We know that the odds of sticking to a New Year’s goal are pretty slim. But rather than saying that the odds aren’t in your favor, I thought it’d be helpful to proactively share some of the common reasons people quit or don’t get the results they seek instead. This way, you can ensure quicker results, more long-term consistency, better health, and a better year! The following are THE main reasons why people get discouraged on their new journey, and how to overcome those things.

Many aromatherapy sources claim that some essential oils, such as clary sage, fennel, and bergamot can trigger a miscarriage. Let’s take a look at where that claim originated and if it has any merit or not.

Many children today are living with chronic health problems that started as a result of antibiotic use for an ear infection. This one decision can lead to a childhood (or even a lifetime) of health issues. Unfortunately, most parents don’t know this and are under the impression that they are doing something good for their child when their ear infections are treated with antibiotics.

Let’s look at what the research says and help prevent unnecessary health complications stemming from a childhood ear infection.

Many of my clients are quite knowledgeable in the area of natural health. Some of them ask me, “Should I get tested for MTHFR?” My answer is usually no, which surprises a lot of people.

Since my reasoning for that answer is a bit in-depth and involves information that is not easily found, I figured I’d put it all into one post. Whether you’re familiar with MTFHR or not, this information is something I encourage you to consider.

This blog post is guest-written by my 15-year old daughter, Faith, who has a fierce passion for holistic animal health and enjoys spending many hours researching this topic. After seeing the benefits of a raw food diet in our family dog and cats, she knows the value of it and wrote this to share it with HFFG readers!

I’ve had clients with fabulous success with the Keto Diet. While it’s definitely not for everyone, it can be a very valuable way to lose weight, reduce blood pressure, help balance hormones, etc. for some people. However, there are some very common and sometimes inevitable issues that come with the Keto Diet that need to be addressed for maintaining optimum health.

This festive, simple and healthy chia pudding is a welcomed addition to a holiday brunch or Christmas morning breakfast. It’s the perfect make-ahead option, as flavors will continue to develop overnight and pudding will thicken to an ideal consistency.

Enjoy a healthy melding of chicken pot pie and shepherd’s pie using your leftover turkey.

I used to feel really overwhelmed with skin care regimens that I just avoided them altogether. But as I’m coming up on my 40th birthday in a few months, I realize that it’s time for me to start really taking this seriously. Not so much for outer beauty but to nourish myself from the outside in as well as from the inside out that I’m already doing.

I just attended a Beauty School weekend course where I learned simple, natural ways to incorporate a basic, effective skin care regimen. So in this post, I’m going to show you how simple it is to have the best skin possible without toxic ingredients. Because toxic is not beautiful. We do not have to poison our body to have beautiful skin. In fact, the healthier our body care products are, the more beautiful our skin would be.

In the summer of 2014, my family bought our very own homestead after dreaming of one for years. We knew the kind of things that went into the production of everyday foods and decided to grow/raise as much as we can to avoid toxins going into our foods.

As we began raising our own animals for meat and dairy as well as our garden for fruits and vegetables, I quickly realized the extent of how toxins could sneak into this process. So I set out to go all organic. And I quickly discovered for my own foods and my essential oils that organic isn’t the gold standard we think it is.

As part of a new feature here on Healthy Families for God, we’re going to be bringing some regular new whole foods recipes to help you feed your family healthy! We’re starting out breakfast right with delicious roasted veggies!

After years of professional experience with thousands of clients and with a wide variety of nutritional products, this Lifestyle Overhaul was designed to give anyone a new start.

This program is beneficial for those who already feel great to stay feeling great as well as those who desperately need a complete overhaul.

The Lifestyle Overhaul is carefully designed in a specific order to help minimize any detox discomfort and to first carefully prep the body to accept high-quality, bioavailable nutrition. It includes detoxing and cleansing not just the body physically but the home (and the products in it that poison the body) as well as the emotions.

While we generally look first at hormones when it comes to fertility, holistic health looks deeper at the root. Dr. LeAnne Deardeuff and Dr. David Deardeuff have found cleansing the colon and liver to be the most effective way to support fertility.

Natural healing, or any true healing, can be tough in many cases, but this one's easy. And unfortunately, conventional doctors only prescribe medications that worsen the problem. Sure they may eliminate the migraine at the moment but they are hard on the liver which creates a continuing cycle of worsening toxicity and immediate relief.

I get asked for advice on raising goats naturally very often. It was definitely a huge learning curve because there were natural ways that everyone else was doing and yet their goats were sick and dying often. Their mentors just keep saying to use more herbs.  But it doesn't work, at least not for us. I even tried the conventional route a little too and that didn't work either.

So after many late nights doing research, thumbing through google scholar and Pubmed, fecal testing, and trial and error, the last two years has been amazing. Our goats have never been healthier and it's really simple!

In a nutshell, here's what we do.

When we go against the grain and make the decision to raise our children differently, many people receive some serious pushback from their extended family. Some are ridiculed for their choice to not vaccinate their children. Some find resistance from grandparents in the dietary choices they make for their children. 

At the core, these situations represent relationship problems. So I've collaborated with Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist Brooke Schmidt with Arrow Therapy to help you handle pushback from extended family and promote peace in family relationships.

Just the facts. 

I could share the story of my son's vaccine injury that made me stop and research vaccines.

But I won't. Not in this post. 

This post is just going to be facts and research. The facts and research that isn't being shared. 

If you are in favor of vaccines (like I was), please at least skim through this post. I have made it only from respectable research and cases specifically for you.

The statistics are staggering. Hypertension is a big problem. But medications are dangerous and even being recalled due to cancer risk. High blood pressure indicates a deeper issue, which fortunately can be quite simple (simple, not necessarily easy) to address. 

We all know by now that Teflon is horribly toxic, right? So we've detoxed our pots and pans. But we still need a healthy way to make those healthy gluten-free waffles and pancakes, right?! 

So I spent time digging into the world of non-toxic (or at least the least toxic) waffle irons and griddles. Here's what I found.