Category: Book Club


In a Different Key: The Story of Autism

As many of you know, I write book reviews for Blogging for Books – a great deal for me, because I get free review copies of the latest publications in health and wellness in exchange for a review. When I…

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Deepak Chopra wants to know, “What are you hungry for?”

I wish I had 100 copies of this book. After giving a copy to each of my family members, friends and clients, and then donating a copy to my local library, I would save the last three copies for myself:…

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Kill the Silence: A survivor’s life reclaimed

“I was victimized, but I refuse to be called a victim. I’ve been sad, but I won’t let anyone feel sorry for me anymore. I’ve been raped, but I will never let that define who I am.” These are the…

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Upcoming review: Kill the Silence by Monika Korra

If you’ve been following the monthly book reviews…you’re probably wondering what I’ve been reading for the past three months? This time I went for a real challenge, not in length but in content with Kill the Silence: A Survivor’s Live…

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Everyday Detox: The most delicious cleanse you’ve ever tried

At first glance, Everyday Detox is really just a recipe book. Sure, the recipes are simple, wholesome and they look delicious, but how can that help me to detox when our environment is so inescapably toxic – from GMO contamination…

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Simply Ancient Grains – just don’t call it healthy

The mission of this book is unmistakable: to bring the diversity of flavors, textures and culinary potential of ancient grains back into our modern kitchens. Think about your pantry right now – how many different grains comprise the bulk of…

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Beyond food labels: This is what you REALLY just put in your mouth!

It’s no secret that our Standard American Diet (SAD, really) is full of chemicals, pesticides and all sorts of unnatural ingredients. Try as we might to avoid Easy Cheese and Spam, we are inextricably saturated by Red Dye #40, Sodium…

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Chronic allergy sufferers fight back in the garden

Expert tools to proactively fight the allergy epidemic in The Allergy Fighting Garden by Thomas Leo Ogren As an herbalist, I get asked about allergies all the time. People are looking for the least invasive way to alleviate their pain…

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Best reads for Winter Retreat 2015

Here’s the shortlist of books that I’ve personally found inspiring, enlightening and heart opening! Even if you just carry a spiritual book around with you for the week without ever opening the covers, you will have made a tiny step…

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Deepak Chopra on transformation

“A striking image from India’s Vedic tradition gives us a clue about what it means to be transformed. It’s the image of a clay jug, the kind village women carried to the well for water (and still do in rural…

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