Featured Product
Follow Us!
Five First Steps To Better Health
Do you believe you should be feeling better? Have you forgotten what it is like to feel great? Is your child dealing with an autism spectrum disorder or other health challenge? Given that you are reading Uncommon Childhood, you know that there are better ways to live, including improving your health.
The guiding principle in my health journey is this Arabian-based proverb:
“She who has health has hope, and she who has hope has everything.”
With that proverb in mind, read on for five first steps that you can take to help ensure that you have health, hope and everything.
Step One: Read The Four Agreements
I have found The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz to be an encouraging place to start in improving life and health.
I will discuss in another article the Four Agreements in more depth as they relate to the health journey, but in short, I find that they offer powerful protection from people who attack you because you choose not to feed your child fast food, high fructose corn syrup or any other number of illness causing foods.
Until you get used to it, it is a tough road bucking mainstream American society (and some other societies as well, I imagine). I highly recommend grounding children in the Agreements, as it will save them many of the difficulties that most adults experience.
In short, the Four Agreements are:
- Take nothing personally
- Make no assumptions
- Always do your best
- Be impeccable/true/sincere with your word
Step Two: Take The Fake Food Out Of Your Life
This is the biggest food step you can take. You are only as robust, healthy and happy as the food you eat.
Fake, processed food is destroying the human race. It is that simple.
Fake food is absolutely addictive and the food industry works hard to grow that addiction. While they grow the addiction they destroy the human race, and as a spinoff, they raise the profits for the pharmaceutical industry that charges in to offer prescription band aids to treat the food-related diseases that are killing people.
Dr. David Kessler, M.D., and former head of the Food and Drug Administration, exposes the industry’s food enslavement efforts in his book The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite
Step Three: Identify Food Addictions
Know that if you have food addictions they are not about lack of willpower.
On top of a food industry that is working hard to make and keep people enslaved to deadly food, many people have a body that is wildly out of balance.
A body in balance does not have addictions or cravings for bad food.
What causes the addictions? The critters living in your gut.
The yeasts in your intestines, for example, thrive on fake food, sugar and other carbohydrates. When they become overpopulated they demand that you feed them this stuff. Their biological demands are so strong that it makes you feel as if you must feed them. In essence, you have been hijacked.
I will be writing at least one more article explaining how to destroy/evict the hijackers. If you would like to understand the invaders and what to do about them before I write again, I recommend reading Gut and Psychology Syndrome by Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride, M.D.
Step Four: Add Bone Broth
What one food should you add to your diet? Bone Broth.
It is such an amazing super food. It is a nourisher, detoxifier, soother, builder and so much more. It is the foundational food for recovering a vibrant life. I will be writing an article on bone broth soon, but this post from my blog shows some of the excitement I had around it early on: Bone Broth – It’s for breakfast, lunch and dinner!
I also have video and instructions regarding how to make bone broth in the left hand column of my blog.
By nourishing the body with broth and other nutrient-dense foods, the hijackers discussed in point three above will begin to retreat.
Step Five: Be Kind To Yourself
Sally Fallon, director of the Weston A. Price Foundation, repeatedly tells people this.
I was fairly early in my health recovery journey when I heard her say it, and it couldn’t have come at a better time. It is tough to make it in this world and you will always have more to learn.
The number of things to do can be overwhelming and you wonder how you will ever get them done. On top of that, mistakes will be made.
Be patient and be kind. After all, you are always doing your best. (Remember the The Four Agreements.)
One of the kindest things you can do is surround yourself with supportive, non-judgmental people who are on healing journeys too.
The Holistic Moms Network, which proudly includes dads and non-parents as members, and the Weston A. Price Foundation are two great organizations to consider joining.
Holistic Moms has a national discussion loop and chapter/local loops where members support each other and respect the different journeys that each member is on. Each chapter develops its own personality, but at least one monthly in-person meeting is part of its activities.
Weston A. Price offers a quarterly journal packed full of information written by leaders in the nutrient-dense healing fields, and local chapters can initiate activities.
I am sure that I could rewrite this article at least fifteen different ways and come up with different First Steps. The journey is big, and believing in the journey is the biggest part.
I hope that I have given you some tools to strongly start or take your journey to the next level. It takes a long time to lose vibrant health and a long time to regain it, but once you are on your way, the fun and surprises are irreplaceable.
What are you learning on your journey toward better health? What “first steps” did you take that have put you on the right path? Share them with us!
[...] credit Food is the foundation for vibrant health, as I discussed in the Five First Steps to Better Health article, but the journey is BIG. Sometimes your body needs [...]