Prioritize your family's emotional health!

Flower Essences are highly effective, non-toxic herbal preparations that address core issues of wellness, especially emotions. The essences are used internally or topically to assist balancing everyone's, including babies and children's, emotional health. They can be used to address anger, sleep issues, birth or any trauma, fear, nightmares, sadness, anxiety, overwhelm, attention-challenge and other emotions.

Add to breastmilk/formula bottle, your baby or child's bath water, in soft/liquid food (for example, mashed potatoes, soups, etc), dishwashing/hand soap; you can even place drops in your paint and then paint nursery or other rooms in the house to assist creating a calm, soothing, or whatever mood you want to enhance or address, the essences will still work!

This is a safe and healthy way to nurture your family's emotional health as there are no adverse effects. Using Flower Essences allows you to build a foundation that empowers your family to utilize natural resources to assist a healthy response to their emotions.

Contact me to schedule your Flower Essence session.

(Image is of the Wild Rose flower, its essence assists balancing emotions connected to lingering illness)

Is It Really Medicine?

November E-Newsletter

Dear Friend,

Thank you for reading the first of several upcoming e-newsletters within the month of November.

While watching a commercial promoting a medication for a skin disease, I was prompted to revisit the concept of medicine. The commercial was visually attractive in its presentation, the ‘subject’ was surrounded by nature and loved ones, and she appeared happy in her mood as the list of potential side effects scrolled along the side of the tv screen. Cancer, respiratory failure, liver problems were some of the potential diseases you could experience if you take this medication.

I thought - If it has 'side effects' warnings of possible harm if use, is it really medicine? Medicine is defined as "the science or practice of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease". Also - "the science and art of healing. It encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness". If medicine is defined as the above, then would it cause potential harm in the healing process?

I chose the natural/holistic health field as a career because of the love and appreciation I experience when doing this work and being in service to others. I am committed to providing information and education on this approach to health to assist you and your family's health, wellness, and holistic healing journey. The health modalities that my practice offers comes with no warnings, just 'common sense' awareness like 'keep aromatherapy blend away from eyes', and in the event that should happen - washing the eyes will address it.

Still, whether choosing my practice or another's as your health care provider, I encourage you to be educated consumers. Research, ask questions, find out exactly what you are choosing as your medicine. An educated consumer is a conscious, responsible participant in his/her life and soul journey.

Yours in holistic health,
Nicole A. Tucker, Lic. LCC

Cancer loves sugar - Dr. Christiane Northrop

My tips on different approaches to consider when creating a cancer-free health:

1. Eat an inflammatory-free diet.

2. Learn to think with your heart.

3. Experience a healthy response to your emotions and stress.

4. Breathe properly.

5. Listen to your bodies - aches and pains carry messages.

6. Natural and holistic approaches to health. (The Modalities)

7. Give and receive love, unconditionally and abundantly.

Consider consulting with a qualified healthcare professional to assist you.

Kind testimonial from a colleague - thank you

As an associate and fellow natural healthcare practitioner sharing mutual goals for the health and healing of the world, and with my interpersonal experience with Nicole for many years now, I confidently encourage any new mom, soon to be mom and all who choose a healthier, happier way of life through natural health options to contact Nicole for a full and comprehensive consultation.

Nicole provides her knowledgable expertise in many areas of natural medicine in harmony with a presentation of herself, services and product lines. You are blessed in the hands of Nicole.

Mora Danu-Michaels
NNJ Director
Northeast Holistic Center

Your Holistic Child: Back To School Guide

Your Holistic Child: Back To School Guide

~ When packing lunch, consider the appropriate food grouping for proper digestion and strengthening of the entire body (physical, emotional, mental, spiritual). Protein + Green Vegetables = Yes, Starch + Green Vegetables = Yes. Protein + Starch = No, Green Vegetables + Fruit = No.

~ If your child experiences a lack of appetite, add a piece of grapefruit to her lunch bag/box to eat or inhale the aroma. Essential oil of grapefruit provides appetite stimulant support.

~ Send her to school with her own essential oil (Aromatherapy) hand sanitizer. Containing all natural anti-bacterial, anti-toxic, and antiviral properties, she will like the aroma and the way it feels on her hands.

~ Gently encourage communication about your child's day at school. Find out who her friends are, if there are any challenges with other students and teachers, and so on. Start this process at an early age to increase your child's belief system about healthy self-expression, and communication.

~ Introduce and maintain a holistic lifestyle for your child. This approach to wellness, first, supports healthy living values and commitments for your child, as well as, minimizes sick days from school.

*this newsletter information also applies to home schooling environments.


To Your Best Health,

Nicole
www.NicoleAngelaTucker.com

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Make holistic living fun and empowering for your children

Holistic living means to actively and consciously participate and create life choices that support your healthiest physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual (belief system) health. Encouraging this option of living for children helps them to be healthy and grow into adults who consciously choose natural and safe resources to support their best health.

Holistic living options for your child(ren) can include:
- Send them to school with their own essential oil (Aromatherapy) hand sanitizer. Containing all natural anti-bacterial, anti-toxic, and antiviral properties, they will like the aroma and the way it feels on their hands.

- Schedule time together to clean toys. Get a bucket and mix water, clear vinegar, and essential oils of lemon, tea tree, and pine - a gentle, safe cleanser, while your child has fun playing in the solution and being responsible for the care of his toys.

- Camouflage spinach or other green leafy vegetables in cacao, dark chocolate, or carob smoothies (make sure that your child has no sensitivity to these options). Fruit smoothies work well too - s(he) may find the green color interesting and fun! Use a juicer. If your child is transitioning from drinking store/fast food bought beverages, save the container. When you make the smoothie, add it to the container, until he is comfortable with the full transition.

- Give him or her the opportunity to play in dirt, or better yet soil. Encourage your child to assist you to plant and pick herbs that you can use to cook with.


Nicole A. Tucker, Lic. LCC is a Licensed Health Care Practitioner and Educator, specializing in complementary and alternative medicine. Click here to learn more about the practice.

To Your Best Health,

Nicole
(p.s. image is not the property of this blog)

Generous words from Bethenny

Dear Nicole
Thanks so much for your very thoughtful gift. We LOVE IT!
Love, Bethenny
Bethenny Frankel, Celebrity Natural Food Chef, NY Times Best-Selling Author, Star of Bravo's "Bethenny Ever After" and mom to baby daughter, Bryn, New York, New York (referring to "Sweet Butterfly Mommy & Baby" All-Purpose Aromatherapy Blend)

Natural therapy options to understand and assist your fertility

Natural therapy options to understand and assist your fertility:

Self-examination of your emotions and belief about fertility, as it relates to pregnancy and your ability to create and nurture new experiences.

Connect with what you observed and were taught in childhood that is affecting your ability to conceive or give birth to an expression of yourself.

Connect to the truth as to the reason you would like to conceive a baby. List on paper and observe your feelings/beliefs from a different angle.

All self-exploration can be achieved in one-on-one therapy, affirmations, wellness sessions, journaling, meditation, visualization, prayer and so on.

For Fertility Wellness Sessions, you may contact me at NicoleATucker@aol.com or 201.926.9757.

How to Test for Lactose Intolerance in Babies

Lactose intolerance in babies can be painful. It is the body’s inability to properly process or metabolize lactose due to a lack of enzymes in the digestive system. Lactose is a type of sugar found in mammalian milk. In utero, babies can develop lactose intolerance if the mother consumes a nutritionally imbalanced diet, which affects healthy production of enzymes, consequently affecting the development of the baby’s digestive system. There are easy and non-invasive ways to test for lactose intolerance in babies.
Check the stool for blood and mucus. Blood may appear light pink or deep red in color. Using gloves, separate the stool to check for mucus.

Get a stool acidity test, which measures the amount of acid in the stool. Undigested lactose in the colon creates lactic acid.

Check for rashes on the face, the front and back of the neck, the stomach and abdomen, toes and all over. Rashes may appear dry, wet, raised, irritated and itchy. Check for a breakout of bumps on the body.

Gently apply 1/2 tsp. of milk on the abdominal area and note any breakouts within four to six hours.

Crying may indicate pain in the digestive system. Be conscious of crying immediately or two to three hours after milk feeding. Listen for gas sounds in the stomach and intestines.

Self-test by feeding your baby 1 oz. of milk on an empty stomach, noting any digestive upsets that occur within two to four hours. Repeat two more times in a 24-hour period, if necessary.

Enzyme Therapy is a muscle palpation technique administered on the body and feet to test the enzyme status throughout the body. The right enzymes can be placed back into the body with the aid of this process. Recommended for mom and baby, Enzyme Therapy helps to repair the digestive system and process a limited or full dose of lactose. Cow, goat, and bottled milk may still pose a challenge to digest.

Continued breastfeeding is encouraged; however, you may need to decrease or eliminate dairy, sugar and fats from your diet and include the appropriate enzymes, as your baby is directly affected by what you eat.

Aromatherapy is the use of essential oils to promote a healthy body and emotions. This method helps to soothe the digestive system. Add three drops of sweet orange essential oil to one teaspoon of canola oil and apply it in a clockwise motion on your baby’s digestive system. Rub the oil in the palms of of your hands; start applying it under baby’s left breast, moving down the left side of the body, across the abdomen, including the belly button, up the right side of the body, under the right breast and then to the left breast.

As a physical upset can be directly connected to an emotional upset, lactose intolerance may also indicate a challenge with processing change and sadness.

Click here to learn more about Aromatherapy and Enzyme Therapy. To schedule a private session in either modality to address lactose intolerance, email Nicole at NicoleATucker@aol.com.

A Private Session with Nicole

A Private Session with Nicole

A confidential, professional, and nurturing environment is always the setting for your sessions with Nicole. Within your session, there is a discussion with Nicole that is focused on what you would like to address, in regards to your health, and growth development. Based on your conversation with Nicole, the most effective complementary and alternative modality is recommended. Each session is custom-tailored to meet your specific needs, as we all learn and heal at our own unique pace.

Nicole’s complementary and alternative modality background includes, Clinical Aromatherapy, Advanced Reflexology, Flower Essence Therapy, Herbal Education, Enzyme Therapy, Holistic Synergy, Homeopathy, Ministerial Counseling, and more.

By being open to guidance and truthfully examining the health challenge, you create the opportunity to heal yourself, with the assistance of Nicole, and one or more of the above modalities. Your comfort within the session and privacy are respected and honored at all times.

Utilizing only safe, non-invasive, and responsible resources, a private session with Nicole is available for maternity and non-maternity health concerns, via telephone, in-office, and as a home visit. You may send an email to NicoleATucker@aol.com to learn more and schedule your appointment.

Sweet Butterfly Baby Hair & Body Oil: 50% discount offer!

All products are sold out, except for one amazing gem! 'Sweet Butterfly Baby' Hair & Body Oil...I love all the products I create, but I am partial to this one. The lovely aromatic combination of pink rose buds and organic virgin coconut oil is a sample of heaven to me. Contact the office (201.926.9757) or email (NicoleATucker@aol.com) me to get this product for 50% off.

Full ingredients: Flowers of Chamomile, Calendula, and Pink Rose Buds-infused Sunflower Oil with Organic Virgin Coconut Oil, Tocopherol (Vitamin E Oil), and Lavender and Sweet Orange Essential Oils.

Benefit:
healthy baby/child skin care and preventive support for all skin conditions.

Regular price: $60 (2oz bottle)
Sale price: $30 (2oz bottle)
*a little goes a long way!!
*shipping & handling price will be added

p.s. No worries, more products will be created asap!

I'm on Thumbtack!

Hi Everyone!

I have joined Thumbtack, a valuable marketplace for local services. This avenue will assist me to reach a wider audience, which I look forward to. See my link to the right, above the image of The Birth Support Kit? It says, "Hi, I'm Nicole, Family Practitioner! Here to help!". Click on that link and learn more about me, and what I can offer you.

"See" you there,

N

Laila + Sydney

Congratulations to Boxer Laila Ali and family on the arrival of baby girl Sydney!!! Hope you enjoy our "Ball of Light Belly & Body Oil" and "Sweet Butterfly Mommy & Baby All-Purpose Aromatherapy Blend"!

XO,
Nicole

Circumspect on Circumcision

It is our belief that circumcision is received by the body as trauma. A dismembering of the genitalia, the act and response from the male (or female) leave an imprint of trauma within the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual cells and bodies. This can be seen as a baby's indoctrination to physical pain/abuse, by way of his/her sexual organ. Furthermore, it is our belief that this imprint can possibly result in a desensitized genitalia, contributing to challenges with satisfyingly giving and receiving pleasure during love making with a partner and in masturbation, rage, unhealthy romantic love partnership, fear of self-actualization.

According to the philosophy of Sexual Reflexology, the skin that is removed during male circumcision is connected to energy meridians of the spleen, stomach and pancreas, and the adrenal, thymus, pineal and pituitary in female. This additional information further supports that this surgery is a whole body, holistic experience, affecting every known and unknown aspect of the individual.

Repairing the physical and metaphysical consequences of circumcision, at any age, can be done. We find that essential oils and flower essences work exceptionally well with physically enlivening the genitals and supporting the individual in his/her emotional release and healing.

Learn more about essential oils (Aromatherapy) and flower essences here.

Conscious Conception: 3 Things You Must Do Before Conceiving

1. Consciously examine your beliefs, emotions and thought processes to ascertain the truth as to why you want to become a parent. Upon reaching your answer, honestly decide if the reason is viable.

2. Assess your internal and external life and resources. Do they allow for a supportive, nurturing, healthy and loving environment conducive to raising a baby/child?

3. Research and choose ongoing safe, non-invasive health options to prepare (as best as possible) the body's four levels (physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual) to conceive, birth, navigate, and sustain the entire maternity/parenthood journey with *responsibility and optimum wellness.


*responsibility = ability to respond, not react

An Easier and Safer Way To Turn Your Breech Baby

Mom, you've found out that your baby is in the breech position, what do you do?

You've most likely started the search for the best approach(es) to gently and safely assist in turning baby into the cephalic or head-down position.

A main concern with breech presentation at 40 weeks gestation is oxygen deprivation, which may occur from either cord prolapsed or prolonged compression of the cord during birth head entrapment. This can lead to neurological damage or in severe cases, death.

For assistance with turning baby into the head-down position, I highly recommend Holistic Synergy Energywork (HSE). As a Synergist, I, in partnership with your energy, baby's and the Universal Divine Energy, utilize my hands (on top of mother's belly) to shift energy within a specific part of the body. In this case, to assist in gently positioning baby with head down in pelvic region.

If there is a health condition which causes the breech position, HSE can assist to bring balance and harmony to the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual energy fields. All negative energies are released out of the body and replaced with positive, healthy energies and thought forms.

HSE for breech support and balancing health is done carefully and safely and can be accomplished in one or multiple sessions. Factors that affect rate of effectiveness include mom and baby's resistance to the method due to apprehension to meet each other and/or baby's apprehension to enter the world. These factors can be addressed in one or more sessions.

Fab Maternity News!

New energies are blossoming and we are delighted to share!

Health Awareness: Common baby allergies include, hay fever, hives, pet, food, eczema, and drug. It is also possible for your baby to develop an allergic reaction to epidural used during childbirth. Energetix's BioEnergetic Medicine is one of the modalities that we use to gently detoxify the body of the anaesthetic drugs from the epidural and rebuild the body's systems. Learn more about Energetix at http://www.goenergetix.com

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Client Support:

BREAKTHROUGH: With the assistance of our healthcare protocol, including Aromatherapy, Herbal Care, a variety of body/energywork, and Holistic Counseling, a client came to understand that her manifesting fibroids was a reflection of the passionate, satisfying life she was afraid to birth within herself. This energy of fear and repression then presented itself as painful fibroid blockages within her sacred, creative woman space - her womb. Congratulations!

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Postpartum Pleasure (new addition to The Birth Support Kit) also assists with breastmilk production, along with fostering a love connection between mom and baby...especially helpful for previously postpartum-depressed moms! Learn more at The Birth Support Kit

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Kind testimonial:

"Dear Nicole: Thanks so much for the thoughtful gift. We LOVE IT!"
Love, Bethenny
(Bethenny Frankel/Natural Food Chef, Author, Star of Bravo TV shows, "The Real Housewives of New York" and "Bethenny Getting Married?", and mom to daughter, Bryn; referring to our "Sweet Butterfly Mommy and Baby" All-Purpose Aromatherapy Blend)


The must-have all-in-one holistic topical care solution for postpartum and postnatal care. The go-to ointment for:
diaper rash
cradle cap
colds
stomach upset
c-section incision healing
nipple care to enhance comfortable breastfeeding
and more

Learn more about this and other maternity and baby products here


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We still need your votes EVERYDAY until January 31, 2011 for us to rank in the top 10 to receive the $25,000 grant funding for our Pepsi Refresh "GOOD IDEA". The title of our application is, "Help HIV/AIDS Most Vulnerable Victims-Pregnant Moms, Babies, Children"

Each person can vote 2 ways DAILY:
1 text message via cell phone and
1 here

To send a text message from your cell phone:
SEND CODE: 105174
TO: 73774

Please ask all your friends, family and the people in your life to vote for us daily. If you have any questions, please call our headquarters at Northeast Holistic Center at (973) 759-7588 or call Pepsi direct toll free at 800-768-2784 and let the Pepsi rep know you are a voter. Thank you for your support!

Sign in and VOTE here!


Thank you for being with us on this journey in 2011 and beyond,

Nicole

The Meaning of Pregnancy and Birth

Pregnancy is truly about souls seeking the lesson of boundary on the life journey by birthing another creative expression of themselves and the God-consciousness to teach them.

BREAKTHROUGH

With the assistance of our healthcare protocol, a client came to understand that her manifesting fibroids was a reflection of the passionate, satisfying life she was afraid to birth within herself. This energy of fear and repression then presented itself as painful fibroid blockages within her sacred, creative woman space - her womb. Congratulations!

Fantastic Maternity News!

It's the beginning of the year, new energies are blossoming and we are delighted to share!

First, we need your votes EVERYDAY from January 1, through January 31, 2011 for us to rank in the top 10 to receive the $25,000 grant funding for our Pepsi Refresh "GOOD IDEA". The title of our is application, "Help HIV/AIDS Most Vulnerable Victims-Pregnant Moms, Babies, Children"

Each person can vote 2 ways DAILY:

1 text message via cell phone and
1 on http://www.refresheverything.com/momsbabieschildrensufferingwithhivaids

To send a text message from your cell phone:

SEND CODE: 105174
TO: 73774

Please ask all your friends, family and the people in your life to vote for us daily. If you have any questions, please call our headquarters at Northeast Holistic Center at (973) 759-7588 or call Pepsi direct toll free at 800-768-2784 and let the Pepsi rep know you are a voter. Thank you for your support!

Sign in and VOTE!
http://www.refresheverything.com/momsbabieschildrensufferingwithhivaids
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We are thrilled to announce that we have added another holistic product to The Birth Support Kit, Postpartum Pleasure, an Aromatherapy/Flower Essence blend to assist physical, emotional, and mental balance and grounding post-childbirth. Applied on mother, this magical blend also helps to foster a love and nurturing exchange between mother and baby. Gently apply on center of chest/front and back (heart meridian), all over body and/or on feet and hands, immediately after childbirth, and beyond, if necessary. Learn more at http://www.wholecreations.com/birthprofessionalprods.html
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We’ve made some changes to our holistic birth doula service that we believe you’ll love! With the latest addition of a new modality, we are the ONLY birth doula service offering energywork of Jin Shin Jyutsu and Holistic Synergy, touch therapies providing subtle, positive shifts in the body’s response to its belief system of “pain”. Learn more about our premier holistic birth doula service at http://www.wholecreations.com/holisticbirthassistant.html
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We now carry PF3: Power Flower Focus Formulas, each formula is designed to work on the emotional body bringing forth gentle balance in a variety of areas, from shock and trauma, trust, prosperity, health to depletion, anger and conflict and menopause. Ideal for maternity and non-maternity issues. I am currently using Begin the Healing for trauma experienced in childhood, and the result has been powerfully effective in my release of the upset.

Contact our office via Nicole@WholeCreations.com to order.
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A kind testimonial from one of our organic mommy clients:

Holly M., Stay-At-Home Mom, New York City, New York, Organic Mommy & Baby Healthcare Solutions (http://www.wholecreations.com/wombfull.html):
"Nicole brought a well-needed perspective to my birthing journey. I wanted the re-assurance of natural therapy support from day one of my pregnancy to newborn care and beyond. With her innate wisdom, compassion, knowledge and gift, my mind, body and spirit easily received the therapies Nicole bestowed. Combined with her touch therapy and superior ability to navigate energy, I succeeded in having the pleasurable mama journey I so desired".

Thank you for being with us on this journey in 2011 and beyond,

Nicole