Chilean Earthquake Relief- Hits Home

For those of you who may not know, my father is Chilean, and all my family on that side live in Chile. Luckily, they are all okay after the devastating earthquake this past weekend. There was structural damage to all their homes and my uncle and 2 cousins are still stuck at the beach because the roads back to Santiago are either too badly damaged to drive back on or completely destroyed. Chileans are strong people and I know they will build their country back but it is difficult to sit here in Colorado and see the damage on the news and just feel helpless.

The American Red Cross has an International Relief Fund that was started to help Haiti and now is in place for Chile. If interested, this is the best way to make sure funds get where they should. All donations are tax deductible. I will be having a donation jar in my office from now on and will be sending the money to this organization. But here is the information if interested in making a donation. Please put "Chile Earthquake Relief Fund" in the memo section of the check so it goes to the right relief organization.

American Red Cross

P.O. Box 97089

Washington, D.C 20090-7089

I know you can also text and it sends $ automatically from your phone but do not know the exact #'s for this. Please check with your plan to make sure it is legit.

MidChix website and article

Have a look at an article on yours truly. I was touched to have a client want to write this about me. This site was the brainchild of 2 very groovy 'chicks', pun intended, who felt they wanted to make a networking site, like Facebook, for the over 40 crowd. Here is the link to the article and the website can be found from there. Join and have fun!

People to Know.....

Every month I will highlight a local business, practitioner and/or layperson that would make a great referral and someone I would recommend to a friend not just a client. This month that practitioner is Dr. Mark Ebadi.
Dr. Mark Ebadi embodies everything you want in a doctor. A no BS attitude, a warm, caring spirit, and brains! I am proud to know him as a colleague who not only respects what I do, his brother is an acupuncturist in California, but also personally. He has treated my family and found what I term medical mysteries that the pediatricians missed. While he is not necessarily medicine happy, he is medicine smart. There are so many people affected by allergies here in Colorado, and so many drugs for them. Taking the right combination is the most important thing. If acupuncture, herbs and/or supplements can't do it, I don't hesitate to send people Mark's way because I know they will be in good hands. He is great with kids and adults and his Lowry office has always been very friendly and accomodating.
I was reminded this month of just how good this doctor is, so for February and my first 'People to Know'..I want Dr. Mark Ebadi to be at the top of the list.

Here is the link to his office website.

Don't forget your Oxygen Mask

When you board a plane they always tell you in case of emergency make sure you place your oxygen mask over your face first and then over your child's. It is amazing to me how this actually can translate into everyday life. Everyday, we are so busy doing for others that I think we forget our personal oxygen masks. We worry about everyone else and put everyone else's needs before our own because it is looked upon as being selfish sometimes to take that time out for ourselves and find what it is that gives us oxygen. Sometimes it is just simply....oxygen. Taking 10 minutes out of the day to simply breath and meditate with no interruptions.

When I went to a seminar on Brain Chemistry in October the speaker told us all how he took one day completely off with no plans. After we all stopped rolling our eyes because we all assumed that of course this guy can do this, he probably makes 6 figures and has a wife to pick up the kids and doesn't have to worry about errands and cleaning I realized he was saying this for his own health and ours. He had burnt himself out by doing the seminars, the practice, the traveling and this was the only way to recharge and be back with his family.

I think whatever you decide is your oxygen, grab it. The lesson is that we all need to put on our masks first because if we don't get ourselves healthy, our kids, our relationships, our life is just going to be an extension of how little oxygen we are allowing ourselves to breath. And we just cannot exist on carbon alone.