A couple of clients have asked the same question recently, “How do I know what I am to do with my life?”

Pretty big question isn’t it?

To start, do some self-reflection and answer these questions:

1. What do I love to do, so much so that I lose track of time?
2. What do I consistently give to others?
3. What do people admire about me?
4. What do people typically depend on me for?
5. What do the people who are close to me say are my healthy obsessions?
6. What people, places, things and ideas am I most enthused about?
7. If I could drop everything today and start from scratch, what would I be doing?

Somewhere, between your head, heart and the blank sheet of paper or computer screen is your destiny. Begin thinking about it today!

How do you stay in the moment and connect with your child and pregnancy after struggling with infertility, remembering a previous miscarriage or loss of a child (stillborn). There is no doubt that these feeling are normal and only natural.

If your situation was infertility, you are absolutely euphoric that you have finally accomplished what you have worked so hard for; but then you are scared about losing this child, having to repeat all of those complicated infertility treatments and will you get pregnant again?? But you are pregnant, right now!

If you have previously miscarried or carried full term and then lost your child, those same feelings arise leaving you to feel guarded, almost against the little one, so that if something happens again, you are prepared and not as connected. But deep down you know, no matter what happens, you are connected to your baby.

Our thoughts… I took a quick Google search and came up with this little known fact: we have approximately 50,000 thoughts per day. As you know, many of these thoughts will be positive ~ love, joy, gratitude, humorous, etc. While others will be negative ~ fear, worry, anger, jealously, etc.

Now… there are only two options to address our negative thoughts. We can feed and nurture the negative monster or we can starve and ignore him. By starving and ignoring the monster we are able to concentrate on a more positive and peaceful existence.

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In my efforts to create more awareness around A Gift of Miles, I have been meeting so many fabulous natural medicine practitioners ~ Acupuncturists, Chinese Medicine, Homeopaths, etc., that it has driven me to think even more about my son’s food allergies.

I so wish that he would grow out of his food allergies. If he isn’t able to grow out of the nuts and eggs, I can live with that… but the topical and ingestion dairy allergy makes it so difficult for him, specifically when he is away from home. Not to mention how difficult it is to find foods that are safe for him because almost everything has milk in it or is produced on shared equipment or manufactured in a facility that produces milk products.

Kindergarten is the fall of 2011, so I have started to think about how can I try to help him, and his little immune system, grow out of these allergens.

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I knew one day it would happen, one of my son’s allergens (dairy – topically and by ingestion, eggs, peanuts and tree nuts) would be offered to him or in his vicinity. I had hoped it would be when he was a bit older (he’s 4, soon to be 5), but as you well know, things sometimes don’t happen on your timeframe.

This past year was the first time that my husband and I decided to place our son in a preschool environment. We always worried so about one of us not being with him and something happening. Whether that is because of working so hard to have him (infertility treatments) or just being cautious parents, who knows.

Anyhow, we had THE BEST SCHOOL YEAR! The teachers he had were so attentive to his/our needs in keeping him safe. His teachers never served any of his allergens in his classroom, they ask that I put together a list of safe snacks that parents could purchase when it was their child’s special, superstar day and whenever they wanted to do special food days for holidays or end of year celebration, they always contacted me for input. It felt good to have such a great experience our first year.

Prior to starting preschool, I called to speak with the lead teacher about his food allergies. I could tell that she truly understood and felt confident that he would be in good hands, especially when she said that she would rather be safe than sorry, so no allergens would be served in the room (since it was only 2 ½ hour preschool, only a snack was served).

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