Supplements
Supplements have become a staple in many people's homes to help support nutrition, immune support, and overall health. While you can purchase them at many stores and online vendors it is important to make sure your supplements are high quality. Many companies will not sell through amazon so when you see their products, they are being sold third party. This means, we don’t know how they have been stored or for how long. These factors affect the quality and I want nothing but the best for my patients. After years of practice, I have come to trust a couple of great sources:
Thorne
Thorne supplements are one of the most trusted brands on the market. They partner with the Mayo Clinic, Helsinn HealthCare, and multiple US professional teams to provide safe and natural supplements. Their doctors are amazing and always available to answer questions that I may not be able to answer.
Fullscript
Fullscript is a dispensary and access point to many supplement brands that are only sold through health care practitioners. You will find a list of my favorite brands and supplements as well as have access to many other trusted companies.
Doterra
Doterra is not just an oil company. They have amazing supplements including daily multivitamins for children and adults, sleep, mood, digestive, detoxification, and cellular support.
Ear Seeds
The ear is a map of the entire body and stimulating points on the ear has a therapeutic effect elsewhere in your body. It is often compared to reflexology, but on the ear. Using ear seeds can help with many health conditions. Check out the kits for specific conditions.
Publications
Carried in My Body, Cradled in My Arms: Women Share Their Uncensored, Authentic, and Empowering Birth Stories
Edited by Nancy Shoet West and Carrie Durkee Immler
Giving birth is a unique process. Each woman's experience is different, and women in the U.S. have an array of choices regarding how and where to deliver their babies. Hospital, birthing center, home? Doctor, midwife, doula? In a tub, on a bed? (In a car? Well, maybe not by choice....) Just you and your partner, or family members and other children in attendance? And then, of course, once all those choices have been made, the moment comes....and sometimes plans have to change. In this collection of birth stories, twenty-one women have offered a candid, uncensored, and inspiring retelling of how they brought their babies into the world. Compiled not only for mothers-to-be but for anyone with an interest in the birthing process and its myriad variations, their stories are a source of insight, motivation, hope, and above all else authenticity regarding the birth experience.
Trying: Women and Men Speak Openly About the Journey to Make a Family
Edited by Nancy Shoet West and Carrie Durkee Immler
Once upon a time, getting pregnant was a matter of fate. Today, adults who want to become parents – women and men, single and partnered, straight and gay – have a range of options when pregnancy doesn’t happen naturally. But with all that advanced reproductive technology comes choices and decisions – some straightforward, some far more complicated. In this collection, fifteen women and men candidly discuss what it took for them to achieve their dream of becoming parents and offer words of inspiration and encouragement to those who are still trying.