative<br />
medicine university. See ad, page 7.<br />
ENERGY HEALING<br />
EMOTION CODE HEALING<br />
Master Hong<br />
Certified Emotion Code Practitioner<br />
11012 Cedar Lake Rd., Minnetonka<br />
952-513-7285 or 914-708-9463<br />
Chronic pain? Suffering from<br />
emotions? Relationship problems?<br />
Life not going as planned? The<br />
Emotion Code is a tool I use to<br />
help you break through any<br />
emotional and spiritual blocks so<br />
you can live your best life. Trial<br />
session only $35.<br />
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALING<br />
ANNETTE RUGOLO<br />
Master Dowser<br />
AnnetteRugolo.com<br />
Is the energy of your home depleting<br />
you or supporting you?<br />
If you feel like you are hitting<br />
your head against a brick wall, it<br />
may be the wall of dense energy<br />
in your home. To more easily<br />
expand into our light and our<br />
soul purpose, it is important that<br />
the spaces we live energetically<br />
support us. Contact me for more<br />
information on dowsing, environmental healing and<br />
space clearing. See ad, page 24.<br />
ESSENTIAL OILS<br />
AROMATHERAPY NATURE’S WAY<br />
Joyce Sobotta • 715-828-0117<br />
AromaTherapyNaturesWay.com<br />
Education about pure essential<br />
oils and the lymphatic system<br />
available on my website. I offer<br />
consultations and custom blends<br />
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health concerns. See ad, page 21.<br />
GRAPHIC DESIGN<br />
CAMPFIRE STUDIO<br />
Sara Shrode, Graphic Designer<br />
612-554-6304 • CampfireStudio.net<br />
Sara@CampfireStudio.net<br />
Ignite the possibilities of<br />
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HEALTH FOOD STORES<br />
MASTEL’S HEALTH FOODS<br />
1526 St Clair Ave, St Paul<br />
Mastels.com • 651-690-1692<br />
Mastel’s Health Foods is Minnesota’s<br />
oldest health and wellness<br />
store. We carry a full line of<br />
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herbs and more. We emphasize<br />
organic, biodynamic, biodegradable,<br />
holistic and hypoallergenic<br />
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ad, page 9.<br />
HOUSING - SUPPORTIVE<br />
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ADULT FOSTER CARE<br />
License #1102359 • 763-600-6967<br />
8600 Northwood Parkway, New Hope<br />
Providing a caring and supportive<br />
home for adults, no<br />
matter their abilities. With<br />
28-plus years of experience,<br />
we offer a nurturing and family-like<br />
environment for up to<br />
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disabilities. Residents receive assistance<br />
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INTEGRATED HEALTH<br />
BHAKTI WELLNESS CENTER<br />
7550 France Ave. S., #220, Edina<br />
612-859-7709 • BhaktiClinic.com<br />
Bhakti provides a holistic<br />
environment where independent<br />
practitioners come<br />
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path to wellness; mind,<br />
body and spirit. Our providers offer chiropractic,<br />
energy therapy, massage, microcurrent therapy,<br />
acupuncture, psychotherapy and much more so that<br />
you can feel your best, remain healthy & thrive. See<br />
ad, page 2.<br />
INTEGRATED HEALTH<br />
METROEAST NATURAL<br />
HEALING CENTER<br />
6993 35th St N #2, Oakdale<br />
651-771-1703 • NutritionChiropractic.com<br />
Nutrition Response Testing<br />
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body to determine the underlying<br />
causes of illness and non-optimum health.<br />
Our clinically proven system may be quite different<br />
from any other healing practice you have experienced.<br />
The actual procedure is simple and direct,<br />
with the body providing all of the information and<br />
feedback needed. See ad, page 30.<br />
PHYSICIANS<br />
DR. ISAAC M. ENGHOLM<br />
Deploy Health Family Practice/<br />
Bhakti Wellness Center<br />
7550 France Ave. S, Ste. 220, Edina<br />
DeployHealthFP.com • 612-712-4423<br />
Dr. Engholm’s practice offers<br />
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hour. He offers telehealth<br />
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after-hours urgent care or emergency room visits.<br />
Memberships are $75/mo for adults, and $25/mo for<br />
children (added to adult member). See ad, page 2.<br />
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PSYCHOTHERAPY<br />
FRAN BIEGANEK, MS, LP<br />
Bhakti Wellness Center<br />
7550 France Ave. S. Suite 220, Edina<br />
612-564-9947 • FranBieganekTherapy.com<br />
As a Licensed Psychologist,<br />
Fran provides holistic, traumainformed<br />
therapy to help clients<br />
identify areas of potential<br />
growth, obstacles to growth,<br />
and processes that facilitate<br />
healing and transcendence. She<br />
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mapping) and neurofeedback<br />
services that facilitate increased brain efficiency.<br />
See ad, page 2.<br />
RADIO/PODCASTS<br />
AM950 THE PROGRESSIVE VOICE<br />
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AM950Radio.com<br />
The only Progressive Talk Radio<br />
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feature national talkers Thom<br />
Hartmann, Stephanie Miller, Mike<br />
Crute and Brad Friedman. We are<br />
also dedicated to local programming that creates a<br />
community forum for important Minnesota Progressive<br />
issues. See ad, page 32.<br />
SPIRITUAL TEACHINGS<br />
ECKANKAR TEMPLE OF ECK<br />
7450 Powers Blvd., Chanhassen<br />
952-380-2200 • Eckankar.org<br />
Are you looking for the<br />
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you fulfill your dream. We<br />
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everyday life. See ad, page 3.<br />
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