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Community Wellness Project

Accessible and Affordable Health, Wellness, and Well-Being Options

The Evenstar Community Wellness Project is our commitment to make our integral health, wellness, and well-being principles, programs, products, and services available in ways in which you - no matter where you are and your current resources – can find a place to start to improve your mood and energy.

Just Imagine …

You are health conscious and believe that taking good care of yourself is important. You read natural health and alternative medicine magazines and are on the look out for the best self-care and preventive health advice. Sometimes though you are just too busy living your life and can’t keep up with all you would like to do to effectively take care of your and your family’s health and well-being.

You try to eat right and give yourself and your family  healthy, good tasting foods. You believe the power of a good diet will maintain your health and well being. When you “eat right” you feel so much better. But you are getting confused about which diet to follow. So many “good diets” offer contradictory advice.  And what about matching the diet to the needs of your family? Your husband has to “watch his cholesterol”. Your daughter is involved in lots of sports and your not sure what to feed her. You suspect your son has hidden food allergies so you keep eliminating foods but he only gets better for a short time. And you are constantly tired and wondering if you are eating too much or maybe you need to cut out carbohydrates.

It’s not that you are against allopathic medicine. It really helped your Mom when she broke her leg. And without it your Uncle might have died from his heart attack. But no one in your family is really sick enough to need that kind of intervention. Sure your youngest gets ear infections all the time but you have heard that antibiotics are overused with ear infections and even when you tried antibiotics they didn’t work. Now you have a new Family Doctor who believes more in a wait and see approach so your use of antibiotics has decreased but your family still gets “everyday illnesses” that you need to deal with.

All except you – you hardly ever get sick. But you feel lousy. You are tired all the time. You get migraines every month. You always feel queasy and nauseated – and most of the time you are not in that great of a mood. Your doctor has done all the regular allopathic lab tests and they always come back perfectly normal. Your doctor says it is stress and that you should practice meditation (which you can’t find time to do). You are trying to learn to live with it and be positive. You’ve read a few books on problems with the thyroid, balancing your hormones, and reducing stress but nothing you do seems to be working for you. (However, that book you read about “pre-diabetes” really helped your Mom.)

Then, there is your husband who has nothing wrong with him either – but his cholesterol is still creeping upwards and he is starting to put on weight. He keeps up his exercise routine – even though he is working 60 hours or more a week. You’ve tried changing his diet and things seemed to get better for awhile but it didn’t last very long.

You love working with alternative health practitioners because it just seems so right. And you really believe that taking care of your self with preventive steps is the best way to build a strong and healthy body. But there are so many practitioners and approaches to chose from – and you don’t know who to go to first. You would like to go to them all but your health insurance doesn’t cover that. And even when you work with a chiropractor, nutritionist, or massage therapist they all seem to be telling you something different and you are not sure who to listen to. 

Now imagine this …

Nearby is a wonderful Community Wellness Center. You don’t have to pile all the kids into the car, fight your way through traffic with the kids tired and hungry in the back seat. And because it is so close you don’t have to spend money on gas to get there. 

Your Community Wellness Center is dedicated to exactly the health care concerns you have:

• Updated, easy ways to take really good care of yourself and your family. You have access to leading edge health and wellness programs tempered by traditional wisdom.

• You get just enough great health and wellness education to help you get on track with great health and wellness but not so much information that you get overwhelmed and end up doing nothing.

• There is someone there whom you trust and who can answer your questions in a supportive environment.  

• But the Community Wellness work goes beyond great information, education, and support. After all there are many good online sites that have tons of varied health and wellness information. Your Community Wellness Center’s mission is to help you take that health and wellness information, apply it to your own situation, and turn it into action steps that will help you build strong, balanced fundamental health wellness, and well-being.

• You get the opportunity to work with a knowledgeable nutritionist and alternative health care practitioner with experience in multiple alternative care modalities.  

• You have access to proven alternative health, wellness, and well-being programs that help you address many lingering wellness issues that still remain after being treated by your family doctor. And even though these programs have been proven to work with many others in the past you still get the opportunity to meet with the CWP alternative wellness practitioner and have her individualize the recommendations for you and your unique situation.

• And the best part of all is that you finally have a resource that can help you find out what underlying imbalances need to be balanced so that you feel your best. You now have access to a plethora of Functional Health Tests that helps you identify the functional imbalances in your body that might lead to less than optimal health, wellness, and well-being. And it is so great that you don’t need to go through your doctor to get these tests.

You are starting to get excited now and are eager to go to the Center and take a look around. This is exactly what you have been looking for. It answers all of your needs and gives you the personal guidance you have been wanting and the opportunity to do more than just dabble in making health and wellness changes.

At your Community Wellness Center you see that you have the opportunity to get involved in programs that are designed to get you to take the actions that will lead you to feeling better, being more alive and vigorous, and being happy, calm, relaxed and excited. Finally, something that can help you sort out all the possibilities and identify what is most important for you.

But you are afraid that the cost will be prohibitive. After all - you’re raising a family and this kind of comprehensive wellness care has always been beyond your means.

And then you discover the most wonderful thing about the Center - there are many options available that make the programs something you can afford!  You know that this is a place that you just have to get involved with!

If all that sounds too good to be true – it is not.

The Evenstar Community Wellness Project is dedicated to making affordable integral alternative health, wellness, and well-being options available to everyone in the community.

Here is what we can do for you:

• Teach you about lifestyle choices that support health, wellness, and well-being.

• Give you the support and guidance needed to change unhealthy behaviors and follow through on making healthy changes.

• Give you access to proven strategies that support the changes you wish to make .

• Give you access to time-tested wellness programs which address “every day” health, wellness, and well-being issues from a proven nutritional standpoint.

• Give you the option of using proven Functional Health Tests that can help identify basic functional physical imbalances before conditions and illness manifest.

• Give you the knowledge, tools and support to go beyond simply the absence of illness and instead reach for robust health, wellness and well-being where you genuinely feel energetic and vital.

• Give you the tools, techniques, support and guidance to be happy and live a life of meaning and personal success.

• Give you the knowledge and tools to live a life in which you can actually flourish.

• Give you tools to have the energy to live the life of your dreams.

All in programs and services that are accessible and prices that are affordable.

The intensive one-on-one interaction and comprehensive nature of our integral alternative health, wellness, and well-being care programs have helped transform the health, wellness and mood and energy of many people, but the price for these wonderfully effective programs has been out of reach for much of the community.

With its innovative structure and creative design, the Evenstar Community Wellness Project makes available high level integral alternative health, wellness, and well-being care education, information, Functional Health Tests, and proven alternative wellness programs individualized to you.

I Have a Dream

For many years, I have had a dream about establishing centers in every community where people could go and get coordinated integral alternative health, wellness, and well-being care services – at a price they can afford.

As I am building my own Mood and Energy Wellness Center here in Virginia, I realized that even though a Mood and Energy Wellness Center in every community doesn’t seem to be right around the corner it is certainly possible to create a virtual version.

When I was in my early 20s my mother became interested in natural health care. She read lots of books on vitamins, supplements, and nutrition and tried to address some of the fatigue, mood and weight issues with which she was plagued. Eventually, she settled on the Atkins diet and followed that for years. It didn’t solve her fatigue and mood problems but it did help her weight – and that was really important to her. To my way of thinking, this diet was a bit unbalanced and I suggested to her that maybe it was time for her to look for a different solution. And I eagerly passed on information to her but she never changed her approach.

When I was in my 30s my Dad had his first heart attack and by-pass surgery. By this time I was heavily involved in natural health care with my own small herb company doing herbal consultations. I made up potent herbal combinations for him and researched which supplements would be good for him to take. But he was never much into taking herbs or supplements.

Between my Mom and I, we were always discovering some new supplement or nutrient that would be helpful. I didn’t know about Functional Health Tests (and not much was available then) so we just kept responding to the symptoms as best we could. And even if we did have some good testing available my Mom and Dad could not have afforded it and my husband and I were working hard to support our five children. It would probably have been out of reach financially.

Mostly their care was determined by treatments that their insurance would pay for and the medications prescribed by their doctors.

Eventually, my Mom died of breast cancer and my Dad’s last heart attack killed him.

Two of the most wonderful, caring people in the world were overcome. In my heart, I have always thought that it was life’s stresses that killed them more than their medical symptoms and if they had had available to them more of the alternative health and wellness care of their day and more of what I know today, their lives would have been easier and longer.

Beyond Preventive Care

Over the years, I have discovered many powerful tools and developed truly integral programs that facilitate transformative changes in health, wellness, and well-being.

Integral alterative health, wellness, and well-being care is all about taking better care of yourself, creating healthier lifestyles, and educating yourself to address the fundamental imbalances in your life and body that are related to the creation of disease. It goes beyond treating illness and looks instead at creating wholeness and balance.

The Community Wellness Project leverages the same the integral wellness principles that form the foundation of my proprietary Mood and Energy Management programs.

By making my expertise available to more members of the community, I hope to support healthier lifestyles and make successful results available to more people. I can’t work directly with everyone so I have designed the Evenstar Community Wellness Project to make more accessible the knowledge, wisdom, guidance, tools and techniques that have been so successful in my one-on-one personal programs.

But because we won’t be working as intensively together, you will have to learn how to self-manage and follow through on the information and knowledge that you gain from the programs. For many of you, that will work just fine. Some of you however, may still need or prefer to work directly with me in an intensive one-on-one program. That’s fine too! Now there are choices for everyone.

My goal is to give you the knowledge, guidance, tools and support so that you can live the life of your dreams.

Programs in the Community Wellness Project take you beyond the prevention of illness and disease. Although feeling better is what most people are looking for when they first come to Evenstar –true health,  wellness, and well-being is much more than the absence of sickness.  At Evenstar we are not really just about the journey from being sick to being not sick, but rather about the leap from being just OK to thriving and flourishing. And that journey can start no matter where you are.

Our programs, products, and services can help you eliminate:

• Depression
• Anxiety
• Frustration
• Irritability
• Mood disorders
• Impatience
• Fatigue
• Tiredness
• "Brain fog"
• Physical symptoms of disease in the body

But the ultimate potential lies in helping you:

• Dream bigger
• Reach further
• Bring more vigor into your life
• Come into your prime
• Grow luxuriantly
• Flourish and thrive

Step by step you can remove barriers and obstacles in your path and transform them into positive energy for your life’s journey.

The Community Wellness Project is evolving. Some of our established basic programs already fit well into this new paradigm. Some programs now have Kaizen versions (click below for what that is all about). And some programs are new. Over time we will try out new ideas all with the same aim – to give more people easier access to integral alternative health, wellness, and well-being care, tools, techniques, and education. 

Welcome to the Community Wellness Project!

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