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The Big Day
It’s 8pm the night before surgery. Honestly, I’m trying hard to keep my shit together. At any moment I could burst into tears. I have...
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Sep 17, 20182 min read


You Have Cancer
It was as if someone had opened a port in my big toes and drained all of the blood from my body. My doctor had called. “Are you driving?...
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Sep 14, 20183 min read


How to Find a Good Homeopath
So you just typed "best homeopath in Minneapolis" or "how to find a good homeopath" into Google. I'm sure some of the links you pulled...
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Aug 25, 20183 min read


Remedy Highlight: Elderberry
Sambucus nigra (Elder bush) I came across this beautiful yet menacing plant while hiking in Cascade Canyon near Jenny Lake in the Grand...
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Aug 21, 20183 min read


Road Tripping the Brazelton Way
If you follow my Instagram page, @sparkwellness, you already know that we just got back from a two week road trip out to the Grand Tetons...
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Aug 4, 20183 min read


A Remedy for My Office
As my blog readers know, my job is to provide homeopathic remedies to my patients for their ultimate healing. So it's coming up on five...
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Jul 14, 20182 min read


Walt Disney's Dream
I was lucky enough to visit Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme park in Orlando for a day last week and I’m still giddy about it. From the...
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Jun 29, 20183 min read


I Believe in Magic
It began with a gesture. I was at the Joint American Homeopathic Conference in Long Beach, California in 2014. She had a beautiful...
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Jun 29, 20181 min read


Coming Into the Light
One of my many favorite Cloud Cult lyrics is from their song Everybody Here is a Cloud. The line goes, “Somebody turn the lights out....
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Jun 29, 20182 min read


How to End Gun Violence
19Feb18 This morning as we were getting ready for our day my husband had Minnesota Public Radio streaming into our bedroom. I could only...
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Jun 29, 20183 min read


Looking Within
As the temperatures drop and the leaves fall, I start to get excited. I love living in Minnesota because the season change is one of my...
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Jun 29, 20182 min read


Perspectives
Last week, like most families, we started back to school. I think all of us appreciated the return to our regular routines and...
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Jun 29, 20182 min read


Trash Challenge
Every year as a family we create New Year's resolutions. We make a big long list for us as a family and a shorter list for each...
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Jun 29, 20183 min read


Keeping Your Center
The pain and suffering in the world seems unrelenting. All you have to do is open a newspaper, turn on the TV or even check Facebook to...
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Jun 29, 20183 min read


Sunscreen 101
My husband LOVES to research things that he's curious about. He's the guy I go to when I'm trying to decide between two products or...
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Jun 29, 20184 min read


My Parenting Story
In the wee hours of the morning on Wednesday, March 3rd, 2004, I became a mom. I was 27 years old, had an okay career as an IT...
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Jun 29, 20186 min read


Reflections
My spray tan is fading and I’ve now spent two days on the “see food” diet. These last three months have been some of the most...
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Jun 29, 20186 min read


The Thorn
*I posted this in the newsletter and wanted to leave a permanent copy here. Enjoy. An excerpt from Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer:...
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Jun 29, 20185 min read


Into the Woods (and back out again)
If you've been reading my blog you know that my last post was about my feet being in jail and I was lamenting the fact that we’d had to...
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Jun 29, 20186 min read


Things That Irritate Me
I posted this quote on the Spark Wellness Facebook page last week. Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an...
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Jun 29, 20182 min read
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