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Texting: The Key to Neck & Shoulder Pain

Texting has replaced calling and emailing as the primary form of communication for teenagers and young adults.  As a result, texters are experiencing the same repetitive motion injuries and nerve compression as career typists and keyboarders.  They are feeling discomfort not only in their thumbs, but also pain in their forearms, neck and shoulders.
Click here for tips on reducing pain from texting.

Financial Discussions To Have Before You Walk Down The Aisle

Financial problems have long been a trouble area in many marriages and the current economic crisis is stretching even more people to the emotional breaking point.
Click here for some of the top conversations you should have with your soon-to-be spouse to be sure you are on the same page financially.

Quote of the Month

There is a calmness to a life lived in Gratitude, a quiet joy.
-Ralph H. Blum

Celebrate Your Life
Celebrate

Chicago Healers is excited be a part of this year’s Celebrate Your Life conference taking place on June 4 – 7, 2010 at the Westin Lombard Hotel.
Celebrate Your Life features all of your favorite authors at one place at one time including, Deepak Chopra,  Marianne Williamson,  James Van Praagh,  Neale Donald Walsch,  Dr. Brian Weiss,  Debbie Ford, Gregg Braden, Gary Zukav,  SARK..and the list goes on and on!  The conference is a powerful life-changing weekend event with workshops that will inspire, motivate, open your heart and so much more.  Celebrate Your Life will be the best thing you can do for your life!  Come join us for this wonderful gathering.  If not now….when??

Calendar of Events

Weekly Wholistic Health Lectures more

Tuesdays, 6:30 pm
2nd Opinion Natural Health
115 E Ogden Ave., Suite 117, Naperville
What to do with allergies? A discussion of the cause, short-term and long-term solutions

June 21, 2010,  7 pm

Dr. Ian Wahl, LaC

This lecture will discuss the root cause for allergy and sensitivities. It will introduce a concept of Information Theory as it relates to the Highly Sensitive Body, which is the physiological base for allergies…more

Palos Heights Public Library
12501 South 71st Avenue, Palos Heights

Diabetes:  What to Eat and When to Eat It

September 30, 2010, 7 pm

Controlling Diabetes may be as simple as understanding what foods to eat together and the best times to eat those foods.  Learn about the modified Mediterranean diet…more

Foundtaindale Public Library
300 W. Briarcliff Road Bolingbrook

Staying Fit While You Sit

September 30, 2010, 7 pm
The perils of a desk job…increased weight, sore back, neck and shoulders, and bad eating habits!  Does that sound like someone you know, or is it you?  more
Skokie Public Library
5212 Oakton Street, Skokie

Interested in having one of our practitioners speak to your group?  Click here for more information.

Warm Weather Injuries

As summer approaches, many weekend warriors are discovering new aches and pains of the season. One commonly strained or “pulled” group of muscles are the hamstrings. Spanning the back of the thigh, these muscles help to extend the leg backwards and are active when we “push-off” in running, or on the downstroke in cycling… more.

Navigating Change

Shaughnessy
Sheila Shaughnessy, MA
Whether or not you’ve chosen the change at hand, one thing is certain, change can be challenging! It doesn’t have to be that way if you allow yourself to view every change as an opportunity for growth. Much like the seasons, we experience cycles that are meant to help us process the transition at hand for our own well being… more.

Diabetes & Oral Health

HatlandHaving diabetes means that the person has elevated blood sugar levels. Having chronically elevated blood sugar levels can cause a lot of havoc in just about every system and organ of the body.  Type 1 is caused by damage to the insulin producing cells of the pancreas. This means that the diabetes or elevated blood sugar is caused by a deficiency of insulin. The insulin works but there’s not enough of it… more.

Belly Fat – Hazardous to your Health, Not So Hot for the Beach Either!

Why do you put on belly fat?  Two big reasons:
Eating a high carb–especially sugar, corn syrup and white starches–diet! Being a couch potato.

10 years ago the average American consumed 165 pounds of sugar per year. Today it’s an even more whopping 240 pounds-2/3 pound a day! What grandma said about “sugar turning into fat” is all too true! …  more.

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