Greening Your Home and Life
Greening your home and life can be a helpful way to reduce toxicity and total load for your child’s chronic health condition.
Greening Your Home and Life Articles
Low-to-No-Cost Detoxification Strategies
In today’s world, our bodies are exposed to a constant stream of toxins from food, air, water, and even household products. Detoxification, or detox, is the process of helping your body eliminate these harmful substances along with the body’s own ... Read More
How to Improve Your Home’s Air Quality
Is Home Air Quality Important? There is nothing more repugnant than stepping outside of your home into an environmentally unsafe air quality where you live. Air quality affects everyone but especially those who are environmentally sensitive and have compromised immune ... Read More
Identifying Mold and Water Damage in Your Home
Identifying mold and water damage in your home is a key to creating a healthy home environment for those with chronic health conditions. Mold, a common byproduct of moisture intrusion, can impact indoor air quality and, over time, contribute to ... Read More
Is Mold in the Home Dangerous to Health?
Mold in the Home Poses Significant Health Risks Mold in the home can pose significant health risks to occupants, especially in vulnerable populations such as children, the elderly, and individuals with pre-existing health conditions. Often times if you have made ... Read More
Home Inventory
In order to assess any child’s “total load,” it is critical to perform an inventory of products and materials in the home. Josie Nelson, Programs Director, and Beth Lambert, Executive Director, performed a Home Inventory for Ty’s family, cataloging what ... Read More
What’s in Your Water (and Air and Soil…)? FLIGHT™ Study Environmental Assessments
As part of the FLIGHT™ Study, each family is visited by certified industrial hygienists or environmental consultants to identify any potential environmental and health hazards in and around their home. Soil Testing A soil sample and a water sample are ... Read More
9 Easy Ways to Create a Healthy Home
In this blog post, Beth Greer - the author of Super Natural Home - offers ways to create a healthy home by using natural, alternative cleaners. Good health starts in a healthy home, but toxins in the everyday products you ... Read More
Lifestyle Checklist
Our lifestyle checklist is designed to lower your family's stress level and create a healing home environment. Do you have a routine with your children? Does your family eat together at the same time? Are your children sleeping with cotton ... Read More
Greening Your Home and Life Stories
Marilee and Douglas: Overcoming Kidney Failure and Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
This story is used with permission from Marilee Nelson, the founder of Branch Basics. Perspective and Awareness: What I Wish I Had Known Years Ago Perspective on any topic is based on an understanding of the available information that pertains ... Read More
Noelle: How Tossing the Toxins Improved PMS, Mood and Digestion
My story started with stomach pains, fatigue, and overall brain fog that I had experienced for several years. I had a lot of bloating and painful periods and thought this was normal. My husband and I were also trying to ... Read More
Hannah: Cancer
It was early fall of 2014 when my three-year-old daughter, Hannah, began presenting with bizarre symptoms which left health care professionals at more than one hospital perplexed. Continual fevers, swollen lymph nodes, and excruciatingly painful joints on top of reactions ... Read More
Greening Your Home and Life Books
No posts found.