by Laurie Ratto | Nov 26, 2014 | health challenges, holistic healing, natural wellness, self-care
Let’s look at ways to control inflammation naturally to prevent disease at the root cause. First manage your stress. We need some stress in our lives to motivate us but constant, high levels of stress causes chemical changes that adversely affect our body and mind....
by Laurie Ratto | Nov 5, 2014 | health challenges, holistic healing, natural wellness
There are several ways to help ease arthritis pain naturally. Both my mom and grandma had rheumatoid and osteoarthritis. The picture is my grandma at age 89. I wish I had known about essential oils back then! I have some osteoarthritis in my hands as well. Fortunately...
by Laurie Ratto | Oct 29, 2014 | free session, health, health challenges, holistic healing, medications, natural wellness
Finally a medical organization has come out to say that painkillers do more harm than good for chronic back pain, headaches and other non-cancer chronic pain. I knew this at least 10 years ago by working with patients! The statistics for drug related deaths are...
by Laurie Ratto | Oct 22, 2014 | health, holistic healing, natural wellness, self-care
There are many ways to help prevent colds/flu naturally. Physicians, pharmacies and drug companies really push the flu vaccine and for some people it is appropriate but not for normally healthy children and adults. The flu vaccine is the “best guess” of what viruses...
by Laurie Ratto | Oct 1, 2014 | health, holistic healing
Are you aware there is a difference healing and curing? First let’s look at the dictionary definition of both. According to Merriam-Webster dictionary heal is to make sound or whole, to restore to health. Cure is recovery or relief from a disease, to stop (a...
by Laurie Ratto | Sep 17, 2014 | holistic healing, self-care, stress
Gratitude can help ease your pain. This is not a new concept but research is now starting to “show” that it works. First the bad news, in today’s world we are bombarded with so much input we don’t take the time to be still and see what is working well in...
