| | Greetings! Spring brings new energy and new goals. This is the season of re-birth. Take time to evaluate your life and what is working for you and what is not working for you. Get rid of what you don’t need and what no longer serves who you want to be. Plan the new you. Get your journal, be creative and write down who you want to be for the next year. Be optimistic, enthusiastic and open to the world. Don’t let your natural creativity be blocked by daily responsibilities. Let your natural energy and creativity flourish this spring.
We challenge you to add some “Delight” to your daily life. In the book, “365 Energy Boosters” Susannah Seton and Sondra Kornblatt coined the term, “Delight Deficit Disorder”. This is that feeling of lethargy and numbness in daily life that results in irritability and sadness. The solution is to lighten up and find healthy ways to add pleasure back into your daily life. Find ways to add delight to your daily life. Add spiritual nutrients that make you excited to wake up in the morning. Add simple pleasures that energize and engage you throughout the day. Take a few moments to write down what makes you tick and schedule these things into your daily life. Be sure to add at least one delight every day and you will cure your Delight Deficit Disorder.
Call Kelly to schedule a physical therapy, holistic health/nutrition, gyrotonic exercise or pilates session at her DC studio location. Kelly is at the studio Tuesdays, Wednesdsays and Thursdays.
The studio is located at:
4708 Wisconsin Ave NW Suite 2
Washington DC 20016
Clients are loving Kelly’s Healthy Kitchen Makeover and Healthy Grocery Store Tour packages.
Is your kitchen filled with unhealthy processed foods? Do you want to organize your kitchen so it is full of healthy foods that are easy to prepare? Do you want to learn how to grocery shop for healthy whole foods?
Kelly knows that to be healthy and have energy you need to eat an abundance of whole natural foods. She will come to your home and help you “trash the crap”, reorganize your kitchen and stock it with healthy foods. Kelly will accompany you to the grocery store and/or market and teach you how to shop for whole natural foods, read labels to avoid chemicals and harmful ingredients and prepare healthy delicious quick meals and snacks. She will show you how simple and easy it is for your whole family to eat well everyday.
Kelly is getting Corporate America Healthy.
Schedule a series of Wellness Education Programs to motivate employees to take preventative steps for their long-term health and wellness. Kelly walks her talk and is spreading the word that living healthy can be simple and fun. Our most popular topics include:
Eating for Energy
Superfoods and Healthfoods
Backcare 101: Strengthening the Core
The Breath and Stress Reduction: Relax the Body and Mind
Check out the 2007-2008 Institute for Integrative Nutrition Catalog. Kelly is featured as a Graduate Profile. www.integrativenutrition.com.  | | | Prevent Arthritis  Prevent Arthritis with Detoxification and Non-Toxic Foods
More than 66 million Americans suffer from some form of arthritis. Osteoarthritis is the most common and as many more baby boomers turn 50, the number of people afflicted with OA is expected to increase dramatically. The second most prevalent form of arthritis is rheumatoid arthritis. RA is an inflammatory disease in which the body’s immune system attacks its own healthy tissues. Other forms of arthritis include Gout, ankylosing spondylitis and infectious arthritis. There are over 100 conditions whose symptoms include joint pain, stiffness and inflammation. Arthritis limits everyday movements and function such as walking, standing and stairclimbing. As arthritis progresses it can cause loss of mobility, joint deformities and brittle bones.
Conventional Medicine treats the symptoms of arthritis with anti-inflammatory and painkilling drugs. These drugs provide only temporary relief and often cause unwanted side effects. Alternative natural methods of treatment eliminate the causes of the arthritis. One cause of arthritis may be the overload of the toxins that accumulate in our body from the environment and what we eat. Environmental toxins and poor diet can stress the body and cause imbalances. These stressors and toxic chemicals accumulate in the body causing the gradual degeneration of internal organs and tissues and the symptoms of arthritis including joint degeneration and inflammation. The fact is that the body can’t heal itself unless you reduce the load of toxins it carries.
To rid the body of the accumulated toxins you can undergo a detoxification program. Consult a knowledgeable professional about a specific program for you. A detoxification program can flush out the toxins that are circulating in the bloodstream, clogging the organs and embedded in soft tissues. Most detoxification programs involve fasting where you avoid all solid foods and ingest only liquids or teas to allow the body to focus on cleansing and breaking down the toxins.
After fasting the key to preventing arthritis and the build up of toxins is to adopt a healthy arthritis friendly diet that includes:
Eat mostly vegetarian
Eat primarily raw fruits and vegetables, grains, raw seeds and nuts and their butters, fermented bean products (tempeh, miso) and fish.
Avoid processed foods, processed grains, simple sugars, saturated fats, nonorganic meats, shellfish, alcohol, coffee, cocoa, soda, dried fruits and dairy.
Avoid nightshade vegetables including tomatoes, eggplant, peppers and potatoes.
Avoid spices such as pepper, refined table slat, soy sauce and tamari, vinegar, mustard, mayonnaise and MSG.
Holistic Health and Nutrition | | | | | Spring Cleanse  The following are ways that anyone can cleanse to renew and refresh for spring:
1.Follow a non-toxic lifestyle:
Eat whole, local, natural foods
Drink loads of filtered water
Exercise daily
Avoid additives, preservatives and chemicals in foods
Enjoy nature’s bounty of fresh seasonal fruits and vegetables at their organic best. Spring greens are delicious and nutritious. Use dandelion greens or miner’s lettuce and add them to your daily raw salad. Make a fresh spinach salad with olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Spring fruits include oranges and lemons, strawberries, dates and avocados.
2.If you have the habit of regularly ingesting sugar, nicotine, alcohol, caffeine or chemicals take a break to evaluate how you naturally feel without them in your system. This will help you realize whether you are addicted and dependent on these substances or if they just bring you occasional pleasure.
3.Detox in a way that works for you. Everyone can benefit from an occasional detox but you need to choose the right combination of juice cleansing, foods and supplements that work for you and your lifestyle. Figure out the best time in your life to start a cleanse. I suggest starting on a Friday so you have the weekend to adjust. Start with a 2 day cleanse and work up to a full 7-10 day Spring Cleanse.
4.A great cleanse to start with includes fresh vegetable juices, broths, protein powder shakes with spirulina and detox tea.
5.Include regular exercise in nature including walking, mountain biking and hiking. Pay attention to nature and embrace nature’s silence. Practice walking meditation and take deep breaths of the fresh air.
6.Do saunas, sweats, showers and skin brushing to enhance detoxification.
7.Keep the digestive track cleansed by having regular bowel movements. Use fiber, herbs, salt water flushes, enemas or colon hydrotherapy to stimulate normal bowel movements.
Learn more about Bradley Wellness, LLC | | | | | Bradley Wellness Newsletter The Bradley Wellness Newsletter is a monthly newsletter that provides practical and up-to-date health, wellness and lifestyle information that you can incorporate into your daily life. Each newsletter provides you with health, wellness and lifestyle events, programs, workshops, retreats, articles, exercises, activities, resources, links, recipes, inspirational quotes, and ideas for fun.
The Bradley Wellness Newsletter is designed to empower you to take action and live the life you love. We are faced with daily choices from what to eat, to exercise or not, to spend time with loved ones, to buy and eat organic local whole foods, to spend our dollars on green, environmentally friendly products and so much more. Each dollar we spend and action we take represents our values and passions in life. We have the freedom, ability and power to be mindful of our actions and choose the life we live. By making mindful daily choices we can help to heal not only ourselves but the environment and the world. Each month the newsletter will provide you with an abundance of information that will help you make better choices and take daily action.
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