Stacey Chillemi, Author at Health and Natural Healing Tips

Living with Epilepsy: Quick Tips for Epilepsy, Menstruation, and Ovulation

PUBLISHED IN THE HUFFINGTON POST I had my first seizure—a grand mal—when I was five years old. When my parents found me, my lips were blue, my eyes were rolled back, and my entire body was shaking. I was diagnosed with encephalitis. The virus had traveled to my brain, causing me to go into a four-day coma. The doctors thought that when I came out of the coma I would probably have some degree of brain damage. My parents sat by my bedside and prayed. On the fourth day, my father looked up to find my eyes wide open. The first thing out of my mouth was “Can I have McDonald's fries?” I sustained no brain damage, but the encephalitis left scar tissue in my brain, resulting...

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Unlock Your Brain Powers With These Extraordinary Ayurvedic Brain Tonics

Ayurvedic Medicine

Shankhpushpi: One teaspoon can help calm and rejuvenate the mind. Help treat anxiety, insomnia, and lethargy. Brahmi: Powder and consumption of milk improve intellect and reduces stress. Jatamansi: It improves the nervous system and cures hypertension and depression. Shatavari: Powder and mix with milk, it fights mental stress and fatigue. In this age of day-by-day increasing mental stress, strain, and cutthroat competition, we are finding it more and more difficult to cope with the pressures of day-to-day life. Ayurvedic brain tonic claims at not only increasing the powers of the brain but also at keeping the mental diseases away, along with helping to cure them desirably. It is believed that a number of diseases have their root in the brain of an individual. That is one of the reasons why...

Each Moment We’re Alive: A Musical and Photographic Story

Book Reviews

I found this book to be very heartwarming, inspirational, and motivational. Packed with touching quotes, simply beautiful photographs, and a CD with songs filled with faith, courage, wisdom, strength, and hope derived from Debra’s and Monica’s rocky journey in life as they battled harrowing events in their lives. Debra and Monica were able to take the traumatic obstacles that crossed their life path and use them as a motivator to grow and create positive change in their life. Each Moment We’re Alive: A Musical and Photographic Story is filled with fabulous insight and inspiration on how to cope, overcome and turn your life around including great advice on how to recover and move on with your life after you have battled with a forever life-changing disease such...

PTSD: The War Disorder That Goes Far Beyond the Battlefield

Book Reviews, PTSD

PUBLISHED IN THE HUFFINGTON POST I found this book to be very heartwarming, informative and motivational. ‘Only the dead have seen the end of the war,” Fred Rendon, Jr. writes. “This is the shadow that darkens every cradle. Trauma is what happens when you catch a surprise glimpse of that darkness.” This passage captures the sadness, pain and profound weight of “My Battle with PTSD,” Rendon's exploration of post-traumatic stress disorder. Rendon weaves together an autobiography of his own experience with PTSD, packed with memories from growing up, touching stories from his exciting journey in military, the traumatic obstacles that crossed his path in Vietnam and a critique of modern treatment that help him overcome his battles with PTSD. The book is timely, coming out when...

8 Simple Ways To Significantly Lower Your Chances Of Ever Getting Cancer

Cancer

[caption id="attachment_26045" align="alignnone" width="770"] Side view of a happy woman relaxed in a swimming pool enjoying vacations with a green and blue background[/caption] By NICOLE FREHSEE When it comes to preventing cancer, your best defense may be common sense: Up to 40% of cancers are caused by "lifestyle behaviors" like smoking, eating too much, and not exercising, according to a 2011 study in The British Journal of Cancer. "Most lung cancers are related to smoking. Skin cancers are related to sun exposure ans a marjority of cervical cancers are related to HPV," says Gregory Masters, MD, an attending physician at the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center in Newark, DE. "Genetics, on the other hand, are related to a fairly small number of cancers, maybe 10 to 15%." As...