thrive! Journal ARCHIVES ( 1 - 40 of 62 items)
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Planet Thrive is Taking a Break
The founder of Planet Thrive explains why the site will be not adding new content for the next month or so....
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Embracing a Terminal Illness
Fred Lanphear shares how his recent diagnosis of Lou Gehrig’s Disease brought a beautiful opportunity of growth to the Songaia Cohousing Community, which he cofounded....
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Sleeping on Wool Felts
Eliana Jantz, bed designer and founder of Shepherd's Dream, is now forming a felting collective in Montague, California to focus on wool felts as the perfect sleep system....
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Environmentally sensitive need young champion for their cause
Hannah Taylor is only 11 years old and has already raised over a million dollars to fight homelessness in Canada through her charity The Ladybug Foundation....
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The True Need for Community
Can community meet the needs that one man hasn't been able to meet on his own? Joshua Canter searches for the answer to this and other deep questions about life, meaning, and connection....
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Christmas, EI-style
Just because you are challenged with environmental illness, there's no need to skimp when it comes to seasonal celebration. Find out how others express their holiday cheer....
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Celebrating Chanukah When You’re Chemically Sensitive
These less toxic substitutes for fun Chanukah rituals can help you continue to honor your holiday tradition each year without compromising your health. ...
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Coping with Chronic Illness During the Holidays
by Cynthia Perkins, M.Ed. | Unable to attend family holiday celebrations due to chronic illness? Here are some tips for making the holiday season a time to look forward to no matter what your circumstance....
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Destined for Desert
In 1998, while backpacking through the Middle East, I fell head-over-heels for a dashing Bedouin living in the desert in southern Jordan. I stayed for 5 weeks, learning how to bake bread under the fire coals in the sand, play the Arabic hand drum (dumbek), and say "I love you" in Arabic....
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Environmental Toxins and Addiction
by Cynthia Perkins, M.Ed. | A sobriety coach and recovered alcohol and drug addict discusses how environmental toxins affect the neurotransmitters in the reward pathway of the brain....
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The Seven Essentials of Recovery
"The Queen of Green" Debra Lynn Dadd shares her top suggestions for turning your health around onto a path of recovery from chemical sensitivities and food intolerances....
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Surviving the Dreaded H1N1 Swine Flu
Dr. Randy Baker of the Pacific Center for Integral Health in Soquel, California shares his approach for preventing and treating both the seaonal flu and the dreaded Swine Flu (H1N1) this winter....
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To the Girls Down the Hall: Ave et Avete
by Susan M. Silver | A grown woman grapples with the rejection from young neighbors after developing environmental illness....
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Typical Symptoms of Tick-borne Infections
Steven J. Harris, M.D., an LLMD practicing in California, summarizes the typical symptoms of different tick-borne infections commonly seen with Lyme disease....
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Toxic Terror
When you walk into my house, chemicals waft from your clothes. I know right away that the laundry detergent you use is toxic (most are) and that if I am around you for long I will get a headache. Should I tell you?...
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The next HIV? ME/CFS and AIDS activists unite
by Peggy Munson | Hi Friends & fellow revolutionaries, As some of you may know, the biggest news to hit the ME/CFS community -- ever -- just dropped a couple of days ago on October 9, 2009....
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From Chronic Fatigue to Lyme: Medically Unexplained No More
by Pamela Weintraub | Over the past year, forces at the highest reaches of medicine have made ever stronger efforts to burden the sick, diseased, and infected with psychiatric labels, consigning them to often mind-numbing psych meds and untreated infection...
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What’s helping you rise?
I just discovered a wonderful website for a wonderful reading/study group: healthpursuitsgroup.com. They are a unique health book club for people suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), fibromyalgia (FMS), multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS), and related conditions....
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There Comes A Time
I have never been very good at surrendering. I have been the fighter—the hold on to the side of the cliff, fight for your life, never give up and never go down with the ship kind of soul. It was exhausting work....
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Recommit. Again and again and again.
I practice recommitment on a monthly, weekly, daily—even moment-to-moment—basis. I also practice forgiveness. I forgive myself for not following through on previous commitments, goals, and self-promises. I let go of recriminations, self-flagellations, self-denigrations and I move on....
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How Lyme Disease Saved My Life
When Lyme disease saved me, I had no clue that anything was really wrong with me, except there were some weird things that kept happening. For one thing, as I told an allergist, my sinuses, in waves, felt funny, and for the last several seasons, I'd gotten morning headaches...
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Tick menagerie: Lyme isn’t the only disease you can get from a tick
From the time National Institutes of Health medical entomologist Willy Burgdorfer first sliced open deer ticks from Shelter Island (off of Long Island) and studied them under the microscope in his Montana lab, he observed a glut of microbes....
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She Speaks in Metaphors (I Understand)
My doctor (one of them) says my entire left side is jammed. It's like shrink-wrapped plastic wrap, tight and brittle but it should be like one large, flowing, unified teardrop. It should have coherence and flexibility and it should breathe....
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Living a holistic life
A holistic lifestyle is more than just eating organic foods and practicing yoga from time to time. It means paying attention to all aspects of your life: relationships, career, health and spirituality to be sure that you are living a life in balance. This might mean making some adjustments. ...
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Personal | Political
Some of you may be wondering: what's with the thrive! journal header imagery? It has a very hippie-esque back-to-the land aesthetic to it. Why did you choose to use this visual to represent your website? The brutal truth is this: it was not so much a choice, ...
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Glass half full
Living with a chronic illness is not easy. Especially when your symptoms include severe depression and hopelessness. It can take work to turn the picture upside down and see the glass as half full. But I can tell you that the effort is well worth it. On my bad days, all I can see is that I am in my sixth year living in...
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Let it Flow
Blocked energy results in stagnation. Stagnation can contribute to disease. As part of my personal healing initiative, I promised myself this year to focus on "flow" and to open up all those blocked passages in body and mind. One result of this is the "primal scream" practice I began a few months ago after moving to a ...
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The “Question” of Health Reform
Patricia Ann Rattray writes about how the government and corporate elite work together to silence those with environmental illness and others who threaten the status quo balance of power and profit....
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Planet Thrive rocks!
PlanetThrive.com is a grassroots community for personal wellness, with a focus on the health-environment connection. We offer a healing space for those on a personal health journey and those wishing to live a healthier, more conscious life....
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4 Simple Steps to Start the Exercise Habit
by Leo Babauta | I have to admit that I have my ups and downs with the exercise habit. So I know that it's not the easiest habit for most people, and most people's experiences consist of starting and stopping and starting again....
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Exploring Civilization
by Derrick Jensen | It is customary when writing to hide one's presumptions. The hope is that readers will flow along with the narrative and get swept up by the language until by the end they've reached roughly the same......
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The Choices We Make
by Derrick Jensen | We all face choices. We can have ice caps and polar bears, or we can have automobiles. We can have dams or we can have salmon......
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Fantastic Fixes for Low Energy
by Connie Strasheim | Energy. We sufferers of chronic illness could all use a bit more of the stuff, and every little blip in our internal and external environments alters how much we have at any given moment....
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Rebellious teens: pawns for tobacco companies
by Julie Genser | When my friends and I started smoking in seventh grade at age 12, we thought we were trés cool. Some of us loved the thought of doing something our parents did but we were still considered "too young" for....
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Toxic Chemicals Contribute to Colds and Flu
by Debra Lynn Dadd | You probably are aware that giving your immune system a helping hand can ward off colds and the flu. But did you know that common exposures to toxic chemicals in your everyday life can actually increase your chances of becoming sick?...
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Get Healthy by Getting out of Victim Mode
by Connie Strasheim | "Poor me!" Yes, it's time to eat some worms. You're broke, jobless, and you have nobody with whom to cuddle at night because you're too sick to be in a romantic relationship....
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Message From The Stars
by Derrick Jensen | The message from the stars that sustained me as a child—that the cruelty we take for granted is not natural—sustains me to this day. For I know that beneath the fear and hatred, beneath the urge to control......
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“I’m too Sick to Be in a Romantic Relationship”
by Connie Strasheim | Is this just another one of your excuses for staying single? Or is it an idea based on your friends’ marriages, struggling because one of the partners has a chronic illness?...
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The Normalization of Trauma-Inducing Behavior
by Derrick Jensen | No one emerges from trauma unscarred. Having been severely traumatized, it becomes the work of at least a lifetime to de-normalize the trauma—to recognize it for the aberration it is—and to begin to re-inhabit your body, your senses, your mind, to re-inhabit relationships, to re-inhabit a world....
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5 Powerful Reasons to Eat Slower
by Leo Babauta | One of the problems in our daily lives is that many of us rush through the day, with no time for anything … and when we have time to get a bite to eat, we gobble it down....