I guess I am officially a blogger. I enjoy writing and sharing information with others about our healthy lifestyle and how it came to be, so one day a friend suggested that I write about it. I have so much information and research I have gathered over the years about living a healthy life in balance with oneself and with nature. I wanted to be able to share it with people that may be able to use it in order to help them make mindful choices for themselves and their family. So here I am.
This story starts with me and my health. Long story short is, I have a medical issue, or so I've been told. Not a bad one, but one that over many, many years my well-meanings doctors have prescribed medications for me to help this ailment; and being the good patient that I was, I took them because I was young, uniformed, and plain scared considering the doctor told me I would have a heart attack within 10 years.....I think that would scare anybody! I was otherwise a very healthy person, but I felt like this ball and chain of having this problem caused me daily worry. It wasn't until I began experiencing multiple, very problematic side effects to these prescriptions, that I started to research the medication. The medical issue that has been perceived as the villain in all of this was.....................cholesterol.
As soon as my fingers typed up different combinations of words about my nemesis, my world changed. All the past "situations" surrounding my health came into focus, and I realized that I needed to find out as much as I could about how the way we live, what we put on and in our bodies, and how we treat our environment is interconnected. It has become my passion ever since then.
After learning about how there could be long term side effects I may experience from years on these medicines and how not having the proper nutrition can affect one's health for many years to come, I became angry. My children were just beginning to start elementary school and everything I thought I was doing right for them in terms of being healthy were wrong. Apparently the yogurt I bought for them was full of sugar and artificial colors, and I can't tell you how many times we would come home to me opening up boxes of processed food and calling it a dinner. Had I missed out on that "window of opportunity" in making sure their brain development was given the utmost attention? Or was I too late? But then I realized that they were happy, growing, and had rarely gotten sick, and I began to understand that I must have done okay in making choices for them in terms of food and well being. So I didn't dwell on the past and concentrated on the future; and the future was changing how we live, and making sure I provide them the tools they need to be healthy today and for years to come.
Now, I feel empowered knowing that when I am mindful of what I choose to bring into our home, whether it be what we put in and on our body, and creating a home that surrounds itself in keeping in balance with nature.
I am truly creating a healthy life for my family and I.
