Letter from the Publisher

As we head into autumn with the changing leaves, Mother Nature starting her resting phase and school activities beginning to find their rhythm, it’s time to focus on our personal needs. So many of us don’t think twice about spending any amount of money and time to meet the needs of our children, spouse or friends, yet we won’t do the same when it comes to our own well-being.

Be Heard and Make a Difference

As young adults and teens, we need to start taking action on issues where we want to see something changed. We can’t just look at these issues and say someone else will do it. We were given a voice and now, as teens, need to use it, especially on issues that affect us more than they affect adults such as school shootings.

A Game Changer: Respecting All

If you haven’t yet tried the 30-day challenge of only speaking positively for 30 days, here are the details: You are challenged to only speak (and think, in the advanced version) positively 24 hours a day for 30 days in a row—no snide comments, no yucky yammering—only pure positivity. If you mess up, you have to start your 30-day count all over again.

Three Simple Ways to Get Started With Social Marketing

As small business owners, operators or managers, our lives involve non-stop, on-the-job training. Sometimes it seems we’re running fast just to stand still and sadly lose sight of the amazing learning opportunities granted to us each day (You may be thinking there aren’t enough hours in the day; I don’t have time to think about the lesson learned; this pile of work isn’t going to do itself, so please don’t give me one more thing to do.)

Healing Our Kids

Reversing a Rising Tide of Chronic Conditions

An estimated quarter to half of American children have a diagnosed chronic condition such as autism or allergies, but an integrative approach to healing can have profound effects.

Farewell to a Beloved Pet

Earth’s Memorial to a Pet’s Passing

Innovative options now exist that honor a pet’s remains in an earth-friendly, biodegradable fashion using alkaline water, seeded pods or a manmade ocean reef.

Youths Step Up to the Global Challenge

Fresh Hope for a Troubled Planet

Realizing that they can’t wait for adults to fix our sweeping societal and environmental problems, young people are taking meaningful action to end business as usual.

Donna Karan on Fashioning Healthful Change

After her late husband’s struggle with lung cancer, the style icon has turned her attention to organizing a way to put complementary therapies to use in healthcare.

Advanced Transformative Energy Healing Coach Training in London

IntraAwareness is a holistic lifestyle training system that will coach you from where you are at to where you want to be, in every area of life. It was created and founded in the Twin Cities over the past two and a half decades.

Awakened Living Announces Weekly Radio Show Awakened Living Infusion

Awakened Living announces a new weekly radio show, Awakened Living Infusion, to air at 10 a.m., Saturdays, on AM950. The owners of Awakened Living, Connie Bjerk and Michelle Kitsmiller, will host the hour-long show which begins October 6.

Learn 30 Core Coaching Skills in iPEC’s 3-Day Transformational Weekend

iPEC Coaching has opened registration for their three-day transformational weekend, Life and Leadership Potentials Training, to be held from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., November 16 to 18, at the Minneapolis Airport Marriott, in Bloomington.

Registration Open for New Online Wellness Program

Teresa Brenke, of Embrace Health, announces the launch of her new online program, Create Health On the Go, designed to help people understand how their thoughts and behaviors are keeping them in destructive patterns with their health. This interactive online nutrition program helps reveal what most programs do not address: How to transform the mind to create ideal health.

The Minnesota Black Author’s Expo

The Minnesota Black Author’s Expo will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., on October 27, in Minneapolis. The event is hosted by authors De’Vonna Pittman and Jasmine Boudah who recognized that other expos didn't cater to black literature and felt it was very necessary to create their own space. In 2017, the duo hosted the first annual Minnesota Black Author’s Expo with an overwhelming response from authors and community.

Nutrition Response Testing Seminar for Beginners

Nichole Hirsch Kuechle will lead an introductory Nutrition Response Testing Seminar, on December 8, at My Healthy Beginning Long Lake Natural Health Center, in Long Lake. Kuechle recently graduated as a Clinical Master in Nutrtion Response Testing and is committed to this noninvasive means of finding the underlying causes for what she and her practice members were dealing with that weren’t getting resolved any other way.

Psinergy Opens New Office

Entering their tenth year in business, Psinergy Natural Health & Holistic Wellness and Psinergy Tech are happy to announce that they have opened their new office near the borders of Roseville, Maplewood, St. Paul and Shoreview, at 80 County Road C West, Suite 802, in Little Canada.

Mastel’s Health Foods Celebrating 50 Years of Service

John Mastel founded Mastel’s Health Foods in 1968 after having suffered the effects of an experimental antibiotic he received while attending college. “I spent 54 days in the hospital with stomach issues brought on from the treatment I received,” states Mastel. “Back then no one was talking about gut health or the need for probiotics.” It wasn’t until he read an article in Prevention magazine that he started to see hope in his situation.

Food Finder

Software Tracks Farm to Fork Supply Chain

Corporate Conscience

Leading Food Companies Aim to Slash Energy Footprints

Turtle Turnaround

Hatchlings Return to Mumbai Beach After 20 Years

Debris Drop-Off

Plastic Bag Deterrents Working in European Waters

Last Straw

Groups Work to Make U.S. Go Strawless

Air Fare

Creating Food from Carbon Dioxide

Music Reduces Need for Post-Surgery Opioids

Cuts Painkiller Use

Natural Vitamin E Lowers Heart Risks

Boosts Cardiovascular Health

Knitting Releases the Blues

Health Benefits of Needlework

Music Lessons Make Kids Smarter

Improves Academic Performance