Holiday Stress and Your Immune System
The Holiday Season is here along with stress, lots of sugar, and running around shopping. Here are a few ideas to help combat Holiday Stress:

First reduce the amount of sugar you eat during the holidays. It lowers the immune system (1Tb. lowers your immune system for 4 hours).
Second, don't over eat. Socialize while eating so you can digest food slowly instead of over-eating.
Third, Vitamins and Herbs can help. Vitamins such as B-Complex helps reduce stress and increase energy.
Fourth, visit our website: gatheredfromthegardenllc.4t.com and let us help make your shopping stress-free!!

A Great Idea!

When doing your Christmas cards this year, take one card and send it to this address. If we pass this message on and everyone sends one card, think of how many cards these wonderful special people who have sacrificed so much would get!

A Recovering American Soldier
c/o Walter Reed Army Medical Center
6900 Georgia Avenue,NW
Washington, DC 20307-5001

Presidential Election


Are you tired of presidential debate coverage? The mud slinging is already getting old. I am left wondering if anyone has a real stand on anything. Wouldn't plain ol' honesty be refreshing?

I found this survey on the Minnesota Public Radio website. (minnesota.publicradio.org/projects/ongoing/select_a_candidate) You answer about a dozen questions and at the end of the survey, they show you the candidate that best matches your views on the issues. It is a pretty good tool because it is simple and to the point.

On a lighter note, the only mud that Gathered From the Garden will sling is our fabulous Dead Sea Mud Mask. Check out our website: gatheredfromthegardenllc.4t.com

Change Is Good

One of my favorite authors and artists is a woman named Susan Kennedy also known as "Sark". I first saw a poster she had done a few years ago. It had fun and simple ideas to follow and her artwork was cool. Since then, I've gone to her website (planetsark.com) and read some of her books.
I also get her newsletters. The last one was all about change. Change is around us but we don't often think about it. We may change our hairstyle or clothes. Every fall a new tv show line-up appears so we may change the programs we watch. In MN we are aware of change because of our seasons. Most changes around us are pretty subtle.
Sark says that we are basically changing all the time. We just forget to become aware of it and we don't often let others know about changes. She poses the question, "Tell me how you've changed recently?"
I started to think about all of the ways I have changed lately. I have been working on getting certified as an aromatherapist. I've started to rethink how I treat my health. I've lost some weight. My sleep patterns have changed. This exercise took me awhile to do since I was trying to think of significant changes. (unlike my haircolor has changed, etc.)
Sark says we should let others know about our changes. I think to help celebrate them. Not all of my friends/family know about me becoming an aromatherapist. But I should be letting them know that. I've been studying hard and I'll be proud when I finish my coursework. The weight change--well that is something we like others to notice but usually we don't bring up ourselves. I have several family members in the medical field who could probably discuss my sleep patterns with me.
I am going to be interested in finding out how the people important to me have changed. With the holidays coming up--that should be a good time to catch up--especially with family members. I'll have to fill them in on my changes too.
So after reading all of this, here's the question...Tell me how you've changed recently?
A change we made at Gathered From The Garden is to offer our weekly newsletter to all who are interested not just customers. If you are interested in getting our newsletter full of beauty tips, info on products and sales and health topics, email us at gatheredgarden@charter.net