Mini-Trade Fair

Come and visit Pat at the Mini-Trade Fair - April 21st at Renées Roadside Diner.

Raw Food Revolution

Join Pat Bredt from Full Circle Health and Nutrition for a series of “Raw Food” classes to inspire and encourage you to try the raw food lifestyle. These classes will provide a guide to help you transition to raw and also to find out about the recipes and techniques to make it a wonderful learning experience. Raw natural foods help prevent many diseases including diabetes, heart disease and cancer. We can avoid many diseases by eating a natural plant based diet. Raw is the ultimate healing diet.  Prices include tasty snacks and entrees made by Pat. The class will take part in a pot luck on the last day of classes.

Pat Bredt is the founder of Full Circle Health and Nutrition where alternative methods of treatment are based on nature and natural remedies. Pat believes that the importance of nutrition in regards to our overall health and well being cannot be understated. If you want to be fully alive and be all that you can be, you need to eat food that is alive. Pat studied with Trinity College of Natural Medicine and obtained her diploma for Nutritional Counseling in 2009 and she is a Chartered Herbalist, through Dominion College. She is also a certified Quantum Touch Healer and has a daily practice of Meditation and QiGong. In 2010, she studied Cranio Sacral Reflexology under Dr. Martine-Alderson DO of France.

Campus:	Creston Campus
Program:	Health and Wellness
Title:	Raw Food Revolution
Start Date:	Thursday, May 10, 2012	Request more information
Start Time:	6:30:00 PM
Cost:	$99 + hst ($110.88)
Days:	Thursday
Course Date:	MAY 10 - 31, 2012
Course Time:	6:30 - 8:30 pm
Contact Name:	Creston | Continuing Education
Instructor:	N/A

The Art of Raw Now Available

Pat's book, The Art of Raw, is now available for purchase at Vital Health in Creston, BC and Kathys Kitchen in Cranbrook.

World Water Day

On March 22, it is World Water Day. I grew up on a farm, and there were many times that our well ran dry, and we needed to haul water. When I didn't have access to the water by a simple turn of a tap, I really began to realize how much I relied on it. 

 

What are you going to do to recognize this amazing resource that we have so readily available to us?

Here are just a few quick tips:

1. When you are brushing your teeth, shut the water off in between rinsing your tooth brush and brushing your teeth.

2. Do not throw toxic products into outside city drains. This water is not treated and goes directly into the river.

In the wise word of Faery Quinella:

“Don’t dump in the water what you wouldn’t drink,

It is time for all humans to wake up and think.

What is dumped in the water ends up inside you,

Honour this precious resource for what it can do.”

May you have a fabulous March and take time to reflect on the incredible blessings that you have in your life...like having water available by the simple turn of a tap!

Out with the new- In with the old

Submitted by Motivation Medics

Many of us view the new year as an opportunity to get rid of the old and bring in the new, resolving to become new and improved versions of ourselves. My challenge to you in 2012 is to start the new year by reclaiming the old. Before becoming enamoured with the possibilities of the “new you”, ask yourself if you've given the old you a fair shake. After all, whats so bad about the old you? We are all so unique, yet we rarely allow our brilliance to shine before we are trying to somehow “improve” or “renew” ourselves.

We live in a culture that tells us we can make ourselves new by changing our face, shape, clothing, friends, perspective or occupation. In reality, change comes from within, not from any external source. Listening to our inner voice that offers guidance and wisdom beyond our mortal years allows us to connect with our old self, rediscover our uniqueness and put our authentic selves forward in all that we do. By rediscovering your authentic self and sharing that with others, you make a new creation from your old self.

What a precious gift our friends, families, lovers, and communities lose if we fail to acknowledge who we are and share our individuality. Many of us ignore our own needs and desires, in order to meet the demands of others. When we make a habit of this, we risk creating a latent self, who we really are still exists but is no longer obvious or visible. When we become “invisible” it is very difficult, if not impossible to connect with others, including ourselves. As a result, we bumble around trying to identify and connect through things in our commercial and social world. We believe it necessary to change our self in order to connect and find more meaning in our lives when what we really need to do is reclaim and embrace what already exists, the old you. I suggest that as long as we continue to look outside ourselves for meaning and renewal we will continue to experience a disconnect from ourselves and others. The best way to make meaningful connections and feel comfortable in our own skin is to get to know our old, latent self and share our uniqueness with others.

To become reacquainted with your old self, cultivate what makes you smile, trust your gut, remember what hobbies and activities you did that seemed to make time fly, recollect topics of conversation that made you sit up straight, move to the edge of your seat and fight the urge to shoot your arm up in the air and shout “me!, pick me!” It will be all of these things that offer clues to our individuality and that which brings us joy.

To live a more joyous life and share our unique gifts with others, we must ensure our life reflects and includes all of the above. Self care is not an option to living a meaningful life. A full life demands more from us than just showing up. We must “bring it” and by “it” I mean our full, lovely and unique self.

This year, why not make your new years resolution the arduous task of excavating your latent desires, meeting your needs and rediscovering your joy. Just imagine discovering that what you've been seeking all this time has been within you all along, your old self.

Best Wishes in 2012 from the Motivation Medics Team