How to Grow While Overwhelmed
  RHEAL group starts 6/29
Best Farmer's Market?
Nutrition Training for Docs
Get a CSA share
Savory Kasha Pilaf
Upcoming Events

2nd RHEAL Food Group starting soon-- sign up by June 12 for discount!

I'm Holly Noonan. I'm a Holistic Health and Nutrition Counselor. What I love about my work is ... the constant reminders to walk my talk...

    "The cure of the part should not be attempted without the cure of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul and if the head and the body are to be healthy, you must begin by curing the mind. That is the first thing. Let no one persuade you to cure the head until he has first given you his soul to be cured. For this is the great error of our day in the treatment of the human body, that physicians first separate the soul from the body."

---- Plato, 400 BCE

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Kitchen Tips-

Looking for sources of protein for during your spring cleanse that aren't meat, milk, beans, legumes or grains? Look into royal jelly, blue green algae and goji berries.

Client Testimonials-

“Hey Holly,
Three years ago I joined TOPS and lost 28 lbs in 5 months, then starting sliding. I mostly lived on Lean Cuisine though. I re-joined TOPS the week before (your) group in Rockland started and have not eaten any Lean Cuisines or packaged “diet food”. I’m embracing everything you’re teaching (maybe not the amaranth so much..) and not following any diet plan at all. Once I stopped eating sugar I lost 2 pounds that week and another 1 1/2 this week. So far I have dropped 9 lbs since we started. My real goal is to be healthy and losing weight is a happy side effect. Thank you!”

S.P., Rockland, April,’09

...more testimonials...

Your health is your best investment! When times are tight financially,  investments can't compare to feeling good, having energy and a solid equilibrium that allows you to sleep well, roll with stress and connect deeply with others. It's just plain smart to empower yourself as much as possible instead of put all your faith in our healthcare system and the pharmaceutical industry. Shifting habits is do-able and YOU can do it! Click here to set up a free hour with me.

Interested in underwriting this newsletter? Contact Holly for your options.

"Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey."                     --Marcel Proust

 How to Grow While Overwhelmed

I have a renewed respect for single parents after the week I just had. My husband was just away for a week on an incredibly-well-deserved vacation (solo kayaking at Moosehead Lake.) I got everything done. I fed the dog and gave her her meds. I emptied the dishwasher and the dehumidifiers under the house. I fed, bathed and nuzzled my son to sleep every night. Then I got up and cleaned the kitchen and finished all my domestic work by about 9:15pm, at which time I would start my other work.

I definitely got less sleep. It just so happened that this week started the day after the Women's Health Conference (which went splendidly.) But the adrenaline didn't have time to wane before I started my single-parenting week, and I just couldn't catch up on sleep.

So while I got everything done, I couldn't handle anything more, and my health got more fragile. Good lord, how do people do it with TWO kids, much less six or eight?!

It made me think of the nursing moms catch-22 where the constant, staggering sleep deprivation makes coffee more important than most anything else in life. Food. Washing your hair. Definitely sex. It poses the question; How in the hell does a person strive when they are just barely holding things together?

...read the whole article....

RHEAL Nourishment

The next Food Lifestyle Group starts on Monday June 29, and will run for six consecutive Mondays ending on August 3rd from 6:30 to 8pm.  This will be the second six-week session held at RHEAL Day Spa in Rockland.

• learn the secrets to stopping cravings through balance!
• expand your palette to discover a new delicious!
• these six weeks could change the rest of your life!

Here’s what past participants had to say:
 
"I thoroughly enjoyed Holly's Mind Body Nutrition Counseling Group Program which I participated in at Rheal Day Spa this spring. It was informative and thought provoking and has made me much more aware of what I am eating and how certain foods affect my body. The snacks were yummy and she provided some great new recipes."
JW - Tenants Harbor, ME

“Holly, I think you are a great teacher, know your stuff and know how best to teach it.  I watched and listened to you in both lecture and group teaching situations and think you are just fine... almost rock star status.  I have enjoyed the course and have learned a great deal.  I have a virtual list of the things I thought were healthy and now know the real story.  Thank you so much for the effort  you have put in to teaching this course”.   Gloria Young LCSW
 
The Food Group is offered at $45 per class the day of the class or $255 ($15 savings) for all six classes paid in advance.  An EARLY BIRD special is available until June 12 - $240 ($30 savings) for all six classes.

For more information go to www.MindBodyNutrition.net/Groups
Call RHEAL Day Spa at 207.594.5077  to register.
 

 Farmer's Markets are OPEN! Which one is your favorite? Did you know about the Best Farmer's Market Contest? (Tell your Farmer's Market Manager!)

To find a Farmer's Market near you, go to
http://www.localharvest.org/farmers-markets/

Here are 4 in our local area:

Belfast Farmer’s Market
http://www.belfastfarmersmarket.org/

Lincolnville Farmer’s Market
www.lincolnvillefarmersmkt.org

Camden Farmer’s Market
www.camdenfarmersmarket.org

Rockland Farmer’s Market
www.rocklandfarmersmarket.org
 

Nutrition Training for Health Care Professionals--

This program provides the latest in science-based nutrition education and is designed to give graduates the knowledge, confidence, compassion and skills required to integrate food as medicine in their clinical practice.

Food As Medicine
Professional Nutrition Training Program
June 11 – 14, 2009
Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
Washington, DC

Savory Kasha Pilaf---
(Adapted from The Whole Truth, Andrea Beaman)

2 cups water or broth (sub mushroom soaking water)
1 cup kasha (toasted buckwheat)
1 tbsp butter or olive oil
1 large onion peeled and thinly sliced into 1” strips (onions add tons of flavor...do not skimp here!)
1 cup cremini mushrooms (or other variety of mushroom), sliced thin
2 tsp Herbamare or other herbed salt seasoning

1.  Bring 2 cups of water to a boil.  Add kasha, cover and reduce flame to a simmer for 15 minutes.  Note:  If buckwheat is not already toasted, than toast it by heating it in a dry skillet on medium high heat for 2-3 minutes while constantly stirring.  Add toasted buckwheat to the boiling water.
2.  In a separate pan, sauté onion, mushroom and herbamare on a medium high heat for 3-5 minutes.
3.  In a bowl mix cooked kasha with sautéed vegetables.  Drizzle with olive oil and season with salt and pepper to taste.

Upcoming Events--

Tuesday June 23rd, Total Health Alliance, 6:30-8pm
Sugar Blues
The presentation focuses on sugar in our modern diet, what forms it takes
and how long it has been there. Does that fudge recipe from your
great-grandmother make fudge an ancestral food? The discussion examines how
sugar affects you, your energy and your moods. Is it addictive? Are
artificial sweeteners a safe alternative? Learn about which sweeteners to
avoid and which ones to try. Looks across cultures and back into history to
put our sugar habits into historical context. This workshop encourages
lively discussion and questions from participants.

Wednesday June 24th, 9:00am-- Join me at Fresh Off The Farm for a tour covering marketing claims, label reading, organics and your specific questions. These tours are part of my clients' programs, but are open to the public, space permitting. RSVP here if you'd like to join. Attendees receive a 10% discount on purchases of $50 or more!

Saturday August 1st, Total Health Alliance, 10am-2pm
The Context of our Food Series
A powerful mini-course with two popular workshops back to back in one day with a lunch break in between:

1) The Ancestral Food Workshop

This is a nutrition workshop that illuminates our current food trends by
placing them in historical context. It has been said that our food has
changed more in the last 30 years than in the previous 30,000 years.
In what ways has it changed? Are our bodies having a hard time
keeping up? What were the traditional foods passed down in your family and
how far back does the tradition go? Has the recent globalization of our food
supply affected your family? This workshop introduces some ancestral food
recipes and tells you where to get the ingredients locally.

2) The World Food Workshop

This is a nutrition workshop that illuminates our current food trends by
placing them in international context. Take a peek inside the kitchens of
families in ten foreign countries with a powerpoint slideshow to see what
they eat and what it looks like. These families and their countries are in
various stages of “modernization.” How much food comes in packages? How much
is refined or imported vs. fresh and local? How much meat do they eat? How
much sugar? What oil do they use for cooking? Do a little armchair traveling
around the world to explore our world’s foodscape, and then bring it home to
your kitchen. This workshop introduces some exotic food recipes and tells
you where to get the ingredients locally.

If you would like to book a date to have me do a workshop for your group, contact me. I love to do them.

Mind Body Nutrition Counseling
28 Washington Street, Camden, Maine 04843 (207) 975-9442
holly@mindbodynutrition.net ~ www.MindBodyNutrition.net

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