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Want to Have Kid’s-Take My Advice

Advice for My Children, When They have their Own Children

Have children when you really want to have children.

You Are Responsible for them for your whole life.

If you can’t take care of yourself, don’t have children until you can.

I really wanted you Barbie, Trinity, and Tristan.

Trinity Barbie and Tristan with Barbie’s Funny husband in the background.

I wanted my children.

When asked, at the age of 14, what I wanted to be when I grow up and I said a wife and mother.

My whole life has been about my children.

I love them so much.

Each and every year will be different.

Find what is best for them.

Best shows, best schooling, best food.

What foods are they intolerant to?

This will make a big difference in their health, so find out early, the younger the better.

Best medical treatment; Herbs, essential oils, Homeopathic medicine, yoga, meditation

What was watched on TV, what music was listened to, books we read, what we eat, where we shopped, all revolve around my children: Veggie Tales, My Little Pony’s, classical music, Baby Einstein, Discovery  Toys, Baby Signs, Signing Times, Hooked on phonics, Butterfly Ballet, All Dr. Suess books, The Giving Tree, Goodnight Moon, Twilight books and movies,  Starfall, Home-school Advantage, Time4learning, Khan Academy, Justin Beiber, AFI, Tylor the Creator, Greys Anatomy, Medium, Walking Dead, So You Think You Can Dance, Taco Bell, Chuck E Cheese, Bushes Chicken,  Ringling Bros. Circus,  Barney, Finding Nemo, Luckey Vitamin Shoppe, Amazon

Sing to them. Make up song for each one.

Little Moonbeam, Little Drummer Boy

Have Special songs: Barbie: When I See You Smile by Bad English Trinity: More by Matthew West  Tristan: Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol.

Massage them from birth.

One of the best way to calm a child. Lavender oil foot massage.

Just remember you don’t have all the answers. Read books: learn from experts. If you don’t follow my advice you will have the same problems your parents had with you. You can only do what you know, what you were taught growing up. If you were yelled at spanked or just left to defend for yourself: you will repeat the cycle if you don’t learn something different.

How do you say I Love You?

Love You More

No, I Love You More

I Love You The Most!

I Win!!!

Love You Always and Forever

Forever and Always

Love you to the Moon and Back

I love my children so much it hurts.

Everyone says they love their children.

But your actions will show if you just love them because you had them or if you live for them.

Live for your children.

Be around them as much as you can.

I didn’t have terrible two’s or any other behavior problems with them until they were a teenager. And when they acted up, I could get them help because I was with them.

I homeschool because having them away from me around people who don’t care about them as much as I do was not acceptable.

Spend each day looking at your children and fill your heart with love.

Barbie, Trinity, and Tristan

You are Loved by your Mommie

 

 

Inner Matrix-This Book Saved My Life!!

The Inner Matrix

Too many people taking their lives nowadays.

I know stress: Teenagers, a husband with PTSD and I fight CFIDS.

I had a plan to end my life. I could not fight anymore and then I saw an ad on Facebook for the book club. I am still here and I use most of the practices daily to help me.

So Please don’t give up.

I care. I care enough to share.

It is easy: You read one chapter, go to a book club, online or in person and share what you got from it and get support along the way.

There is a lot of ways you can get help from this book but for now, just buy the book, read it and if you want to join the book club go ahead. I did the book club three times.

Each time I learned something different and was blessed each time.

Joey Klein’sTHE INNER MATRIX

A Guide to Transforming Your Life and Awaken Your Spirit

The Inner Matrix illuminates a proven approach to living a truly rich and meaningful life – one more deeply connected to spirit. Marrying the ancient wisdom traditions of East and West with the latest science in genetics, psychology, and brain function, Klein provides a cutting-edge system to transform your life by shifting deep mental, emotional, and physical patterns that create stress and limit your success. Those engaging Klein’s Conscious Transformation™ practices routinely experience:

Included in the book is a nine-week strategy guide to assimilating the practices of Conscious Transformation.

So don’t wait to get a tool you can start using today to help you get through this thing called life. Buy Here on Amazon

Peace, Harmony, Laughter, Love,

Donel Rourke

Best Solution For Head Lice

Lice infect millions each year

Lice infestations are most common in young children, who often contract the bugs through the way they play and interact with one another.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports about 6 million to 12 million infestations occur in kids ages 3 through 11 years old each year.

Is your child at risk?

Head lice are a common problem because of its highly contagious nature yet completely treatable. Pediculus humanus capitis or head lice infestation affects most children at some time during their school days.

Unfortunately, most physicians prescribe toxic prescriptions to kill the lice.
Please read this story before you use these toxic products.
Jesse’s Story

When treating my child for head lice, I never thought about the harm it might be bringing to him. I felt only the anxiety all mothers feel when they discover bugs in their child’s hair. It never occurred to me that a physician-prescribed shampoo could be a dangerous and potentially fatal pesticide.

Telling our family’s story is extremely difficult for me. It requires me to confront my demons. It is agonizing to accept my role in my son’s pain and suffering. The memories are vivid and haunt me through the night. If I think about my role in Jesse’s pain and suffering, I’ll never make it through the day. I fought so hard to keep Jesse alive; it is a daily challenge to handle the reality that I may have contributed to his death.

Our nightmare began in 1984. There was an outbreak of head lice in our local elementary school. Several children were discovered to have lice, including Jesse’s older brother Jason. Our children’s pediatrician prescribed Kwell shampoo with refills. He never mentioned it being a pesticide product..advising only that it could cause skin and eye irritation. The doctor ironically suggested “just to be safe” I treat the entire family, even though Jason had been the only member afflicted. I followed his recommendation shampooing my husband, myself, Jason (age 7) and little Jesse (age 2). I repeated the application on the following day as the prescription instructed.

Approximately two months later, Jesse was playing “Superman” and fell to the floor with extreme stomach pain. I rushed him to the emergency room. My whole world changed that night. A liver and spleen scan revealed enlargement. Blood work indicated unusually high amounts of lymphocytes and white blood cells. Blast cells were also present. A bone marrow aspiration test confirmed our fears – A.L.L. – acute lymphobastic leukemia.

Jesse was hospitalized and received chemotherapy for six weeks until he achieved remission. During this time, the doctors asked many questions.. “Had there been a family history of Leukemia?” “What about chemical or electromagnetic field exposures?” There were no questions concerning head lice shampoo or anything similar. The connection never even crossed my mind.

Jesse sailed through the last of his chemotherapy, and remained in remission. He had been off treatment for over a year, and cancer free for several years when he started elementary school. Our family and his doctors were feeling optimistic that he had beaten his cancer.

A note from the school nurse was sent home a few months into his first school year. There had been cases of head lice reported. My reaction was panic. “Not again!” I brought out the lice shampoo and treated my family…as the doctor had said, “just to be safe”. Two months later Jesse relapsed. I am very sad to say this scenario played out two more times within the next five years. The fact that I did not get the connection is the guilt I must live with the rest of my life.

Jesse’s final relapse occurred after a bone marrow transplant. When the doctor called, he had more than the gut-wrenching news of my son’s relapse. The doctor explained that this relapse had been very abnormal and unusual. In fact, only a handful of similar ones had been documented worldwide. Jesse’s relapse had occurred within the new donor marrow. He had received marrow from his baby sister Bobbie Sue – her marrow was female XX chromosomes. This was leukemia in the new XX marrow. This was scientifically profound because relapse by definition is “reoccurrence of the original cancer cells not eradicated by chemotherapy, radiation, or surgery”. There was none of Jesse’s old marrow remaining. This was not the original cancer: it was a new cancer in the new marrow.

My reaction to this news was complete panic. My concerns were that my daughter now also had leukemia. The doctor assured me this was not the case at all – Bobbie Sue was fine. He went on to explain that this relapse, however, did strongly indicate an environmental trigger. He asked me to try and recall if Jesse had been exposed to any substance prior to initial diagnosis and relapse. The only commonality I could remember was I had used the shampoo before his diagnosis and each subsequent relapse. It was very hard for me to believe, however, that head lice shampoo was a carcinogen. I embarked on research to prove to myself that I could not have possibly done anything to harm my son. My heart broke when I discovered how this shampoo was a neurotoxin pesticide and inherently dangerous. There was evidence strongly suggesting a link between this pesticide product, cancer, and neurological problems.

Armed with this knowledge, I was convinced we could win this battle. I would help Jesse get well and protect him from this dangerous trigger. Unfortunately, I was too late. He passed away September 11, 1993. Jesse was and remains my little soul mate. There is not a day that passes that I do not think of him and deeply miss him.

Our family has felt betrayed by a system we assumed would protect us. Prior to using these FDA approved pesticide shampoo treatments, all members of our family were healthy. Following the exposures, Jesse was diagnosed with acute leukemia and passed away 09-11-93, Dale (Jesse’s father) was diagnosed with chronic leukemia – he passed away 02-12-98 and Jason (Jesse’s brother) has a diagnosis of chloracne, a condition associated with pesticide exposure.

For years I was unable to do anything but grieve, but I now know that it is critical to get this information out to other families so they can make the safest choices possible. I made a decision not to focus on how differently the lives of my family might have been if this information had reached us sooner. After careful thought, I decided to take that energy and direct it towards trying to educate and hopefully protect other children and their families by working with the National Pediculosis Association to promote their message of pesticide-free manual removal of head lice and nits. Jesse would want it that way

 Home Remedies To Get Rid Of Head Lice

Garlic

Lice are not fond of the strong aroma that garlic puts off and the fact that it can suffocate them makes this a highly effective home remedy. Grind ten or more cloves of garlic into a paste and mix in three teaspoons of lime juice. Apply the mixture directly to the scalp. Be sure to cover all the scalp. Leave the treatment on for thirty minutes and rinse with hot water. The strong fragrance of garlic can suffocate lice, ultimately killing them.

Mayonnaise

Not only is Mayonnaise is an excellent natural conditioner and natural hair straightener but also a great way to suffocate head lice.

  • Apply mayonnaise liberally to your hair and cover with a plastic bag or shower cap
  • Let the mayonnaise set on hair for six hours
  • Shampoo your hair as usual and blow-dry (the heat kills the lice also)
  • Comb through your hair using a nit comb
  • Repeat this procedure once a week for two months
Salt

Salt desiccates lice and eventually kills them.

  • Combine a quarter cup of sea salt with a quarter cup of apple cider vinegar
  • Spray the solution on your hair and leave it for 2 hours
  • Wash as usual and condition

 White Vinegar

White vinegar is such a versatile, non-toxic substance and is even effective in eradicating head lice. Mix equal parts vinegar and water and pour over hair. Comb hair thoroughly.

Orange Juice

Lice detect the acidity of orange juice. Apply 100% pure orange juice to your head and scalp. Put on a shower cap and leave for 30-40 minutes. Comb through with a nit comb and rinse with warm water. Follow with your usual shampoo and conditioner and comb again.

 Listerine

Using Listerine to kill lice is one of the cheapest and oldest known home remedies for getting rid of lice. Soak your hair completely in the mouthwash and put a shower cap for about four hours and shampoo as usual and comb.

Neem and neem oil contains an insecticidal ingredient known as azadirachtin which is a powerful natural insecticide which interferes with the reproduction and growth of head lice. It constricts the swallowing capability of lice which starves them to death. Lice hate the strong aroma of neem oil which will help soothe itching and redness caused by the lice. As an added bonus, neem adds moisture and shine to hair.

Both the leaves and neem oil are useful for treating head lice. Here are a few methods to try:

Neem Leaf Rinse:

  • Put a handful of neem leaves in 3 cups of water and boil until the liquid turns green
  • Remove from the oven and strain, let cool.
  • Shampoo and condition your hair as usual and follow with a neem rinse. Repeat the rinse 3 times.

Neem Leaf Paste:

  • Make a paste by grinding the neem leaves
  • Apply the paste on the scalp and leave for 30 minutes
  • Shampoo as usual
  • Repeat the process 3 times a week for two weeks

Neem Powder:

  • Crush dried neem leaves into a fine powder
  • Combine the powder and equal parts water to make a thick paste
  • Apply the paste to your scalp and through hair and let it set for one hour
  • Wash hair as you would normally
  • Repeat the process once a week for up to four weeks

Neem Oil Shampoo:

  • Add pure neem oil to your normal shampoo (preferably a natural shampoo) and mix well
  • Use this shampoo several times a week for a month

Neem Oil and Coconut Oil:

  • Mix six drops of pure neem oil into a few tablespoons of coconut oil
  • Massage the mixture well into your scalp and let it set for an hour
  • Rinse it off with shampoo and water
  • Repeat this process at least twice a week for a month

Essential Oils

Essential oils are extracted from plants through steam distillation or cold pressing. Oils are loaded with therapeutic properties many of which can help destroy a lice infestation. In a 2012 study, researchers found that a 1% concentration of tea tree oil killed almost 100% of head lice in a 30 minute period. A 2% concentration halted 50% of egg hatch after 4 days. Other oils that are effective against head lice include ylang-ylang, rosemary and lavender are also great options. To use essential oils to kill head lice, mix 20 drops of oil in your regular bottle of shampoo and shampoo as usual. Rinse with apple cider vinegar for added lice killing power.

Need any of these essential oils? 

Tips for prevention…

Follow these tips to avoid getting lice in the first place:

  • Avoid head to head contact with anyone
  • Do not share hats with anyone
  • Keep your hair tied up when participating in outdoor activities
  • Comb your hair with a fine-tooth comb
  • Soak brushed and combs overnight in white vinegar at least once a month
  • Wash your hair with shampoo with tea tree oil.

Here is the book I personally use when a problem comes up.

Donel Rourke

 

 

So You Want To Be An Entrepreneur

What Kind Of Business Do You Want?

  • Are you going to be the sole proprietor?

    This is the simplest and the most common type of business out there. You will be responsible for everything the business does. This means that you will be held personally liable for any debts that the business incurs.

So now let’s look at some really good things to research before you get started in Your Business

1. What Will Be The Costs of Production

If the cost to make or sell your item exceeds the money you will ever make from it, then don’t do it!

2. Sales

Where are you going to find customers? Make a list!!!!

3. Marketing

How are you going to market? What is your budget for marketing?

4. Business plan

Write out a one or two-page business plan to make sure you’ve thought everything through properly, it will be worth the time and might save you a lot of time and money.

  • Do you want a partnership? 

Partnerships comprise two or more people and any profits, debts, and decisions related to the business are shared.

Here are some questions to ask before deciding if partnering is a good idea:

1. What do I need from a business partner?

You should look for a business partner who brings something different to the table than you do. You want someone who complements your skills and personality.

2. What is your potential partner’s financial situation right now?

Who Do They Owe Money Too!!!!!

3. What are the potential partner’s expectations on the time involved?

How many hours a day does your partner expect to put into the business, and do their expectations meet yours?

4. Is your potential partner’s commitment to the business as strong as yours?

Their Passion =Your Passion

5. What questions do they have for me?

They should want to know about your character, reliability, and expectations.

6. Are they willing to put everything in writing?

It’s crucial to put everything in writing,  not only what is expected of each partner, but the consequences if expectations aren’t met.

Just How Much Money Do You Need To Start Your Business?

To figure out what your startup costs will require careful planning.

Startup costs are the expenses incurred during the process of creating a new business. All businesses are different, so they require different types of startup costs. Online businesses have different needs than brick-and-mortars; coffee shops have different requirements than bookstores do. However, there are a few expenses that are common to all business types:

  •  Are you going to own a company? 

Companies are owned by shareholders. They are the ones who each put in an amount of money. Shareholder receives a share of the company that is equivalent to how much money they put in. Then the directors run the company on behalf of shareholders, of course, they get a share of the profits.

  • Who knows, maybe you want to have a franchise? 

Franchises are licensing arrangements between an individual or group, where they can buy the right to trade and produce under a well-known brand name in a given location. A franchise involves you using another company’s successful business model and their name to establish your own business.

Here is the list of top 500 2018.

When looking at MLM, party planner, direct sells or consumer direct marketing look at the history of the company.

  1. How long have they been in business?
  2. What is their standing with the BBB?
  3. What is the companies policy on how you make money?
  4. How many products/services does this company offer?
  5. What is the cost to get started?
  6. More Great Questions

Know that there are some companies out there that do things a little different.

So do your research.

Find what works best for you.

Donel Rourke

 

 

How To Do “The Seal” A Pilates Exercise

When you walk into my pilates class you are in for a treat.

Get Ready To Laugh and Have Fun.

I will have you bark like a seal and walk on your butt, all in the name of fitness.

In my class, you Bark like a Seal when you clap your feet together. At first, this seems stupid but once you get going you will be having so much fun you almost don’t want it to stop.

So continue reading and have fun practicing The Seal.

Donel Rourke

BulletProof Coffee

Starting your day with Bulletproof Coffee, on the other hand, gives you three things://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=US&source=ac&ref=qf_sp_asin_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=donel-20&marketplace=amazon&region=US&placement=B00P8E0QQG&asins=B00P8E0QQG&linkId=4dffec0ff30c6355282c2dc834619a79&show_border=false&link_opens_in_new_window=false&price_color=53e6b7&title_color=77cfd4&bg_color=a934ad

  • Suppressed hunger. Brain Octane Oil balances ghrelin and CCK, your hunger hormones, keeping you full until lunch. You can read more about the science behind BP Coffee and hunger suppression here.
  • Steady lasting energy. The saturated fat in grass-fed butter slows the absorption of caffeine, which gives you even energy for several hours instead of a caffeine spike and crash. No jitters, either.
  • Mental clarity. Brain Octane rapidly converts to ketones, a type of molecule that your brain uses more efficiently than carbs or sugar. Pair ketones with the slowly releasing caffeine and you can literally feel your brain turning on.

Ditch the carb-heavy breakfast. Start your day with fat for fuel. You’ll be sharp and alert straight through until lunch.

Continue reading BulletProof Coffee

Poop Bank

I was reading in Sept. 2013 issue of Reader Digest that the future holds…

Wait for it… POOP BANKS, just like blood banks and sperm banks.

You heard me right, POO POO Banks! After getting over the “What the @#&*” I continued to read on. You see there is a nasty antibiotic-resistant intestinal infection called Clostridium difficile, but I will call it “C. Diff” from now on.

Did you know that 3 million people are infected annually, with about 30,000 people dying from it each year!

Because the use of human stool transplants, (wretch) 85 to 90 percent of patients who have had multiple episodes of C. Diff. have been found to have remarkably positive results.

Now there is a group that is very excited about these findings. We call these special people, “Gastrointestinal Scientists,” or “G.I. Docs”. My hat is off to the one that thought up this treatment and then proposed it to other G.I Docs with a straight face! Come on really! Who else could get so excited about poop! I just want to be in the room when they tell the patient what they are going to do! If your gut is a real mess with C. Diff, then kick-starting it with the mother of all probiotic infusions would be what the doctor ordered. First things first you need a donor. Any volunteers? The donor would give a “Stool Sample”(free of the bad bacteria) which would then be reconstituted into a saline-based liquid. during a colonoscopy! (Wretch, hack, spit, wretch, hack… hack… Okay. I think I’m alright. Let’s go on.) If you are going to go strictly with what the doctors want you to do, then say, “One Poop Enema Please,” (LOL) because the other alternatives are colonoscopy, where they insert the “Poop juice” all the way up in your colon, or through a different procedure in which a feeding tube is put through your nose (WROO… WRETCH), down your throat and into your stomach. (I’m barfing for you!)

I have officially grossed myself out.

Read more from someone who did a Poop Transplant.

Want even more research to continue reading? Here You Go!

Another Non Disgusting Treatment

The thought of this is, SO DISGUSTING, I would probably be ready to try anything else FIRST! Suddenly a trip to the health food store for a few HERB concoctions doesn’t sound so bad!!! Does it?

Non-Systemic Herbs

• American goldenseal (Hydrastis Canadensis)

• Juniper (Juniperus spp.)

• Usnea (Usnea spp.)

These three localized non-systemic herbs treat resistant infections of the GI tract, urinary tract, and skin. Goldenseal is also particularly active against most food poisoning bacteria such as E. coli and salmonella.

Look for these types of herbs HERE.

Now I am not a doctor, but I personally would take probiotics for good measure.

They have to be GOOD, QUALITY probiotics.

Request more information on the herbs or probiotics I recommend.

Your Fat Cells Are Begging You To Not Read This Important Information

Don’t push this button!

(Your Fat Cells Love You)

Make sure not to play video.

(Your Fat Cells don’t Want To Leave)

If you want to get the fat off eat one of these Yummy Bars and MOVE!!!!

Whatever you like to do that gets your heart rate up, do it!

This bar gives you 2hrs to target fat.

The key to this product is to eat it on empty stomach and do not consume any calories while you are shutting your fat cells up.

Dancing, jogging, cleaning house, shopping, I could think of a few other things, but I will keep this G rated. Go ahead and add your own thoughts to what gets your heart rate up.

Here is one way I shut my fat cells up! .

Peace and Love Donel Rourke

Toxic Waste Dump in the Bathroom!

As you were getting ready today, I’m sure you didn’t think you were exposed to TOXIC CHEMICALS! If you’re like me, you jumped in the shower, washed and conditioned your hair, washed everything else and got out.

Nothing toxic in there right?

Use deodorant? We HOPE so!

Maybe a little lotion on your body and face?

Now it’s time for hair and makeup. What could be toxic about mousse, gel, and hairspray! (Cough, hack!) Foundation, lipstick and eye makeup and then finish off the whole package by walking through a misty cloud of perfume.

Just another day, Right? Same routine, different day? It isn’t worth dying to be beautiful. I think that it is high time you know what the Beauty Companies are hiding from you.

I want to “Go Green!”, not turn green!

Just look at all the crap in everything we use!

ALRIGHT! Don’t freak out!

I’m not telling you to stop bathing and grow out your armpit hair.

It is important to know that our skin is the largest organ in our body.

So let’s count how many toxins we soak up through our skin every day.

Shampoo, conditioner, lotion, cleansers and body wash – Filled with parabens Parabens: a synthetic preservative and antimicrobial agent commonly found in a lot of personal care products you use every day. Studies have found that parabens mimic estrogen in the body and disrupt normal hormone function. When they alter your hormone levels it increases your risks for hormone-related cancers.

Diethanolamine (DEA) and Triethanolamine (TEA) are found in shampoo and body wash. They can produce allergic reaction as well as, ironically enough, hair and skin dryness. Studies have shown DEA and TEA to be carcinogenic (cause CANCER!).

Body wash, baby soap, baby wipes – Formaldehyde for the Baby?Formaldehyde: A known carcinogen that causes cancer and irritates the skin. Look for DMDM hydantoin; quaternium-15; 2 bromo-2 nitropane-1,3 diol; 5-bromo-5-nitro-1,3 dioxane; in the ingredients!

If it makes bubbles or you use it to lather up, look for… Sodium Lauryl/Laureth Sulfate (SLS). It causes skin and eye irritation. It’s also linked to the byproduct 1-4 dioxane, a suspected carcinogenic (cause CANCER).

Hair products, facial moisturizers and cleansers, body wash, and sunscreens – Propylene glycol: A synthetic PETROCHEMICAL mix that is often contaminated with 1,4-dioxane and ethylene dioxide, which are carcinogenic (cause CANCER). Known to cause allergic reactions and disrupt endocrine functions. (Endocrine functions are just your hormones, and we all love having our hormones off balance right?)

The list goes on and on. If you really want the skinny on what is in your bathroom,

YOU HAVE TO CHECK OUT http://ewg.org/skindeep. Put in your favorite product and I dare you to look!

Life is too short to be uninformed. People just like you and me are diagnosed with CANCER every day.

When I found out, I did something about it.

If there is something that you can do about it, don’t you think you should?

It is time to rethink how many toxins you put on your body.