Celebrate You!

Celebrate You!

Women
Happy New Year, Black History Month, Heart Health Month and Women’s History Month, especially celebrating women throughout the world on...
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Health Coaching Testimony

Health Coaching Testimony

Food Health
It has been such a pleasure to work with Dr. Rhonda. In a day and time when we are inundated...
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Tiffany Johnson Raves about SHAPE

Tiffany Johnson Raves about SHAPE

General
I love a good testimony! Here’s one for you from client Tiffany Johnson: “I cannot be happier with Shape ReClaimed...
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Grateful for Gratitude

Grateful for Gratitude

General
More than 10 years ago, I struggled with gratitude. Everything seemed to trouble me, and it was hard for me...
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Change for the Holiday

Change for the Holiday

Food Health
People are still signing up for the SHAPE ReClaimed program, and I am honored that they have come and that...
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Sleep for Vibrant Health

Sleep for Vibrant Health

Health
Today my mom would have been 81. And though she died with several ills that had plagued her body, she...
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Client Testimony-Jonathan Clifton

Client Testimony-Jonathan Clifton

Health
September was a busy month with getting acclimated to the beginning of the school year, engaging in ministry work and...
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Seeing Beyond the Storm

Seeing Beyond the Storm

Health Religion
Photo by Marek Studzinski on Unsplash Of course sight is important; it's one of the five senses that most of...
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Beyond Alkaline Water: Balancing Digestive pH

Beyond Alkaline Water: Balancing Digestive pH

General Health
Photo by Prince Akachi on Unsplash She came to me with heart palpitations, chronic fatigue, dark circles under her eyes...
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Grounded by Poison

Grounded by Poison

General Health Recovery
I saw this bee on the ground and was totally baffled. See, I had been happy that bees recently seemed...
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Hanging on by a Thread

Hanging on by a Thread

General Health Recovery
"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."--Hebrews 11:1 FAITH Faith is believing...
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Friday Feature: Guerilla-Style Cold Cocktail Method

Friday Feature: Guerilla-Style Cold Cocktail Method

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
This week I had to do all out warfare fighting colds that I heard coming on me and the boys....
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Friday Feature: Ask God for Help with Your Health

Friday Feature: Ask God for Help with Your Health

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
A friend reminded me of the prophecy the Lord gave me for her to stop eating sugar because she was...
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Friday Feature: How to Add Raw Foods to Your Meal (with a recipe)

Friday Feature: How to Add Raw Foods to Your Meal (with a recipe)

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
  My Labor Day meal: raw collard green wrap, cole slaw and baby back rib As I got ready to...
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Friday Feature: The Wonders of Lemon

Friday Feature: The Wonders of Lemon

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
Two weeks ago here on the blog I wrote about the body being pH balanced, noting the difference between an...
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Friday Feature: Acidic v. Alkaline Body

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
We have a host of health problems in the United States and the root of many of our issues may...
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Friday Feature: Avocado Health

Friday Feature: Avocado Health

Friday Feature MUSINGS
  Last month after more than a year I stopped being a vegetarian who was mostly a raw vegan. I...
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Friday Feature: Cheesy Kale Salad

Friday Feature: Cheesy Kale Salad

Friday Feature General MUSINGS
Cheesy Kale Salad I thank God for simple nutritious meals that I have needed this whirlwind week of supporting my...
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Friday Feature: Did You Know?

Friday Feature General MUSINGS
Making a great effort to eat more nutritiously over the years has brought me a wealth of knowledge, but I...
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Friday Feature: Roundup Nineteen

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
Just two great links to support my Friday Feature posts this month: Boost Your Immune System for the Coming Cold...
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Friday Feature: Guerilla-Style Cold Cocktail Method

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
This week I had to do all out warfare fighting colds that I heard coming on me and the boys....
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Friday Feature: Ask God for Help with Your Health

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
A friend reminded me of the prophecy the Lord gave me for her to stop eating sugar because she was...
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Friday Feature: How to Add Raw Foods to Your Meal (with a recipe)

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
As I got ready to transition off the raw food program I was on for 28 days, the program director...
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Friday Feature: The Wonders of Lemon

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
Two weeks ago here on the blog I wrote about the body being pH balanced, noting the difference between an...
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Friday Feature: Roundup Eighteen

Friday Feature MUSINGS
Today’s Friday Feature Roundup links come from Keeper of the Home, a blog that I have been enjoying quite a...
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Friday Feature: Acidic v. Alkaline Body

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
We have a host of health problems in the United States and the root of many of our issues may...
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Friday Feature: Avocado Health

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
Last month after more than a year I stopped being a vegetarian who was mostly a raw vegan. I eat...
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Friday Feature: Cheesy Kale Salad

Friday Feature MUSINGS
I thank God for simple nutritious meals that I have needed this whirlwind week of supporting my son, who the...
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Friday Feature: Roundup Seventeen

Friday Feature MUSINGS
Here are some great links to help you cool down with fruit, incorporate seeds into your diet and discover new...
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Friday Feature: Did You Know?

Friday Feature MUSINGS
Making a great effort to eat more nutritiously over the years has brought me a wealth of knowledge, but I...
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Friday Feature: Seed Sense

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
We are a snacking society. This is obvious with the widespread availability of these seductively tasty treats. But with most...
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Friday Feature: Six Ways to Stay Cool with Fruit

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
The heat wave that has swept the nation has most of us thinking about how to remain cool. This is...
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Friday Feature: Roundup Sixteen

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
Links for you to further explore this month's Friday Feature posts on natural sources of iodine, protein and calcium: Dulse...
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Friday Feature: Vegetarian Calcium Sources

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
When we eliminate something out of our lives, be it a habit, a person or a friend, we sometimes substitute...
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Friday Feature: Vegetarian Iodine Sources

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
One of my friends just completed a raw food fast and another woman told me she is going to begin...
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Friday Feature: Vegetarian Protein Sources

Friday Feature MUSINGS
It seems at least once at month someone I talk to about my vegetarian (mostly vegan) diet asks me “How...
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Friday Feature: Roundup Fifteen

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
This fourth Friday brings the following links that complement my Friday Feature posts this month: The Art of Juicing The...
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Friday Feature: Staples in my ‘Raw Food Kitchen’

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
Eating healthy can be a hassle if you don’t know where to shop, what to buy or what to make...
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Friday Feature: The Wonders of Celery

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
My Grandma Thomas could make the best baked chicken with just salt and pepper, but her secret was adding the...
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Friday Feature: Cleansers and Builders

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
For nearly 20 years I have been on a quest for good health and have amassed great knowledge on what...
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Friday Feature: Roundup Fourteen

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
Here are a couple of links from the blog Food Renegade that my BFF Nichole hipped me to; they support...
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Friday Feature: Still Finding Soy

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
Soy is promoted as the most versatile food around. There is soy milk, soy meat, tofu and other variations of...
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Friday Feature: Know What’s in There

Friday Feature MUSINGS
Do you know everything that you’re eating? This is an important question to ask, especially with the recent ruling that...
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Friday Feature: Roundup Thirteen

Friday Feature MUSINGS
This month's Friday Feature Roundup has links to articles that complement my posts on Food's Higher Purpose, Three Amazing Thoughts...
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Friday Feature: Change for Your Health

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
My mom has always thought I was different. Of course we know that to be true; we are all different;...
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Friday Feature: The Cleansing Power of Water

Friday Feature MUSINGS
The other day a great correlation between water and the Holy Spirit came to me. I had been drinking what...
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Friday Feature: Three Amazing Thoughts

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
As you may know I completed a raw food program last month and experienced amazing results, including a 17 pound...
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Friday Feature: Food’s Higher Purpose

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
Food has a higher purpose than for pleasure. I know some of you don’t want to hear that, especially those...
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Friday Feature: Roundup Twelve

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
My three Friday Feature posts this month told you about the benefits of my raw food journey and challenged you...
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Friday Feature: Godly Food Choices

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
God gave us a variety of food to choose from. In Genesis 9:2-3 God said, “All the animals of the...
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Friday Feature: Hunger Satisfaction v. Taste Satisfaction

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
How many times have you been afraid to try some new food because “I might not like it” or you...
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Friday Feature: My Raw Journey

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
Where I’ve been these past two weeks I’ve never been before. I guess we can all say that about any...
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Friday Feature: Roundup Eleven

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
These links—supporting what I wrote in Will for Food, Know your Deficiencies and Back Attack—will help you in your resolve...
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Friday Feature: Know Your Deficiencies

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
I know when I haven’t had enough leafy greens in my diet. My pounding headache tells me so. As soon...
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Friday Feature: Back Attack

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
Back pain is a chronic problem in America. According to WebMD, 80 percent of Americans will have lower back pain...
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Friday Feature: Will for Food

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
“Jesus saith unto them, ‘My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his...
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Friday Feature: Roundup Ten for the New Year

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
This year has been amazing, full of growth and revelation for me. I see clearly how the paths God has...
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Friday Feature: Digest This

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
I’m big on digestive health and think you should be too. Most of you know this. You know how I...
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Friday Feature: Holiday Dishes

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
You probably already have your Christmas meal all planned out and you are probably going to lay it out like...
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Friday Feature: Ingredients for Dealing with Hard Times

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
When times get tough, many of us may want to just give up. We are tired of the struggle. We...
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Friday Feature: Your Pepsi Moment

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
On November 24, Thanksgiving Day, I tweeted this: “My mom has been addicted 2 Pepsi more than all my 42...
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Friday Feature: Roundup Nine

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
Black Friday shoppers rush doors to get a good deal. Today is Black Friday and a host of us are...
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Friday Feature: Avoiding the Flu

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
Everyone in my house is sick and has been for more than a week, but I still am cold free....
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Friday Feature: Vitamin C-Rich Foods

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
We are in the midst of cold and flu season and need to equip ourselves BEFORE we get hit with...
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Friday Feature: Cold Cocktails

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
The common cold is inevitable for most, but I don’t remember the last time I had one and historically that...
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Friday Feature: Roundup Eight

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
GMO Film Project Sizzler from Compeller Pictures on Vimeo. Just like the above movie trailer touches on, big GMO companies...
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Friday Feature: Soy No More

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
As you may know from my posts here, my transition to a more plant-based diet had been a long time...
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Friday Feature: MSG:Tasty Death?

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
It’s cheap, tasty, and filling, but it can make you fat, be addictive and even be deadly. I’m talking about...
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Friday Feature: Sea Salt vs. Table Salt

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
Driving down the street my nine-year-old, Joshua, asked me “Why do we use sea salt and not regular salt?” I...
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Friday Feature: Roundup Seven

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
Ensure Your Meat is Truly Organic By Dr. David Jockers The Real Reason Processed Meats are so Dangerous to Your...
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Friday Feature: Protect Yourself from Meat

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
I know it's the fourth Friday, but this week I wanted to say more about eating meat. Look next week...
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Friday Feature: Cut the Meat

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
When God tells you something you better listen or there will be dire consequences. This I know and I know...
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Friday Feature: The Dirty Dozen

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
Nikki thought she was allergic to fruit because every time she ate them her mouth and other body parts would...
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Friday Feature: Round Up Six

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
I have been doing a Fourth Friday Round Up but featured a wonderful story last week to round out the...
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Friday Feature: Ajene Gailliard

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
This had been a long time coming, this breaking of sorts serving to tear down and root out what was...
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Friday Feature: Healing Traditions

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
Traditions are good. They mark time and territory, giving identity to who and what's important. I couldn't state this a...
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Feature Friday: Vacate

Friday Feature Health
One of the best natural remedies for good health is a vacation. That's where I am today. See you next...
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Friday Feature: Preparing Fresh Blueberries

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
Fresh berries are a summer staple and I just can’t get enough of them, particularly blueberries and strawberries. I have...
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Friday Feature: Eating Healthy Made Easy

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
Summer is a great time to boost your nutritional level because of the abundance of fresh fruits and vegetables available....
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Friday Feature: Roundup Five

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
This was a tough post to pull together. My goal for the Fourth Friday Roundup is to provide you with...
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Friday Feature: The Benefits of Eating Raw

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
Yesterday I mourned, and still do, for a troubled marriage and a mother who lost her twins in the womb....
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Friday Feature: Ways to Buy and Save on Organic

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
Some people immediately dismiss going organic because they believe the cost is too much. Though most organic products are more...
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Friday Feature: Eat Organic

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
Growing up I had little chance of developing a habit of eating fresh fruit. My dad would buy an equal...
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Friday Feature: Roundup Four & T-Shirt Winner

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
In the last month I talked about ways to eat wheat- and gluten-free, but some of us need to be...
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Friday Feature: ThinkThis! Designs & Giveaway

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
We all need encouragement: A look from a different perspective; time spent with a friend; an uplifting message on a...
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Friday Feature: Dying to Look Good

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
I thought I was too cute here. This auburn hair color was actually a change for me. I would usually...
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Friday Feature: Wheat and Gluten Free

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
A woman came to me recently in distress. She had just found out her son was allergic to wheat and...
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Friday Feature: Roundup Three

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
Today I bring you news from around the web on coconut oil, sugar alternatives and the dangers of hydrogenated oils....
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Friday Feature: Sweeteners

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
As I'm sure you know, all sweeteners are not created equal. Some are natural; some are artificial; some are harmful;...
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Friday Feature: Good and Bad Oils

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
I was glistening, a shiny sheen rescued from ash and scaliness and shelling out more money than I cared to....
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Friday Feature: Cooking on The Brand New Mommy

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
Today you get your weekly health tip early. Check out my video demonstration from The Brand New Mommy on how...
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Friday Feature: The Benefits of Juicing

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
Because of problems with my website, this post didn't come through on Friday. Here it is for your good health:...
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Friday Feature: Jesus & Roundup Two

Friday Feature MUSINGS
Photo Credit: 123Gold.com  Who has believed our message? To whom has the LORD revealed his powerful arm? My servant grew...
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Friday Feature: Help for Hurting Skin

Friday Feature MUSINGS
The other day I gave some nods and a big laugh to Vanity Panic, a post by one of my...
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Friday Feature: Crucify Yourself

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
Many Christians are in the midst of crucifying their flesh, observing Lent by sacrificing their normal indulgences in honor of...
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Friday Feature: Roundup One

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
God has placed some awesome natural healing practitioners in my path. Starting today, I plan to roundup some of their...
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Friday Feature: Food Grade Hydrogen Peroxide

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
When cleaning my bathroom with bleach made me weak, gave me a headache and irritated my nose, I had to...
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Friday Feature: Baking Soda

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
Buy one, get one free. Get two for one. Fifty percent off sale. However it’s termed, I think we all...
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Friday Feature: Immune Builders

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
I served a family at a funeral and a side of fries and tons more food to hungry boys and...
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Friday Feature: Yeast Infections

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
The nagging itch had come again and there had only been three weeks since my last bout. I went to...
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Friday Feature: Free Flowing

Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
It’s so easy to give up after trying hard at something and not seeing the results you expected. I know....
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Friday Feature: Keep It Juicy

Deception Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
It’s Black History Month so we must share our stories, those of the past and ones we are creating right...
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Friday Feature: Abstinence and Trust

Deception Friday Feature Health
Life and death have met me a lot this week—their notions and results of those who have chosen each have...
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Friday Feature: Swallow It Up

Deception Friday Feature Health MUSINGS
Resting well heals your body and makes you look and feel good, too. We talked about this last week and...
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Friday Feature: Rest Well

Deception Friday Feature Recovery
When I was in college I really had that strong black woman thing going on. I was an officer and...
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