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Clean your Home, but don't soil your body! Breathing better is feeling better and looking better!

When you clean Your Home, Don't dirty your body!  Living a long life means protecting ourselves from products in the home that can shorten it! Household cleaners containing bleach or chemicals are harmful when inhaled. Many cleaning supplies or household products can irritate the eyes or throat, or cause headaches and other health problems, including cancer. Some products release dangerous chemicals, including volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Being exposed to too many VOC's can lead to eye, nose and throat irritation, headaches and nausea, along with loss of coordination and damage to liver, kidneys and central nervous system. Other harmful ingredients include ammonia and bleach. Fortunately there are cleaning products that have come onto the market that are safe and do not...

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Feeling Good and Avoiding a Stroke

Everybody knows that one should quit smoking, drink moderately exercise and eat  a high fiber diet - key measures in avoiding a stroke. But did you know that Avoiding "bad fat" is key - Most women today drench their salad with their favorite off the shelf dressing. 99% of them contain conola oil - a "bad hydrogenated fat" The trans fats in hydrogenated vegetable oil can increase the level of inflammation in the body which in turn increases the amount of plaque deposits in the arteries. Inflammation then causes those plaques to rupture and cause a stroke. Your "healthy" salad may not be so "healthy". Make your own dressing with other oils like Flaxseed, Olive or Avocado. Add some lemon,...

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Tune In to the Power of Nature!

Feeling good is Looking Good and feeling good can be as easy as taking a stroll on a beach. Everyone loves to walk on the shore but not everyone knows that there is power to waves and that they can actually heal. As you sit, stand or walk on a beach envision every wave as a soul cleaning energy. When a wave comes in imagine it bathing any war wounds and erasing any damaging  emotion or thoughts.  With each new wave let yourself be cleansed of any poisonous memories, injuries, past hurts or disappointments and see them all wash out to sea. Let each new wave bring strength, renewal and hope to your spirit and soul.  Just wading in the...

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Feeling Good and the power of nutrients.

Unfortunately and sadly, suicide is a leading cause of death in the United States today.  Untimely deaths like Robin Williams, Kate Spade , Anthony Bourdain and recently Naomi Judd, are all incomprehensible. Like these celebrities, many seemingly successful and well adjusted young and elderly adults choose to end their life -  to the distress of baffled and broken hearted friends and family members. The popular solution by the medical community is medication and/or "cognitive behavioral therapy". Community emphasis is to  "teach coping" or  "improve suicide help lines".  Families are encouraged to "reduce access to lethal means" "and encourage "social -emotional learning programs".  All good ideas -but effective?  With the rate of suicides occurring - obviously not effective enough. Why is it...

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The Power of Color!

At Skirdle our motto is “Looking Good is Feeling Good” and a slimming skirt is always a help to feeling good but in addition we have added color to our skirts. Color has been proven to help depression, optimize mood, build confidence and help stress levels. BLUE In many of our skirts we use the color blue. The color blue is almost always associated with blue skies, which when we were children is a positive thing — it means playing outside and fun. Evolutionarily it also means there are no storms to come and good sun for crops. This is why blue reminds us of stability and calm. Blue is also the color of truth and wisdom and is linked...

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