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5/21/2017 Comments

Design Your Own Skin Cream Depending on Your Needs

Feed the skin you're in. We pay a lot of money for designer products, but what kind of ingredients are these "designers" using?  In the last few blog posts we talked about how the skin is a window into health.

Our skin can be a predictor of internal illness or disease before it grows into something serious. Taking care of our skin can be a regular way of 'checking in' on our inner terrain.

Once we realize how important our skin is as a predictor of health, we learn to nourish it with the ingredients it's crying out for. That may be an anti-itch cream, anti-inflammatory, or anti-microbial cream.

Making your own cream might feel herculean, but the benefits are sure worth it when you need to customize particular ingredients to feed your skin what it needs. When I started writing my other post, Beauty is Only Skin Deep...Uh, Not I wanted to include a recipe for a simple beauty cream. It just got wayyyy too long, so I've included the recipe below. But, the original post is still very interesting. It gives several identifiers for learning to read the skin's health, how outer beauty can only be tended from the inside, and where to start in terms of nutrition in learning about managing health and beauty.
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My daughter Maia, with Alaskan Fireweed. (2016)

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5/9/2017 Comments

And l Get to Do it All with You

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Sometimes the hardest stories to share are the ones worth telling. It was 2013 in Homer, Alaska when I met Steve Johnson, the founder of Alaskan Flower Essences. For several years I had seen the training he offered, but lived in Seattle and then Livingston, Montana. So, I couldn't swing the long trip to Homer.

In a strange and bizarre twist of events, I found myself unexpectedly living in Anchorage, Alaska. In 2011, we were forced to move after a series of unfortunate events from our home in Montana.

But, that is a different story.

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2/2/2017 Comments

Love the Skin You're In - Mobu and Transdermal Medicine

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What the heck is a Mobu?

At the end of last summer I met an amazing woman named Tricia in Anchorage, Alaska. She’ll admit that she kinda cyber stalked me for a few months before we were finally able to get together, but I’m glad she stuck with me despite my hella crazy schedule. Why? Because she introduced me to Mobu Herbals.

We  rushed to an impromptu meeting in the height of the Alaskan summer, bolstered up by the 24 hour sun. It was literally as Tricia had some time and I had a spare hour to burn. I rushed down to my selected meeting place, The Kaladi Brothers Coffee Company.


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7/25/2016 Comments

Jim Croche, Robert Swanson, and All Good Things in a Bottle

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Hailing from Pennsylvania, we're required to pay tribute to all things PA, including PA artists. Some honor Springsteen, others Jon Bon Jovi, and for the millennials there's Taylor Swift. For me, it's Jim Croche, especially his songs "Big Bad Leroy Brown" and "Operator". I even had a friend from Philly whose mom frequented the same beauty shop as  Croche's. We both felt special being two small degrees from him. Today I'm feeling particularly fond of his timeless classic, "If I Could Save Time in a Bottle." Croche tapped into the mystery and surreal ecstasy of the peak experience when he sang, "If I could make days last forever....if words could make wishes come true."

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7/24/2016 Comments

Strength is Beautiful  

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There are certain things which when 'seen' cannot be unseen. For example, while working out at the gym last week, cycling as if I was evading a pack of wild dogs, which is to say for my life, I looked up at one of the many T.V.'s mounted to the wall. What I saw shocked and amazed me. A woman was running up a steep hill with a huge medicine ball on her shoulders. Then, a second clip showed her squatting a massive amount of weight, which should have rendered her lame, but she did it while looking flawless.

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2/8/2016 Comments

Summon Your Courage and Bust Through 3 Common Camera Fears

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(Photo Credit: Gary Swanson Pictured: Liz Karmooch, Jamie Pawlik, and Emanuel Sylvano at The Montauk Group Summer Program.)
Champions don’t become champions in the ring. They are recognized there. In our boxing ring, the entertainment industry, a performer hears the sound, “Action!” instead of a fight bell. This cues an actor to penetrate through the camera. Bringing scripts to life is our job. From Audrey Hepburn’s charming and charismatic performance as Holly Golightly in Breakfast Tiffany’s (1961) to Matthew McConaughey’s dramatic transformed hustler Ron Woodroof in Dallas Buyers Club (2013), actors must live, breathe, and believe their characters to capture our hearts.

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12/3/2015 Comments

When a Master Finds Meaning, Life Blooms

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Some teachers are naturally gifted when it comes to spotting our trouble spots or as Dr. Wayne Dyer calls them, ‘Erroneous Zones.’ These zones are the negative thought patterns so ingrained in our daily consciousness that we can’t see them for ourselves. The greatest teachers pause, listen deeply, and identify our strengths and weaknesses. They aren’t afraid to hurt our feelings by telling us the naked truth. They disarm us with meaning, often times brutal, but always for our own betterment.
Sometimes these masters are unrecognizable to the masses. They work diligently in classrooms, trek quietly up mountainsides, or even serve drinks as our neighborhood bartender.

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5/1/2015 Comments

Death, Anxiety, and Bon Jovi 

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A realization hits. Hope is considerably smaller than I am. She stands at roughly five foot four (maybe less), blond matted hair drenched in sweat, with heels digging into trampled grass. I'm using all my weight pressing back the wall of concert goers in Pocono Down’s Race Track field. All of this effort so she can gain a few inches. I'm losing miserably and giving back precious ground every other push. As another wave of mohawk sporting Unadilla racing look-alikes moves in, I flex my core muscles hoping I'll be able to at least hold my ground. Clad in PA summer attire, i.e. motocross tee's with the arms torn off, stick thin, with pale hallowed faces they push me backward and I think to myself, 'but we’ve come so far!'


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4/18/2015 Comments

Intuition Demystified 

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There is wide spread public interest in the intuitive arts these days.  People like Teresa Caputo of TLC’s hit series Long Island Medium and Chip Coffey of A & E’s Psychic Kids, Children of the Paranormal come to mind.  Teresa is not only intuitive she is a medium who ‘sees’ and ‘hears’ spirit.  Add psychic onto that list and Chip Coffey has the same skill set.  A medium is a person that is able to pass messages on to the living from those in the afterlife. Teresa’s waiting list among the living is booked three years out. Both television shows have been on for more than one season and continue to generate ratings.

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4/18/2015 Comments

Championing the Super in Being Human

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“I just shoved my body into it as hard as I could, then I came back and dragged him out and started CPR.” - Lauren Kornacki, 22

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