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Natural Mama: Holistic Approaches to a Healthy Pregnancy

Apr 30, 2021 09:30AM ● By Julie Peterson

Eating organic, detoxing the house, practicing meditation or yoga and other holistic approaches for expectant mothers to follow during pregnancy for delivering a healthy baby.

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Nature to the Rescue: Kids Come Alive Outdoors

Mar 31, 2021 09:30AM ● By Ronica O’Hara

Take the entire family exploring outdoors with these fun ideas to get children actively involved with nature in ways that open their senses while also moving their bodies.

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Getting Pregnant: Lifestyle Strategies to Boost Fertility

Feb 26, 2021 09:30AM ● By Ronica O’Hara

Natural approaches such as healthier diets, supplements, detoxed living, herbs, acupuncture and other Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) tips for boosting fertility to achieve pregnancy.

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Tricks to get kids to eat more vegetables
Veggie Tricks: How to Get Kids to Eat Better

Jan 29, 2021 09:30AM ● By Ronica O’Hara

Parenting bloggers and nutritionists share effective ways to get even the pickiest of children to eat more vegetables.

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Healing the Whole Child: Holistic Pediatricians Go Beyond Meds

Dec 30, 2020 09:30AM ● By Ronica O’Hara

Holistic pediatricians apply evidence-informed, natural, integrative approaches to healing children, emphasizing healthy lifestyle behaviors for overall well-being.

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Reinvent the Holidays: More Meaning, Less Stuff

Nov 27, 2020 09:30AM ● By Ronica O’Hara

The pandemic is shifting this year’s holidays, motivating parents to seek out affordable, meaningful, sustainable and non-material gift ideas for kids, saving money and creating memories.

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Mindful Parenting: The Conscious Path to Raising a Child

Oct 30, 2020 09:30AM ● By Ronica O’Hara

Conscious, mindful, soulful, awake and peaceful parenting tips to help connect deeply with kids through love, authenticity and acceptance of the child’s innate nature.

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Stuffed Eggplants with Millet, Dates, Nuts and Pomegranates

Oct 04, 2020 03:47PM

Eating a clean and healthy plant-based diet supports the body when dealing with stress. Emotional tension and chronic stress lead to physiological and hormonal changes that can contribute to anxiety, inflammation and disease.

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Stressed-Out Teens: Ways to Help Them Chill

Sep 30, 2020 09:30AM ● By Ronica O’Hara

With teenagers reporting record levels of stress, anxiety and depression, here are effective ways that parents can help to calm teens during stressful times.

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Raising Resilient Kids: How to Help Them Bounce Back

Aug 31, 2020 09:30AM ● By Ronica O’Hara

Mindful strategies to help parents build up resiliency in children in order to deal with challenges, overcome difficulties, be less fearful and anxious and more confident and empathetic.

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Strong and Healthy: Five Ways to Strengthen Kids’ Immunity

Jul 31, 2020 09:30AM ● By Ronica O’Hara

It’s critical for parents to help build up their children's natural immunity. From birth onward, here are some proven strategies that strengthen kids’ immune systems.

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Plant-Based Barbeque for Gut Health

Jul 01, 2020 05:34PM

July and barbecue go together like hot dog and bun. For this BBQ season, change it up a little to create a meat-free option that is not only delicious, but healthy and nutritious.

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Mother Calming Child's Anxiety
Calming Kids: Ways to Turn Anxiety Around

Jun 30, 2020 09:30AM ● By Ronica O’Hara

In these uncertain times, many kids are feeling anxious, but parents can use these straightforward strategies to help lower childhood anxiety.

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Easy Hummus Makes the World Go Round

May 31, 2020 12:26PM ● By Sheila Mahan

Sweet green peas and white beans are a great match for this flavorful and healthy hummus recipe.

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Family Stories Children Ancestry
Family Stories: Help Kids Cope During Tough Times

May 29, 2020 09:30AM ● By Ronica O’Hara

Help children feel safe, secure and in control by telling them what strong stuff they come from. Get started telling family heritage and ancestry stories with these 20 questions.

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