Over the past year, I’ve been upping my preparedness game to have a good store of ‘medicines’, along with foods, to support my family's health. I may talk about preparedness in an upcoming episode if y’all are interested do let me know.

In this episode, I talk about ONE of my faves for your family’s holistic medicine cabinet; Milk Thistle. 

Listen to episode # 94 : Milk Thistle - A Must Have for your holistic medicine cabinet : Find  A Joy To Be Me on; iTunes, iHeartRadio, Stitcher or Spotify

Herbalists and physicians alike used the milk thistle for hundreds of years to treat a wide range of liver pathology, including fatty liver disease, hepatitis, cirrhosis, and to protect the liver from environmental toxins. In this episode I dive into what it can do to support the body and how it can be used. .

Here is one great study I found - if you want to do more of your own research: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK541075/ 

Milk...

Today marks one week to the day we began our shelter-in-place. My family and I live just outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and I knew we had to do our part to flatten the curve.

And as I reflect on this past week and the clarity I gained from it, here is my plan for my family along with tips from all my own research this past week to take precautions in light of COVID 19.

In addition I have more information, insight and prevention tips in the past 3 posts I've written, plus my latest podcast episode AND I re-opened my free Facebook group; Vibrant Health with Lydia.

How to Absolutely Protect Your Health This Spring
How to Use Vitamin C to Protect Your Health
How to Deal with Anxiety in Uncertain Times
PODCAST EPISODE: Corona: A Time For Extraordinary Self-Love
Join my Facebook group: Vibrant Health with Lydia


1. Hand washing

I know, I know, this should be obvious, right? I was initially annoyed about all this hand washing, BUT I did my due diligence and learned the WHY behind it...