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November 2007

1) Surviving the Holidays
Chicago Healers.com Chiropractor Dr. Kelly Hibler offers suggestions for Surviving the Holidays: The Body-Mind Connection. Dr. Kelly speaks on how our holiday traditions, eating habits, and our way of thinking during the holidays all influence our well-being. Embrace the best possible holistic health as you enter into this year’s holiday season.

October 2007

1) Naturally Healthy Children’s Expo Chicago Healers Speakers
Chicago Healers is a Gold Level Sponsor for the Naturally Healthy Children’s Expo this fall on Navy Pier. We will have 2 booths for 2 days with a local practitioner resource table, mini-healing stations and some Chicago Healers speakers on the Main Stage. The Expo will have exhibitors, a Main Stage for lectures, an organic kitchen area, a reading and gardening area, an activities area, a fun, fitness and music stage and a healthy home stage. The hours are 10-6 Saturday and 10-5 Sunday. Come for an educational and fun day for the whole family!
Link: http://www.naturallyhealthychildren.com/Chicago/default.html
Saturday, October 6th 10am – 6pm – Presentation Stage
11:00-11:30 Robert Taub (different stage) (Indigo/Crystal Children)
12:15 – 12:45 Dr. Martha Howard, M.D. (Painless Allergy Testing and Holistic Allergy Treatment)
1:00 – 1:30 Dr. Helen Lee, D.C. (Creating a Healthy Mindset in Children)
4:00 – 4:30 Dr. Tereau Pearson, D.D.S. (Holistic Dentistry and Ortho Intervention)

Sunday, October 7th, 10am – 6pm – Presentation Stage
10:45 – 11:15 Dr. Tom O’Bryan, D.C. (Feeding Your Child’s Brain)
12:15 – 12:45 Dr. John Rothchild, D.D.S. (Holistic Dentistry)
1:45 – 2:15 Dr. Hugh Jenkins, N.D. (Creating a Healthy Immune System in Children through Ph Balance)
4:00-4:30 Dr. Rindie Coker, N.D. (Alternative Healthcare for Your Family-Finding Solutions)

2) Attitude of Gratitude
Barnes and Noble Life at Its Best Series II
Sharon M. Weinstein, MS, RN
In the words of the late John F. Kennedy, “As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them…” we have a unique opportunity to live it our entire lives. Join this session as we discuss, interactively, the steps to be taken to live it. Three easy steps…are you ready?

3) Keeping a Healthy Immune System
Chicago Healers.com Naturopath and Chiropractor Dr. Hugh A. Jenkins speaks on Keeping a Healthy Immune System: Ph Balanced Nutrition for the whole family. Feeling a little sluggish as you’re settling into Fall? How do you maintain a healthy environment for body cells/tissue in a holistic manner? Get in sync with the change of seasons, and be in your best health.

September 2007

1) Theosophical Society of America, Wheaton, Illinois – THEOSOFEST
A great festival of educational and fun activities revolving around health, healing and metaphysical topics. Chicago Healers will have a resource booth and Practitioner Dr. Jaena Gonzaga, D.C. will speak to Healing: The Emotional Connection. The Theosophical Society is a nationally known spiritual and educational center with the highly regarded Quest Bookstore. This one day festival has lectures and workshops, family and children’s activities, resource booths, a labyrinth walk, a drumming circle and more.

2) Intro to Acupuncture for Whole Health
Barnes and Noble, Schaumburg, Life at Its Best Series II
Dr. Helen Lee, D.C.
An introduction to Acupuncture and Holistic Healthcare: An explanation of the basic premise behind the ancient practice of acupuncture and how it has been able to help so many people with various symptoms and disease processes. As in any holistic healthcare practice, acupuncture focuses on re-establishing balance to the energetic or Chi/Qi system of the body so that the body can heal itself.

August 2007

1) The ABC’s of Essential Oils
Barnes and Noble Life at Its Best Series II
Susan Atchison, Certified Aromatherapist
Peppermint oil calms the stomach, lavender oil heals burns, and tea tree oil fights infections. Modern science is now rediscovering the healing power of essential oils. Learn more about how you can use essential oils for well-being.

July 2007

1) Creating a Loving Home with Feng Shui
Barnes and Noble, Schaumburg, Life at Its Best Series II
Juliette Looye, M.Ed., Feng Shui Practitioner and Teacher
Is your home a welcoming and peaceful place that supports your health and well-being? Do the stresses of the day begin to fall away every time you walk through your front door? During this introduction to feng shui, Juliette Looye will help you look at your home with new eyes. As you begin to understand what attracted you to it, you’ll rekindle your love affair with it.

June 2007

1) Chicago Botanic Gardens Wellness Day
Sponsored by Prevention Magazine, this Wellness Day attracts more than 5,000 people in a day from all over Chicagoland. It is a day of education and beauty. There are lectures, demonstrations and classes throughout the day. Chicago Healers had a resource booth and Practitioner Susan Atchison, Aromatherapist, spoke about The ABC’s of Essential Oils. She discussed plants and flowers and their healing properties in a most impressive garden atmosphere.

2) The Mouth and How It Can Affect Your Medical Health
Barnes and Noble, Schaumburg, Life at Its Best Series II
Dr. John Rothchild, D.D.S.
Dr. Rothchild will explain the mouth and how it can affect the health of the rest of your body. Included will be an update on holistic dentistry for children and adults, touching on issues that include the mercury issue, the fluoridation issue and what materials are generally safe and biologically sound to put in children’s and adult mouths.

3) The Food-Mood Solution: All Natural Ways to Boost your Mood
Schaumburg Public Library
Join ChicagoHealers.com Practitioner, Dr. Melody Hart, N.D. for her lecture on how the foods we eat can affect or enhance how we feel: anxiety, fatigue, stress or happiness. Attend this event and learn ways you and your loved ones can improve your life through food. Dr. Hart is a Naturopathic Doctor. Naturopathy is natural healthcare that emphasizes holistic, preventative medicine and wellness. The core belief is education – the passing on of knowledge to empower the patient. Let’s fall in love with food again! Schaumburg Library, Central Branch, 130 S. Roselle Road, Schaumburg, Illinois.

4) Celebrate Your Life Expo
Chicago Hyatt Regency O’Hare
A spectacular and powerful weekend event featuring the country’s top authors and speakers gathered in one place – with keynote speakers Marianne Williamson, Sonia Choquette and Neal Donald Walsch. There will be conferences, workshops and inspiring lectures by many of our time’s most inspirational speakers like Ivanla Vanzant and Immaculee Ilibagiza. Be sure to stop by and visit the Chicago Healers resource table, a cornucopia of information on Chicago ‘s health and healing community. Come and Celebrate Your Life!
Link: http://www.mishkaproductions.com/celebrate-your-life-2007-chicago/index.php

May 2007

1) The Emotion behind Money: Move from Surviving to Thriving
Barnes and Noble, Schaumburg, Life at Its Best Series II
Julie Murphy Casserly, CFP®, CLU, ChFC, MBA
President and Founder of JMC Wealth Management, Julie Casserly will speak about the interplay between Emotion and Money and how to conquer its challenges. Come learn how to move from Surviving to Thriving when dealing with the Emotions behind the Money!

2) Chicago Healers and the Forth Annual Chicago Moves Day
Chicago Healers supported the Mayor’s Fitness Council at the Forth Annual Chicago Moves Day on May 18, 2007. The event, held at Daley Plaza, is the kick-off for the citywide Mayor’s Fitness Council Challenge. The Challenge is a call to action to get Chicagoans to start moving to fight obesity.

April 2007

1) Thoughts are Things: Shift your thoughts and change your life!
Barnes and Noble, Schaumburg, Life at Its Best Series II
Dr. Jaena Stanley-Gonzaga, D.C.
Your life is a reflection of your thoughts. Learn how thoughts are things. Understand that what you think about is what you bring about. 80% of conversation is to ourselves and most of it is negative. Learn how to use your thoughts in a way that is empowering and enhances your ability to attract the life that you desire. In terms of health, finances, relationship, personal growth, etc., the possibilities are endless. Allow what you learn to become a way of life. Success comes from you not to you. The application of feelings and beliefs will also be discussed.
A special bonus:
An interactive demonstration on how your thoughts expand and contract your own electromagnetic field will be performed. Learn a simple yet powerful exercise that will harness your ability to integrate new belief patterns into your system.