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Tips Tuesday – Practice What You Preach!

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~Lisa Nichols, ‘Abundance Now’

As I have evolved over the 6 years I have owned HHDS I have noticed a significant improvement in my self care regimen.  As I have given myself permission and recognized more an more how as I have taken the time and invested in myself I have actually become more and more effective at everything I do/am.  I have also improved my mental, physical and emotional well being.  This has created more balance in me and so created more balance in the life I experience.

I was chatting with a good friend and fellow business owner and Holistic Practitioner, Laurie Knarr, after another exceptional Cranial Sacral Treatment.  WE discussed how as we have gotten older we have started to recognize the absolute necessity for self care.  Recognizing more and more people around us falling ill, finding it hard to maintain energy and the busy lifestyles we have all committed to.  We even realized we wished we had started sooner.  It was mutually agreed that one approach didn’t work for everyone.  For example Laurie’s approach is greatly focused on personal training, and exceeding her own personal physical limitations.  While others might see her consistent participation in a grueling physical fitness regimen, it works for her.  But what works for you?  For an amazing Cranial Sacral expereince or RMT treatment contact Laurie, www.laurieknarr.ca, knarr.laurie.rmt@gmail.com

My personal commitment looks kind of like a patchwork quilt, but it works for me!  I believe in a multi dimensional approach because we ourselves are multi dimensional beings.  I see Laurie mthly for Cranial Sacral, enjoying a relaxing experience that creates an over all physical well being while releasing blockages causing discomfort.  I see Kerstin Kramer for monthly Electromagnetic Therapy and occasionally Reiki, always eliminating the pain in my foot and making me feel peaceful and light!  Kerstin is at HHDS every Friday, call in to book an experience.  I visit Cynthia Syjueco for Body Talk and Lymphatic Drainage and enjoy a great detox of negative energy and toxins trapped in the body once a mth.  She even recently treated my Dog!  Cynthia is at HHDS every Friday, call in to book an experience.  Nyssa McDonald has offered me incredible Crystal Treatments that always astounded me with the noticeable frequency vibrations that assist with balancing my physical, mental and emotional being.  Nyssa is @ HHDS every Weds, call in for a treatment.  I have recently incorporated Emotion Code treatments offered by Christine Ball and deprivation Floats at The Rock Spa, and found it to be a wonderful release of Emotional Blocks that are holding me back and her treatments quite insightful!  I have committed to weekly Yoga sessions with Christine Cummings owner of Pure Potential Yoga, where I have enjoyed physical discipline, dexterity, flexibility, muscle/core building and many times emotional block release.  I also balance all of this with weekly visits to the gym, I try to go with my hubby and kids whenever they are willing to join me!  Of course my whole awareness transformed when I became a Certified Holistic Life Coach, and Energy Psychologist, practicing what I preach as a coach has sustained me with a plentiful tool kit of skills and awareness that is truly priceless, which is why I now teach others offering certification for both through my other business Institute For Harmonious Living, http://instituteforharmoniousliving.com/.

I told you it was like a patchwork quilt, but you know what?  It works!  And I’m always on the prowl for more fascinating modalities!  I am motivated by finding the most effective options for services for our guests, but I am addicted to trying new things and evaluating what works for me and what doesn’t.  I encourage you to do the same thing.  This is what we are all about at HHDS, researching and finding safer, more effective services and products for you and your family.  Want to learn more?  Check out our workshops, or pop in for a 15 min complimentary session with one of our amazing treatment providers, who are motivated by the same desire to serve you as we are at HHDS.

 The previous picture quote helps us focus on the growing awareness for Self Care.  By becoming more responsible for our own wellbeing we become less reliant on others for nurturing, and acceptance and become more self sustaining and less of a burden.  We enjoy longer lives, healthier bodies more balanced relationships and an over all more satisfying life experience.

No one EVER regrets taking better care of themselves.  No more excuses, give yourself permission and watch yourself transform and in turn your life!

Tips Tuesday – ReAcquaint Yourself with our ‘Green” Family and check out some of their latest work!

ReAcquaint Yourself with our ‘Green” Family and check out some of their latest work!

 

Many of you know the lovely Elena, who has been with me since before the birth of HHDS!  She partnered with me and my Daughter Morgan Minnick who has begun training to become a licenced stylist for our latest photo shoot! Some may recognize Morgan as the Original ‘Face’ of HHDS, but this time she was behind the camera, it looks like my Daughter Emma has taken her place in front of the camera!  LOL!  We showcase their work here…

 

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We have been excited to expand our Green Family to include, Lea as a Styling Apprentice, She also offers Aroma Therapy Services, Crystal Healing, Reiki and Astrology Birth Charts!  Kim has joined our team as an Esthetician offering full skin  services especially loving Massage and Attuned in Reiki as well!

 

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Of course many of you know and love our Jenna who also worked with Elena for this shoot!  Jenna has really honed her skills this year and shows off great enthusiasm with one of her favorite services, braiding!  She is also really enjoying extreme coloring , samples of which we will display for you soon!

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Of course I always get a little carried away!  And Why Not?!  Shoots are meant to be creative and fun so off I went to the extreme LOL!

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Was it fun?  HELL YA!  We love what we do, and it shows!  We do these Photo Shoots To remind everyone that GREEN IS SEXY!  Also many people claim that Eco Products don’t work as well, well, we have proven that statement wrong as well!  We get outstanding Colour, Ammonia Free, amazing hold, with 70%-80% Aloe Vera first Hair cleansing and styling products, gorgeous glossy Polish shades and Shellacs that last!

I want to thank all of our models who participated and braved the chilly air to get these shots, you were outstanding and it was worth the discomfort to get such amazing Fall Colors as our natural back drop!  Watch for more fun Eco-Shoots coming again soon!

Like some of these looks?  Book in for Holiday Hair and Skin as well as Energy treatments to help you keep your sanity throughout the Holiday Season!

xo

E

Archive Tips Tuesday July

Tips Tuesday – Fight The Frizz!

On this very Hot and Humid Tuesday I felt it was essential to address the combating of Frizz!  Carrying on with Self Care involves Self Love and it makes it easier to do that if you’re Looking and Feeling great about how you look!  So Straight from the Expert Solutions Care of Eufora, we recommend the following Hair Fixes!

 

EXTRA HUMID PROTECTION! – Use Eufora’s Uplift Spray to hold your style and create a barrier to humiity!

EXTRA SHINE AND FRIZZY FIXES – Eufora’s Beautifying Serum, Illuminate Shine Mist and Pure Polish Drops are all great frizz fighters and shine enhancers.  Blend into your wet prep products for added boost of shine.  Spritz a light mist of illuminate Shine Mist on dry hair anytime through out the day when you need a boost of shine and frizz control .

FOR THE WEDDING DAY – Extra firm control is achieved with Formation Whip Styling Solution as it gives added control and form during styling.  Leaves a slight but touchable crunch. A drop or two of Solidifi Firm Hold Gel blended into wet styling products gives added hold and control.  Use a thermal Protection Spray for after heat styling and hold in place with Eufora’s Uplift Spray to keep humidity out!

 

PROTECT THE SKIN!

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RVB Holistics Skin Care Line offers SPF 10 Moisturizers for every skin type!  If you want to avoid SPF10 go the natural protection way by Wearing Mirabella Mineral Make up foundations with Natural Zinc Sun Protection!

Tips Tuesday – Doing your part?

I got thinking today about what ‘Tips Tuesday’ was all about. Well, anything that might help others. In any way. Ok. Here goes something within our theme of self care we have been addressing as of late but follow me a while on this twisting path won’t you?
As I drove out of town today to visit family, I had the misfortune of being forced to witness a horrible act of ignorance, neglect, and it set me back to ask how have we evolved as human beings living on this planet. Some of you might be surprised as I explain what I witnessed. You might think goodness gracious is that it? That’s all!? That’s not that bad noone was killed!! Well, I beg to differ.
We are an endangered species we are. Each one of us. Out of our own ignorance. I felt this horrible crime at the pit of my stomach, I thought I might be sick, I experienced road rage I never had experienced before, wanting to follow the owner of the car that had committed this act.
As I followed a string of cars heading out of town past a gorgeous horse farm and across a glittering pristine bubbling river, someone in a car in front of me threw their trash out the window not once but twice……..I watched it land ever so gracefully in the glistening bubbling river……
So what did you think just now? What was your reaction. Were you expecting me to describe my witnessing a murder? Didn’t I? I could list the many tragic deaths this litter will cause the wild life that attempts to eat it in its many forms of breaking down which would take a life time, or the toxins released into the fish and our drinking water but we all know this. Don’t we?
I was once ignorant, I can admit it. Feeling frustrated with hearing all the end of the world global warming stories thinking I had done all I could and leaving it up to the scientists to figure out thinking if it were serious someone would do something……
Well here we are. But today as I watched this haenous act. I thought, have we not evolved? Have we not moved forward? Most of my friends on here are where I am now, doing everything they can in each moment to help the earth and all its habitants. But i urge you to share this story and your own, louder.
It is because of people out there like the individual guilty of this ridiculous ultimate lazy and violent act that we can’t just ‘do our part’. We have to do more.
Example:
Watching a documentary about horseshoe crabs. I’d heard of them, but didn’t know that much about them. They are funky lookin little things! Well they are endangered. After millennium of surviving since possibly before the dinosaurs, through ice ages, meteor impacts etc, we are singlehandedly killing them. How you ask? We are destroying their breeding grounds with over development and garbage.
Now you might ask, why am I discussing the horshoe crab?
Well fascinatingly enough, their blue blood has a unique chemistry that has been an essential ingredient mixed in vaccines that allows us to actually be vaccinated. Now I’m not here to discuss whether or not people should vaccinate or whether they should be using their blood( during this process the horse shoe crabs are left Alive and released back into the wild, which is not something I like regarding animal rights but that’s another discussion)
However fascinating it is that science defines these creatures as indispensable yet they do nothing to protect their natural habitat, they actually seem to think it makes more sense to try to breed them in captivity rather then clean up their habitat. Funny enough all attempts have failed to breed them in captivity except for when samples of their original breeding ground (sand they were born into) is provided into the science labs reproduced breeding ground. But what do we do when the breeding ground is no longer available, buried under garbage or paved under a parking lot?
Bare with me, I’m tying it together now:
When I got thinking of what I would write about for tips Tuesday as you can see by the time this is posted I really gave it some thought.
No tip on eye liner application, or updo style or skin cream out ways this. If there is no planet, no eyeliner in the world can save us.
This individual who unwittingly became the topic of this long winded Tips Tuesday must have very little regard for their own health, or that of their family, friends or their planet. This person is disconnected from themselves, and in turn everything else. This is not the only person. There are many others. I see it as a very real Zombie Apocalypse. What is the definition of a zombie; detached from reason, mindless, driven by hunger for more only, no remorse or regard for others, no empathy, no conscience, no humanity.
How do you plan to fight this?
We are either part of the solution, or part of the problem which are you.
I ask you to share this, share awareness, wake up from the Zombie Apocalypse that threatens our planet, our race and many other helpless species becoming extinct every day.
We are all connected, to each other, the earth and all species. The only way we can fight back is to become educated and stronger, mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually. We become stronger in these ways by spending time and ideas with like minded people and placing self care in the top priority it deserves to be in. We take Care of ourselves we take better care of those we know and love and those we don’t know but love anyway.
Join me in self awareness, self care and in turn fight the mindless march of those Zombies not yet awakened to what they are doing. Their is hope for them yet but it’s up to is to show them the way.
My Tip for this Tuesday fight the Zombies pull your head out of the sand and fight for your health, your families health, you friends health the health of every species on the planet. Don’t just do your part. Do more!!
Read our past tips Tuesdays on how you can start making self Care a priority including our free classes this July to start you on your path!

Love and light bless you for putting up with my rant, I promise to keep it shorter next time!
Xo
E

Tips Tuesday – Happy Canada Day

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Tips Tuesday July 1st
Happy Canada Day!
How are you spending your Canada Day? The Weather isn’t great this morning so some of us are staying inside. Are you on your own and choosing Self Care options like reading with a cup of tea? Are you with family cuddling on the couch watching a movie or playing a board game? Are you applying a facial and hair mask to create polished hair and skin to reflect the fireworks in tonight? Maybe you’re catching up on your house cleaning so your homes feng shui energy flows nicely and impacts you’re energy in return.
Regardless of what you do today make sure you keep your energy balanced, not too much introversion not too much giving to others. Make a list of all the things you do to others and on the other side of the page make sure you list an equal amount of things you do for yourself. Balance is essential to attempt to maintain. You could even make a separate list of things you do for your physical self and on the other side a list of things you do for your spiritual or energetic self. Is this out of balance? You might be in the best physical shape but your energetic self is malnourished. This is indicative of people who on the outside look so healthy and have committed exercise regimens but get sick, sometimes seriously. As we are beginning to understand, illness is a ‘dis’-ease of the energetic you manifesting into the physical. All illness comes from the energetic place and then becomes physical. If you do more for your energetic self and not enough for your physical, you might have a weight problem, become injured easily when attempting to just begin an exercise of any sort, you might have low cardiovascular energy, getting tired easily once you go for a walk. Make sure you balance both of these lists and you will create a balanced blissful life!
On this Canada Day I am grateful for this amazing country we live in! It truly is the best! Eh?