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The Regenerative Nature of Grief
On the first Friday night of summer, I went to dinner with a group of friends and had the opportunity to meet some new people. In the course of the evening over good food and wine, we shared...
Got an Important Speaking Gig? Wrong time to catch a Cold?
You’ve been booked for that speaking gig for months and super excited about delivering your message and making a difference. So many things have come together to make this happen. It’s the night...
The Hero’s Journey of Healing
Humankind in every culture through time has revered storytelling as a vehicle for creating order and meaning out of the chaos of existence. On an individual level, the stories we consciously and...
3 Simple Steps to Start Each Day Feeling Better Than Ever
How we begin each day creates a foundation for how we live our lives. Creating a strong foundation is essential to building something that will last the challenges of time. No matter who we are,...
Falling in Love with a Chlorophyll-Rich Diet
What makes plants green is a substance called chlorophyll which is responsible for photosynthesizing – the usage of light energy from the sun to convert water & carbon dioxide into nutrition...
10 Tools to Help You Stay Grounded When Your Life Gets a Little Cray Cray
Over the past year, I’ve been super busy making life changing decisions. At the very end of April 2014, on a whim, we decided to sell our home. Once this decision was made, there was a lot to do!...
Wellness Blog post; The question of health
Health encompasses the whole of life and is as vast a subject as the people in pursuit of it. It can include focus on food and dietary rules, or exercise and movement practices, or on the...
Are You Naked Right Now? You Should Be.
What are you doing right now? Can you do it… naked? Are you working on those TPS reports, doing yoga, or headed to a dentist appointment? Go ahead, take it off, take it all off and finish those...
Why Surviving Isn’t Healing
I am in awe of Jamie Rautenberg. Holistic life coach, licensed psychotherapist and spiritual intuitive, Jamie also has an amazing ability to express complex, often challenging ideas in simple,...
Denial Only Makes Chronic Pain and Illness Worse
Pretending you’re not sick or in pain adds an additional layer of suffering I’ve done my share of denying that I’m chronically ill. It’s tempting to pretend that I’m as healthy as can be, but...
How your wellness connects to the Earth’s
Chara and I connected earlier this year in a Shift Series interview talking about the Spiritual Side of Healing from Chronic Illness and Autoimmune Disease and I am excited to have her back as a...
The Power of Mindful Eating
I had the honor of being one of a handful of entrepreneurs who received a sneak preview into Jessie’s works almost two years ago and I was smitten from the first moment. Jesse’s...
Your health and your purpose
Chara and I connected earlier this year in a Shift Series interview talking about the Spiritual Side of Healing from Chronic Illness and Autoimmune Disease and I am excited to have her back as a...
The gifts + challenges of the Highly Sensitive Person
Lauren Tober is a clinical psychologist and yoga practitioner who has made it her life’s work to create positive life ripples and support women’s health and transformation journeys....
Healing Boxes – Tailored Gifts to Warm the Heart
Grace Quantock is healing goddess. Grace first joined us in August as part of our shift series at Chronic Wellness tools. In addition to writing and Speaking Grace works with private clients...
I Was, Now I Am: From Fear to Liberation
Grace Quantock is healing goddess. She knows what it is like to resist diagnosis and feeling all consumed by it. I first met Grace when we were both working on developing our core messages of...
8 Ways to Forgive When You Don’t Want To
Carisa has found a way to use the understanding of personalities to build a framework of how to better interact with those around us to change the way we live our lives. I love Carisa’s outlook...
The Dark Night Of The Soul
Patty Hayes isn’t afraid to talk about the deep dark ugly realities of heart-ache, loss and recovery. In her upcoming book “Soul Garden Healing” she talks about reclaiming your heart and your...
How Gluten Intolerance Changed My Life Forever
Connie is a breath of fresh air in the realm of health coaches and healing. She shares her path from diagnosis to healing and offers tips and insights for how you can find your way from the store...
The 5 Greatest Life Lessons We Learn from Living with Chronic Illness
Lottie Ryan has faced one of the most challenging health journeys we have featured on the Shift Series; she has used her own healing steps (not once, but twice!) to pull herself out of the...
What It REALLY Means To Be Successful (And How We Got It All Wrong)
Mike Iamele Joined us in our shift series this week. Mike has experienced the highs of success and the depths that come from a frightening diagnosis at a young age. He understands having to...
Why does your self care need to be connected to Earth care?
Chara Armon From the first moment we connected by phone months ago I knew I had found someone truly unique and magical in the realm of recovery and the healing arts. Chara is a unique blend of...
Oils & Your Skin: What you didn’t know you need to know
Susan Parker With all our focus on the realization that true wellness and beauty come from within, I fear we at Full Circle Wellness Tools have overlooked the very necessary conversation about...
Overcoming Procrastination and Laughing through the Process.
Sarah Love Hannah McCoy is changing the world. What started as a private gifting process, of offering a beautiful hand drawn calendar to her closest friends and family, has grown into a global...
Beet Salad with Goat Cheese and Toasted Almonds
Ever crossed paths with someone who’s light and authenticity are so strong that you could spend endless hours just listening to them talk? George Bryant is one such soul. George is a force...
Integrative Healing for Modern Living Activating the Healing Process
I am so honored to welcome Eden Fromberg to the series! Eden is an integrative physician, obstetrician and gynecologist who advocates for holistic living, movement as medicine and believes in the...
Alternatives to alcohol for stress relief
For many of us alcohol is intertwined with so many aspects of our health and wellness, social interactions, and our internal self. For many of us it is even our answer to stress. Caitlin Padgett...
{Mamas Healing Mamas} Meet Lindsay Pera: Chief Gratitude Officer & Inspirer-In-Chief
Please tell us about your magical healing powers. My gift is in my ability to create magical and transformative moments and experiences. I am both a practical former corporate strategy girl with...
Little Girls Should Be Seen and Not Heard
As a young girl, my mom was given a framed picture with a little girl in a cute dress shyly looking down. The words scripted on it said, “Little girls should be seen and not heard.” When I got a...
Let’s Slip Into Somethng A Little More Uncomfortable
Choosing to shift our perception during crisis is half the battle, so if we find ourself in a place of wanting change, but still feeling clueless how to go about it, I’ve got some insights I...
Let’s Slip Into Something A Little More Uncomfortable
Choosing to shift our perception during crisis is half the battle, so if we find ourself in a place of wanting change, but still feeling clueless how to go about it, I’ve got some insights I...
Power, Purpose & Practice
Growing up on the East Coast I didn’t even know about surfing until I came out to California as a young man just out of high school. I was more into motorcycles and weightlifting at the time and...
9 Ways Eating Can Become Your New Spiritual Practice
Who among us has time to eat AND meditate? What if the simple act of procuring, preparing and eating food became the perfect medium for spiritual growth? Here are 9 ways you can use food to...
Mama bliss is….the Journey
It is my honor to welcome “The Mama Bliss Is…” Blog Tour to Full Circle Wellness. This creative ripple of love, insight and support is the brilliant creation of Kathy Stowell of Bliss Beyond...
Connection and Gratitude
Being in the presence of a spiritual leader who truly walks his talk has a way of making all the little stuff fall away. Any petty thoughts or grievances dissipate and it feels like truth enters...
Desire over doubt. Feeling over logic.
Part of creating a full rich abundant life is about getting clear on what you want – how you want to live and feel to be in alignment with your values, heart and calling…right? But...
Presence
Stuck. Frustrated. Anxious. Sad. The truth is we all feel these emotions from time to time and experience in our bodies the discomfort that comes from them. We can feel sluggish, experience...
Healing and Transformation through Creative Expression
After I had began to recover from the first year of Wellness disease treatment I was beginning to see real shifts and getting back to a much more “normal” way of life. During one of my bi-annual...
Lyme and Mood management protocols
Essential Oils. It’s what everybody in wellness and chronic wellness are talking about. In fact – the number one question I get asked is “how” I used essential oils to support my recovery...
Mood management protocols
Essential Oils. It’s what everybody in wellness and chronic wellness are talking about. In fact – the number one question I get asked is “how” I used essential oils to support my recovery...
Holistic Women’s Health Expert (Plus Natural Protocols for UTI and Night Sweats!)
Joanne Ameya Cohen has opened the doors to her transformation program “Cycles of Wisdom.” It is a program that helps women uncover the root cause of their health challenges and...
Finding Calm Amidst the Chaos
Everyone who is familiar with my story seems to have a highly idealized scene in their mind. I quit my job, live in the country, commune with hummingbirds all day, and everything is perfect....
Turning Straw into Gold
Six Common Misconceptions about the Chronically Ill What those who are healthy rarely understand about those who are sick or in pain * As seen in Pyschology Today More often than not, chronic...
Sacred Circle of Support
“I’ll do it MY-Self” How many of us can see in our mind’s eye a fierce and (striving to be) independant toddler declaring his or her freedom and beginning to try to exert control over their world...
Ayurveda 101
This week, I’m doing a live Shift chat with Aparna Khanolkar, who I had that wonderful video conversation with a few weeks back. Since Aparna’s approach to health and life has deep...
3 quick ways to strengthen your digestion
This week I’m so pleased to offer this guest post from my friend Ashley Williams. Ashley is a bright light emerging on the urban wellness scene. After her own early heath challenges as an...
Martha Beck: Wellness Diva
I’m not sure how I didn’t know who Martha Beck is until a couple of weeks ago. I guess because I don’t have television…but if you do know of her, then you know that she is Oprah’s...
Control and Surrender
I’m excited to introduce you to my friend and business partner Aaron Baker in this journal entry. Aaron and I have been working together for over 2 years and he is the behind the scenes “magic”...
Intimacy and Health
So here’s the deal. There’s not that much information out there about wellness and intimacy. What role does intimacy play in our whole wellness…and what if it is an area we know we could...
Staying focused during holiday stress
Holiday stress really can have a huge impact. Hi All, I’m reworking one of my early journal entries for the holiday period, and looking forward to taking a couple of weeks off for some much...
Listening to the enemy
“As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison…When I walked out of prison, that was my...
Foundations of Healing, pt.2
“As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison…When I walked out of...
The Foundations of Healing, Pt. 1
Being sick is miserable. Being sick means that you’re tired — emotionally tired, physically tired, spiritually tired. Tired of being sick. Tired of people telling you that you’re not really...
What’s perfect anyway?
So you are looking for change, for something better in your life, more purpose, better health, financial ease, time, love, meaning. Of course you know you’re already perfect, all the great...
The Transformational Power of Gratitude
It is the week of Thanksgiving and gratitude is all around us. And as a person who is committed to a daily gratitude practice and credits that practice with creating the space for a shift out of...
What would make you soar?
We have launched a new interview series showcasing rising stars in the world of health and wellness and the young lady I spoke to this week shared that she first started experiencing night waking...
Ever feel like giving up?
Greetings Everyone, Among the most surprising things about our Indiegogo project for our sister-site, Chronic Wellness Tools, are the great questions that are coming in. Here is one: “Lindsay,...
Chronic Wellness Video
Greetings Everyone, As many of you know, the roots of Full Circle Wellness come from my personal experience with chronic illness and my practice of Chronic Wellness. I continue to work with and...
The “xo” in the Mirror
Okay, you may already have heard the story, but here’s the deal. As you may know we’ve been working hard behind the scenes to launch our new website and the website for our sister site for the...
The Big Question
I get asked all the time if I think I am “healed” from Wellness. Underneath this question hides a deeper, more difficult query: is there such a thing as “post-Wellness,”...
Finding Healing Hope
Chronic Wellness Journal Journal Entry 1: Finding Healing Hope at the foot of the tree that survived 911 As those of you following us on Facebook have seen, I traveled across the country with my...
Intro to Lindsay’s Wellness Toolkit
As those of you following us on Facebook have seen, I have had an incredibly busy summer, from following my oldest child who is 13 years old across the country to a coveted 10 day baseball...
Our Rating Scale
Hi Everyone, Some of you have written us asking about our scale, which is a 1 to 5 scale with 1 being worse and 5 being better. You have pointed out that conventional scales normally run 1-10,...
Graphing epiphany; impact of holiday stress
Holiday stress really can have a huge impact. Wow. I just learned something amazing from my Chronic-Tracker graph. I was printing a screen shot for my LLMD of my top 5 symptoms and noticed that...
Kids and Wellness
One of the trickiest parts of managing our Wellness journey has been managing multiple people’s symptoms and treatments in one family. I am using Chronic Tracker for myself and my kids and...
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