Considering unconventional therapies and support for cancer treatment can be a very challenging thing to do. Many people have an interest, curiosity, even a desire, to use holistic modalities to treat cancer or support...

Tending to the blossoms within your garden of health.  The breeze that I feel from the spring air is so refreshing and so invigorating. It brings a feeling of purity and new beginnings, just a sense of peace that warmth is once...

My first experience with iridology was when I was only seven years old. My mom's friend had offered to pay for me to see a holistic doctor because I had a degenerative disease that began at age 5 and was finally diagnosed as...

When I was in my 20s, I remember always hearing the expression “love yourself”, “self love”, or “self love is so important”. I never truly understood what that exactly meant. I attempted to love myself through gifts, acts of...

Are you feeling inspired by the energy of the New Year?  For me, the transition into a new year always sparks a feeling of excitement and possibility. It is a time when we can start with a clean slate, and a fresh page to write...

Please forgive me, I don’t mean to be a grinch when it comes to sweet treats and indulging, but I have spent many years helping people reverse the detrimental effects of consuming sugars and processed foods!  As we enter the...

In order to become who you want to be, you have to let go of who you have been. Have you ever heard the expression that “certain things need to fall into place before other things can occur”? Or maybe you have heard someone say,...

In the Northeastern part of the country, as well as in many other places around the world, we get to experience four seasons. Having a winter, spring, summer and fall allows us to go through a cleansing phase two times a year as...

You might ask, “Why a cacao farm for healing and wellness?" BREATHING IN THE FRESH AIR BEING SURROUNDED BY SOUNDS OF THE FOREST INGESTING MEDICINAL CHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS OF CACAO EARTHING/FOREST BATHING: BEING SURROUNDED BY THE...

Horses have an energy that is almost unexplainable and that can only be understood by experiencing it. I recently learned that horses have been on this earth for over 50 million years! Eohippus was a prehistoric horse that has...

In my eyes, the Monarch butterfly now represents my mom’s fearless spirit, and her ability to transform completely, read on to learn why… We carry the energy of our mothers within us, in our spirit, our essence (Jing) and in our...

Have you ever stubbed your toe and bumped your knee and then immediately reached your hands down to cover the area and to soothe the pain? At that moment, you were doing intuitive energy healing on your body.  When I was little,...

Musings from the Emerald Haven + Eclipse Season PREFACE: For those of you who haven't met Gabi yet, she is the AMAZING young woman who helps me on a daily basis, running Thrive, supporting clients, and helping me grow and develop...

I break my silence of a little over 4 days with these words. I’m dictating into my phone which conveniently I forgot the charger for and now is low on battery power. I can’t lie, I did accidentally speak to some leaf cutter ants...

You might be wondering why an integrative holistic healthcare practitioner who helps people with chronic illness and a myriad of symptoms from A to Z including extreme cases that doctors haven’t been able to solve would plan a...

Today I want to talk to you about upleveling in your life. You may have heard the term upleveling at some point and wondered what this means exactly...  As Defined by The Free Dictionary: uplevel slang To make progress or improve...

Are you ready to make some big changes in your life? What is it that feeds your soul? Where are you on your journey? Are you in a place that you are so bogged down with outside interference, that you can’t even see your own true...

Not many of us have the opportunity to give back to our parents the favors and the gifts that they have offered us. I feel honored/grateful/blessed to be able to share the story of how my diagnosis and healing journey has...

How beautiful it is that we have made it through the winter months and have now turned a corner towards spring. It’s amazing how even in Costa Rica there are still seasons even though there is no snow. The rainy season, which...

Hey Thrivers! My name is Gabi. I’m the Wellness Package Coordinator for Thrive and was super excited when Amber asked me to write a guest blog post for you all about my Ayurvedic cleansing experience! With an Equinox and a New...

March Message from Amber: Rebirth and Renewal – Taking time to go deeper to restore your strength. As I lay here staring up at the sky, and the sun is setting on this most beautiful beach in Costa Rica, I can see the planets that...

Hey Thrivers!  I am so very excited to release the first newsletter of 2023 with gratitude for each and every one of you out there seeking to better your level of wellness. This is the first of our newsletters that will go out...

I started rebooting my metabolism in 2016. It was an amazing process that my body went through, the act of releasing its addiction to sugar. It took me several rounds of 2 week detoxes, but before I knew it, I had gone from 147 to...

What if I told you that exercise is important for your overall health, but it is not necessary to jumpstart your metabolism into fat burning mode? Rather, the key to feeling better and achieving permanent fat loss and subsequent...

Have you ever read the book The Hidden Messages of Water by Masaro Emoto? Mr. Emoto is an internationally renowned Japanese scientist who did studies on how our thoughts, words and feelings influence molecules of water and how...

Heart chakra healing is something I have actively been focusing on for the past year and a half. After being raised by a single parent who was jaded by love, experiencing several failed relationships, a recent divorce, a low sense...

Not enough energy, not losing weight, hungry all the time? You need to be consuming more fat! In order to burn fat for energy, you must consume fat. Most people have been trained to choose low-fat foods over high-fat foods. Fat...

Tonight I was very fortunate to hear Justice Sonya Sotomayor speak at the AAUW (American Association of University Women) national convention. She spoke a bit on perfection and the concept of perfection. I felt so inspired by her...

Each one of us has an opportunity to affect change not only in our own lives but in our community, and across the world. Each one of us has a seed inside of us, a purpose or a mission, that was planted before we were even born....