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Natural Approaches to Autism, ADHD, and Other Neurological Conditions
for Children and Adults
Thursday, August 10, 2017 from 6:30 to 7:30 PM 
Roslindale Public Library Community Room
4246 Washington St, Roslindale, MA 02131
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Every parent wants more for their child, but some parents of children with autism, ADHD, and other brain conditions have become resigned to their child’s “fate.” What they may not know is that there is great hope attainable from some simple steps that can be implemented.

Certainly every child (and adult) is unique, with his or her very own set of challenges, abilities, afflictions, sensitivities, symptoms and coping strategies. Unique, too, is an individual’s optimal plan for their healing; there is not a single plan that seems to work for everyone and with every diagnosis. That said, there are certain foods, herbal remedies and lifestyle support strategies that seem to help each and every child and adult with ADHD, OCD, bi-polar, on the autism spectrum, or the various other brain-nerve conditions that I have had the pleasure to work with.

Virtually all children with brain and nerve conditions, diagnosed or not, can heal to some great extent, and with help, using an integrated approach including a wholesome diet and a nurturing lifestyle, I've seen what could only be described as miracles, in hundreds of children. As Montana Burr, a fourteen year old who is healing himself from autism, says on his website, "Just keep in mind that recovery is a marathon, not a sprint."

Please join us to see how you can create a healing plan for the ones in your life who may experience autism, ADHD, OCD, or the myriad of other brain and nerve conditions that so many children contend with in our hectic, toxin laden, modern day society.

Presented by Cindy Hebbard, Master Herbalist and Wellness Educator
By donation.
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Introduction to Full-Body Cleansing Practices for Optimal Health
Two options (different start and end times):
Tuesday, August 8, 2017 from 7:00 to 8:30 PM 
Wednesday, August 9, 2017 from 6:30 to 8:00 PM 

(held in Quincy Center, MA at a private location shared with you when you register)
Join us for this powerful talk about how to use foods and natural remedies to detoxify your body to improve your health.

Recently, there has been a lot of interest in the process of cleansing the digestive tract and internal organs to regain energy, vitality and overall good health and well-being. Done right, cleansing the body and mind can help release pain, brain fog, stiffness, congestion, digestive problems, irritation, the blues, and so much more. 

Find out about using delicious, nourishing foods, and safe herbal remedies to clear away the toxins, heavy metals and other impurities that accumulate in our digestion, organs, tissues, and blood, causing chronic exhaustion, blues, brain fog, pain, and degenerative disease.
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$15 paid in advance, $20 at the door
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Forest Bathing
An Experiential Nature Immersion: Soothe and Heal Your Body, Mind and Soul
Look for me at these times, dates and places with my purple 'Herb Walk' clipboard!
Saturday, July 29, 2017
from 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM 

Meet on the Milton/Randolph, MA line at Ponkapoag Trail.

Sunday, August 6, 2017
​from 1:00 - 3:00 PM 

Blue Hills Reservation where Skyline Trail crosses Chickatawbut Road
​Quincy/Braintree/Milton​
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Friday August 18, 2017
​from 6:30 - 8:30 PM

Meet at Blue Hill River Road parking lot, Milton, MA 02186

Saturday, September 16, 2017
​from 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Blue Hills Reservation where Skyline Trail crosses Chickatawbut Road
​Quincy/Braintree/Milton
I will provide several more dates and locations between now and when the snow flies.
Be the first on your block to experience forest bathing, and rejuvenate your soul! No swimsuit necessary--this is a dry activity!

We will retreat into nature for only a couple hours, blending mindfulness with connecting with the Earth and her bountiful gifts, yet the benefits for our health will be numerous. In this short amount of time, we'll really slow down to feel the ground beneath our feet, and use our senses to tune out hectic life in the city and tune into the sounds, sights, aromas, tastes, textures and feel of all that is around us.

The practice of natural immersion known as forest bathing began in Japan in the 1980's, and has been shown to have rejuvenating effects. Research indicates that many health benefits can be gleaned from forest bathing in this way. There is evidence that it can help reduce excess stress, lift the mood, boost immunity, and lower blood pressure. Join us to experience nature in a whole new way, and really feel the comfort of deep relaxation that only a nature and forest experience can provide.
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$25 for one Nature Immersion experience, or 5 for $100. Children 13 years and younger are free with an adult
Register Now - Only $25!
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Herb and Wild Food Identification Walks
Monday, June 12, 2017
from 7:00 - 8:30 PM

Trailside Museum
1904 Canton Ave, Milton, MA 02186


Two options: Thursday, July 6, 2017
from 3:30 - 5:00 PM 
from 6:30 - 8:00 PM

Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston, MA 02130

Two options: Friday, July 7, 2017
from 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
from 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Pageant Field, Merrymount Park, 1 Merrymount Parkway, Quincy, MA 02169

Two options: Saturday, July 8, 2017
from 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
from 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM 

Trailside Museum
1904 Canton Ave, Milton, MA 02186
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Tuesday, July 11, 2017
​from 5:00 - 5:45 PM 

private location, Quincy Center, MA

Tuesday, July 18, 2017
from 6:30 - 8:00 PM 

at the Whitwell St playground Quincy, MA

Sunday, July 23, 2017 from 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM 
Trailside Museum
1904 Canton Ave, Milton, MA 02186

Friday, July 28, 2017
​from 5:00 - 6:30 PM 

Pageant Field, Merrymount Park, 1 Merrymount Parkway, Quincy, MA 02169

Saturday, August 5, 2017
from 5:00 - 6:30 PM

222-238 Fresh Pond Parkway, Cambridge, MA 02138

Monday, August 14, 2017
​from 6:30 - 7:45 PM

Hunnewell Visitor Center at Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston, MA 02130
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Sunday, August 27, 2017 from 1:00 - 2:30 PM
The entrance to Franklin Park (not the zoo!) -- GPS address only: 265 Forest Hills St, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130

Wednesday, September 6, 2017
from 6:00 - 7:30 PM

Blackwell Footpath, Washington Street, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130.

Friday, September 22, 2017
from 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Pageant Field, Merrymount Park, 1 Merrymount Parkway, Quincy, MA 02169

Monday, September 25, 2017
from 6:00 PM - 7:15 PM

Hunnewell Visitor Center at Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston, MA 02130
Friday, October 20, 2017
​from 5:30 - 6:45 PM 

Christian Herter Community Garden, 1155 Soldiers Field Road, Allston, MA 02169
Find me with my purple clipboard where the parking lot meets the garden.


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Join us for a gentle peek into nature to identify edible and medicinal plants and talk about their usage. Bring the kids; we won’t go far, yet we will easily find twenty or thirty medicinal and wild food species. Learn to identify, ethically harvest and prepare a variety of roots, shoots, wild edibles and lots of green things for invigorating your family’s health. Find out about recent scientific evidence to back up ancient herbal lore. 

Find out about our local plants with deep restorative properties. You will hear about local remedies to aid with digestion, liver, hormones, exhaustion, bones, brain, skin, mood and so much more! You’ll gain a deeper understanding about the benefits of our natural world!

There are dozens of healing plants right under our feet wherever we go this time of year! I will supply a handout. Please bring water, a sunhat, and be sure to dress appropriately for the New England variable weather. Ideal for all ages. We'll meet unless it's downpouring!

You’re welcome to also bring your camera. (No videos, please, without prior permission.)
$15. each or 2 for $25. Children 13 years and younger are free with an adult
Register Now - Only $15!
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Wholesome Cooking for Healthy Weight Management (July)
Part of the Healing Meals Monthly Cooking Workshop Series - Always including a delicious health-providing meal
Thursday, July 20, 2017 from 7:00 to 9:30 PM 
(held in Quincy Center, MA at a private location shared with you when you register)
Please note that this session was rescheduled from July 13th.
When we eat delicious, nourishing foods, we feel better, have more energy and vitality, and are better able to maintain a healthy weight. 

For many, however, you've been improving your diet yet your weight is not following suit. Please join us for this powerfully informative hands-on cooking workshop and find out what's missing, and how you can alter this pattern forever. You'll learn to make small changes in your daily fare with BIG and lasting results. We will prepare a delicious vegetarian meal together, made to support you in getting to and maintaining your healthy weight for life.

Please register by Monday, July 17th, so I'll have enough of everything!

For decades, Cindy has provided Healing Meals Cooking Workshops for groups throughout the Northeast. Her vast wisdom and experience has helped thousands of people restore their health, vitality and inner well-being, even when they felt like they'd already tried everything without the results they desired.


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$40. plus $15. materials fee
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Women's Endocrine Health and Wellness
A 3-Part Series for Hormonal Balance for Every Age
This deeply informative 3-part Women's Health Program will take place on 3 Mondays, June 26, July 17, and August 7, 2017.

A delicious, refreshing, vegetarian meal of organic, mostly local ingredients will be served to participants at 6:00 PM. The talk will begin promptly at 6:30 PM and run until 9:00 PM. There will be time for questions from 9:00 to 9:30 PM.

(held in Quincy Center, MA at a private location shared with you when you register)
Women experience a unique set of health and wellness issues due to the numerous hormonal changes that we go through in our lifetimes. We, as women, seem to be particularly vulnerable to the negative effects of endocrine disruptors, those toxic chemicals used throughout society that can cause numerous hormonal imbalances, sleep and mood problems, issues with fertility, weight, and breast health.

The endocrine system is a series of glands that control and regulate many of our human systems and functions, from metabolism, energy levels and reproduction to mood, bone health, growth and development. When we feel chronically 'out of sorts', such as with blood sugar issues, bone loss, low energy, weakness or exhaustion, it is likely that our endocrine system is out of balance.
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This powerful 3-part workshop will address dozens of chronic health issues, many of them particularly challenging for girls and women. You'll gain a deep understanding of the finer details of how to use delicious, nourishing foods, safe herbal remedies, mindfulness and other holistic strategies to support your vibrant health, even if you're feeling exhausted, had chronic hormonal imbalances, osteopenia, or have felt out of balance for years, or even decades, feeling like you've already tried everything.

In this hands-on workshop series, we'll go from the classroom, outdoors, and then into the kitchen and make things you can taste, take home, use and heal yourself with. Find out how to make the right choices to see significant results for your own individual needs. We will discuss holistic strategies to increase balance and harmony for the body, mind and spirit, as you learn to restore your delicate endocrine system's balance. Find out how to recognize the early warning signs that toxic endocrine disruptors can cause, and what you can do about them, so you won't have to wait until disease and deeper discomforts occur. And you will have the opportunity to receive support from this powerful group of women.
Discover lasting solutions for:
  • Hormonal Imbalances: PMS, pregnancy, lactation, peri-menopause, menopause, disrupted sleep
  • Adrenals: exhaustion, agitation, cortisol issues, oversensitivity
  • Mood: excess stress, anxiousness, poor sleep, irritability, the blues
  • Pancreas: high and low blood sugar issues (diabetes/ hypoglycemia)
  • Thyroid: overactive or underactive concerns 
  • Breast health: tenderness, pain, cancer (including prevention)
  • Parathyroid: Bone loss (all stages)
  • Other: Immune weakness and auto-immune imbalances, including chronic pain
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The cost of the 3-part Program is $259. Pre-register with a friend and pay in advance (by midnight on Thursday, June 15), and you'll both save $40. Pay $219 each. (Young women, 8 to 17 years old, may attend at 1/2 price with an adult.​)

The cost includes 3 informative hands-on workshops, 3 delicious, organic, vegetarian (vegan/gluten-free if you prefer) meals, all printed and emailed materials, and the information you need for a lifetime of vibrantly improved health.
Please join us and begin to feel better right away - naturally!

Register now with one of these buttons:

Individual ($259)
8-17 w/paid adult ($129.50)
For 2 ($219 each)
Cooking for Health and Vitality (June)
Part of the Healing Meals Monthly Cooking Workshop Series - Always including a delicious health-providing meal
Thursday, June 22, 2017 from 7:00 to 9:30 PM 
(held in Quincy Center, MA at a private location shared with you when you register)
Join us as we prepare healing foods to strengthen and nourish your body and mind at any stage of life. Learn to create delicious dishes your family will love with several of Cindy's secret healing ingredients to support and optimize your hormonal health at every age.

Girls and women of all ages can benefit from eating delicious, nourishing meals and snacks. Find out how to prepare healing meals to help cleanse and strengthen your endocrine system to restore your hormonal balance, inner calm, optimal energy and vitality. Learn about daily nourishment practices for a lifetime of improved health!

​You'll gain an understanding about holistic solutions for PMS, mood, sleep, weight, blood sugar, dry or oily skin, menopause and more. Bring your daughters. They will thank you for years to come. 

Please register by Monday, June 19th, so I'll have enough of everything!

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$40. plus $15. materials fee
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Another Boston-area Cleanse Workshop option has been announced: Saturdays, June 17, July 15, and August 12, 2017 from 11A-2P. (Join either Cleanse Workshop and attend one of each of the three classes, whichever day works best for you.)

A Brattleboro-area Cleanse Workshop will be scheduled shortly!

Spring Rejuvenation Cleanse

A 3-Part Workshop for Full Body/Mind Cleansing
with Cindy Hebbard, Master Herbalist and Wellness Educator

 
Are you ready to find out how to safely cleanse, purify, and nourish your body and mind using delicious healing foods and natural herbal remedies?

Healthy foods and safe herbs will gently and effectively rid the body of excess toxins, heavy metals and other negative effects of our modern environment and fast-paced lives. Learn how you can experience a gentle, full-body cellular detoxification program to feel better, more rejuvenated and get lasting results...
  • sleep more deeply,
  • wake up feeling refreshed, 
  • eat for better digestion,
  • have more energy & vitality,
  • think more clearly and stay focused,
  • improve circulation and heart health,
  • reduce pain and discomfort,
  • assist your body's own natural systems for better immune support.
 

Tuesdays, May 30 (#1), June 20 (#2) and July 11 (#3), 2017 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Saturdays, 
June 17 (#1), July 15 (#2) and August 12 (#3), 2017 from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM


(held in Quincy Center, MA at a private location shared with you when you register)
PLUS, each session includes a delicious organic, vegetarian meal!

Whether you are a health professional interested in gaining a deeper understanding of holistic wellness or an individual looking to increase your own health and vitality and that of your loved ones, this program is for you.

The Spring Rejuvenation cleanse program will guide you with a wealth of practical information and provide support for you on your healing journey. We will discuss the ancient wisdom and the latest research associated with medicinal foods and a broad variety of healing herbs. Moreover, you will learn to distinguish the truth from the fallacies in holistic wellness and natural supplementation so you don't waste money on products and services that don't work well or have side effects.
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Session One: Opening and Cleansing the Seven Channels of Elimination
Session Two: Good Digestion, the Foundation of Health - Repair your Leaky Gut
Session Three: Prevent Disease: from Cancer and Diabetes to Arthritis, Alzheimer's and Heart Disease

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Learn to safely:
  • detoxify accumulated toxins from your organs and cells
  • clear congestion from your body and mind
  • cleanse, nourish, and improve your digestive system -- nutrients in, waste out -- for life!
A variety of cleanse programs and procedures from several cultures around the world will be discussed:
  • using nourishing, cleansing foods only,
  • using nourishing, cleansing foods and herbal remedies, or
  • using foods, herbs and pure, effective nutritional supplements, too.
You can choose whatever option that feels best for your own specific needs and lifestyle. Your results will begin to show up right away, and you'll feel GREAT!
The cost of the 3-part Cleanse Program is $229. If you register and pay in advance*, save $30. Pay $199. 
*by midnight on Sunday, May 28, 2017 for the May 30th Workshop and by midnight on Thursday, June 15, 2017 for the June 17th Workshop

Cost includes:
  • 3 informative hands-on workshops,
  • 3 delicious, organic, vegetarian meals,
  • printed and emailed materials,
  • and the information you need for a lifetime of improved health.

As always, there will be plenty of time for your questions.  For additional information, please contact me.
REGISTER NOW! (ADVANCE PAYMENT)
REGISTER NOW! (REGULAR PRICE)
Spring Cleanse Your Body & Mind for Optimal Health
Tuesday, April 25, 2017 from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM (with questions until 8:30 PM) 
Natural Food Exchange, 343 Main St, Reading, MA
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Are you ready to experience optimal health and vitality, and prevent illness and disease?

Join us for this powerful talk about how to use healing foods and nature's bounty of herbal remedies to detoxify your mind and body to create vibrant health! You'll learn to clear away the toxins, heavy metals and other impurities that accumulate in the body and can cause pain, exhaustion, brain fog, disturbed sleep, and chronic disease. Cleanse and purify your digestive tract, brain, nerves, skin, heart and all your internal organs.

There are several safe methods and products to accomplish this, but too often we follow the latest fad that may help in the short-term, but actually can make us feel worse in the long run. Done right, cleansing the body and mind can support balance and harmony, helping you to wake up refreshed, feel clear and energized throughout your day, and sleep deeply at night, the time when we become rejuvenated and restored.

If you're tired of feeling tired, or sick of always getting sick, feeling run down, drained and fragile, emotionally on edge, not sleeping well, nor long enough or deeply enough to feel rejuvenated, then may I suggest you begin the ancient practice of spring (and autumn) cleansing of the organs, tissues and cells of the body and mind!

Cindy Hebbard, Master Herbalist, has over 30 years of experience with a variety of cellular cleanse programs. She'll provide a wealth of information so you can distinguish which programs work well for your needs and which can actually do our bodies harm. She'll share her years of wisdom and experience with you, so you don't have to feel bad while attempting to feel better.
by donation (at event)
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