Causes Sprouts Believes In: Healing Touch Buddies
Posted by Kelly
What is Healing Touch?
“Healing Touch is for the person who wants to enhance wellness in themselves and the lives of people they care about by using the gift of energetic touch. “
Healing Touch Buddies, Inc., started by Betty Ann Baker, is a local to South Florida non-profit health and education organization, dedicated to improving the quality of life of those challenged with breast cancer; providing patients with Healing Touch and volunteer practitioners with instruction and support. Our additional intention is to gather data on the impact of HT on specific symptoms associated with breast cancer and its treatment.
Healing Touch courses are open to all nurses, massage therapists, body therapists, counselors, psychotherapists, physicians other allied health care professionals as well as individuals who desire an in-depth understanding and practice of healing work using energy based concepts and principles.
Janet Mentgen, the Founder of Healing Touch, believed that anyone could learn how to facilitate healing in others. As she observed thousands of students doing Healing Touch, she noticed that there was no difference in the outcomes of well prepared non-nurses to those of well prepared nurses.
Janet believed that anyone with a compassionate heart and a desire to be of service to others could become a practitioner of energy healing. All that was needed was a commitment to learn and to grow.
The goal of Healing Touch is to restore balance and harmony in the energy system placing the client in a position to self heal.
Healing Touch is an energy therapy in which practitioners consciously use their hands in a heart-centered and intentional way to support and facilitate physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health. Healing Touch is a biofield (the magnetic field around the body) therapy that is an energy-based approach to health and healing.
Healing Touch uses touch and massage techniques to influence the human energy system, specifically the energy field that surrounds the body, and the energy centers that control the energy flow from the energy field to the physical body.
These non-invasive techniques utilize the hands to clear, energize, and balance the human and environmental energy fields, thus affecting physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health and healing. It is based on a “heart centered caring relationship in which the practitioner and client come together energetically to facilitate the client’s health and healing.”
To learn more about Healing Touch buddies, and the care they bring to their community, please visit their website at www.healingtouchbuddies.org.
Sprouts very own Sharon Quercioli is very active with Healing Touch buddies, and it is a charity that is very close to her heart. They are in need of volunteers and donations to keep their operations running. Find out more about oppurtunities to give back to Healing Touch Buddies, click here.
Loggerhead Marinelife Center Turtle Release
Posted by Kelly
This past month the Loggerhead Marinelife Center in Juno Beach released Cullen, a huge adult male Loggerhead sea turtle. Cullen came to the Center on January 29, 2009 from The St. Lucie Power Plant in what the center described as “fair body condition with low range of motion and sensitivity in the front left flipper.” There was a sloughing of skin, suggesting a previous injury and was believed that Cullen may have met with some monofilament at some point and became entangled. It is suspected that he was found tangled, and someone cut the line in his aid. Unfortunately, he needed more than just release from the line. The Center stresses the importance of reporting all sightings of turtles in distress to the proper authorities. Cullen’s diagnosis included blood work and testing provided evidence of severe anemia and mild hypoglycemia. His treatment included antibiotics, vitamins, de-worming, a nutritious diet and physical therapy.
Cullen had been treated by the Marinelife Center for the past few months and was released on July 11, 2009. During his treatment his injured left flipper was amputated. For this he received extensive physical therapy and antibiotics. When he was brought in he was at 195.14 lbs. Upon his release, he was at just over 200 lbs.
Cullen was released under perfect conditions today. The weather cooperated, the seas were mild, Cullen was calm and the volunteers were awesome !!!
A big congratulations goes out to the team and volunteers at the Loggerhead Marinelife Center. We are proud of what you do and very honored to have you here working on behalf of the marine life in South Florida. We wish Cullen good luck and know he will get along just swimingly!
Looking for ways you can help?
The Loggerhead Marinelife Center is open to the public and is located in Juno Beach. Admission is free, but donations are always accepted and appreciated. To learn more about the center or find out about volunteer opportunities, visit their site here. You can even adopt your very own sea turtle and watch his progress as he receives treatment from the Center.
Sprouts! also includes a line of eco-friendly plantable sea turtle cards that features sea turtles from the Center. With each box purchased, Sprouts! will donate part of the proceeds back to The Loggerhead Marinelife Center to support their efforts. See those cards here.
To learn more about Cullen and see images from his release, click here.
