Life Alive Warm Bowl

The Most Important Decision You Make Every Day

The most important decision that you make every day is what you decide to put in your body. Your food has the power to transform your physiology, your health, your local economy, our medical institutions, and our...
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Eating Healthy on a Budget, Farm and Garden, Health, Nursing, Nursing Student, Raw food

The Most Important Decision You Make Every Day

 Massage In The Hospital Setting

10 Reasons Why I Get Massage Every 2 Weeks

If you go to the doctor they will tell you to take these antibiotics 2 times a day for the next 10 days.  If you go to the physical therapist they will tell you to...
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Health, Massage Therapy, Northwest Arkansas, Nursing, Nursing Student, Running, Spa

10 Reasons Why I Get Massage Every 2 Weeks

Massage Therapy for Mental Health

I just finished up a clinical rotation in Mental Health this semester.  It's enough to make you suffer from depression!  Or at the very least need a massage for your Mental Health. Our instructors and books...
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Farm and Garden, Health, Massage Therapy, Northwest Arkansas, Nursing, Nursing Student, Shop Local, Small Business, Uncategorized

Massage Therapy for Mental Health

Fayetteville Skyline Love

Ben Climbs Cross in the Skyline When you have a small business and you are a full time nursing student and you have four sons, it's important that you grab every moment...
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Community, Northwest Arkansas, Nursing, Nursing Student, Parenting, Spiritual, Working Mom

Fayetteville Skyline Love

 Hot Nurses, Sexism, And The Culture Of Silence #Metoo

Hot Nurses, Sexism, and the Culture of Silence #metoo

I wrote this post last year and never published it.  Since then the #metoo movement took off and more women have been speaking up about sexism and sexual harassment.   The culture of silence. "You have to pick...
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Nursing, Small Business, Stories, Uncategorized, Working Mom

Hot Nurses, Sexism, and the Culture of Silence #metoo

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Meditation for Anxiety

I teach a dance class with my friend Nicole on Fridays at 7:45a.m. at Be One Yoga Studio. We were talking at class last week and we both have kids who experience Vasovagal Syncope.  If they...
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Community, Family, Health, Massage Therapy, Meditation, Nursing, Yoga

Meditation for Anxiety

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Hidden Pathways

Sunflower My mom has lived in the same cute little house for about 15 years now.  Out her back door there is a cute little patio.  She was trying to decide what...
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Community, Farm and Garden, Health, Nursing, Raw food, Travel

Hidden Pathways

 Thai Massage, stretching, yoga

Need Awesome Continuing Education Hours?

Thai Massage Class in Ft. Smith Statues from Wat Pho demonstrating Stretching Techniques Traveling to Thailand has spoiled me for traveling to other countries.  The culture is rich and...
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Education, Massage Therapy, Stories, Travel, Uncategorized

Need Awesome Continuing Education Hours?
Nursing

Should You Get the COVID Vaccine When it Becomes Available?

This is the crux of this whole debate on vaccines.  For the most part, they are amazing, and yes there are sometimes adverse events.  As humans we prefer a world of binary opposites, good versus bad.  The reality is, the good and bad exist simultaneously in a whole world of grey.  
August 8, 2020
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Black Lives Matter Community Northwest Arkansas Parenting

My Privileged White Bullshit

As a white woman I feel guilty for referencing my own personal experiences with sexism and oppression because in truth I can not even begin to understand the experience of the day to day fear involved with breathing in this society while black. As a white woman I can not even begin to understand the experience of a black mother, Adrienne, who has to explain to her teenage son--full of youth and invincibility, that he can absolutely NOT go...
June 7, 2020
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