Greetings,

Just reminding all of you to remember the appendix from both books! These books and websites provide you with everything you need to get started on your journey. Just begin. The Wellness Diaries philosophy covers a lot of ground. The well-being of spirit, mind, and body is a lot of territory. There is a reason I listed the books and websites printed at the back of both books. Remember the appendix! Research and become educated.

There are additional books listed in the appendix of Life Is Conscious. The books and websites are organized for you by topic; pick a topic that interests you or that is calling you and chances are it will lead to the next step in your journey!

Thank you for reading and enjoy your journey!

-Owen

Greetings,

Dr. McDougall, author of The Starch Solution and founder of McDougall Wellness Center recommends starch-based language. The term plant-based may be vague and leaves much room for confusion. In my books, there is also the occasional reference to the healing properties of wild edible plants also. I apologize for my part in the confusion.

We people need calories to function. While that beautiful salad with kale, romaine lettuce and blueberries and a chia seed-vinegarette dresssing provides a fantastic, nutrient dense delivery to your cells; the nutrients are high, but the calories in this dish would me minimal. This meal would not suffice to provide needed energy throughout the day.

As for the reference to the wild edibles in Wellness Diaries and Life Is Conscious, if wild edibles are referred to on this site, I will be very specific. The references to a plant-based diet in the two books are referring to a starch-based diet with some nutritious, veggies and fruits.

While the nutrient density of the super food-Dandelion can hardly be beat; neither can the medicinal and pot herb value of Plantain, I will be very specific if wild edibles are referred to here. It is starch (rice, potatoes, sweet potatoes, breads, etc) that have the calories.

Dr. McDougall makes it clear that starch should be the staple to obtaining calories. Starch, it is not a bad word. Learn it straight from the source. https://www.drmcdougall.com/

“You are designed to eat starch.”

This shift will help people get on the same page as far as veg and plant-based diets are concerned: starch based diet. Potatoes, rice, sweet potatoes and some legumes would make up the bulk of the diet. These have served as staple foods for people throughout the world for thousands of years.

The ongoing debate has some valid points. Vegetables such as Kale, Collards, Broccoli may be loaded with nutrients, phytochemicals, including cancer fighting compounds. These are great to eat often, even daily. But these don’t contain enough calories to try and make them a staple food. People need calories. We are designed to move and be active. This is where the rice, potatoes, sweet potatoes and legumes come in. This starch diet has very little animal protein. There are thousands of meal possibilities with these staples. It is anything but limited.

Yes, you heard it. It is a myth that starch is bad. Starch is actually what people are physically and metabolically designed to eat.

Dr. McDougall’s starch based plan is a practical and sensible introduction to eliminating all the excess animal protein that is so grossly excessive in the standard American diet today. See Dr. McDougall’s website and book for fantastic recipes, informative dietary guidelines, and why starch is an ideal staple, eaten by people for thousands and thousands of years.

Education, researching and finding the facts for yourself is key. Please join us as we switch around the wording here as well as elsewhere. That is, replacing the plant-based term with starch-based. If I am referring to wild edibles on this site, I will be more specific. Again, all apologies for my part in the confusion on terminology.

Thank you for reading.

-Owen

Greetings,

As mentioned before, with every malady, from the individual to the collective whole of humanity there is an aspect of wellness that serves as the correction, the counterbalance to correct any and all imbalances. The individual has options available at hand in correcting any imbalances on their own.

It is also important to note that many imbalances start from the society level and often, any given imbalance is a society wide issue; with the origins of the problems being deep within society itself. Still, we as individuals have the power to choose from what one has to work with in his or her life to take steps in regaining balance, well-being and inner-peace.

Balance occurs in varying aspects all throughout spirit, mind and body.

Below is the link to a blog about one individual’s personal experience with an eating disorder-now recovered, with an insightful view. The blog author is Life Is Conscious artist, Laurana Bigler. Laurana shares her own experiences about her recovery from an eating disorder and offers unique insight.

Part of the concept here at Wellnessdiaries.com is remaining open to different perspectives, different parts of the whole considered as part of wellness as being about the individual. Peaceful, content individuals, genuinely comfortable with themselves expand outward, helping others to become the same to communities, societies and eventually the globe.

Fit for life the curvy way:

http://lolliessunshine.blogspot.com/

Enjoy becoming informed on a wide variety of wellness topics.

Thank you for reading.

-Owen

If it is a man’s world, and all things from the past are called history, in the coming age, will it be a woman’s earth? Will it be called herstory? Shestory? Will it be written in past or present tense? Who will be recording it?

Thank you for pondering.
-Owen

Greetings,

This speech was given in Montana by a senior in high school. He said it all in this 9 minute speech about mental illness. Very well said. I couldn’t have said it better. Hell, could anyone?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VohNDqzWP9E&authuser=0

Greetings,

Remember that in the WD/LIC community, September is the month to remember the Bees! Please avoid using toxic chemicals and herbicides in your yard and garden. These chemicals are very harmful to bees. Bees are essential insects, and without bees, we people are in trouble.

Always, but this month especially, remember the bees.

Read about safe yard/garden alternatives on my eco-garden page:
http://wellnessdiaries.com/?page_id=1195

Read my bee post here:
http://wellnessdiaries.com/?p=510
Please pass it on!
Owen

No matter how different from yourself your neighbor may be.

Greetings,

The Wellness Diaries and Life Is Conscious philosophy is about much more than health. It is about healing-including forgiveness, individuals, communities, societies to healing the globe. It expands. Truly, we have come a long way. Remember also, that forgiving doesn’t mean that wrongs are okay; it just means that as individuals and societies, we choose to no longer send them anymore anger/fear. We let it go. We take control of them, rather than them controlling us.

The concept is about meeting others half way, cooperation, no matter how different from yourself your neighbor may be.

We have come a long way.

Still, we have a ways to go. The fun has just begun! =)


Order Life Is Conscious directly from Owen:

Thank you for reading.
Stay tuned.
Owen