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Kelly Brogan on the Truth About Depression: Why Meds Don’t Work and What Does

Oct 31, 2016 ● By Kathleen Barnes

The psychiatrist and author uses food, not pharmaceuticals, to successfully turn around depression.

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Edward Humes on the High Cost of Transportation: Small Consumer Choices Have Big Impacts

Sep 30, 2016 ● By Randy Kambic

When we click “buy it now” to purchase, say, a coffee pot, we support a process that has 165,000 miles of trains, planes, boats and truck travel attached to it.

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Making Peace With Our Bodies: A Conversation with Meryl Feldman of Blossom Within Coaching

Sep 26, 2016 ● By Carrie Jackson

Meryl Feldman is a mind-body coach and founder of Blossom Within Coaching. She works with women to have radiant and vibrant lives by helping them tap into their own abundant source of healing capabilities and intuitive wisdom.

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Inside the Chant with Krishna Das: Kirtan Music Transports Listeners to a Deeper Place

Aug 31, 2016 ● By Robin Fillmore

His soothing, rhythmic chants open up soul spaces and connections by which we can feel touched by the Divine.

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Lynda Dresher: On Nurturing Creativity in Kids

Aug 25, 2016 ● By Carrie Jackson

As an artist, cantor, musician and writer, Lynda Dresher taps into her creative side every day.

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Barnet Bain on How Creativity Can Save the World: Fresh Thinking Challenges Rigid Mindsets

Jul 29, 2016 ● By Linda Sechrist

If we lock ourselves into a hand-me-down worldview, we lose access to our own deep stores of creativity and wisdom.

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Liza Huber on Healthy Meals and Happy Kids: Start with Homemade, Organic Baby Food

Jun 30, 2016 ● By Gerry Strauss

The Passions star is passionately devoted to feeding babies organic fruits and veggies, and helping parents prepare them by hand for an extra boost of health and love.

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Using Plant-Based Foods for Optimum Health

Jun 25, 2016 ● By Sheila Julson

Dr. Terry Mason, chief operating officer of the Cook County Department of Public Health, believes that people have power to greatly improve health through whole, plant-based eating

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Gay Hendricks on Nurturing Love in Midlife: Why Growing Up Can Mean Loving Better

May 31, 2016 ● By S. Alison Chabonais

Making love still sparkle later in life means moving out of relationship ruts and opening up to new ways of communing and being together.

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Experience Network Spinal Analysis: at The Wellness Source

May 25, 2016 ● By Peggy Malecki

Network Spinal Analysis (NSA) is a chiropractic technique that honors the body as an integrated system of body, mind and spirit, which contributes to overall health and well-being.

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Christie Brinkley Shares Her Secrets to Lasting Beauty: Why She Still Looks Terrific After 40 Years as a Model

Apr 29, 2016 ● By Gerry Strauss

She hasn’t eaten meat since age 13, keeps her attitude upbeat and insists on quality beauty products.

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Healing Chronic Pain and Depression Naturally

Apr 25, 2016 ● By Carrie Jackson

Dr. Norman Shealy is a neurosurgeon and world-renowned expert on management of chronic pain and depression; he gives seminars and presentations all over the world, and will be speaking in Northbrook on May 21.

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Marie Kondo on the Joy of Tidying Up: Simplicity Invites Happiness into Our Lives

Mar 31, 2016 ● By April Thompson

By turning a conventional to-do on its head, Marie Kondo has taught millions worldwide how to gain joy by permanently de-cluttering their homes.

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Land Manager Allan Savory on Holistic Pasturing: How Cows Can Help Reverse Climate Change

Feb 29, 2016 ● By Linda Sechrist

Large herds of roving cattle can restore dried-up grasslands, converting them into fertile CO2-sinks that both feed us and reduce greenhouse gasses.

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Alyssa Milano’s Anti-Aging Secrets: Her Natural Lifestyle Choices Keep Her Young

Jan 29, 2016 ● By Gerry Strauss

The actress who has grown up before our eyes is committed to consistent eco-friendly choices that include breastfeeding and playing outdoors with her children.

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Bruce Lipton on the Epigenetics Revolution: Our Beliefs Reprogram Our Genetic Destiny

Dec 29, 2015 ● By Linda Sechrist

By regulating our environment and our response to it, we can ensure that inherited genes don’t have the last word.

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Sharon Salzberg on Mindfulness: Simple Ways to Be in the Present Moment

Nov 30, 2015 ● By April Thompson

We can move toward mindfulness with such everyday practices as pausing before pushing ‘send’ on an email or letting the phone ring three times.

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Kristen Bell on Planet-Friendly Living: Eco-Activist Actress Takes Steps that Make a Difference

Oct 30, 2015 ● By Gerry Strauss

A vegetarian since age 11, she believes passionately that we must care for each other and the Earth.

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EPA: A Muzzled Watchdog: E.G. Vallianatos Seeks to Put Bite Back into the Agency

Sep 30, 2015 ● By Randy Kambic

Political corruption has resulted in America’s most critical environmental enforcement unit turning into the “polluter’s protection agency.”

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Training The World’s Hearts to Beat as One: An interview with Bruce Lipton

Sep 25, 2015 ● By Linda Sechrist

The new science of epigenetics is a revolution in our knowledge and awareness regarding heredity. This new concept of biology is so big that it’s going to bring about a radical change capable of producing a revolution within our civilization.

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