What You Do Is Why We Celebrate
Party Lights: Healthy Party Foods and Earthwise Entertaining is a colorful, resourceful reference book that is for and about celebrations. Written by CCNH alumna Linda Page, ND, PhD, we use this book often because of its fun, festive, healthy, and methodical approach to celebrating so many of life’s greatest moments.
A party is a gift you give to your family and friends, she says, noting that the perfect celebration includes relaxation, excitement, interest, activity, inspiration and sometimes even therapy—all rolled into one.
The most memorable celebrations can reacquaint old friends and introduce interesting new ones. Finding opportunities to look at things a different way, freshen our outlook, and elevate our thoughts can maneuver us out of ruts. That’s why colleagues seek and reach out to each other with educational conferences, online chats, and Web links that keep us in touch.
A celebration of wellness education, for ourselves and others, honors a daily ritual of choosing nutritious, nurturing, natural foods. Books like Party Lights and the “Holistic Kitchen” at www.ccnh.edu make it easier than ever to grow, select, and prepare the good, healthy foods that bring together families and friends.
Because our health and our planet’s health are so closely attuned, intentional celebrations also hold reverence for ecology and our precious environment.
Since Clayton College students and graduates live, work, and travel all over the world, not all our stars can shine together in one place, at one time, for a silver celebration. With alumni from all walks of life, one celebration story can’t grasp the magnitude of what all of you are doing, locally and globally. Your coaching, consulting, public speaking, books, and media outreach are changing the world, and CCNH could not be more proud of all your achievements!
Throughout this silver anniversary your alma mater celebrates and honors the vast diversity of what you’re doing and how you do it. Thank you for telling your stories and for choosing Clayton College as your partner in lifelong learning. Here are just a few of the many reasons we celebrate.
Taking Care of Our Land
With more than 25 years of experience in the green industry, ND candidate Brian Jones is lucky the first few years didn’t kill him. Throughout college the young landscaper spent his summers with pesticides, herbicides, and chlorinated water.
After forming his own landscaping company in 1981, three years later he converted it to all natural and non-toxic. This followed his own healing crisis, a deep cleanse to detoxify his liver, lymph, colon, and connective tissue. These many years later, it’s only natural that Brian’s doctoral studies include a concentration in herbology!
His company, Natural Gardens and Lawns, Inc., includes: Safe Turf© to convert parks, school grounds, and planned communities; Growing Solutions © organic products such as compost tea systems, rock mineral powders, and biologically active seaweed powder; and SunFire Institute, which teaches big corporations and little neighborhoods how to work together to protect nature and ourselves.
“I help people understand the interconnection of humanity’s health within our environment. I think Clayton (College) sees the importance of teaching our children’s children how to heal the earth and heal ourselves. There is a very bright light, a strong energy that emanates from CCNH and from your teachings and permeates the world.”
For more information: www.safeturf.com and www.growingsolutions.com.
Creating Cleaner, Non-toxic Home Environments
Joan Abernathy loves the way our conference coincides with Earth Day. She loves being able to reconnect, year after year, with so many like-minded souls, and she knows that each of us have specialty areas and information to share.
Joan is now on her fourth successful career, after a CCNH textbook, Tired or Toxic? changed her life. She recently completed an MS degree and is now working on her PhD.
“We did a total home conversion (detox) and my allergies of 30 years totally disappeared, along with my husband’s skin rash. My energy level came back up and fatigue no longer became a factor in my life.
“I felt so much healthier that suddenly my ‘inner educator’ came out. My passion is now to teach others how to keep the detox pathways clear in our body and how endocrine disruption—from chemicals in so many commercial products—destroys health and longevity.”
According to The New England Journal of Medicine, 80% of all cancers are caused by the environment’s influence on our bodies. There is a lot of external pollution that we cannot control, she adds, but our home can be our safe haven if we make informed, intelligent choices about what we bring inside. We can be in control of our health and energy.
The skin is our largest organ of absorption and elimination. What we allow on it is absorbed into our system quickly. What we breathe into our lungs is absorbed even faster.
“By the time we can smell a chemical it is already into our blood stream. Every person who is educated and willing to change can affect the lives of family, friends, coworkers, on and on.”
Common toxins to avoid:
Dry-cleaning chemicals, lotions, shampoos, nail polish, toothpaste, and hair spray.
Tap water, which is often contaminated with traces of arsenic. Chlorine, while killing bacteria, also kills intestinal enzymes and leads to cellular damage.
New kitchen cabinets; furniture and carpet all outgas formaldehyde, which attacks every organ system in the body.
The environment affects our hormones (chemicals act as hormone disruptors and mimic estrogen), our immune system and our energy (neurological) systems.
To learn more about home and personal detoxification, contact Joan at: yourinnerimage@iglide.net.
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