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Atlanta Holistic and Alternative Doctors, Dentists and Resources For Cancer

This is the beginning of a growing list of Atlanta holistic and alternative doctors, naturopaths, and other resources that are supportive of natural and integrative healing from cancer as well as other healing. I will update this page as often as I receive positive recommendations from you all and have my own experiences.

Atlanta holistic and alternative doctors

I get asked ALL THE TIME who I recommend for alternative and holistic practitioners in the Atlanta area. When I healed my cancer naturally back in 2008-2009, I wanted to know the same. Check back often because I will update this as I hear of more positive stories and experiences with new doctors.

Side note: You may also like my list of Atlanta Area Vaccine Friendly, Holistic Pediatricians.

Anyone else have any Atlanta holistic and alternative doctors you love? Add your suggestion to the comments and I’ll add it to the post!

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Making A Decision About Vaccines: Part 4 – Polio Vaccine (IPV)

Before the birth of our first child and prior to starting my research on vaccines, this is about how much I thought I knew about polio and the polio vaccine:

  1. Polio was a really big problem before the vaccine.
  2. Lots of people were paralyzed from polio before the vaccine and many died.
  3. After the vaccine everyone was saved from polio! The end.

It’s not quite that simple though. And I think it’s so important for parents evaluating this vaccine to know the big picture around the rise of polio and all of the factors going on at the time just before and after its peak.

The process of writing this post about polio and the polio vaccine was incredibly intense. At times I just wanted to give up this entire series on vaccines because research on polio was difficult and puzzling. Whereas my other posts on vaccines took a few weeks of compilation and research, this post took months. I’m a huge proponent of “doing hard things”, but when it comes to the history and science and statistics of polio, there is just SO MUCH.

So much history, so much varying opinion, so much politics, and so much FEAR. It’s taken a lot of time to detangle the story and break it down to you guys in a way I think makes sense and stays factual.

To complicate the story even more, just as I was about to wrap up my research on this post, a bombshell was dropped on everything I thought I believed about polio. I found out that my own DAD had polio when he was a toddler. I’m not sure how this never came up in conversation, seeing how big of a deal it is in our culture. But my family never mentioned it.

Last night I had an excellent talk with my 93-year-old grandmother about what it was like going through a polio diagnosis with her child. I knew I had to talk it through with her before I published this post, and what she said cemented my confidence in my decision about polio vaccination even more.

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How My Family Beat the Flu At Home With Natural Remedies

If you are reading this I imagine you are a concerned mama (or papa) trying to keep everyone in your household alive during flu season. I definitely hear ya. We went through it a few years ago, and it is still pretty sharp in my mind. This post explains what I learned about supporting my family with natural remedies while they healed from the flu – without pharmaceutical intervention.

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Review of Truly Free Non-Toxic Laundry Detergent (Five Year Update)

 

Welcome to my updated review of Truly Free (formerly “My Green Fills”) nontoxic laundry detergent. 🙂

I am updating this post after FIVE YEARS of using Truly Free, and I’m happy to say that with years now of baby and kid-stained shirts and smoothie and grease splashes of my own, I am even more grateful for a nontoxic, natural laundry detergent that works!

I remember the first time I switched to “natural” laundry detergent in 2008, shortly after my cancer diagnosis. It seemed pretty decent and not much different than my old Tide or Gain (except a lot less toxic!) Then I had kids and…YAH. This is where my “natural” laundry detergent was put to the test.

At first, I doubted myself at times- that perhaps I just forgot to put the detergent in the washing machine?? That’s how little of a difference the detergent made on my baby’s stains! It had nothing on diaper blowouts and dried, day old spit up. Onesie after onesie was ruined, even after pretreating it.

And over the years it had just gotten worse and more frustrating as my kids grew and stains became more fierce.

Thankfully, with Truly Free I’ve finally found a non-toxic laundry system that works, and I’m going to talk a little about that today. 🙌

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The BEST Natural Remedies for Cold and Flu

Heart of Greens

Each fall I make a big purchase of all of the natural remedies I use to keep my family healthy through the colder winter months here in Georgia.

These are seriously my family’s secret sauce for prevention, quick healing, and avoiding the doctor since the birth of my first daughter in 2009. As with any natural remedy, they need other action steps such as sufficient rest and sleep, excellent nutrition, and consistency with use. But I bet you already knew that. 😀

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The Truth About Cancer LIVE: 2017 (In Pictures)

We are adjusting back to normal life this week. The Truth About Cancer: LIVE event was as expected, AWESOME.

(Streaming NOW through Sunday, October 15th online for FREE .)

If I were to sum it up, it was different than last year in that I met so many other people with similar healing stories as mine. I talked to Chris Wark about this while I was there and he agreed- stories like ours (cancer healed with no chemo or radiation) are becoming much more common!

We met so many and several with Stage 4 cancers with multiple metastases that have completely healed with non-toxic therapies. All ages too, young and old.

I hope this encourages you tremendously. People are choosing natural therapies and healing!

I spoke to over 100 people on behalf of HealingStrong and get the feeling we are going to be adding 20-25+ new natural healing support groups before the year is over. Maybe more.

It’s awesome to be a part of this “movement”…

Here are a few pics from the event. 🙂

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Making A Decision About Vaccines : Part 3- Diphtheria, Tetanus, and Pertussis (DTaP)

This is Part 3 in my vaccine series discussing how we made our decision on which vaccines we give our children. You may also want to check out the other two posts in this series: Part 1: Risks, Benefits, Responsibility and Part 2: Hepatitis B and Hib Vaccines.

So, to be perfectly transparent- this was the vaccine I most deeply considered. I was scared of my child getting whooping cough and diphtheria sounded horrible, too. Drug manufacturer propaganda tapped into my mama fears big time. Remember that commercial with the grandmother dressed up as a wolf disguised with killer whooping cough? I thought I was putting my baby at THAT kind of risk.

Nowadays everyone, even pregnant women are recommended for TDaP boosters (the adult version of DTaP) every ten years to help out with the “whooping cough problem”.

Today we are going to look into what’s really going on with pertussis and discuss the details of the other diseases that the DTaP is recommended for: diphtheria and tetanus.

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That Time God Spoke to My Husband in the Chemo Room

I really didn’t know what else to name this post. It is simply what it is. That time God spoke to my husband in the chemo room.

To any of you visiting here for the first time and also to you all that have been hanging around with me for a while, you need to know that I haven’t written about this in the seven years since I started my blog. I have very rarely ever talked about it publicly even though this experience is what cemented our decision to pursue non-toxic therapies for my cancer in 2008.

I was concerned that by sharing it, our story would be dismissed as ridiculous, too religious, or just plain weird.

So I just left it out of the conversation.

But then a few years ago at the 2013 HealingStrong conference, something AMAZING happened and I changed my mind. Spine tingling amazing. And I started talking about it. I am so excited to share it with you today.

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Making A Decision About Vaccines : Part 2- Hepatitis B and Hib

This is Part 2 in the series on how we made the decision about vaccines for our family. You can find Part 1 here and I strongly recommend reading it to get our family’s backstory before reading on. 😀

If you read my last post then you know that after months of research and amidst my healing from cancer while pregnant, we decided to delay vaccination for our daughter at birth. We had a lot on our plate and did not feel comfortable making such a big decision that we couldn’t reverse. When we decided this we weren’t necessarily sure HOW LONG we would delay but knew we weren’t comfortable with either decision yet.

I left off in my last post with our decision to delay vaccination at birth. So let’s pick up right there.

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Making A Decision About Vaccines : Part 1- Risks, Benefits, and Responsibility

If you’ve been reading my blog for a while then you know I’m a bit hesitant to engage in this whole vaccine discussion publicly. And I imagine I’m not the only one here who feels that way.

A few months ago I attempted to publish this series and discuss vaccines for the first time ever on my blog.

But the fear kept me quiet and I decided against it.

Time has gone by and I still haven’t been able to shake the conviction to talk about it publicly, even if I have to deal with some backlash.

So I decided to simply just tell my story. This is MY story. MY family. I figured that I would share it and let you know that although this is not medical advice, it is what I’ve learned along the way. I hope you all find it immensely helpful in sifting through this uncomfortable but very important decision.

I want to preface this post with the fact that I did my best in linking up the studies I bookmarked, books I read, and notes from talks with our pediatrician, as well as other references over the last almost ten years of research since my first pregnancy, but as any mother of three little ones would know- there’s just not enough time for perfection.

So to sum it up, my disclaimer is: Ponder on my words, but DO your own research. Our family dynamics, health histories, and living circumstances are all so different.

OK, here we are. And I’m really going to press the PUBLISH button this time. Here we go…NOW. 😀