Archive - Spirit of Change Magazine

Protecting Your Access To Health Care Freedom In Massachusetts

Safe harbor practitioner exemption laws allow holistic professionals to practice freely in the public domain, while giving consumers maximum freedom of choice in health care options.

Self-Care Wisdom

A collection of self-care stories, tips and inspiration from the Spirit of Change archive.

Spring Vegetables: Fast, Fresh Food For Body & Soul

Spring has finally sprung, and with it a desire to lighten up. Going with the seasonal flow means leaning toward fresh bitter greens, herbs, plant proteins and spring vegetables.

Revisiting The Soundtrack Of Your Life

From the moment you were born, your subconscious mind went to work and began its job as your personal scribe — the recorder of every event you ever experienced in your life — past present or future.

Bio-Electricity — The Most Overlooked Factor Of The Technological Revolution

Could wireless radiation be ruining our sex lives?

Stop Your Tics By Learning What Triggers Them

Like most in the Tourette community, I believed that my child’s tics were inevitable and out of our control. A new world has now opened up for us.

Is It Selfish To Take Time For Self-Care?

As a functional medicine and Oriental medicine doctor seeing patients with complex chronic diseases, I admit my perspective may be skewed. However, it seems to me as if a majority of our culture is excessively worried and maintains an unhealthfully busy schedule.

Astrological Forecast For Spring-Summer 2019

The stars continue to challenge us. Saturn is moving into a conjunction with Pluto in Capricorn, for the first such alignment since the 1930 discovery of the solar system’s tiniest and most distant planet.

The Value Of Civility

Selections from the newsletter “A Curriculum of Hope for a Peaceful World,” Fall 2018

Self-Care To Maintain Eye Health At Any Age

You can learn to help preserve your eyesight and become an active participant in your own vision care.

Musings: How To Turn Self-Care Into Self-Cure

Fifteen years ago my dear friend Patricia Burke, an energy sensitive canary-in-the-coal-mine coping with living in a wifi world, sent me “Healing Wombs: The Arvigo® Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy,” an article to publish in Spirit of Change.

Natural Healing For A Broken Ankle

It was the first Friday of the new year. The year was 2014 and I was living in hilly central Massachusetts. Temperatures had been in the frigid zone for days, and the ground was covered by a crystalline snow blanket.

Nurturing Children: Mind, Body And Spirit

My vision of the world includes conscious kids making intelligent decisions for themselves and the world around them as we teach them how to nurture their spirit within.

The 18 Best Healthy Foods To Buy In Bulk (And The Worst)

Buying food in large quantities, also known as bulk shopping, is an excellent way to fill your pantry and fridge while cutting down on food costs.

Do Your Genes Influence How You Support Others?

Can a surge in a particular hormone make us feel and act like a totally different person? And if so, are we right to blame our out-of-control moments on some kind of biochemical signalling?

The Things You Must Consider Before Uncovering Your Ancestry

Discovering our lineage is something that intrigues most of us. We’ve all seen the TV shows that uncover celebrities as related to royalty, and you can’t help but think that could be you too.

Fire Cider Trademark Court Date Set For March 25

It is time to stand up for our herbal legacy! Our enduring hope is that Fire Cider and other traditional herbal recipes will be put in a category that protects them from future trademarking, which will allow everyone to continue to make and sell these traditional herbal recipes.