New Blog

I am so excited I finally got my blog switched over to wordpress. All of the content has been moved so new posts will be found at the new http://kristenbowenstudio.com/blog/ Hooray for wordpress.!!!!!!!!
hugs,
kB

Running and EFT

This morning I had the most amazing run I have ever had thanks to EFT. I had been talking to Miah about my frustration of not increasing my endurance very fast. He commented that it was all mental with me. I just needed to know in my mind that I could do it. If you could have heard the dialog in my head you would have heard a conversation that sounded pathetic. I thought to myself, but I had seizures. Then, well you have not had six kids. Boy, can you hear that victim mentality? So fast forward to this morning. I start my belovedCouch 25K program on my not so beloved iphone (I want the new one) The very first thing that I notice is how far I will be running today. There is no way I can do that. All of a sudden I remembered Miah's words. Mom, It is so mental with you. You just have to push through. So many times my zone clients will be stuck and it is absolutely their own limited beliefs that are keeping them down. I started tapping, working on the fact I did not think I could run that far. Starting out my run I felt great. I ran by neighbors and lifted an earphone to exchange a few words. Some guy whizzes by me. My thought was, I am talking to neighbors, I could go that fast. I get through the bulk of my neighborhood and pick up my pace a bit. I am still feeling really good. Then there she is. OH MY GOSH!!!!! She flies by me and is in impeccable shape, her arms were so incredibly toned. Toned arms are something of a genetic problem in my family and I want them. Guess what ran through my head, well she probably is younger than me and she never had seizures. Can you hear that. I was buying into the victim mentality AGAIN. Realizing what I was doing I started tapping right there on the spot. Tapping and saying things like, I am really feeling like a victim, I want to have an excuse for being the slow runner instead of taking responsibility for my own actions. Right then and there after several moments of tapping I felt it lift. There are NO words that I have to describe how I felt. My body physically reacted to the energy shift. Energy affects our muscles. Results of the tapping were running twice as far as I ever have without even feeling winded. When I was done with my run I could have conquered the world. Literally, I cannot remember feeling that good for a long time. I had crashed through a limited belief that was keeping me down literally and physically from my goal and let me tell ya it is a dang good goal to want to run with my family. So I am standing on top of a hill shouting it to the world. EFT is such a great tool for tapping into your potential. It will help your kids tap into their potential. It is so simple that many people will miss the power that is behind it.

My last EFT class is coming up. We will spend the whole day fine tuning your ability to tap into your own potential and then you can help other people tap into theirs. I love this class. Emails after the class take my breath away. So what are you waiting for? Come and learn how to do it. Join us and I promise you will not regret it.
hugs,
kB
I HEART Mizuno running shoes.

Natural Relief From Allergies

Do you see it? Come on it is right there......  If you have allergies or have ever suffered from allergies you probably noticed it. POLLEN! ugh.... I hate pollen, well not really. I hate how my body reacts to pollen. As a kid I always had to get allergy shots and I remember my Dad mowing the lawn with an aspirator  to protect himself from the pollen. In the old days I would go to the emergency room when it got to the point of my tongue swelling and the top of my mouth blistering. Knowing what I know now I do not want a shot of steroids as they are a quick fix that in the long term weaken my immune system. So every January I start prepping myself to boost my immune system to ward off any allergic reactions from the dreaded pollen. It has worked every year. I have made it through the allergy season with no reaction. The list went something like this.

1. cut my sugar intake
2. add pro-biotics
3. start on stinging nettle capsules
4. pump up my B vitamins
5. super high doses of Vitamin C
6. making sure I diffuse Roman Chamomile  in the house

Your immune response starts in your gut and all of the above help build the flora and reduce the histamine reaction.

Guess what!!!!! This year it did not work. arrggh... What happened? I have been absolute miserable,  feeling like I am going to crawl out of my skin. So I have been evaluating my lifestyle, I did the list like I always have with the exception of one thing. Sugar alcohols like xylitol. I have been using them once or twice a week and it has just been enough to drop the flora and create the perfect breeding ground for my allergies. So I have been researching what to do to help ease my symptoms. Remember,  it is always easier to prevent the problem than try to stop it mid-stream. I found some great research on natural relief form allergies. I added the butterbur herb and it has helped. I also have pulled out my neti pot and that really helped. No more sugar alcohols for me. From know on I will stick to a piece of fruit for my sweet tooth.

E3Live update

The good news is it will be here the 7th of July.

More good news,  I placed the hugest order I have ever placed BECAUSE the bad news is the price is going up by 25% and maybe as much as 40%. I have tried numerous products to replace my beloved E3live and NOTHING  (imo) even comes close to the benefits with this live food supplement. 

So mark your calenders,  it will be here on the 7th of July. Yippeeee!!!!!!!

hugs,

kB

Sometimes adoption is hard............

like when you are on facebook and you see YOUR son call someone else Mom. Here is the dumb thing though, ever since we fell in love with Jeremy at the age of 9,  I have talked to him about his Mom. He missed her, worried about her and cried for her. That made sense to me. I would miss my mom if I was taken away from her. I always took the approach with him that his job was to become the very best person that he could so that when he met her he could share all of the wonderful things that he had done. I truly felt that. Really I did. With all of my heart. Tonight I also felt my heart rip out when I saw him call someone else Mom. I hate facebook. I love him. It is such a conflicting place to be. I want to be true and really really really good and not have a moment of sadness that he calls her Mom.  In all honesty it makes me a little tiny bit sad. I start going over every mistake I made with him. Every time I should have been a better Mom to him. There is a part of me that wonders why I could not be everything to him. Most of me knows he needs her for things I cannot give him. I gave him a home when no one else would. I tried to give him security. Always knowing that he would have food and that he did not have to wait to make sure Sam had enough food before he ate. I wanted him to know there would always be enough food. For a child with reaction attachment food is usually a huge issue. They like to hide it to make sure there will always be enough.
     Putting him in bed at night I wanted to make sure he knew I would be there in the morning. Some mornings were so hard. He fought everything. I knew why. He just did not want to forget her. I hope he will never forget me.

Jeremy is now serving in the United States Air Force. He is currently stationed in Kyrgyzstan on his second tour of duty, The two of us  have come a long way in our relationship. Sometimes it is a hard path to blend families. The right path for our family. A path that has made me a better person.

10 things I have learned about going to a conference............

Having attended several conferences I have tried to pick up on tips from other people to make the most of the time away from my family.

1. Get rid of the mommy guilt. Kids do better with happy energized moms and when you get a break you come back happy and ready to kick into mom mode. Do you really want your daughters growing up and never having a break?  Stop living by a different set of rules. Live what you want them to live by.
2. Make a note on business cards as soon as you can after meeting someone. Nothing like being back in your room and looking at a stack of cards that you have no clue who it connects to. I will write something that links them to me,  for example: hair color, or an item of clothing they had on.
3. Find out about the speakers beforehand, read their blogs, follow them on FB or Twitter.
4. Check out Flicker to see if anyone has posted anything. I just did for the Casual Blogger Conference and saw some of the swag that will be there. I love the  packaging and want to ask her what she used. I will be looking for her at the conference,  we might even meet up on twitter before the conference.
5. Find any hash-tags that will be used and then USE them so the conversation can be followed.
6. Tweet about the conference those things that really helped you on your learning curve,. Those who are not able to come will be following the conversation.
7. Set your intentions. Ask yourself what do you want from this conference?  Focusing your thoughts on it gives you a better chance of experiencing it.
8. Do a search on google blogs about the conference. You can read as other people get ready for the same event.
9. Plan on celebrating with  the extra goodies but choose when you do. The first conference I went to found me putting every dessert in my mouth, by the end I was sluggish and had gained 4 pounds. Choose how much you will celebrate beforehand.
10. Remember that every fear you are experiencing is also being experienced by someone else at the conference. You ARE NOT alone. Close to 90% of the other women are stressing over what to wear right along with you.

I am really looking forward to CBC10 and the connections made at events like these.
hugs,
kB
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