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Families for Conscious Living
Families for Conscious Living

Families for Conscious Living - Monthly eNewsletter
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April 2008 | FCL Monthly E-Newsletter | Issue No. 6
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Table of Contents:

Prepare Your Child's Body and Mind for Life! Listen to Body, Mind and Child on Family Radio.

GoodSearch: You Search...We Give!


Support & Join FCL:

FCL organic, cotton tee shirts still on sale for $19.99! Don't forget our babyware for shower gifts or anytime gifts - even pet t-shirts!

Visit our book store for an amazing selection of conscious living resources!

Donate to FCL's Scholarship Fund and sponsor a family's membership in FCL for a year!

Make your tax-deductible donation to FCL today!
To avoid allowing PayPal take their cut, snail mail your check to:
FCL - P.O. Box 3653, Williamsburg, VA, 23168

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Start Your Own FCL Community Group!

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Eckart Tolle on Conscious Parenting:

"As you look at, listen to, touch, or help your child with this or that, you are alert, still, completely present, not wanting anything other than that moment as it is.  In this present, you are not a father or mother.  You are the alertness, the stillness, the Presence that is listening, looking, touching, even speaking.  You are the Being behind the doing."  

-- Excerpted from A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose, a #1 Title From Oprah's Book Club

Buy it now!  Your purchase will support FCL!

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See Jenny McCarthy On Larry King Live!

Describing what happened to her son, who suffered convulsions and nearly died after a round of vaccinations and then regressed into autism, Jenny was accompanied by her pediatrician, Jay Gordon, M.D., and journalist David Kirby in a face-off with AAP pediatricians Harvey Karp, M.D. and David Tayloe, Jr. M.D.. It was a ground- breaking television debate about vaccine risks that highlighted the soft underbelly of a medical community unwilling to deal with the reality that regressive autism is part of the vaccine injury spectrum. Visit NVIC for more on this issue.

FCL members can join the free tele-conference on April 17, Thursday, 1 p.m. with pediatrician, Dr. Larry Palevsky, to discuss your vaccine questions. Dr. Palevsky is the co-founder and president of the Holistic Pediatric Association. For access codes to the tele-conference and to sign-up to join, email info@familiesforconsciousliving.org.

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YOU'RE INVITED to the First
"Freedom for Family Wellness" World Extravaganza!

You are invited to the First Family Wellness World Extravaganza in Philadelphia, May 8 - 11!  Prepare to experience the future of conscious parenting with authors like Dawson Church, PhD, author of The Genie In Your Genes, and the film "What the Bleep's" Joe Dispenza on Conscious Conception. The expert panel of keynotes that will empower you with perspectives of family wellness—-now and for our future include: Dr. Larry Palevsky, Dr. Joe Dispenza, Barbara Loe-Fisher, Dr. Steve Marini, Nancy Wainer, CPM, Sarge Goodchild, Jr., and Lisa Reagan, FCL President.

FCL members get a significant discount for registration.

The weekend is open to both parents and practitioners! Please let your friends and practitioners know they are invited too!

Read more here: www.familywellnessfirst.org

Register online here: www.familywellnessfirst.org/register.html

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April is ACTIVISM Month!

No need to rack your brain for ideas for community group activities this month!  April is overflowing with great ways to make a difference locally and globally on conscious living issues.  Visit these websites for Take-Action Information Packets to share with your FCL members:

Earth Day is April 22!

Find world-wide events or submit yours here

FCL president, Lisa Reagan, will be speaking at the College of William and Mary's Earth Day Celebrations at the University Center on April 19 at 12:30.  Earth Day activities are all day.  Find directions to the campus here.  

What’s Your Eco-Anxiety Level?  Pop quiz yourself!

How Green Are You – Test Your Eco-IQ!

Don’t be fooled by bottled water video

Turn-Off Your TV Week is April 21st-27th

Click here for a parent organizer's kit and for survival tips!

Autism Awareness Month

In 1980, autism was a relatively rare disorder, diagnosed in one of every 10,000 U.S. children. Today, according to the Centers for Disease Control, one in 150 may be afflicted. Watch Autism: The Musical. For more international events or FCL's autism resource pages.

Cesarean Awareness Month

What is Cesarean Awareness Month? An internationally recognized month of awareness about the impact of cesarean sections on mothers, babies, and families worldwide. It’s about educating yourself to the pros and cons of major abdominal surgery and the possibilities for healthy birth afterwards as well as educating yourself for prevention of cesarean section.  Learn more...  

 

 

Child Abuse Prevention Month

A study released in January by Prevent Child Abuse America calculates that an investment in the prevention of child abuse and neglect can save the nation over $100 Billion per year. The study, entitled Total Estimated Cost of Child Abuse and Neglect in the United States can be found by clicking here.

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April & May 2008 Tele-Conferences

For access codes to the tele-conference and to sign-up to join, email info@familiesforconsciousliving.org.  For FCL Members who want to join our calls and not pay long-distance costs, check out this resource

April 17, Thursday, 1 p.m., talk with pediatrician, Dr. Larry Palevsky, to discuss your vaccine questions. Dr. Palevsky is the co-founder and president of the Holistic Pediatric Association.

April 23, Wednesday at 1 p.m. - Join our FCL facilitators to discuss using Non-Violent Communication in our groups.

May 7, Wednesday, at 1 p.m. EST talk with author Pam Leo on Connection Parenting.

May 14, Wednesday, at 1 p.m. EST talk with Dr. Marcy Axness on Quantum Parenting.  Read her essay, From Presence to Simplicity: Seven Principles for Peace at Home and in the World.

May 21, Wednesday, at 1 p.m. EST, FCL Facilitator Discussion Group.

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What Is An FCL Community Group?

Somewhere there are people to whom we can speak

with passion without having the words catch in our throats.

Somewhere a circle of hands will open to receive us, eyes

will light up as we enter, voices will celebrate with us

whenever we come into our own power.

Community means strength that joins our strength to

do the work that needs to be done.

Arms to hold us when we falter.

A circle of healings.  A circle of friends.

Someplace where we can be free.

 --- Starhawk

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Events:
Virginia's 2005 Springtime Lecture Series   on 1103691600

Palm Bay, FL Vaccine Conference 2005  on 1106715600

Sally Fallon & Splendor in the Grass  on 1134363600

The Birth Tour - March 25, 2007 - Connecticut  on 1174806000

FNL Harvest Festival 2003  on 1066449600


Featured Stories:
Why Am I a SAHM?  by Rachel Ernst

Breastfeeding, Bottles and Pacifiers: The Importance of Jaw Development on Reducing Ear Infections  by Brenda Barnetson, C.M.T.

The Gift Every Child Wants for Christmas  by Pam Leo

Have House, Will Travel: House Exchanges!  by Selena Mordue

On the Road - Thrifty Travels  by Selena Mordue

Mom Faces Her Own Birth Demons In 55-Hour Breech Homebirth  by By Julie Greene

Finding Her Tribe in Mothering Friends  by Patty Ogden Gillette, RN

The Seeds of Deception  by A Book Review by Aubin Parrish

Parenting As A Performance Art  by Heather Cushman-Dowdee, aka Hathor the Cowgoddess


News:

aTLC Summit on Bonding & Attachment, April 29 - May 2 

FNL Makes Top 6 Most Worthy Causes 

ABC "Swap" Show Makes Offer to FNL 




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