Health

photo by Travelling Steve
I need to tell you one thing before I start reviewing this product – this is my opinion and experience. Some may have experienced help and relief from fear and panic using this method (I’m not going to say you didn’t), but it made me worse. I’ll also tell you why I don’t think you should buy from them.
Let’s get down to the review.
Right after Christmas my Mom saw on Dr. Carolyn Dean:
For anxiety I often recommend the Linden Method that you can access online.
Her words have a lot of weight in our house because we trust her to look into and have good reasons why she recommends it. (I’ll be sending her this review so she can double check, especially since she’s been recommending it more) But on this one I don’t agree with her.
Unfortunately I didn’t read the reviews on Amazon or I could have saved myself the hassle. So I ordered the digital program in a hurry because it was on sale and I didn’t want to miss that, plus it said it had a 1 year satisfaction guarantee. (The “special pricing” hasn’t changed from what they had called the “special price” in December – still $87.00.)
I got it was excited and threw myself into trying it. My anxiety symptoms had almost disappeared on the GAPS diet and I thought this would just finish them up. I’d been struggling …

I know you don’t usually do a review until you’ve been doing something for while – or at least that’s how I usually like to do it. But this time I just can’t keep this to myself!
We found this book by Esther Gokhale a couple weeks ago and I’ve been reading it and trying her principles and it’s amazing how much better if feels then what I had been doing.
I guess I should explain that I’ve had trouble with posture for years. At one point I looked like a hunchback, but with chiropractic help I’d been able to get more upright. Then I found an exercise program called T-Tapp and that seemed to help some except I would get my muscles so tight that I would have to take a break then end up with bad posture again. It was frustrating.
But when we found Esther’s method (which is basically the exact opposite of T-Tapp) I couldn’t be more intrigued. So I tried what little I could find on a youtube video (I’ll post it at the end of this post so you can try it too, she’s so much better at explaining it then me). I was amazed by how I could effortlessly keep my shoulders back and could sit straight for a while without feeling tired.
her book is really helpful and once I find a chair I can stretch sit on I think I’ll be well on my way to standing straight and pain free. So, …

Last month I was starting to feel better from my vertigo. The world had stopped spinning, I was happier, and my family was happy I was feeling better. I decided to pull out watercolors and try my hand at them. I’d been meaning to for weeks, but had never quite gotten around to it.
So, I pulled up my sisters old set to give it a go since I’d never really played with watercolor and I was itching to. After about 10 minutes of working I smelled this terrible odor. A dreadful, stinky smell. Turned out after much sniffing and trying to ignore the smell it was the watercolor.
It was making me nauseous and brought the dizziness rushing back. I felt sick. I had to put them away, and afterward I began looking around for watercolor allergy or things that could cause me to have a reaction to such a seemingly benign substance.

Turns out watercolors give off a small amounts of formaldehyde.
I wouldn’t have expected that and I’m most likely sensitive to it. Oh, well. But that got me thinking… “Where else is formaldehyde hidden?” You know those places we wouldn’t expect to find it, just like watercolor.
Looking it up I found there are a lot of places that I didn’t know formaldehyde was.
Like:

Sanitary Paper Products like Napkins and Roll Towels
Glue
Paints (watercolor, etc)
Lotion
Shampoo
Sunblock
Soap Bars
Cosmetics
Body Wash
Toothpaste
Baby Wipes
Bubble Bath
even Kids Multivitamins …

Herbal infusions are helpful for releasing an herbs active ingredients. Which is one of the reasons they’re so good to drink. Now I’m not going to tell you I drink them all the time (I probably should), but I can tend to forget to make and drink them until I really need them.
But I really want to pay more attention to them and one of the best infusions is nettle. It can be helpful for energy, strengthening the adrenals, helpful for menstrual cycles, or as an antihistamine. And with spring coming on that last one might be the best of all.
I like drinking a nettle infusion when my sinuses are all stuffed up as it helps me be able to breathe (I’m a bit of a wuss when my nose is plugged).
Best of all infusions are easy to make.

Mason Quart Jar (Affiliate)
1 cup of dried stinging nettle
4 cups of boiling water
a long metal spoon
Put the spoon and stinging nettle into the mason jar and pour the boiling water over it. Stir, remove spoon, and put on a lid. Let it sit for 4 hours or overnight. Drink it within 24 hours.
If you’re wondering about the spoon it will keep the mason jar from breaking.
You can easily double or half this recipe – the ratio is 1/4 of nettle to one cup of water.
If you’d like to order some nettle I would recommend buying from Mountain Rose …

I told you last Tuesday that I had had fluid in my ears. Since I don’t know that most people will find it easy enough to go to a Chiropractor for an ear adjustment – or that most would even want to – I thought I would tell you how a Naturopathic Doctor told me to drain my ears.
I’ve had trouble with my ears since I was a kid and once I was older my biggest problem was fluid in my ears. One Naturopathic Doctor told me that my ears were the cleanest she’d seen, but that my ear’s Eustachian tubes are extremely small.
So, she told me how to drain them and I’ve used it many times with great success.

It might sound weird, but it’s the easiest and safest way (in my opinion) to get fluid out of your ears.
What you need is a bucket that comfortably fits your feet. Then turn your faucet onto hot and fill the bucket about a 1/3 of the way. You need to get your feet in the water as hot as you can stand it (you can put some cold water in at this point if you need to so it’s comfortable enough to keep your feet in the water).
The trick of soaking your feet is to keep the water as hot as you can stand for at least 20 minutes. You’ll probably want an extra pair of hands around to send for more water. You can do this as …