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- Women - We Need to Know This and Shout It from the Mountain Tops! - by Submitted on Apr 22, 2016 from Debra GraugnardFor almost 20 years now, I have been helping women find healing for their health, emotions, weight, body image and so much more. Time and time again, we find there is a powerlessness women experience that is beyond biology or hormones, and even the mind. It has a deep-seated root – a root ...
Views: 993 - ***Knowing When to Say No - To Give or Not to Give? - by Submitted on Jul 26, 2014 from Debra Graugnard[Watch the video: http://youtu.be/xq2ggIBZ3zU] In last week's video on Boundary Setting, we talked about the idea of putting up a wall of protection. This takes a lot of energy. It's exhausting! And would you really want to walk around barricaded, trapped inside a wall? Instead we want to ...
Views: 1102 - ***Setting Healthy Boundaries While Increasing Your Personal Freedom - by Submitted on Jul 26, 2014 from Debra Graugnard[Watch the video: http://youtu.be/PQbcIVX5T0I] I like to put a reframe on the topic of boundary-setting. Think about this: If you are walking around with boundaries all the way around you, think about what this looks like. Think about what this feels like. You are building a wall all the way ...
Views: 1449 - ***The Earth is Raining Mercy - by Submitted on May 23, 2014 from Debra GraugnardLife is hard. It’s full of challenges. It’s meant to be that way – part of the journey. I grew up the daughter of a baker. I was a major sugarholic. Sweets and alcohol were staples in my diet – often in heavy doses. I had a few minor health challenges, but nothing I ...
Views: 1393 - ***God willing, I will never not call - by Submitted on May 16, 2014 from Debra GraugnardLast night I was driving home from visiting a friend. A temperate night in Florida, I had the window down enjoying the fresh ocean air. Driving along Indian River Drive, I began hearing screams and a woman’s voice. I saw a truck backed into a vacant lot, driver’s side door was open, no lights ...
Views: 1194 - ***Breastfeeding from Mother Earth: the Food-Body-Spirit Connection - by Submitted on May 09, 2014 from Debra GraugnardHave you ever known a mother who couldn’t breastfeed her child? Maybe you’ve been there yourself. When my niece gave birth to her second child, she naturally started nursing her beautiful baby boy. It’s a natural desire for every mother to provide nourishment for her ...
Views: 1316(1 vote) - ***Disarming the subconscious saboteur - by Submitted on Feb 24, 2014 from Debra GraugnardI worked with a client recently who deeply desired to live her passion. A part of that success meant speaking in front of large audiences about beliefs that she was very passionate about. However, every time in the days leading up to a speaking engagement, she would eat uncontrollably of the ...
Views: 1539(1 vote) - ***Emotions – Doorway to Darkness or Entrance to Enlightenment? - by Submitted on Feb 24, 2014 from Debra GraugnardHave you ever sat at the beach and watched the waves – the rhythmic patterns of the swells, the ebbs and flows? I’m so blessed to live by the ocean again. I love watching the waves flowing onto the shore, drawing back to sea. It brings such a peaceful feeling. Sometimes emotions ...
Views: 1467 - ***Listening to Your Body - Discerning Messages of the Mind, Heart & Gut - by Submitted on Feb 24, 2014 from Debra GraugnardThe other day I was driving in my car and a dashboard light came on that I had never seen before. I thought to myself, “I’m WAY too busy to deal with a car issue – I don’t even have time to stop and check it out.” Fortunately, I had the owner’s ...
Views: 1945(1 vote) - ***Beliefs can be changed by the Truth - by Submitted on Feb 24, 2014 from Debra GraugnardRecently, I’ve been hearing more and more accounts of doctors and research studies concluding that the major contributing factor influencing Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), Intestinal Permeability (Leaky Gut Syndrome) and other digestive dysfunction is ...
Views: 1967(1 vote) - ***Spirituality – Self-Sacrifice or Self-Care? - by Submitted on Feb 24, 2014 from Debra GraugnardDo you consider yourself a spiritually-connected person? I do, and yet I sometimes find myself falling short of caring for my physical body in a way that best serves me. I skip breakfast or the morning workout so I can cram in one more errand on the way to work; I commit to more than I can ...
Views: 1689(5 votes) - ***Do you know why you’re here? - by Submitted on Feb 24, 2014 from Debra GraugnardCarl Jung once said, ”Nothing so affects the life of a child as a parent’s unfulfilled life.” I knew a woman who was born in the early 1920’s. She was a quite intelligent, insightful, introspective, creative woman. She graduated valedictorian of her ...
Views: 1498(2 votes) - ***The holy perfectionist - by Submitted on Feb 24, 2014 from Debra GraugnardI woke up the other morning with a painful knot of gridlocked stress around my stomach. Great…that’s what we call a “fog” – a “freakin’ opportunity for growth”. Not so bad, though. It’s just an opportunity to trade out that knot for a gift of divine truth and grace, and that painful tension was ...
Views: 1281(1 vote) - ***Guts are people too! - by Submitted on Feb 24, 2014 from Debra GraugnardWelcome to you and your guts! My friend, Susan Hamblen, and I were talking the other day, planning for our upcoming Belly Wisdom workshop. Both of us are “inspired” by how often we hear people, clenching their bellies, say, “If only I could get rid of this!” or ...
Views: 1306(1 vote) - ***What the pH? - by Submitted on Feb 24, 2014 from Debra GraugnardThere’s a lot of talk about pH, and some of it sounds so confusing, even contradictory, that it’s hard to know what’s true and what to do for what reasons. I’m going to try to shed a little light on the subject. First, what is pH? “pH” literally ...
Views: 1209(1 vote) - ***From Forgiveness Into Oneness - by Submitted on Feb 24, 2014 from Debra GraugnardI’ve been thinking about close of the year 2012. I usually think of the close of the year as a time for reflection and gratitude. But what came to me in this morning’s meditation was the topic of forgiveness. I thought to myself – I’m not holding any grudges. I can’t think of anyone I’m ...
Views: 1314(1 vote) - ***Earth Day: 7 Ways to Honor the Earth and Your Body - by Submitted on Feb 24, 2014 from Debra GraugnardWhere I grew up, pollution was so heavy, the sky glowed orange and the smell of burning chemicals lingered in the air. I was born in 1963 on the Texas Gulf Coast near a conglomeration of oil refineries. I remember my aunt exclaiming with great surprise when she bought a ...
Views: 1549(3 votes) - ***The Nutrients of our Internal Soil - by Submitted on Feb 24, 2014 from Debra GraugnardFarmers know that certain crops need certain nutrients in order to grow successfully. Winter is the time when cover crops are planted. Different cover crops and fertilizers provide different nutrients for the soil. Often combinations of crops and fertilizers are used to affix a ...
Views: 1159(1 vote) - ***The Power of Labels - by Submitted on Feb 24, 2014 from Debra GraugnardI had a client a few years back who called herself a Parkinsonian. She had lived with Parkinson’s disease for 20 years. She was in her 70’s at the time, and her body was quite frail. She held a strong identity as a Parkinsonian and spoke fondly of her fellow Parkinsonians in her weekly ...
Views: 1208(3 votes) - ***One Teaching… Unity, Acceptance and Healing… - by Submitted on Feb 24, 2014 from Debra GraugnardIf I had to give just one teaching about what I’ve learned in all of my studies, it would be this: To truly heal and optimally care for our bodies, we must see ourselves as one with all that is. We cannot see ourselves as separate from anything around us or within us. We must ...
Views: 1217(3 votes) - ***It's All in Your GUT's Mind - by Submitted on Feb 24, 2014 from Debra GraugnardI know no one likes being told their dis-eases are "psychological," and I'm not here to tell you that everything is in your head. I realize there's more to it than that. However, your digestive system has a mind of its own, and it is wired to be heavily influenced by its mind. I'm not ...
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