What you Eat, Think and Do... Matters!

My mission is to inspire, educate and empower you to feel and look your best at any age. When you feel good, there is a ripple effect to your loved ones and community. It's contagious.  I also believe that it takes a village. This is why I love collaboration and partnerships; from collaborating with you on your personal health, to supporting people that bring positive change to the world. So over the next several days, I'm going to be sharing with you just a few of my favorite people, products and services that may help you thrive through the holidays.

People. I'm partnering with Susan Brady, Physical Therapist, Doctor of Integrative Medicine and Certified Nutritionist to bring you an exclusive online membership program. (You will get a separate invitation soon.) You've already heard about the Healthy Aging Summit that she's spent the last year creating for you. You still have two days left to listen to it for free. My interview was the first day but I also interviewed Dr. Lindsey Berkson which you can hear tomorrow on Sunday if you register today. She's the author of 22 books of which I have three of them and they've been transformational for me and my husband. Please don't miss out on getting inspired and educated this weekend!

Susan and I also put together a video on our favorite holiday recipes. Email me if you don't have them or want them.

Products. If you've worked with me for any health issues from gut issues to autoimmune disease or cancer you know about the healing power of bone broth soup. I often say, "Good, Better, Best" as a goal.

Drinking bone broth soup is good to heal the gut and nourish your mind and body. Better is to buy organic bone broth from grass fed and finished beef. Best is to make (or have it made for you) with love infused. Kettle and Fire has the best organic grass fed bone broth that can be shipped to your home and a good price and it is on sale for the next several days. Stock up for your holiday soups and see all the wonderful flavors they have for you! Sip it like a tea 2-4 times a day to heal the gut and nourish your emotions through the season. I may do a whole post for you on the benefits of bone broth. If you or a loved one are going through chemotherapy then for sure drink bone broth to protect and rebuild the gut lining. Bone broth is great for joint pain or autoimmune issues too.

What good is it to drink bone broth soup, take supplements, and heal from within, if you are still putting crap on your skin? If you've taken my KickStart to Wellness Program, you know my mantra to Maximize, Minimize and Prioritize for optimal health.

If you listened to my interview on the Healthy Aging Summit, I said to think of the skin as a large mouth. What you put on your skin matters!

This summer while I was working on videos for our upcoming members and our daughters wedding, I realized that I needed some makeup and I found a line of hair care, skin care and makeup that I've fallen in love with. The company is a B corp. That means it puts people and the planet first, before profit in every decision it makes. The founder is passionate about changing the beauty industry to only including non toxic ingredients. Imagine that! Do you know that the word fragrance alone can have up to 3,000 chemicals included?

Many ingredients in the most expensive beauty products are carcinogenic or include heavy metals.

Lead is a common ingredient in lipstick. Who needs to be eating this? As I said in my talk for the Healthy Aging Summit, your skin care should be clean enough to eat.  So I'm super excited to tell you that starting this weekend, you can get BIG discounts to looking and feeling your best! These make amazing thoughtful gifts too! I am absolutely in love with their lipstick. It feels and looks good too. I bought the entire line so I can share with you at my Open House on December 2nd from 7-9 pm. But don't wait for then to order because this is a Clean Friday special only good until December 1st. They may offer a Cyber Monday deal but I'm not privy to that.  The company has committed to omitting  over 1500 toxic chemicals that are commonly found in beauty products. This is a company I want to support. Here's a link for more information and to shop. If you are local and want to stop by and see products, let me know that too. Or if you want me to come speak to a group about healthy living and the importance of what you eat, think and do I would love that too.

Services: Dianne Rhodes, Certified Hypnotist of Inner Horizons is offering  a Holiday Stress Buster Program which includes a hypnotherapy session (can be done online via Zoom) plus a digital recording. Email her dreamyourinnerhorizons@gmail.com

Rise Well-Being Center offers meditation, yoga, movement to music classes and workshops. This is a fantastic place to explore the inner world within you. They also have hosted some amazing workshops. Good to get on their mailing list. I will be teaching only 2 more Wednesday 7:30 am yoga for improvement classes in December and two more 10 am movement to music classes. First class is free to check it out.

Beloved Yoga Studio is where I received my 300 hour training and certification and where I continue to practice. There are classes for everyone here and a wide variety of offerings. It's called a sanctuary for all for a reason. View their video for more information.

Mom's Organic Market and Great Falls Farmers Market are two of my favorite places to shop for local organic food for my table.

I'm off to yoga now and then to do shopping for Thanksgiving dinner. Please know how grateful I am to have you on my email list and I hope to get to know you better in the New Year through our online membership program where you will have access to support from Susan and I as well as discounts on healthy products and services. More to follow...

Carpe Diem,

Lisa

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About Lisa Jackson, RN, CHC, RYT-500, FDN-P, AFMC

Lisa is an author, functional nutrition and functional medicine trained health coach, yoga teacher, and retired Registered Nurse with the mission to "Inspire, Educate and Empower" individuals and corporations to achieve optimal health.

Lisa's book, Savvy Secrets: Eat, Think & Thrive is a self-health book offering her Seven Steps to Optimal Health.

When she is not coaching, or speaking, you can find Lisa joyfully sharing Carpe Diem Dance or playing with her two grandchildren. She is the mother of four adult children and believes, "Optimal health should not be a secret."

Turning 60 Today

My twin sister and I turn 60 today.  A perfect blend of youth, maturity and wisdom per our T-Shirts! It seems like yesterday that we were celebrating our 50th and I was asking myself, "What do I want to be when I grow up?"

One thing I know for sure is that I want to inspire, educate and empower wellness. My friend and colleague Susan Brady and myself will be launching an online membership program next month so stay tuned for more information and a special invitation.  All spring and summer Susan has been interviewing 40 professionals for a Healthy Aging Summit that will be airing in October so stay tuned for that too. We have more fantastic things planned for the New Year and next spring too.

Time flies and some of us have more time than others. One of the things on my bucket list is to be able to help those in need of financial support who are unable to pay for what is really important for healing. Things like healthy organic food, coaching, nutritional support and integrative therapies that are not covered by insurance. To support friends like Babette Lamarre who has the courage and self compassion to prioritize her own healing to become another radical remission story. She is still on her healing journey and still in need of support. She's surpassed her initial minimum prognosis of 3 months and more importantly is feeling very well. She is an artist, just one of her many talents and has designed a self portrait with her inspirational story to sell as a way to raise money for her vaccine therapy. For my birthday present, I'd like to suggest a donation to Babette or purchase her artwork to support her journey.  Here is her story:

 Into the Light 

Hello my friend. I would like to introduce myself and tell you a little bit about this self-portrait. My name is Babette Lamarre, and I was diagnosed in October of 2018 with Stage Four Ovarian Cancer. I was given a three-month to three-year prognosis (considered generous). 

At the time of my diagnosis, I had been struggling financially and emotionally for a long time, both due to early life experiences and to hardships in my forties and fifties. Even though I had done a lot of “work” on myself and become stronger over the years, dark and entrenched thoughts still endured. At times things felt so difficult and without purpose that I wondered why go on. 

With my diagnosis, however, this all began to change. Cancer was a “get out of jail free” card for me, odd as that sounds. It gave me the opportunity to break free from stressful circumstances and emotionally toxic dynamics with people close to me, and with great good fortune, to move to a beautiful place across the country and begin healing my body, heart and soul. 

Now I think about life differently. I have developed the most in a spiritual way. Raised in an agnostic/ atheist setting, I never thought much about the big questions like why am I here? What is a soul? Is there a god? What is God? Is there life after death? Etc. Now I fully see that there is a higher power and I meditate/pray daily to stay connected. My heart is filled with happiness, love and joy, and this new light spills over. My relationships are better, and even my view of difficult events in my past has changed – I can see now that they were essential to my growth - and prepared me for what was ahead. I have come to understand that there is nothing random about life – that it unfolds exactly as it should for a higher purpose - which is often a mystery for years. My desire and ability to love and give to others are greater. I look forward to new passions and adventures. Things come more easily now. I am becoming who I really am and was always meant to be: laughing, loving, forgiving, blessing, enjoying the light, and giving myself completely to this wild ride we call life. 

This is all reflected in my self-portrait. The bottom left has dark squares in a gold matrix showing that there was order and beauty in me and my early life - but also darkness. As the viewer moves right and upwards (counterclockwise), there is disintegration into chaos, representing problems in my adult life. Starting at my chin (the year or two before and leading up to my diagnosis), the darkness begins to lighten up, and then color begins to appear, mostly in the form of flowers. The top third of the portrait is all about light, color, growth, and connection to the divine. A vine grows downward from the source of all life, and brings color to a dark past, essentially healing it. The good that was always there is clear now. 

It is ten months since my diagnosis and I’ve had a PET scan that shows my tumor activity has been cut in half. Many points of metastasis have disappeared. Only four of twelve visitors still need to be escorted out! I feel very well physically. I am blessed! 

Thank you for taking the time to read about me and for contributing to the funding of my continuing cancer treatment by purchasing a copy on canvas of my self-portrait (the original is a photo collage with textured paper and paint). You are helping me with expensive cancer vaccines and other therapies not covered by health insurance for my complete healing. 

Blessings to you and your loved ones. May we all continue towards the light! 

Babette – August 30, 2019 

blamarre2k@gmail.com 

If interested please contact babette directly blamarre2k@gmail.com

What is on your bucket list?

Carpe Diem,

Lisa

About Lisa Jackson, RN, CHC, RYT-500, FDN-P, AFMC

Lisa is an author, functional nutrition and functional medicine trained health coach, yoga teacher, and retired Registered Nurse with the mission to "Inspire, Educate and Empower" individuals and corporations to achieve optimal health.

Lisa's book, Savvy Secrets: Eat, Think & Thrive is a self-health book offering her Seven Steps to Optimal Health.

When she is not coaching, or speaking, you can find Lisa joyfully sharing Carpe Diem Dance or playing with her two grandchildren. She is the mother of four adult children and believes, "Optimal health should not be a secret."