Would you pray please? It matters to ALL of us...

  • May 12, 2021 06:52 PM Central
  • Paula Baron
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Today is Mother’s Day, 2021.  What are you doing for your day?  I’m writing to get the word out about a very important topic to not only Mom’s but also to Dad’s, children, Grandmom’s and Granddad’s everywhere.

We were created for such a time as this, so goes a verse in the book of Ester in the Bible.  I have heard this over and over.  Even got the t-shirt.  O.k. maybe not the t-shirt but I did get the coffee mug.  What does that verse mean to you?


To me, it means fighting for my rights and my child’s rights to have an integrative medical approach for any and all conditions that we might have.  My youngest son happened to be born with two copies of the aberrant genes for Cystic Fibrosis.  In a nut shell this genetic mutation causes mucus to be thick and stick instead of thin and slippery.  Mucus is EVERYWHERE in the body, not just the nasal passages and lungs, but everywhere you can imagine as it keeps processes moving along or not moving in the case of Cystic Fibrosis. 


So what’s a Mom to do when faced with a life threatening disease in her child?  Pray.  A lot.  What do I do Lord?  I first got prayer at a BBQ my small church “life” group was having on a balmy Sunday summer evening. “The Lord wants to absorb your grief” said my friend who began praying over me and my son.  


And He did.  HE ABSORBED my grief, so I could function and keep on keepin’on as they say here in Texas.  I have not cried one more tear over my son’s diagnoses since that very evening. 


What do I need from you?  To please rally around me and my son in prayer, but not just for us but for our entire  broken medical system to be revamped to include plant based care alongside pharmaceuticals when necessary.  For choices to be just that, choices.  


Without going into gory detail, I have been under the thumb of the medical model in this country through the court systems and have had to use pharmaceutical care almost exclusively and have had my other options almost completely eliminated.  Coming against the establishment is not an easy thing to do, but with God all things are possible.  


Please pray for God’s will to be done and that no longer will children be taken from their parents for exercising their choice in how they care for their health.  I’m not talking extreme here, but I am talking taking down the established assumptions that all medicines are o.k. for my child.  That he just has to get used to the awful side effects and then expect to take yet another medication when those side effects get to be too much for him.


CPS has been called on me no less than three times because I exercised my rights to assess and determine what was best for my son.  I would say “our son” to include Dad, but right now he is on the other side of the table.  My heart is broken over this.  
 
 Please if you would, 

  • pray for all parents and people everywhere to have the right to freely choose their medical care.  No fear tactics utilized by medical system.
  • pray that all physicians would be trained in natural care extensively as well as pharmaceutical care.  That Big Pharma will no longer rule the medical system and schools. 
  • Pray for my son to get on the best regimen for HIS system.  Pray for his and my strength and courage to win a landmark decision validating a parents right to choose the treatment path.

Do You Feel Stuck?

  • Feb 3, 2021 09:27 AM Central
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Removing the Fiery Five!

  • May 30, 2020 10:34 PM Central
  • Paula Baron
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Removing the Fiery Five!
This is a feast I gathered up at a local market when were on a weekend vacation in February. Lots of nuts and seeds including chocolate covered pecans!  (Not pictured here, soft white rolls to make turkey and cheeses sandwiches, using guacamole instead of mayonnaise for a spread).  Now for a little back story on how my family began eating gluten free as a lifestyle.

Many years ago, my family was getting sicker by the day and we didn't know why!  Finally, one month after my older son's 6th birthday, we found out why.  Mold.  The worst kind.  Stachybotrys chartarum and other species that I also cannot spell without looking up,gave us what our air inspector called "a witches brew" inside our kitchen.  We had the air tested where we found the source, all the way back in the nursery for my then 2 year old, and in the master bedroom.  Sure enough spores had circulated throughout the house.  

At one point in this ordeal of sickness, my children's Dad said he would take them to the pediatrician to have them checked out. I told him to go ahead,  but after all my years of health problems, I had done enough research to suspect ;-) that a typical pedi exam was probably not going to cut it.  I was glad he was trying to help, but sure enough, the doctor said they were both fine.  Mold illness requires a look much deeper than a general office exam, so sure enough we ended up at an environmental doctor who did a much deeper exam. 

I tend to go on rabbit trails and I just thought I would share with you what brought us to a real wake up call to learn about foods and what ones we needed to avoid to repair our immune systems that had been saturated with poisons basically for four years.  When we called to make an appointment with an environmental doctor the secretary, before we even booked an appointment,  actually told us we should get on the gluten free diet right away, and also avoid dairy, peanut products, and sugar. Never had an office person do that before! 

My children and I stayed fairly strict on this diet for about seven months, along with taking internal essential oils, herbs and activated charcoal that the doctor recommended and we began feeling better.  So what did we do?  Test the waters with other foods of course!  LOL. We looked o.k. on the outside but I could see a difference start creeping in with my boys in subtle ways and then in not so subtle ways.  This diet has had to become a lifestyle for us.  If it is not followed I see signs of it in myself and my sons.  

Again, I will leave more details of that subject for another post.  On to some pictures of simple dinners you can make that are gluten free and delicious!  I cook pretty simple much of the time for various reasons, but please know there are more traditional things like casseroles that can also be converted into gluten free dishes.

Pictured here are two hamburger patties with melted goat cheese smothered on top on a bed of red lettuce leaves and sliced tomatoes of course! When I eliminate dairy, I do allow for goat cheese or small amounts of hard cheeses for my family, like sharp cheddar. I will admit, I find dairy the hardest to completely eliminate!

Thankfully, I had been eating this way, for the most part anyhow for over 20 years due to chronic health issues myself, so it wasn't hard to do it when I was told my children needed to eat that way!

Now it is easier than ever to keep gluten free.  Sticking to whole foods will get you there, and restaurants often offer gluten free menus and there are snacks and baking mixes galore for when you want to have a special treat and not feel like you are having to miss out on taste.  Believe me, things have come a LONG way in 20 years since I began changing the way I ate so I could feel better! And the bonus was I lost thirty pounds within the first couple months by eliminating these foods. 
I love to photograph colorful food, much to the chagrin of my children. I often have to make them wait to start eating while I snap a couple photos ;-) . The other night we had this dinner; mixed fruit salad, grilled chicken, sunflower seeds and dried apricots.  O.k., so maybe my boys didn't care for the apricots.  ;-( . I found a great alternative to soda that is a live kombucha sparkling probiotic tea. They have several flavors that try to mimic regular soft drinks, we like the root beer one the best!  One son likes this drink and my other likes a regular ginger flavored Master Brew Kombucha that also has live probiotics in it.  Anyhow!  Read on...

 If you really need to be 100% gluten free rather than gluten friendly as some people call it, then watch your spices as they can contain hidden gluten. Sauces, salad dressings, soy sauce, etc. I bought this chicken at a local grocery store so in order to be 100% GF you would need to ask if there was any gluten in the spices used to coat the chicken.  

Below I have pictured an early dinner that we ate last week!  We will often throw in a gluten free pizza later on to top off my boys to get them the extra calories they crave! Below I have a  salad with pecans, craisins, mixed greens, and sunflower seeds drenched in a creamy balsalmic salad dressing, getting us the good fats from both the nuts and seeds and also the salad dressing. There are excellent minerals in red leaf lettuce and sunflower seeds especially. The plate has several slices of smoked gouda, black peppered turkey breast (I prefer Boar's Head brand), strawberries, more craisins ;-), and gluten free pretzels. Dessert is in the right upper corner, it is a delicious brownie make with flax flour! I also offer a side of nutella for dipping the pretzels in but we have discovered it is actually good for dipping just about anything, except ketchup my son told me the other night. Again getting in more calories for my growing boys! Disclaimer: Nutella does contain sugar and the cheese has a bit of dairy ;-).... I tell people to ease into this and don't try to take away absolutely everything unless you have to.
 Mixed red leaf & greens salad with pecans, craisins, sunflower seeds smoked gouda, black peppered turkey breast, strawberries, and gluten free pretzels. Barbeque chicken (made from leftovers), almond crackers, crisp pea snaps, watermelon and blackberries.   Another simple Gluten and dairy free dinner.  
Chicken nuggets, pumpkin seeds, 
blackberries and applesauce.  

Breakfast anyone? or dinner... Pork tamales, scrambled eggs, avocadoe and apple slices.
Snack idea: Fresh strawberries with a little brown sugar dip, pumpkin seeds and macadamia nuts with mineral salt!

I enjoy making smoothies for a bedtime snack- protein powder blended with ice, frozen or fresh fruit and a couple drops of orange essential oil or my favorite, add cold water, ice cubes, vanilla extract, 5 drops of nutmeg and 3 drops of orange essential oil to one scoop vanilla protein powder and blend!  Yum! This Protein mix contains whey as one of it's 5 sources of protein, so be aware if you cannot tolerate ANY dairy at all.
 

Super Easy BBQ grilled chicken, GF cornbread from a mix,
fresh fruit and bell peppers with a tzatziki sauce for dipping!

On the subject of sandwiches, my older son finds that he likes it better if he toasts the bread before making his sandwich to take to school, even though it is not warm by the time he eats it for lunch.  I am still working to get all my food pictures up, stay tuned for steak and veggie dinner pics, grilled salmon with rice and green beans, and loaded bake potatoes are a few of the favorite dinners I like to make!  Hopefully you can see, eating gluten free is not so daunting!  

I highly recommend removing these five foods from your diet no matter who you are!  Getting inflammation down throughout the body is good for everyBODY!  Thanks for reading!

Rotten Eggs

  • May 29, 2020 06:20 PM Central
  • Paula Baron
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Rotten Eggs
When I think of this dis-ease called Cystic Fibrosis it makes me want to cry.  Yes, cry.  But I actually don't think I have cried more than a few times since that fateful day in the clinic for Cystic Fibrosis in Ft. Worth Texas, where the doctor took almost two hours to explain the disease, the genetics, the prognosis and then the hope that he felt there was due to new drugs that were in an advanced stage of research, back in 2010 when my son was born.  

From the beginning I believed that God would heal my son.  I didn't know how exactly or when but I just believed that the Bible has God's promises in it and one of them was for healing. Jesus after all, healed them ALL didn't he?  

I have fought a long hard battle with and for my son in order to actually prevent him from having to take the often prescribed pharmaceutical medications.  Am I glad they are around? Yes indeed I am.  There have been times where they were just what the doctor ordered, no pun intended. But there are times when they have done him great harm and caused great suffering.  

I am beside myself with grief at this point because my son has suffered so much, and yet I am also filled with deep gratitude for the way that God has shown me how to care for my son and my family, using the plants that he created.  

What do I mean by using plants?  Essential oils are made from plants.  But not just any essential oil, I only use Young Living Essential oils on my family.  The price may be higher than other companies but that is because they put a great deal of care into how the plants are farmed and distilled.  Not only do they make sure that no one who works on the farm is in a bad mood, they have third party testers run chromatography tests on every single batch of oil that is produced.  

Why is this a big deal?  Because making sure that a plant contains all the proper constituents is key to making sure it will work as God intended.  If it won't you just have a high priced bottle of oil that may smell really good but it won't produce the therapeutic effects that you need when caring for someone with thick sticky mucus.  

This past month of my son's life has brought more challenges than ever before.  I won't go into the details of the why or wherefore here, but I have found a deeper appreciation for the properties of the plants.  I will never forget the difference between the visit to the emergency room where we used oils quite aggressively for helping my son stay calm to when we did not.  

Because of the increased difficulty, I have had to use the oils in new ways and for new challenges.  The emergency room visit though still sticks in my mind.  As my son was about to get a procedure on a private part of his body that before has brought him great distress, he actually stayed still for the nurses to do what they needed to do.  I used a combination of oils I might not have otherwise, because I accidentally left the Peace and Calming blend at home!

Thankfully I had Valor, another awesome blend, in my purse.  I put several drops all over each ear, along his upper and lower spine and then when the procedure was being done I had a blend called Trauma Life that I had put in my hands.  I held my hands along with his, close to his face so he could breath in the vapors of essential oil that beautifully did their job to get to the upper parts of the brain to help keep him calm.  Wow.  Just wow.  There are no words for how much difference there was in that ER visit compared to the last urgent visit.  

I've finally come to a place where I am accepting that my son is carrying the genes for Cystic Fibrosis and the healing from God is not what I imagined, maybe it still will be one day, but until then, He has shown me a different way to care for my son that has allowed us to not just survive but closer to thrive as much as one can anyhow, when dealing with a diagnoses as serious as Cystic Fibrosis.  

You may have noticed that the title of this post was Rotten Eggs.  Or should I have said, IS Rotten Eggs.  :-) . I hate grammar.  Back to the reason for the tittle.  I titled this post Rotten Eggs because that is what I may have right now all over my backyard.  You see, I spoke with my counselor recently about my son coming to an age where he seems to be dealing mentally with his diagnoses.  This bright counselor told me that it was really good if he would grieve the diagnoses now instead of waiting until down the road.  She said research has shown that it helps to get the body involved in the grieving.  How so you ask?  

I am not sure how it came to me but I got the idea of writing all of the crummy things that come with a diagnoses of Cystic Fibrosis onto the shells of a dozen eggs.  I let my son come up with all the things he hates about Cystic Fibrosis and then I wrote them down on the eggs.  He then got to take the egg and throw it as hard as he could against the fence.  I want to apologize to the neighbors to the right of me and the ones behind us for any stray eggs that may or may not have come from our little therapy session. 









My son enjoyed coming up with all the, please excuse the expression, "sucky" things that come with this disorder or should I say dis-ease.  We have had a particularly large number of awful theoretically untreatable or difficult to treat bacteria due to exposure to toxic black mold from in the womb to age three and a half when we discovered black mold hiding in the cavity of our kitchen wall.  I am more than pleased to report that we have whittled that down to "general staph" and I am expecting that to go next.  

We have cleared all of these bacteria without the use of traditional pharmaceutical treatments.  I am not able to say that we treated a disease with the use of essential oils because we are not regulated by the FDA.  Isn't that interesting?  I think so.  The very organization that funds medical schools does not allow for companies that sell natural remedies to speak of them in relation to disease.  Hmph.  So, I will do my best to comply and play by the rules, but I have medical documentation of a little boy who no longer has MRSA, pseudomonas, heamopholis influenza, and B cepacia.  

How do I account for these results?  Many things actually.  Diet is probably the most important thing to keep under control, use of essential oils pro-actively and making sure that anyone and everyone around my son does not speak of the disease as a death sentence.  Words matter. God created the world with His breath.  He tells us in His word that the power of life and death is in the tongue.  What are we speaking over ourselves or our children?  

This may sound strange but my son did not even know he had CF until he was around the age of 6.  Yes, we did treatments, albeit using natural means, but that was just how life was.  He did not question it because he didn't know any different.  I say that, but we actually did not start the nebulizing of essential oils until he was 4.  Since then he has not nebulized a single pharmaceutical solution other than when I was forced to by his doctor.  That is another story for another post.  Suffice it to say that my son actually likes doing his treatments.  The smells are heavenly and they help to manage the emotional end of this bear of a disease as well.   

If you are interested in learning about a different way to care for Cystic Fibrosis, I would love to help show you the path.  In order to help you, I am busy setting up a back office full of educational videos.  These videos when they are up and running will only be available to members of Young Living.  I need to produce an income so I can keep doing the education and support my two sons!  I am a single mom of two gorgeous red heads, one escaped the CF genes, one did not.  

It is with deep joy that I write this post.  Not the happy kind of joy but the deep down kind of joy that comes from knowing I can help others get through a really really awful disease using natural means that don't have all the awful side effects that are produced by using pharmaceutical enzymes or nebulized medication.  I occasionally will find the benefit necessary from an oral antibiotic but I try to keep that to a minimum in hopes of sparing the good gut bacteria.  

Please feel free to contact me using the chat feature on this page or send me an e-mail.  I am happy to connect with you and schedule a 30 minute free consultation to see how I can best be of help to you and your family.   

#MeToo #YouToo? #Aroma Freedom

  • May 29, 2020 06:12 PM Central
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#MeToo #YouToo? #Aroma Freedom

Dear God, 


I am writing this letter today to tell you that I am done.  


Done with the pain, the angst, the anxiety, the will to live. 


 Ever feel like that?  Yeah, me too.  Which brings us to the point of social media’s great #metoo.  What is it about being understood that feels so good to our hearts and minds?  


The human condition.  


The human condition. 


 Being understood does something for our souls that nothing else can.  Validation is another word that comes to mind.  What is it that you would like me to know?  


Have you been hurt beyond belief?  Friends betray you?  Husband leave you?  Family disown you?  I have experienced all three.  Yup.  In fact twice to the husband part.  There is nothing quite like a partner who has taken a vow with you leaving you in the middle of the night, or in my case when I left the apartment we lived in, for a quick job interview, to come back to a note telling me that he had to go.  


The pain of that season is like nothing else I can recall.  That is until the memories of childhood sexual abuse began to spill out. Don’t get me wrong, they did not start spilling out like a movie on a movie screen, but in bits and pieces.  Sometimes a snap shot, but most often for me, as body memories.  There, I said it.  It makes me sick just to write the words.  


Childhood sexual abuse.  


What makes it even worse is the sickening feeling I get when I think about how my family disowned me.  


Was it the right thing I did by coming forward to tell my father about my memory that had surfaced?  No question it was.  


I was unable to keep on the mask any longer after finding out he had sexually abused me. It has taken years to unravel the details, as there was a lot of other abuse getting in the way so to speak.  You see, we are kind of like an onion, and when you start to find out about abuse that happened to you in your younger years, you may also find that you need to first peel back the layers of some older years.


What do I mean by that?  


You may first need to open up your mind to the possibility of abuse that could have happened to you as an adult even, because that may need to be dealt with first.  How do you do that?  Aroma Freedom Technique.  What’s that you ask?  It is a technique for getting to the “junk”.  When I went to my weekend of training, the process was unraveled to me or should I say my mind was unraveled.  


Events that did not seem to have any connection came to mind, eventually connecting pieces of a puzzle, only the pieces did not form a beautiful picture, they were pictures of the same issue over and over again.  


Rejection. 


Abandonment.


Sexual abuse.  


If you allow yourself to try this process, I can lead you through sessions where you will cover a lot of ground in under two hours.  Sessions typically last one and a half hours to include time to wrap up and get our next time set up on the calendar. 


 
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