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Category: My Healthy Life

Normalize Bed-Sharing

Our second daughter was born at home. From her very first night until she decided to move into her sister’s room at nineteen months, she slept in-between my husband and me. When she was a newborn and her sister was a toddler, being able to simply reach…

Sweet on Sophie, Not Sugar: Raising a Kid with a Sensitive Nervous System

My eldest daughter Sophie is smart, silly, sweet and highly sensitive. What do I mean? She falls into the minority of the population whose nervous system is “highly sensitive”. Now, I’m just repeating myself..let me explain. Her nervous system ‘over’ processes EVERYTHING around her. She picks up on…

The Vital First Adjustment

NOTE: This story has been published and read by thousands! It is one of the most humbling and amazing moments of my life. The baby was born without respiration or a heart beat. There are moments in one’s life where time seems to slow down and you truly do…

Helping Hands

A little over TEN years ago I wrote this blog from the island Zanzibar (off the east coast of Africa): Jambo Friends! Tomorrow is my last day at the Jambiani Wellness Center as a volunteer chiropractor; I can’t believe how quickly these past six weeks have gone! What a…

Unassisted Home Birth After C-section!

Ever since my daughter Sophie’s traumatic birth via emergency C-section I’ve known that I wanted a VBAC (vaginal birth after cesarean). Unfortunately the hospital here in town doesn’t offer that as an option, instead it’s “once a C-section, always…

I’m pregnant and want a VBAC

From literally the day after my daughter’s traumatic birth I KNEW I wanted to a VBAC. Well, just found out two weeks ago I’m pregnant and SHIT JUST GOT REAL Y’ALL…