Mardy Ross's blog

I'm playing a little game with myself today and hoping you can help me.  What elements would you put into something in order to teach people what they might want or need to know about chronic pain and illness and the base concept of Lumigrate, which is the 'You Model' of the home page?  You'll literally be helping formulate a big project which I'm working on the outline for right now.   read more »

I ran late getting over to Pablo Blanco's last night to cook dinner and help with 'glue up' of a big wood working project he has been working on for about as long as he's known me, which is 15 months now.  I think I was putting it off a bit because I was nervous about how it was going to go as I've not done a big glue up like this since about 1992, and fibromyalgia has come and had it's insidious impact on many aspects of my function, including dexterity, processing speed of the mind, and on and on.  Yada, yada, yada, as "Seinfeld" would say.  I was tired yesterday  read more »

"You can't have peace until you put the pieces together." These words were the big message yesterday as I had Oprah on in the background while I worked.  My interest was piqued because it was well done show about bringing people who had been separated back together; mother's who had given babies for adoption, for instance.  Since my father was adopted and later in life was found through Adoption Exchange by a niece who also had been adopted out, a family who had someone do the whole genealogy ancestry and had this one 'missing boy' from 1921.  He'd  read more »

It's always a pleasure to see an e-newsletter in the inbox when it's from Dr. Teitelbaum, because they only send out something when it is Some Thing.  Today it was to report that his new book about sugar and health is available from Amazon.com.  (You'll notice our products page puts people through to Amazon as well, which we chose to do because it is such a 'trusted and familiar' route, but ideally another source for people shopping for products from Lumigrate is something we're interested in pursuing).   read more »

Every day I wake up like anyone maybe does, thinking about what I have in front of that day.  Today is an important spiritual day for many in the world, as "The Season of Lent" began, as I was grateful to see it referred to by Alice in a new post today in the Forums / Spirituality.  Alice lives where Mardi Gras originated in the USA and she wrote the most wonderful piece about it.  Alice and I go way back probably about six months when we'd connected on facebook and she had started utilizing Lumigrate and our videos, which got us 'chatting' on facebook one day.&nbsp  read more »

Hello, and thank you in advance for your interest in Lumigrate, since you -- YOU! -- are here reading at this time.   The Lumigrate YOU! Model is the cornerstone that anyone using the website, or me as a guide and helper privately "at a distance" through the phone or video calling and written messages, must know about.  (I also work with paper and mail and telephone for those who are more low-tech, or who have electromagnetic sensitivities until they get THAT sorted out, which can be a starting point of our work.)   read more »

This is the first Valentine's Day for Lumigrate!  This time last year the web designer, Ron Shimshock, and I were probably communicating with each other even on Valentine's Day, as it was in the timeframe of when we had lots going on -- the credit card processing needed to be taken care of (which was something he set me up well with good information about how to do my part of, three suggested companies to pick from -- and I'm so very happy to have chosen 'Heartland Payment Systems' and have to say the woman who is my representative has not only been a pleasure to work with, but to also  read more »

Men have an advantage over women in having erectile dysfunction as it relates to heart disease, because women don't have that outwardly obvious (and bothersome) manifestation of the state of their blood vessels.

Yes, THAT is one of my favorite moments of learning at an IMC seminar in the past year, which was something Dr. Scott Rollins said in a seminar on bioidentical hormones for men, if I recall correctly.   read more »

Since it's the Friday before Valentine's Day, I was already preparing yesterday to write about heart health here today, and was watching Dr.  read more »

It's been such a wonderful pleasure in the last year to see Lumigrate making a difference in the lives of people with chronic illness, which is typically chronic pain, fibromyalgia, and chronic fatigue syndrome.  The 'Grate Group', as one of them named the group that was regularly convening on our facebook page, has had many of it's members making considerable improvements in their health because in part, the information and support they received from me and Lumigrate.  One of those, and I think it was the one who named it the Grate Group actually, reported that she's gone several  read more »