Pizza Time!

B'SD


6 Shvat 5772

One of the themes in

is to make the most of opportunities and the tools available to you. Creative thinking is another motif in the book.


Click http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRYcDOqJDuA&feature=player_embedded to get an adorable look at how a sincere desire to help can not only save lives, but also make you smile whenever you think about the event. Go ahead, nurture that healing Inner Giggle I mention in the book.


Gosh, I want to make a pizza now...




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Breaking News - or Not?

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5 Shvat 5772


I apologize for not blogging as much as usual lately. I've been busy helping a neighbor facing a very frightening cancer diagnosis, preparing food for a poor family's bar mitzva party, delivering clothes I've collected to needy families, and driving about for several days with some reporters who've arrived from abroad. 


The reporters are in Israel to create a documentary about violence against women (I'm sure you've heard about the rock throwers ordering women off sidewalks and to the backs of public buses, by now). I'm one of several victims of women-bashing predators interviewed in the broadcast. I pray that my words will be presented in the context that I intended them, after edits are made to the film.


Carl Jung taught that "I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become." Learn how to make that mindset yours, no matter how or what you've suffered, when you read

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Lose Weight, Live Healthier Lives and LOVE the Food!

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1 Shvat 5772

Not keeping those "Lose weight" new year's resolutions are you? I suspect that this is not just about willpower. It's about flavor. A meal is something to savor.


You can lose weight, lower your bad cholesterol levels and love the experience. All it takes are some almonds, barley, cinnamon, fruit, garlic, ginger, grape seed oil, oatmeal, olive oil, pistachios, salad fixings, sea salt, walnuts, whole grains and lots of other delicious foods.


Fill your flavorful dreams with whole foods and pure water, teas, juices and other natural fare. It's the packaged, processed gunk coming off the assembly lines that are ruining your waistline - and possibly lowering your timeline. They're loaded with fat, salt and synthetic chemicals that human bodies don't need. The goo just messes up your metabolism and much more.


Watch your health turn into something better, and more affordable, day by day. Don't believe me? I used to joke that a candy bar in each hand made a balanced meal. Then I turned a deadly diagnosis into a medical recovery miracle by improving my diet.


Read all about it, and how simple life can be in

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NEW Radio Show to Improve Your Health & Coping Skills!

B'SD


29 Tevet 5772


I've been busy behind the scenes, preparing to launch the Refua Radio Show! If all works according to plan (and if I can smack the Murphy's Law Monster on the nose), launch date will happen mid-February 2012.

Listen to the all-new Refua Radio Show with 

Yocheved Golani!

http://embraceisrael.com/refua/

 (In plain English, "refua" means "healing")

Author of highly acclaimed It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry If I Need To: EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge, Yocheved addresses the diverse needs of disabled, ill and recovering readers. Her impressive database of medically-related information and charitable organizations willing to pay some or all of a patient’s bills can solve or prevent many problems.

Certified in counseling skills, by Refuah Institute in 2008, Yocheved Golani is neither a therapist nor a medical professional. She is a dedicated researcher and congenial conversationalist. Listen to what she can tell you about "how to get your grin back" despite what you’re going through. Think the strengthening thoughts that Yocheved uses to sign off on her blog and in her presentations with audiences: "Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity. Face Your Future with Optimism."

You don't have to be Jewish to participate on the Refua Radio Show. We welcome people from all faiths and ethnic backgrounds. Yocheved is doing her best to keep you covered with necessary healthcare.

Yocheved says, "Even when we can’t heal physically (GOD is in charge of that), we can heal emotionally and spiritually. No one-upmanship is involved on the Refua Radio Show. I’m not smarter or better than you. I’m simply sharing information I know. You’ll decide to use it or not. Share the laughs, insights, and organization tips from a compassionate point of view. Let’s chat from my Bet Shemesh, Israel broadcast studio soon! "

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"If you think it's expensive to hire 

a professional to do the job, 
wait until you hire an amateur." - Red Adair

Medical Disclaimer
The information and ideas in the Refua Radio Show are not intended to replace personal advice from a licensed physician or mental health professional; they do not constitute a doctor-patient or therapist-client relationship. Information in this broadcast is provided for informational purposes only. It is not a substitute for professional medical advice, nor a substitute for diagnosing or treating an emotional, mental, or medical condition. You need to consult board certified medical and mental health professionals in all matters relating to your health, and for suspected symptoms of illness requiring diagnosis or medical attention (including simple first aid). For spiritual matters, consult sensibly behaved clergy who demonstrate complete respect for your wellbeing. Your actions, based on information in this show, are at your own responsibility and discretion. Yocheved Golani and Embrace Israel are not liable for any direct or indirect claim, loss or damage resulting from use of idea and information presented on The Refua Radio Show and/or any media materials including web site(s) and blogs linked to/from it.






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An Effective Solution for Lice (Heads up, Parents!)

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28 Tevet 5772

WOW I'm hearing from globe-trotting acquaintances with itchy heads. Apparently it's quite easy to catch lice as you lean against your airline seat! Some people did just that over the holiday season and afterwards. The problem isn't limited to school children.

My advice? Trash old hairbrushes and combs. Ridding them of the lice infestation is hard to do.

Get new ones.

Trim your hair as much as tolerable 

to remove hiding places for sneaky lice.

Here's a homeopathic cure that can work for all ages (no guarantees, just my best suggestion): Gilco-Pharm (an Israeli company) makes a 2-part RID-Lice kit with a shampoo & spray. Use as directed (you'll need a lice comb and some disposable shower caps as the spray remains on hair for 8 hours - sleeptime). Follow that treatment with a daily shampoo using Mellaluca's original shampoo every day for a week.

Remember to isolate infected clothing and bedding. Bag them in plastic and tie a tight knot. Keep these items bagged for two weeks. The lice will die for lack of nourishment from human bodies. Launder, and reuse after the time is up. I highly recommend vacuuming bedding, including pillows, on  a daily basis. If you can, buy a new pillows or cover the infected ones in sealed plastic bags covered with fresh, clean pillow cases. It's possible to sleep on the slightly noisy pillows creaking from plastic bags. Release the pillows from the plastic bags after two weeks, vacuum out the dead lice and reuse.

With Passover approaching and hail hitting many windows across the globe, I'm looking out for the frogs, grasshoppers and wild beasts. You just never know what's going to happen with the weird weather patterns heading around the world. The only cure and preventative for them, as far as I know, is perfectly decent behavior  ;^ D

Good luck getting rid of your itchy scalps, world travelers, school kids and everyone else.

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Here's How to Tame that Too Much To-Do List

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24 Tevet 5772


The key to finishing multiple tasks, or even one task, is to start working on them!


Illness, disabilities, and all the tedious tasks of managing with them can leave you feeling sleepy, foul tempered and/or defeated. Insurance regulations and blizzards of associated paperwork are monsters. Appointment schedules can drive you nutz as you try to schedule conflicting dates. Scheduling hard-to-get rides causes BIG headaches. So do other "little" details such as remembering how to combine medications or even when to take them, to prevent new health problems. And what about your inefficient personal funding for those medical costs looming all around you? 

YOU JUST WANT TO SCREAM, right?

You need to Tame that Too Much To-Do List.

And yourself.

Now, imagine yourself  dashing across a red ribbon finish line. Your mind and heart swell with pleasure and relief at the successful moment.

Ready to cross the starting line?

Find out why so many medical and mental health professionals agree that EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge can help you to get the right things done first, second, and third.


The writing is full of good humor and funny stories from famous people who teach all of us how to achieve a victory and how to avoid too many distractions.

If you hear yourself or someone you care about
saying things like:

Someday . . .

I’m going to try . . .

As soon as I have some time . . .

Right now it’s on my back burner . . .

You just know that there are too many things
that aren't getting done.

Find out how to put your priorities in order. Succeed with managing your medical, emotional and/or disability life.


Yes, it's payback time for all that unnecessary suffering that procrastination or confusion added to your life.


Achieve your goals. Reach your finish line. How? Cross the starting line.

I thank my online friend businessman Harry Burstyn for sharing ideas I could translate into medical mindsets.

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How to Face Illness with Courage, Humor and Dignity

B'SD


23 Tevet 5772


I have much to share with you, today. First is this lovely message from the administrator for the Association of Americans and Canadians in Israel (AACI) Netanya location where I interacted with audience members this past Sunday. She responds to my thank you remarks for letting me appear on her stage with the words:


On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Rachel Rubin Hirsch of Netanyaaaci.org.il wrote:

Thank you- it us who should be giving  you the thanks.

We really appreciate you making the effort to come through and talk to us.

I will pass your details on to our Jerusalem and Tel Aviv offices – your talk is excellent and I hope they will get back to you and arrange a program with you.

Wishing you all the very best. Regards,

Rachel

Secondly, I want to share a though-provoking link to a website about a husband and wife struggling to overcome her illness: http://embraceisrael.com/crossing-the-yarden-i-have-sat-through-many-a-college-and-graduate-course-in-religion-and-philosophy-and-have-never-really-understood-what-religion-is-all-about-until-i-saw-you-and-your-deeds/

Not all of us are this humorous, dignified or courageous about illness. Some of us simply weep. That's normal, at times. As EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge and I teach our readers, "A medical crisis - you'd cry too, if it happened to you. Use your tissues and handkerchiefs with my blessings borne of experience. GOD gives you Permission to Weep. And you can say that to any critics after explaining that "It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry if I Need To."




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