Tree of Life Mothering

My friends Thom and Tresta Neil are doing the following event this Saturday. It looks great!

Join us June 2 with our guest Mindy Heath for more clarity ad confidence building ideas.  These will be actual tools you can bring home that day to help increase your family relationships.  We look forward to seeing you!

Tresta Neil = Instilling Confidence and Clarity in Your Children in an Unsure World

Mindy Heath = How to Feel Joy and Connection Every Day!

Thom Neil = What Your Body Language Says Effects Your Relationships

How To Live With Peace, Joy and Connection Every Single Day!

Do you ever feel like you are doing all the “right” things but getting all the “wrong” results? Are you sometimes just going thru the motions but not really feeling love, passion and joy as a wife and mother?  In fact, do you know you are a child of God but have trouble feeling it?  You’re not alone!  We know we are children of God, that Heavenly Father loves us and what He wants for us. I know you can SAY it, but do you FEEL it? Do you truly know who YOU are? Do you know who He created you to be?  Do you know your purpose on this earth, your passion? Do you even feel worthy of His love? Often we are doing all the “right” things yet we feel inadequate, overwhelmed and not sure how to change it.  Living with peace, joy and connection in all areas of your life is possible for you! In fact often when we don’t feel peace and joy it’s not for a lack of trying but a lack of knowledge. Living with peace and joy is a matter of specific principles, paradigms and tools. Come learn:

-how to get clear on who God created you to be and how to feel His love daily

-how to live with peace, joy, clarity and connection no matter your circumstances

-the ways we give away our power and create our own suffering and how to stop it NOW!

-what is truly going on in our heads and how to get control over our fears and insecurities

Mindy Heath is a joyful wife and mother of four who has been also been home schooling for 12 years. With a degree from BYU in Family Sciences and a passion for helping women discover their worth and live their truth, Mindy has been inspiring others through one on one mentoring, writing and public speaking for 7 years. Personally she has dealt with and overcome health, financial, self worth, relationship and other struggles. Through her personal learning and healing she has learned how to live joyfully every single day no matter what challenges arise. Her passion is showing others to do the same. Mindy is the creator of LivingtheJoyfulLife.com and with her dear husband HealingMarriages.com

Tresta Neil is happy wife and hip mother of eight.  She has been homeschooling since her first was born, 18 years ago.  With two college degrees she felt unsure and not very smart, it was through homeschooling her children that she gained the confidence and the intelligence she now feels.  She has come through some tough situations like eight very itchy pregancies, living in a two bedroom basement apartment with eight children for eight years and her son receiving a liver transplant.  She has learned how to be happy and hip through it all and is passionate about sharing what she has learned with others that may be going through similar things.  Tresta is the founder and creator of KeystoneEd.com and with her husband Center Point Events.

When Jonell Francis, one of my long-time Veggie Gals girlfriends, spoke at my holistic LDS mothering conference three years ago, she said something that totally impressed me. Jonell is an amazing mom of 9 who wrote a cookbook called The Feel Good Foods Cookbook. http://www.myyeasttreatment.com/good-foods-recipes/ She said that “health begins in the navel.” (Doctrine and Covenants 89:18 promises “health in the navel.’) She told her story of being diagnosed with fibromyalgia and how conventional medicine could not help her. She suffered for over ten years of this. She finally listened to a friend who gently suggested that a chronic yeast condition might be the root of her illness. You can listen to her talk by clicking on the “downloads” tab above and scrolling down to find her hame.

She went on a long healing journey that included a yeast free diet (gluten-free, dairy-free, sugar-free) and healed herself, or allowed God to heal her by following eternal laws of health. The main idea is that our guts (symbolized by the navel) have to have a certain ecology, or balance of good bacteria to keep the yeast in our body in check. If our gut ecology gets out of balance, with yeast overgrowth, many illnesses can result. Health really does begin in the navel, with the food that we eat that decreases the promotion of yeast. What we eat affects how we feel, and as Jonell said at my conference, “Ladies, we can build Zion from our kitchen counters.”

So that made me pause to wonder. Is there some connection between the navel, and the place underneath the navel, a person’s gut, and the health of the mother when a person was connected by the navel to the mother through the tree of life of the placenta? (In chapter 2 of my book you can see an illustration of how the placenta looks like a tree, to see it, click on the tab above that says, “the book” and go to chapter 2)

The answer to the above question is YES! At least according to Jennifer Tow, a holistic IBCLC. See her web site here http://holisticibclc.blogspot.com/ Who would have thought that the following issues that often face new mothers can all come from the health of  a mother’s gut: (copied from her web site):

post-partum depression, food allergies, milk supply, PCOS, tongue-tie, reflux, ‘high-need’ infant behavior, slow growth, failure to thrive and numerous feeding difficulties may all find origins in the integrity and vitality of the mother’s internal terrain. In attending to the health of the maternal gut, while supporting the infant in his own healing, we may find that many breastfeeding problems are resolved both acutely and chronically.

 

You can listen to fascinating interview all about this with Ms. Tow here http://www.blogtalkradio.com/progressive-parenting/2012/05/28/nutrition-gut-health-breastfeeding-wjennifer-tow-ibclc

So not only does health begin in the navel, health begins in the navel of our mother. A mother is the tree of digestive health to her baby! And that’s just relating to her gut ecology. The milk she chooses to give her baby also affects her baby’s gut ecology. Mother’s milk keeps that baby’s gut in balanced ecology. Anything else given to a baby, until the baby’s digestive system has matured to handle solid food, can upset the ecology. 

Here’s a quote from the web site http://coolinginflammation.blogspot.com by Dr Art Ayers, who wrote “Mother’s milk is fierce!”:

Milk as it is transferred from breast to baby is loaded with molecular weapons for the protection of the baby’s respiratory and digestive systems. Cells from the mother are transferred along with the milk and quickly spread out on the surface of the mouth and digestive system to patrol for pathogens. The mother’s immune system detects potential risks as the baby’s mouth contacts the mother’s lymphatic system at the breast, and the antibodies that are subsequently produced are transferred into the milk. Enzymes in the milk digest bacterial cell walls and other milk proteins are converted into anti-bacterial peptides in the baby’s stomach before ultimately being digested into amino acid nutrients. Many of the fat/lipid nutrients in milk are also anti-bacterial or anti-viral. Most of the carbohydrate in milk is the simple disaccharide lactose that most bacteria can’t use for food. The remaining 10% of the carbohydrates are extensions of the lactose to make galacto-oligosaccharides (GOS, a.k.a. bifidus factor) that are toxic to all but the few bacterial species that make up the highly specialized microbial community of the human baby gut flora. (Cow’s milk has an entirely different composition, e.g. lacks bifidus factor, and supports a different gut flora.)

That’s the power of mother’s milk!

Here’s a message from one of my favorite bloggers, Sarah Pope (pictured above, love the wild curly girl hair!), over at http://thehealthyhomeeconomist.com:

The Weston A. Price Foundation is currently conducting a pregnancy survey to assess the birth outcomes of women with different dietary and supplementation habits.

The purpose of the survey is to help determine how certain foods and supplements affect the health of pregnant mothers and their newly born infants with the hope that the information gleaned can be shared to help improve the pregnancy and birth experience of future mothers and provide the optimal foundation for their babies to achieve a high level of health.

If you have given birth between May 1, 2010 and May 1, 2012, the Foundation welcomes your participation in the survey.

Please click here to participate.

It is important that a large number of mothers with different dietary habits and different pregnancy outcomes be included in the survey.

Whether a Mother perceives her dietary habits as conventional or unusual, and whether she considers her pregnancy to have been eventful or uneventful, her participation is welcomed.

The survey should take less than twenty minutes to complete.

The information mothers provide in the survey will be summarized into statistics that the Foundation may eventually publish, but no individual or personal information provided will be shared with anyone publicly or privately.

The survey will be completed on September 30, 2012.

Please share this pregnancy survey with as many mothers as you can.   Breastfeeding, homeschooling, homebirthing and other forums where mothers participate would be ideal places to send the link about this survey so that the widest participation possible is obtained.

Thank you for your help in getting the word out about this important pregnancy survey!

You are invited to attend a special workshop in Salt Lake City this summer. This seminar has been designed especially for students seeking to make the most of our curriculum, in particular those seeking to make class and study time as effective as possible. We’ve constructed this event to do precisely that. This fall will bring another raising of the bar in rigor and quality of the GWU experience, and students who take this program seriously will benefit the most. We also invite serious students of the classics from the general public interested in maximizing their study capacity.
 
This seminar will be held at the historic City and County Building in Salt Lake City.

Areas of focus will include the following:

• The 5 critical types of questions and how to use them as a lens during study and discussion.
• The do’s and don’ts of quality Socratic discussion.
• How to look deeper into the text for symbols, archetypes, analogies, parables, worldviews, themes, etc.
• How to consistently distinguish principles from their substitutes and counterfeits. How also to look for their most appropriate applications.
• How to prepare to read any type of classical text for maximum benefit.
• How to mark a book effectively to organize thoughts and ideas, quotes, themes, author assumptions and conclusions, characters, plots, chapter summaries, etc. to help you better prepare for colloquia as well as oral and written examinations.
• Applying the most effective tools for writing papers and speeches.
• Using the most efficient tools for research and analysis.

The Friday evening presentation is free to the public. You are welcome to bring friends and family, but because space is limited, attendees should register to reserve their seats. The Saturday workshop will run from 9AM to 5PM with a 90 minute lunch break. Non GWU students are welcome to register as well. The cost on Saturday is $145 per person.

To register, please visit our events page.

Sincerely,
George Wythe University

Last night I went to a class on the Constitution in SLC by the people over at http://www.freedomformula.us/. I was surprised to bump into a reader of this blog, Rhonda, who has her own blog over at  theprovidenthomemaker.com. We had a lot of fun visiting after the class was over.

Rhonda has tons of free handouts and recipes on her site. She also has many links to homemaking resources. Many of the recipes from her cookbook, The Chameleon Cook, are here http://www.scribd.com/doc/62127648/72-Page-Recipe-Book. These are basic recipes that anybody in a kitchen should know. She specializes in teaching people how to cook from scratch for cheap. She also teaches the science behind cooking so you can swap out ingredients, using what you have on hand, instead of running to the store. Thanks Rhonda! She has also has a delightful blog with lots of recipes. The above photo is her fresh strawberry pie.  The chalupa photo below is also from her. Yum!

Just going by the name of her web site, I was thinking that Rhonda might be thrifty, so I asked her for an idea of how much she spends on groceries a month per person. She gave me a figure that was about what I have spent per person in the past. Then she told me about another blogger, an LDS homeschooling mom over here at http://theprudenthomemaker.com who has the following killer figures for feeding her family:

Having lived on our food storage for so long, and still having a very reduced income (our income has been cut by over 70%; in 2007 we went 8 months without income; in 2010 we made half of what we did in 2007), we have needed to continue to have something to eat, and to build our pantry at the same time for the inevitable months when we will not be able to afford to go shopping. In 2010, we fed our family AND restocked our pantry for .70 per person per day. In 2011, we ate and stocked out pantry for .40 per person per day. (you can read the rest of it here http://theprudenthomemaker.com/index.php/frugal-living/eat-for-less)

She feeds her family of 8 for $3 a day! Granted, this woman lives in Las Vegas, so she can grow food year-round and eat from her garden. That would really help to cut my food budget! I am not ready to move to Vegas, but I highly recommend her site anyway for lots of tips. She fed her family out of her pantry for over a year because of a loss of income. Again the site is http://theprudenthomemaker.com/. She has lots of frugal tips, recipes, sewing tutorials, and fun crafts. The photography is gorgeous! I like this page http://theprudenthomemaker.com/index.php/frugal-living/saving-money here of tips for frugal living, although I like having two cars.

Here are more sites:

web site all about dehydrating http://dehydrate2store.com

I learned from this site that I could dehydrate my harvest of tomatoes every fall to a crisp, then grind the tomatoes up, and have powdered tomatoes. I just add water and whiz in the blender to turn back to sauce. Powdered tomatoes takes up a lot less space than canned tomatoes, which is a huge blessing because I have a very small pantry.

Here’s a web site all about couponing http://fabulesslyfrugal.com

One of the cofounders/moms says she feeds her family of 9 on less than $400 a month. I think that’s using a lot of boxed food though, which I am not hip on. I am thinking I could learn her tips to save on nonfood consumables like toilet paper and go to Brandy’s site at http://theprudenthomemaker.com, because she teaches how to shop for whole grains and whole food, although she does recommend margarine, which I don’t. She also has lots of menu ideas and is creative enough to have recipes for fall, winter, spring, and summer as well as a strictly pantry menu http://theprudenthomemaker.com/index.php/menus/winter-menu. Wow, I am impressed!

My friend Mary Ann Johnson is presenting a fabulous class on Sat. June 2nd in SLC. It’s free with the promotional code below! I have learned so much from Mary Ann about how to have my kids beg for school. She helped me understand how to use the closet as in ingredient in homeschooling and how to have more fun as a parent. I highly recommend all of her stuff.

Here is her message:

This May I had the amazing opportunity

of creating a HUGE Closet called the

Love of Learning Center at the Salt Lake

City TJED Forum. It was a huge success

and I have received so many letters from

parents with really happy and excited children!

 

I can’t believe the impression the Love of

Learning Center has left on my children! 

They have not stopped talking about 

“that Love Center” since Saturday.  In fact,

they have been sharing all the cool things

they made and did to everyone who has come

over to our house. From the penny balloon 

(one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen!) to

the origami butterfly and wallet, my children

came away from the LOL Center happy, 

excited and inspired. Olivia Votaw

 

We all want our children to have this kind of

excitement and enthusiasm for learning every

day, not just once a year.

 

You have had the “Closet” introduced to you

and maybe you have even created a Closet space.

 

However, I get emails and many of you start

out with a bang but somehow you just seem to

stop and others just never got started at all.

 

Most of you really want an “inspire not require”

space in your home but you just haven’t been able

to make it work. I have a solution for you.  

 

• I want you to become an EXPERT on inspiring your kids!
• I want you to have a Love of Learning center in YOUR home!
• I want you to have more confidence and sweeter relationships!
• I want you to learn the #1 thing that can transform your home!

 

So I have designed an all day workshop to help

you create your own Love of Learning Center so

your kids BEG  for school. This all-day workshop

is $97 BUT I want to give this workshop 

experience to you for $59 as a gift for making

an effort to learn how to create and manage a

Closet either through being part of the original 

pilot, attending a class or purchasing the Closet

Mastery Course. (Spouse is FREE)

 

This special pricing is good until June 2. So don’t wait.

 

Click here for details and to register for the workshop 

Use the promotional code – loveoflearning

 

This is a high caliber workshop designed to give

you some hands on experience with creating 

your own Love of Learning Closet.

 

You will work together with other parents to 

design a Closet and then learn how to take 

those Closet contents and turn them into weeks 

and yes, even months of inspired learning.

 

You will gain some expertise at finding, storing,

and then implementing fabulous learning

ideas in 30 minutes or less a week.

 

You will also learn the #1 secret to truly

connecting with your children in a way that

makes being with them truly magical.

 

Join me for a day and I will help you become a 

master at “inspire, not require”. 

 

 I want you to leave knowing what to do next. 

 

Click here for details and toregister for the workshop 

Use the promotional code – loveoflearning

 

I also want to give you some BONUS GIFTS

for registering before June 2 so that you can

motivate yourself when the “REALness” of

family life takes over –

 

• A download of the radical new way to look at family time management The Family Chunk Clock 
• A download of Filling your Closet on a Dime with Little Time
• A download of Being Present, a key to connecting with children!
• A download about the connection between learning and relationships Reading, Writing and Relationships 

 

I am so excited to share with you how to

create some real excitement and inspiration

in your home school! You are going to have

your eyes opened, get some clarity and go

home with some simple strategies to help you

have kids who beg for family learning time!

So don’t wait, take advantage of the special

pricing just for you and the bonus gifts and

become a Love of Learning Parent. 

Use the promotional code – loveoflearning

Warmly,

Mary Ann

 

LDS Holistic Living Conference is Less Than 1 Month Away – Register by June 1 and Save!

You read right!

The clock is ticking and June 23 is fast approaching…..

LDS Holistic Living Conference and Expo

Saturday, June 23, 2012

Paradigm Charter High School

11577 S 3700 W

S Jordan, UT

Register here!

Direct Link: http://ldsholisticliving.com/conference-registration

Download/Print the Class Map and Schedule here

Register by June 1 for only $55 (only $11 per class!)

Register here!

After June 1, the price bumps to $65

Free, open-to-the-public vendor area from 8:30-6:00

Here’s a quick reminder of all the incredible classes and events being offered at the LDS Holistic Living Conference….

Schedule of Classes 

8:30-6:00

Vendor Area Open

8:30-10:00

Dr. Sean Ulm:  Kids Dental Health; From Baby Teeth to Wisdom Teeth

Julia Holt:  Detoxing and Bowel Health

Jorja Leavitt: How to Energize Your Business

Nicholeen Peck:  How Do You Get What You Want

Terry Jacobsen, ND:  WOW!  Why the Word of Wisdom is for Me; An Approach for Youth

4-4:45

Carolyn Cooper:  Energy Healing from a Gospel Perspective

Beth Young:  Overcoming Pornography Addiction

Cliff Dunston:  The Praise Principle

Julia Holt:  Green Smoothies Simplified

Don Tolman:  Your Imagination is Everything

Nicholeen Peck:  How to Teach Children Obedience and Respect

Laura Bradford: Choosing Healthy Ingredients in your Skincare Regime

Dr Sean Ulm:  The Gateway to the Body: Oral Health and Overall Wellness

David Christopher. MH:  Natural Family Health

Many of you know Aneladee Milne, the cofounder of LEMI. Aneladee is no longer with LEMI, although she sometimes does trainings with them. Aneladee is now working with Sons of Helaman, a program to help youth overcome addictions, specifically porn addictions. But this program applies to any addiction/bondage/self-deception. And hey, all of us as mortals are involved with some kind of self-deception.

Aneladee has a new class starting today in Farmington UT to help youth. If you or your youth are struggling with any kind of addiction/self-deception, I invite you to come. Here is her announcement:

Eternal Warriors

 

            In years past, when Satan was intimidated by one of the up and coming Noble and Great Ones, he would attempt to have the Warrior killed while he was still very young (i.e. Moses, Christ).  When Satan is intimidated by one of the Noble and Great Ones reserved to come forth in these, the last days, he attempts to have the Warrior eliminated by derailing him or her with Addictions.  We expect that all of today’s youth will be hit with opportunities to participate in behaviors that, without intervention, have the potential of becoming highly problematic.  We, at Sons of Helaman, are prepared to train these mighty youth to be ready to overpower Satan, commit to the success of their lives and fulfill their fore-ordination as Eternal Warriors.

            To accomplish this we have created a special Eternal Warriors Boot Camp Training. This training will help:

• Increase Spiritual/Biochemical/Emotional Discernment in order to recognize the more advanced/subtle Satanic Attacks.
• Build Endurance to make sure his Heart/Mind/Spirit are strong enough to withstand the persistence of Satanic Attacks.
• Develop Skills similar to what is used by soldiers, athletes and musicians in order to be prepared for the Speed of Satanic Attacks.

Each student will choose three target behaviors to improve in and three power actions, prayer, writing and scripture reading, to implement. They will be asked to commit to 28 perfect days in these 6 areas.

Eternal Warriors Training:

Day: Thursdays 6:00-8:00 Beginning May 24, 2012

Location: Farmington Public Works Building 720 West 100 North Farmington, UT

Cost: $50 for initial kit (lasts 8 weeks) and $15 for replacement journals $15 for graduation award.

Duration: The class in an ongoing class. Students can join at any time. Students will graduate as soon as they have acquired 28 consecutive winning days.

Classes will be lead by Eternal Warriors Mentors, Brad Heyward. Roslyn Reynolds, Jose Chu-Jon and Aneladee Milne  

If you would like to enroll please call Aneladee 801-864-2893 with your name, phone number and email address. I will put you on the roll.

  Also, ask about our Eternal Warrior Parent training. Hey, if you are asking the kids to do it, don’t you think you should try it also?

Parent training:

Day: Thursday 8:00-9:30 P.M.

Location: Farmington Public Works Building 720 West 100 North Farmington, UT

Cost: $250 for initial kit (lasts 8 weeks) and $15 for replacement journals.

Duration: The class in an ongoing class. Students can join at any time. Students will graduate as soon as they have acquired 28 consecutive winning days.

Classes will be lead by Eternal Warriors Mentors, Maria Uboldi. Roslyn Reynolds, Karnen Broadhead and Aneladee Milne  

For more information call Aneladee Milne at 801-864-2893

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