What a great meal

A good meal doesn’t just nourish my body, it fills me up with hope.

Yesterday, I came home at 2:30 in the afternoon wondering WTF I would feed my family. The night before we had enjoyed salmon with delicata squash. I’d never had this squash before. It blew me away – so, so, so tasty. 100% divine. As I opened the fridge, I had my heart set on that. I also noticed an avocado. Good! And some chicken. Great! So I made the meal below and it was just perfect and beautiful and all the flavors blended together so well. It feels criminal to keep it to myself – you should enjoy it, too! Let’s go…

Pecan Chicken

2 cups organic pecans

1 teaspoon seasoned salt

¼ teaspoon pepper

8 (6 ounce or so) skinless, boneless pastured chicken breast halves

4 TBS organic, pastured butter, melted

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Combine pecans, salt and pepper in a food processor and pulse until pecans are finely chopped (if you have to do this by hand, so be it). Place seasoned pecan mixture in bowl. Evenly coat each chicken breast with butter by dipping it; then dredge each breast in pecan mixture.

Place chicken on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.

Bake for 20-25 minutes, until done.

NOTE: you can easily cut this recipe in half but the leftovers are nice to have around.

Serve chicken with Roasted Delicata Squash and a half of an avocado

2 delicata squash

2 TBS olive oil

½ teaspoon Celtic sea salt

½ teaspoon garlic powder

¼ teaspoon black pepper

Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Line large baking sheet with parchment paper.

Trim the ends of the squash and cut in half, length-wise. Scoop out the seeds with a spoon. Slice the seeded halves into ¼ inch thick slices (half circles). Place into a large bowl with olive oil, salt, garlic and black pepper; stir to combine well. Spread the squash out on a baking sheet into a single layer.

Bake in preheated oven for 12 minutes. Then flip and return to oven until tender and golden brown, about another 12-15 minutes.

When ready to serve meal, cut avocado in half and sprinkle with herbal salt.

Cook in peace, my friends!

Love,

Charlotte

PS – So you didn’t think that you would escape without a bit about EMFs now did you? Nope, not a chance. Eating in peace means that wireless technology does NOT have a seat at your table!

Bottom line: I want to share with you why I think you need an RF meter. This is the one I carry in my purse and will help you measure the wireless communications happening in the air around you. After all, RFs are an environmental toxin. This isn’t about being paranoid or fearful, it is about being in reality, increasing awareness and being informed. Just as you hopefully pay attention to the food you eat, you need to know what’s in the air that’s penetrating into your body.

A few personal stories to make my point…

When we arrived at the hotel last week in Austin, the first thing I noticed were the cell towers on top of the building. Good God almighty. Then, I noticed the hotel's tagline: relax, revive, rejuvenate (or something like that). And I think, “I’m sorry, but that’s fucking impossible when you are spending time and sleeping under a cell tower!” But I digress…

So Glenn and I took our meter and walked the entire hotel, looking for the safest place to sleep. Guess where it was? The fucking stairwells. OMG. When we expressed our concerns to the front desk about finding the safest room (there were a few that were better than others), we then met with the electrician. These people were very respectful of our needs and found the best room that we could given the readings on our meter.

Needless to say, I didn’t sleep well.

Then, a couple of days later, I visited with a friend who happened to have a pair of those wireless Apple ear pieces. I see adults and children everywhere now with these things and it takes every bone in my body, not to rip them out of their ears. Sure enough, I asked my friend to use them while I measured the RFs and my meter lit up like a Christmas tree with a bright red flashing light which means danger, get out now. And these fucking things are stuck in people’s ears? I can’t even.

One last story for you…back here in Lyons, we really enjoy eating at restaurant called Oskar Blues. They have the best bunless burger in the area. I happened to have my meter and it also got a red light – not flashing but red. So I start asking questions and all anyone can tell me is that they heard a rumor that there was a cell tower installed on the roof. Sure enough, there are two structures on the roof, but you can’t see what’s inside.

So I got the phone number for the man who owns the building, and I called him. He confirmed the rumor. When I expressed my concerns for the people eating there and working there, he said, “It is what it is!” And hung up the phone. As you can imagine, he hasn’t heard the last from me.

This is daunting. I get it. But it’s a necessary part of the process. The only thing that’s going to save us is…US! We have to stop buying this wireless shit. I mean, the holidays are upon us, right? Make a vow right now not to contribute to this toxic burden and don’t buy anyone anything that uses wireless technology. It’s a start.

Oh, and one more thing: one of my favorite podcasts – The Breakdown with Shaun King. He educates on social justice issues and does FANTASTIC work, except that he just got new sponsors for his show, which I understand, but dammit to hell if it doesn’t involve increasing RF exposure.

His first sponsor was for a wireless home security system. I’ve already heard of one person getting sick after installation of such a thing. Then, he shared the Calm app, where I guess you are able to play calming music and meditate at bedtime…from your smart phone. Now, maybe you can download the music, put your phone in airplane mode, and listen to it safely, but still. Most people aren’t going to know to do this even if it’s possible.

So get a meter. Learn about your environment at it relates to EMFs. Hire a building biologist if you need to. But don’t just sit there and be mindlessly radiated, ok? Do something.

Thanks for reading, enjoy some pecan chicken, kick wireless technology to the curb, and see ya’ll next week!

This is making us sick - Part 4

Travel back in time with me to Saturday, September 7th at the EMF conference in Santa Cruz, California. That afternoon following lunch, an amazing woman spoke – standing ovation amazing.

Her name is Victoria Dunkley, MD and the title of her presentation was Screen Time and Children: A Plan for Screen Fasting. If you scroll down on this page, you will find a 5-minute video tracking a family who addresses this issue with their children. It is eye opening.

I loved her myth-busting session. Here is what she had to say:

“Myth: It all depends on what they’re doing…content matters.

Truth: Total screen time is more important that type or content. It’s the medium, not the message.

Myth: Computer time is better than TV.

Truth: Interactive screen time is more dysregulating and addictive than passive.

Myth: Everything in moderation.

Truth: Not universal – some kids really can’t handle ANY screen time.

Myth: Computer skills need to be taught early to survive in today’s world.

Truth: Computer skills are overemphasized in school and are relatively easy to learn at any age.

Myth: Educational technology is revolutionizing the way kids learn and saves schools money.

Truth: Using tech to teach is at best neutral and may be harmful. Devices in classroom impair performance. Schools with the most computer use have the lowest scores. Kids with less than 30 minutes of screen time have the highest GPAs.

Myth: New software can help kids learn to read.

Truth: E-reading hinders literacy and comprehension.

Myth: Devices help students be more efficient.

Truth: Handwriting beats laptop note taking for recall, integration, and test scores; laptops distract others.

The nature of technology is at odds with basic developmental needs. Any device with an electronic screen acts like a stimulant, is a central nervous system irritant, and emits electromagnetic radiation.”

Then, she explains how electronic stress creates symptoms in children which is referred to as Electronic Screen Syndrome:

1. “Overstimulation and stress reactions.

2. Blood flow moves from the frontal lobe to primitive areas, desynchronizes the internal clock, alters brain chemistry and hormones

3. As a result, there is poor frontal lobe functioning which means that emotional regulation, focus, decision-making, impulse control, empathy, and creativity suffer. This can mimic and/or exacerbate psychiatric disorders.

4. Kids will be irritable, tearful, depressed and rageful.

5. Kids will have poor focus, be forgetful, disorganized and some will hallucinate.

6. Kids will be oppositional, impulsive, and express low empathy.”

Wow, right? I think her book Reset Your Child’s Brain could be useful to a lot families, teachers, and school administrators, yes?

I mean, this is the thing that makes this EMF conversation so damn hard. It is layers of issues. Kids (and adults) are addicted to the screens, social media, etc AND the EMFs are biologically impacting the body. Then, you have to deal with the spiral of shame that comes from feeling like a bad parent. It’s a triple fucking whammy, and very few people are actually, in reality, aware of it or dealing with it.

Look, when I was diagnosed with asthma at age 3, my dad stopped smoking cigars. Everyone was willing to recognize that environmental smoke isn’t good for asthma, and my dad changed. It was win-win: he saved me from further injury and stopped hurting his body. So it goes with cell phones and iPads. EMFs are like invisible second-hand smoke and the effects of screens on the brain is insult to injury. Our children are also observing our relationship to our devices: it starts with us - the parents!

I had no idea how my phone and even WiFi were interrupting my relationships until I eliminated them. I was physically here in my house, but I was mentally somewhere else. I was distracted. I now see that even moving a laptop computer around the house is a problem. Now I have to intentionally go down to my office to do something on my computer. It’s so much less stressful.

I move towards the technology as opposed to it coming at me! I decide what and when I see something on a screen, not the other way around. And when I’m with my loved ones, I’m with them.

In other words, I don’t miss my iPhone…and neither does my family.

It is clear that at some point with all of this wireless technology and screens, we crossed a line and now our kids, families and relationships are suffering. Thing is, we can change, and that’s where my hope resides. One by one, little by little…we can change.

Explore your relationship to screens in peace, my friends.

Love,

Charlotte

PS – Last week a number of you pointed out a mistake I made, Glenn and I will be in Austin THIS coming weekend Saturday, October 19th (not November) to teach our seminar 8 Ways Patients (and you) Sabotage Their Health and What to do About It. Maybe we will see you there?

In the meantime, please know that I’m here to support your vitality. In addition to the free education I provide in this newsletter, I can give you personalized attention in the form of one-on-one phone consultations. I charge $105 per hour and together, we will customize a plan for you to reclaim your health. It’s fun…and excruciating work that’s totally worth it. The season of sugar is upon us, making it the perfect time to take a deep dive into your life and body and get the self-care you deserve. Don’t wait until January when the season has passed, empower yourself NOW while you’re in the thick of it. You can schedule an appointment here.

Many thanks to each of you for reading. It’s an honor! “See” ya next week.

They warned me

A few weeks ago, I treated myself to a 60-minuted float followed by a 90-minute massage. Sounds like heaven, right? It was…until that afternoon.

I was incredibly disoriented and my thinking was foggy. I felt like I was walking through mud. My legs were heavy and so was my head. I even went to my car and left my purse in the cart at the store. My sinuses were congested, and I thought, “Shit, am I getting sick? I leave on an airplane tomorrow for California! I can’t get sick!”

Early that night, I poured myself into bed and slept like a log. I woke up the next day, feeling slightly better, packed and got on the airplane to California – where I sneezed constantly. Yeah, I was one of those folks that you didn’t want sitting anywhere near you! And I only got worse as the day went on. At one point, I even had a good cry.

That night at the hotel, I couldn’t keep my eyes open and fell asleep early…dreading a two-day conference, feeling like I’d been run over by a mac truck.

But when I woke up 9 hours later, I felt just fine. I couldn’t believe it. Historically, I would have held on to this “bug” for at least a week, if not six!

So what happened?

Well, it’s perfectly possible that my immune system has gotten stronger over the years and cleared an infection really quickly. But I don’t think that’s it. I think my body was, for lack of better words, detoxing or cleansing.

You see, about a month ago (in addition to eliminating all wireless technology from our home and installing dirty electricity filters) we installed a demand switch on our breaker box that allows us to cut the electricity off at night (everything but the fridges) with a remote from our bedrooms.

Now in our house, sleeping is like camping…or you know that stillness in your home, when the electricity goes out because of a storm. All the buzzing is gone. It’s incredible.

Electricity has become such a part our lives that we don’t think about it. We live with the story that it doesn’t even impact us, but it does. How could it not? We are electrical beings.

The Building Biologist we worked with had warned us: if your body has the resources, it may detox.

Yep. Instead of a 36-hour cold, I actually had a cleansing experience from altering our EMF environment at home. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if the bowel troubles I spoke of last week were part of this detoxing as well.

The thing is…I’ve been feeling GREAT. And that’s the big take away: if you suffer from chronic inflammation, and as a result of your personal work and self-care, you’ve “never felt better,” then get ready because that Life Force running through you is going to take you to the next level.

Your Life Force seeks transformation…it seeks reorganization…it wants to flow through you in the most enlivening way possible. And if it hits a bump in the road, it’s gonna smooth it out. It’s gonna clear it out. And you’re gonna experience it.

So I’ve been living the mystery: was I “sick” or was something else going on? I have a deep sense that something else was going on.

And I want to empower you with that awareness because at the core of this distinction, who cares? Getting sick and detoxing are the same thing.

When you feel “sick” know that that is the ultimate detox. People spend so much money and effort on detox kits and purification programs, and while these do have a place, the most important thing we do can when these symptoms hit us is to LET IT BE.

Let the mucus flow.

Let your bowels move.

Let your body rest and be still.

Let yourself hurt, knowing that your immune system is taking care of you.

Look, our Western minds want to know. Our minds want to figure things out. Our minds want to be certain. We live in our heads. But healing doesn’t work like that. Healing needs you to trust. Healing resides in the body. Healing knows that the story you tell yourself is more important than anything.

I prefer to think that my body - with less of a toxic environmental burden on it - decided to clean house and that I’m now better off for it. I can’t know for sure, and I can’t see it. But I can sure as fuck feel it.

Detox in peace, my friends.

Love,

Charlotte

PS – Just a reminder that Glenn and I will be in Austin on Saturday, October 19th teaching an 8-hour CEU seminar titled 8 Ways Patients (and you) Sabotage Their Health. Hope to see you there!

Oh, and if you want to learn more about dirty electricity which is completely relevant to the EMF conversation, check out Dr Sam Milham’s book Dirty Electricity. I finished it last week and it is an excellent read. Again, you will see how science isn’t science anymore. The number of letters to the editor in journals and studies that this man proposed that got rejected is astounding. I’m not sure science really cares at all about us anymore. It simply pretends to.

I’m almost done with Dr Tom Cowan’s new book Cancer and the New Biology of Water: Why the War on Cancer has Failed and What that Means for More Effective Prevention and Treatment and to be frank, the theme between these two unrelated books is the same: WTF are we doing? If something shows itself to us - whether it is harmful or helpful and without fully understanding why - shouldn’t we be able to study it? Big egos and industry have taken the place of what used to be scientific inquiry and the people are suffering are us. Good read.

Last but not least, I made an unbelievable meal last night: bacon-wrapped meatloaf. The secret was this fatty blend of ground beef and ground heart from US Wellness Meats. I used a half-pound of that blend with a half-pound of grassfed ground beef. Such a great way to work a nutrient dense tissue into our diets, and Drake loved it. What a win.

Thanks again for reading and please remember to pass this on to your friends. See ya next week!