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s we embark upon summer in earnest, there’s giddiness in the air. Despite North Texas seeing alternating weeks of temperatures in the high 90s and the low 60s, we’re all eager to get outdoors unfettered and enjoy nature—that indispensable resource we take for granted. Whether it’s taking us into the backyard, the next city, across the country or across the world, our wanderlust has been documented as uncontrollable at this point. A renewed appreciation for nature and natural things has been an inexplicable, but joyous and healthy byproduct of the COVID pandemic. While many new things born of trauma tend to fall away quickly after the traumatic event has subsided, I’m almost certain this won’t be the case with our new affinity for nature. That’s because our unbreakable relationship is preprogramed. We just tend to overlook it, work around it and have the same lack of appreciation for it that we have for other essential, but plentiful elements in our life like air, water and food. But as with these other essential elements, we would cease to exist without nature—and we’d experience that demise in a miserable, drawn-out manner. Because we’re prewired to benefit from and depend on nature, however, our acknowledgment of that need kicks in pretty quickly. I recently saw the following description, which I think aptly describes that dynamic: Nature is but a name for an effect whose cause is God. Our instruction manual, the Bible, clearly tells us that God created this environment, this thing we call nature, in five days. On day one, He created light to separate it from the darkness (producing the day/night cycle); on day two, He formed Earth’s atmosphere, creating the oceans and other surface waters and distributing water into the air and atmosphere. On day three, He created dry land and vegetation, including seed-bearing plants and fruit trees. On day four, He created the sun and moon, establishing orbits to mark the passage of time (months, seasons and years); he also created the stars and other planets. On day five, He created water creatures and birds. Then on day six, He created land animals, including man. It should be noted that all these first creations were vegetarian. Our creator provided everything we need to survive and thrive—it’s called nature—and I love how we instinctively return to it for sustenance and comfort. In our Green Living department, “Unplugged Adventures: Eco-Tripping for a Digital Detox,” we celebrate all the things we can do outdoors and the many ways a dose of nature boosts our mental, emotional and physical health. Then we take the focus local, profiling some North Texas eco-trips where you can get away for some nature-based adventures. Finally, we explore ways to eco-volunteer this summer to help the planet and ourselves! This month we also continue our series on Green, Healthy and Sustainable North Texas Cities, with a look at the historic city of McKinney (official tagline: Unique by Nature). With its amazing Heard Nature Science Museum and Wildlife Sanctuary, as well as its abundance of working farms, McKinney is arguably the most nature-centric city in North Texas. In celebration of Father’s Day, we shine a spotlight on men’s health, focusing on changing social mores for men and how they are redefining their own emotional power. We’re excited to present this information because half the online readers of Natural Awakenings Dallas are men under 35. This is yet another indication that guys are into wellness and well-being just as much as women are. What a cool thing to celebrate in June! This month’s issue is chock full of actionable ideas and information. As always, you’ll find much to help you on your journey to living a healthier life on a healthy planet. Blessings until next month.

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Men Redefine Their Emotional Power

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22 HEALING TRAUMA

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25 ECO-TRIPPING AROUND DALLAS

27 UNPLUGGED ADVENTURES

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Keep an Eye on Men’s Health Issues

en’s Health Week is June 15 through 21. This is a time to bring awareness to health issues that affect men disproportionately, focus on getting men to become aware of problems they may have or could develop and gain the courage to do something about it. Each year Men’s Health Week becomes bigger. The more well-known the week becomes, the more men will feel like it’s okay to talk about their health issues and not just push them to the side and ignore health problems away.

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he annual Denton County Master Gardeners Gardening Fest will take place from 9 a.m. to noon, June 18, at Denton County Historical Park. The show is open for all Denton County residents to bring their vegetables, herbs, fruits and flowers and compete for ribbons and cash prizes. The two categories are youth (18 and under) and adult (over 18). Ribbons are awarded to all first-, second- and third-place entries. Cash prizes are awarded to Best of Show, Adult Grand Champion, Youth Grand Champion, Adult Reserve Grand Champion, Youth Grand Champion, Adult Runner-Up and Youth Runner-Up. The Denton County Master Gardener Association is a volunteer program designed to grow horticultural information throughout Denton County facilitated by the Texas A& M College of Agriculture AgriLife Extension Service. To become a Denton County Master Gardener, a participant attends 70 hours of instruction conducted under the guidance of the Denton County extension agent in horticulture, then shares that knowledge by donating 70 hours of volunteer service back to the community.

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he 32nd annual Texas Blueberry Festival on June 10 and 11 in Nacogdoches features experienced and novice cooks with their best recipes competing in blueberry pie and blueberry cupcake contests. Live musical entertainment, including acoustic folk guitar, country, jazz and soft rock, will fill the air from stages located downtown and in Festival Plaza. Proceeds from the festival benefit the Nacogdoches County Chamber of Commerce. There is a family-friendly Blueberry Bluegrass Concert in the Park from 6 to 9:30 p.m. on Friday at Festival Park. The 2022 festival opens at 8 a.m. on June 11 with the Running of the Blueberries, starting at 7:30 a.m. at Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., and a fresh blueberry pancake breakfast served near the historic square. Other activities include a bounce park, makeand-take arts and crafts, a pet parade, “The Big Blue” mural painting, Blueberry Hill Soda & Sweet Shoppe, pie-eating contests, washer board tournament and food and arts vendors. Downtown merchants and local businesses offer blueberry sweet specials inspired by the festival. Admission is free on Friday. For more information visit tbf.nacogdoches.org.

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he city of Farmers Branch, with an agreement with BQ Energy to design, build and operate a 23-acre solar farm on land owned by the city, will soon be the first in Texas to operate entirely on solar energy produced onsite. Construction is scheduled to be completed in fall 2024 on the former landfill. The city council considered the feasibility of rooftop solar and other means to mitigate the city’s carbon footprint versus the use of this brownfield site, which had the bonus of solving the problems associated with a degraded landfill closed since the 1980s. Officials believe the new solar farm will bring tax savings for residents by generating 13.6 million kilowatt-hours of electricity each year for the city, which has a population of around 50,000. Sustainability Manager Alexander Pharmakis says that’s enough electricity to power all the city’s municipal buildings, street lights and other assets, plus 1,100 homes. For more information, visit Tinyurl.com/FarmersBranchSolar.

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he third annual North Texas Juneteenth Festival from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., June 18, at the Fair Park Tower, includes the Juneteenth Parade, iconic musical performances and Auto Fest, as well as local vendors and businesses to build community, connections and commerce. With programming to engage community and guests from youth to seniors, this is a family- friendly event with more than 20 offerings. Juneteenth is a federal holiday in the United States commemorating the emancipation of enslaved African Americans. In 1863 during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation that declared more than 3 million slaves living in the Confederate states to be free. More than two years would pass, however, before the news reached those living in Texas. It was not until Union soldiers arrived in Galveston on June 19, 1865, that the state’s residents finally learned that slavery had been abolished. Location: 3809 Grand Ave., Dallas. For more information, call 214775-9955 or 469-930-0066.

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Walk in the Park, from 9 a.m. to noon, June 4, at the gardens at Myer Parke & Event Center, presents an opportunity to stroll each of the Earth-Kind Gardens—the perennial garden, annuals garden, herb garden, vineyard, shade garden, shrub and grasses garden, crape myrtle garden, potager garden and vegetable garden, as well as the most recent addition, a children’s garden funded by Whole Foods 5% Giving Day. Each garden will have master gardeners to answer questions. Additionally, there will be children’s activities and an Ask the Master Gardener booth with volunteers on hand to answer gardening questions. Myers Park and Event Center was originally created as the Collin County Youth Park in 1969. Now with more than 158 acres of lush landscape and event venues, they also partner with The Collin County Farm Museum, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service and the Collin County Master Gardeners. Admission is free. Location: 7117 CR 166, McKinney. For more information, call 972548-4792 or email mpec@collincountytx.gov.

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he Fort Worth City Council is partnering with the Texas Trees Foundation to create the first Fort Worth Urban Forestry Master Plan. Fort Worth is the oldest and longest-running Tree City USA in Texas, a designation the city first received in 1978. Mayor Mattie Parker says, “Taking the initiative to create a Fort Worth Urban Forestry Master Plan is a perfect next step in our efforts to protect cherished natural amenities that residents will enjoy for generations to come.” A comprehensive report will evaluate current urban forest resources and city policies and ordinances relative to the urban forest, recommend appropriate strategies to sustain and enhance the urban forest and provide methods to measure progress, while addressing the numerous urban forestry elements throughout Fort Worth now and in the future. Several elements of the plan include identifying strategic partners interested in investing in the growth of the urban forest, identifying priority planting and preservation areas, reassessing the current citywide tree canopy goal and recommending amendments to the Urban Forestry Ordinance. Janette Monear, CEO of Texas Trees Foundation, notes, “Our foundation has a vision of creating a cleaner, greener, cooler and healthier Texas. For 40 years, we have focused our mission on impacting the city of Dallas, and we are delighted to now be branching out into the city of Fort Worth to spotlight the importance of urban forestry and tree benefits.” Along with the city’s $50,000 contribution using Tree Fund collections, the Texas Trees Foundation will bring a minimum of $250,000 to the project. The Texas Trees Foundation has served as a catalyst in creating reimagined green spaces through research-driven projects and programs such as their Cool Schools Program and NeighborWoods Program. For more information, visit TexasTrees.org.

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It is widely known that heavy drinking harms the brain, but even drinking as little as a few beers or glasses of wine per week will reduce brain volume, according to a new study of 36,000 adults. Researchers led by a University of Pennsylvania team reported in Nature Communications that alcohol consumption even at modest levels may carry risks to the brain, shrinking it in ways similar to the aging process. The study was conducted using the UK Biobank, a dataset from 500,000 British middle-aged and older adults that includes genetic and medical information, including white and gray matter volume in different regions of the brain. The researchers found that the more alcohol people consumed on average, the greater the brain damage. Going from zero to a daily average of one alcohol unit (half a beer or half a glass of wine) is linked with the equivalent of a half a year of aging in 50-year-olds. Drinking an average of two units a day (a pint of beer or glass of wine) produces changes in the brain equivalent to aging two years. The difference between zero and four units (two beers or glasses of wine) was equal to more than 10 years of aging. “It’s not linear,” says study co-author Remi Daviet. “It gets worse the more you drink. There is some evidence that the effect of drinking on the brain is exponential. That means that cutting back on that final drink of the night might have a big effect in terms of brain aging.”

For the one in three Americans that are sleep-deprived, working out with resistance exercises to strengthen muscles may produce longer and deeper shuteye than aerobics, new research from the American Heart Association shows. In a 12-month study, researchers randomly assigned 386 inactive, overweight adults with high blood pressure to one of several groups that worked out for an hour three times a week. A resistance exercise group did three sets of eight to 16 repetitions on 12 machines; the aerobics group used treadmills, bicycles or elliptical machines; a combo group used both; and a control group did no supervised exercise. Among the 42 percent of participants that were not getting at least seven hours of sleep at the study’s start, sleep duration increased by an average of 40 minutes for the resistance exercise group compared to an increase of about 23 minutes in the aerobic exercise group and about 17 minutes in the combined exercise group. “If your sleep has gotten noticeably worse over the past two stressful years, consider incorporating two or more resistance exercise training sessions into your regular exercise routine to improve your general muscle and bone health, as well as your sleep,” says study author Angelique Brellenthin, assistant professor of kinesiology at Iowa State University, in Ames.

Try Neem and Walking to Ward Off COVID-19 Symptoms Two new studies suggest that neem (Azadirachta indica), a plant used for centuries in India to treat malaria, intestinal ulcers and skin diseases, may offer protection against COVID-19 and future variants. At the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical campus, researchers found that neem bark extract tested on COVID-infected human lung cells proved as effective as a preventive drug. It targeted a wide range of viral proteins and also decreased virus replication and spread after infection. In an Indian double-blind study of 190 healthcare workers or relatives of COVID-19 patients, researchers at the All India Institute of Ayurveda, in Delhi, found that those given a neem extract of 50 milligrams twice daily for 28 days had a reduced risk of 55 percent for infection compared to the control group. For people dealing with the lingering symptoms of long COVID such as fatigue, brain fog and muscle pain, a solution may be daily exercise of at least 30 minutes, because it lowers inflammation and blood glucose levels, suggest Louisiana State University researchers in the journal Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews. “If you can only walk 15 minutes once a day, do that. The important thing is to try. It doesn’t matter where you begin,” says article author Candida Rebello, Ph.D. 14

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Run Farther with Beetroot and Citrulline Nitrate-rich beetroot extract and citrulline, a non-essential amino acid, have been shown to be precursors of nitric oxide, which benefits athletic performance by expanding blood vessels and increasing blood flow. To determine whether combining the two produces better results, Spanish researchers gave the two supplements separately and together to 32 male triathletes for nine weeks. The dosages were 3 grams a day of citrulline and 2.1 grams a day of beetroot extract. In a study published in Biology, they reported that the combination did not improve markers of exercise-induced muscle damage, but did reduce cortisol levels, and also enabled those participants to run 5 percent farther in the standard 12-minute Cooper Test.

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Because our national parks and protected areas are feeling the pressure of increased demand for outdoor recreation, the National Park Service (NPS) has cracked down on some recreational activities to better manage the human impact on natural environments. In 2021, the national park system hosted nearly 300 million recreational visits, and 44 parks set visitation records. The high number of cars creates congestion, pollution and collisions with wildlife. Overcrowding on trails can lead to higher risk of hiking accidents and illegal off-roading. Two Utah national parks will start requiring reservations. At Zion, Rocky Mountain and Glacier national parks, guests need a permit to hike certain routes. Arches National Park guests will have to book timed entry tickets during the high season. Acadia and Zion announced the temporary closure of some popular climbing sites starting this month to ensure that peregrine falcons can nest without disturbance. In 2021, the NPS gave park superintendents the authority to ban e-bikes if they adversely impact natural resources or other visitors, as well as scenic air tours at dawn or dusk or within a half-mile of the ground. Biologically important behaviors for many species occur during sunrise and sunset such as foraging, mating and communication. The hours of operation provide quiet periods of the day during which visitors can enjoy natural sounds and preserve opportunities for solitude in designated wilderness areas.

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To both conserve water and generate clean energy, Project Nexus, an innovative pilot project from the University of California-Merced, will install solar arrays over 25-foot- and 100-foot-wide canals in the Turlock Irrigation District so operators can monitor and evaluate their impact on water quality and evaporation, as well as assess maintenance and logistical issues. External Affairs Department Manager Josh Weimer says, “In today’s world and how we are operating our system, saving every possible drop of water for future beneficial use is something that we are really trying to focus on.” In Europe, canals are lined with tree cover, while India has already started using solar panels. Project partner Solar AquaGrid, LLC, recognized the untapped opportunity to curtail evaporation and advance California’s Solar Over Canal initiative. CEO Jordan Harris states, “Research and common sense tell us that in an age of intensifying drought, it’s time to put a lid on evaporation. Our initial study revealed mounting solar panels over open canals can result in significant water, energy and cost savings when compared to ground-mounted solar systems, including added efficiency resulting from an exponential shading and cooling effect. Now is the chance to put that learning to the test.”

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A group of biologists in the northern Rockies published a paper in 2018, “A fence runs through it: A call for greater attention to the influence of fences on wildlife and ecosystems.” In 2020, a meta-analysis in BioScience looked at all the studies of the effects of fences and found that their profound impacts are often ignored or greatly underestimated. The impacts extend far beyond blocking animal migration routes and include furthering disease transmission by concentrating animals, altering the hunting practices of predators and impeding access to key areas of water and forage. Fences are going up rapidly as border barriers and livestock farming increase. In the case of the U.S./Mexico border wall intended to prevent illegal immigration, “The main threat ... is the landscape-level impacts of curtailing or completely precluding wildlife movement and eliminating landscape connectivity at large scales,” says Aaron Flesch, a wildlife biologist at the University of Arizona, who has studied the wall’s impacts. Bighorn sheep and jaguars are cut off from their kind on the other side of the border. That means that the genetic interaction needed to keep small populations of jaguars or ocelots healthy may be affected. It also means bighorn sheep in Mexico may not be able to migrate north to escape a hotter and drier climate.

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A recent study published in Insects compared mango trees at a local farm in Homestead, Florida, where one plot of trees had weeds growing around them and another plot was maintained to be weed-free. It turns out that the presence of weeds benefits trees and pollinators. “Weeds actually do a lot of good. It might be helpful to think of them of wildflowers,” says Blaire Kleiman, the Florida International University Institute of Environment graduate teaching assistant and alumna who, under the guidance of professors Suzanne Koptur and Krishnaswamy Jayachandran, undertook this research funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Hispanic-Serving Institutions Education Grants program. Fruit trees can’t live without pollinators. Bees and other insects have been shown to increase the size and quality of yields from 70 percent of the leading, economically important crops in the world, but it’s getting harder to bring bees to the trees. Over the last 30 years, pollinator numbers have declined significantly. Farmers already rely on insectary plants to attract pollinators, and Kleiman notes that her findings apply to 80 percent of all flowering plants of Earth, including vegetables like tomatoes, beans, eggplants and squash. She wants her study to help farmers also reduce the use of chemical pesticides that harm pollinators.

In a new study, “Climate Change Affects Bird Nesting Phenology: Comparing Contemporary Field and Historical Museum Nesting Records,” published in the Journal of Animal Ecology, scientists were able to determine that about a third of the bird species nesting in Chicago are laying their eggs a month earlier than they did 100 years ago by comparing eggs preserved in museum collections to modern observations. Researchers think the culprit in this shift is climate change. John Bates, curator of birds at the Field Museum and the study’s lead author, says, “The majority of the birds we looked at eat insects, and insects’ seasonal behavior is also affected by climate. The birds have to move their egg-laying dates to adapt. Egg collections are such a fascinating tool for us to learn about bird ecology over time. I love the fact that this paper combines these older and modern datasets to look at these trends over about 120 years and help answer really critical questions about how climate change is affecting birds.” Bates advises, “These early egg people were incredible natural historians in order to do what they did. You really have to know the birds in order to go out and find the nests and do the collecting.” yod67/AdobeStock.com

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Normally, temperatures fall with the end of the southern summer, but the Dumont d’Urville station, on Antarctica, registered record temperatures for March of 40.82° F at a time of the year when readings are usually already sub-zero. Gaetan Heymes, of France Meteo, describes the unseasonably mild weather as a historic event. The U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center says that Antarctica’s sea ice fell below 772,204 square miles in late February for the first time since 1979. Around the same time, the Conger Ice Shelf, as big as Los Angeles, collapsed into the sea and there was sufficient atmospheric moisture to produce a significant snowfall. While researchers can’t definitively say that climate change is to blame, Jonathan Wille, a postdoctoral researcher at the Université Grenoble Alpes, in France, notes, “It was something we didn’t think was possible in Antarctica—the magnitude of heat, especially in what should be the cold season in Antarctica. We’ve never seen the atmosphere behave like this over Antarctica.” The heat wave and dramatic inland snowfall highlight the importance of a better understanding of the complicated dynamics of atmospheric rivers that maintain the ice sheet now, but could be cause for concern in the future. Understanding these patterns better could be the key to learning the polar region’s fate. June 2022

The Healing of the Modern Man Men Redefine Their Emotional Power by Marlaina Donato

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or generations immemorial, men have been builders of culture, solid providers and inspired adventurers, but gender roles and sometimes-conflicting cultural expectations have taken a heavy toll on both the individual and community. The pervasive “tough guy” paradigm has denied half the human race its full emotional expression, resulting in amplified stress levels, compromised physical health, toxic aggression, broken families and a higher risk for addiction. According to research published in the American Journal of Men’s Health in 2020, death by suicide among men is almost four times higher than that of women and is partly attributed to the stigma of seeking treatment for depression. African American men carry the additional burden of racial and economic inequality, and their depressive symptoms are often more persistent and incapacitating. Contrary to common myth, men are deeply emotional and responsive beings by nature. Centuries overdue, restrictive cultural definitions are slowly shifting to a broader psychosocial view of authentic manhood. Thanks to guy-friendly mental health resources, virtual and in-person support communities and diverse options in the alternative health field, more men are taking responsibility for their well-being and learning how to embody emotional freedom. They are stepping up to the plate as strong, sensitive leaders, something our world needs now more than ever.

Breaking the Chains and Choosing Authenticity

The masculine expectation and requirement have been for most boys to “buck up and tough it out” during childhood and adolescence, and this overt or sometimes very subtle conditioning can promote disproportionate power plays, homophobia and resistance to emotional intimacy well into adulthood. “Every society has ‘feeling rules’ that govern how emotions can be expressed publicly,” says psychologist Michael Reichert,

executive director of the Center for the Study of Boys’ and Girls’ Lives at the University of Pennsylvania and author of How to Raise a Boy: The Power of Connection to Build Good Men. “Research tells us that boys are born as emotionally expressive as girls, but in a short time receive constant messages from their loved ones, schoolmates and TV shows that only certain emotions are okay for boys.” Such emotional restrictiveness has a profoundly negative impact on male development, he says. For Todd Adams in Elmhurst, Illinois, cofounder of MenLiving. org and a Tony Robbins-certified life coach, recognizing societal trappings is key. “The first step is to have the awareness that we have been lied to for as long as we can remember about what it means to be a man. We have been conditioned to stay in the ‘man box’, which means if we show any type of vulnerability, our value from the outside, as well as from the inside, plummets.” Reichert concurs. “My belief is that tragic outcomes—addictions, violence, suicide and premature mortality—are a reflection of how men’s human natures are thwarted by cultural norms. Being confined to a man box is hazardous. We humans, including men, are built to express our hearts in close connections to others we love and who love us.” The notion of going the distance solo is discouraged by Adams, whose organization helps men from all walks of life find support and connection through online meetings and adventure outings. “Once the awareness is there, I would invite family, partners, et cetera, to invite us to show up in a more authentic and human way,” he says.

Stress and the Physiology of Feelings For many men, emotions—other than “socially acceptable” anger and irritation—rarely see the light of day and instead morph into physical maladies such as digestive trouble, headaches, chest pain and high blood pressure. Unmanaged stress can also zap any zing in the bedroom. “I’m certainly not a doctor, but I’m sure there is a correlation for some about their emotional/mental/financial well-being being related to erectile dysfunction. The men that I work with often have a habit of not taking good care of themselves, and that lack of self-care ripples into other parts of their life, including their sexual life,” observes Adams. In spite of the fact that many others are struggling with the same condition, out of shame, it is often kept in the shadows. “My advice is that men find safe spaces to discuss these challenges with others. My hope is that men can discuss sexuality and intimacy as openly as women do.” Josh Beharry, project coordinator of HeadsUpGuys.org, in Vancouver, Canada, an online resource hub for men battling depression, has spearheaded online stress assessment tests for more than 26,000 men over the age of 18 and found surprising consistency. “The results suggest that the two most common stressors faced by the men are a lack of meaning and feelings of loneliness, followed by financial strain, relationship difficulties and problems at work,” he says. According to data gathered by Tulane University, human connection boosts immunity and wards off cardiovascular disease, June 2022

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anxiety, depression and cognitive impairment. For men especially, social bonds are critical in coping with life stresses. Forging new alliances and maintaining old ones can be challenging with or without a pandemic, but online communities offer additional support, camaraderie and nonjudgmental sharing, which can be especially helpful for those suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), addiction and depression.

Beyond Talk Therapy Male depression can be hidden in plain sight, disguised as hitting the bottle to “relax”, or by working compulsively, engaging in highrisk behaviors or easily flying off the handle at loved ones. Beharry knows firsthand how insidious the disease can be and why seeking help sooner than later is vital. After miraculously surviving a horrific suicide attempt, he unexpectedly found hope and the will to live through walking, breathwork and human connection. Being honest with others, as well as himself, was a turning point in his recovery. “For a lot of men, talking about dealing with depression feels like an admission of weakness or something to feel guilty about,” he says. “Try to think of emotional pain like physical pain. If you get cut, you bleed; that’s part of being human. Then 20

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you do something to treat the wound. Or if it’s deeper, you go to a doctor or a hospital. Denying painful emotions is like trying not to bleed when you get cut or trying to pretend you’re not bleeding.” For family members or friends concerned about a man’s mental health, he advises, “Vague assertions like, ‘You seem depressed,’ can make a guy feel attacked or put on the spot. Instead, it’s helpful to start by pointing out specific observations you’ve had about changes to his mood or behavior, such as, ‘You seem stressed out,’ or, ‘You haven’t been eating much,’ or, ‘You’ve been isolating yourself from friends or turning down plans more than usual.’” It is estimated that 4 percent of men suffer from the physical and psychological consequences of trauma, and PTSD is certainly not reserved for combat veterans. While traditional therapies like cognitive behavioral therapy and exposure therapy are excellent for treating depression, other modalities offer light at the end of the tunnel for men plagued by traumatic overwhelm. Somatic Experiencing, developed by PTSD psychologist Peter Levine during the last 50 years, targets trauma stored in the nervous system and gently helps a person to increase their tolerance for difficult physical sensations and buried emotions. It is also highly useful in addiction recovery. Therapeutic massage, yoga and regular exercise are all allies for men to combat stress, anchor into their bodies and access unconscious feelings. In the end, little things add up to a whole lot of change for a man. “You are not alone. Take your responsibility in how you experience life. Empower yourself with resources—podcasts, books, therapy, coaching—whatever support might look like for you,” advises Adams. There is no better time than now for the masculine to rise to a new level of greatness. “There is ample evidence that we are in a paradigm-shifting moment in the history of manhood,” says Reichert. “When I speak with parents, I say that there has never been a better time in all of human history to raise a son.” Marlaina Donato is an author and multimedia artist. Connect at WildflowerLady.com.

HELPFUL RESOURCES MenLiving, MenLiving.org A national program of virtual and in-person opportunities for men to forge healthy and nourishing connections. EVRYMAN, Evryman.com An online men’s community group. Good Men Project, GoodMenProject.com Includes articles on many topics including relationships, dads and families, advice and confessions, and ethics. HeadsUpGuys, HeadsUpGuys.org A program at The University of British Columbia that provides support for men to prevent and manage depression.

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or many of us, Dad was the first person to throw us a ball, take us fishing or treat us to ice cream after a game. If we were fortunate, he was the one who made a bad day better, was a strong protector who kept the metaphorical wolves from the door and, by example, secured our place in the world. Fathers give us many “firsts”, and for some of us, that also means a broken heart. Parents, like all human beings, are fallible, learning as they go, never quite getting it right, but doing the best that they can. Sometimes their “best” is tangled in a net of unresolved personal trauma, addiction or mental illness, and we learn to bear the bitter with the sweet. “Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift,” wrote poet Mary Oliver, and her words can be a beacon as we journey through healing the father wound. Once we come out the other side of childhood, it might be difficult to love someone that destroyed our trust and even more difficult to love ourselves. This “gift” might take decades for us to unwrap. Children of difficult dads sometimes blossom like lotuses into more compassionate beings from the mud of absence, cruelty or indifference. Perhaps with a shift in perspective, we may realize how their weaknesses might have given us survival tools and resilience. Flipping the coin to examine what they have done right and giving credit where it is deserved can also help us to open that dead-bolted door to forgiveness. Taking inventory, both positive and negative, can encourage us to become a different kind of parent. In a black-and-white world, the heart’s gray areas can teach us how to lean into our own healing. We inherit a lot from our wounded fathers, including an energetic opportunity to change the familial emotional code, and it can be beautiful. Marlaina Donato is an author, composer and painter. Connect at WildflowerLady.com.

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Healing Trauma EMERGING THERAPIES OFFER FRESH HOPE by Ronica O’Hara

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efugee children with tear-stained faces, the frail elderly being wheeled away from floods or fires, the sobbing families of gunshot victims—the faces of trauma are seen in every heartbreaking newscast. And the faces are even closer to us than that, walking down the street: a woman that recoils from touch, a child that has withdrawn into himself, a man with incoherent bursts of anger. The trauma of death, cruelty and destruction has always been part of the human experience. In the U.S., surveys show that as many as 60 to 70 percent of people report being traumatized by sexual assault, accidents, violence, war combat or other causes, and as many as one in 11 may be diagnosed in their lifetime with the more severe post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The encouraging news is that in the last few decades, a revolution has occurred in the recognition of how widespread trauma is and how deeply embedded it can be, not only in our behaviors but in our bodies. That, in turn, has led to effective and ever-evolving approaches to heal what’s been broken. “Although trauma and PTSD are visible in the culture everywhere now, from films to popular literature and from legal to mental health fields, until 1980 the topic was virtually non-existent,” says San Francisco psychologist, PTSD researcher and author Harvey Schwartz, Ph.D., who has treated trauma clients in clinical practice for 35 years. “After it became a legitimate diagnosis in 1980, long-overdue research and development of clinical protocols occurred, and today, almost every tradition and subculture within the mental health field has its own model of how to treat trauma.” Shaping the ongoing dialogue has been the research of Boston psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk, whose 2014 book, The Body Keeps the Score, has occupied the top rung of The New York Times bestseller list for three years. In magnetic imaging studies, he found that when a person is thrust into a terrorizing incident, the cognitive functions in the brain’s temporal lobe shut down and activity shifts to the self-defense mode of the amygdala. When the person responds by fighting, fleeing or freezing, physiological reactions kick in, which armor the body and trap emotions and thinking in that fraught moment, distorting future perceptions and experiences. He argues that any true healing of trauma must include “bottom-up” modalities focusing on the body rather than only mental “top-down” insights. He also insists that no single treatment alone is likely

TRAUMA TREATMENT OPTIONS Dozens of approaches are available for treating trauma, and experienced therapists often mix and match cognitive and experiential modalities to meet a patient’s needs. “Choose the therapist over the method, as research repeatedly shows that the therapeutic relationship is the most important factor in any successful therapy,” advises internationally recognized PTSD specialist Babette Rothschild, author of The Body Remembers, Revolutionizing Trauma Treatment and 8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery. Some primary approaches, with links to practitioners, are: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy works to process the traumatic event and change negative thought patterns connected to it. Usually involving 12 to 20 sessions, it is the most thoroughly studied approach and has been shown to be effective for about half of patients with good, long-term retention of outcomes. Some variations are Cognitive Processing Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy. Find a practitioner at Tinyurl.com/CBTpractitioner. Prolonged Exposure Therapy helps a patient overcome the fear and anxiety of a trauma by re-experiencing elements of it in a safe environment, using imagination and sometimes virtual reality. It is often used by cognitive therapists. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) uses sound, motion, touch, even a pencil to direct a client’s eyes back and forth, thus integrating parts of the brain; memories emerge, but without a heavy emotional charge. A key part of Veterans Administration therapy, it is recommended by the World Health Organization. Some studies show that 84 to 90 percent of single-trauma victims no longer have PTSD after three, 90-minute sessions. Find a practitioner at Emdria.org/directory.

Psychedelics are emerging therapies for PTSD, with psilocybin (magic mushrooms), ketamine and LSD potentially offering deep healing when administered under the supervision of a trained therapist. MDMA is the closest to obtaining U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval: carefully designed Phase 2 and initial Phase 3 clinical trials show twothirds of PTSD patients shedding debilitating symptoms. For more information, visit Maps.org/mdma. Trauma-informed Yoga focuses on grounding practices to restore disrupted physical sensations rather than emphasizing poses themselves and has proven helpful for sexual assault victims and veterans. Dozens of teacher certification programs exist, and it can be done virtually at home.

Brainspotting is an emerging outgrowth of EMDR that involves helping a client fixate on a location in the eye that pinpoints specific traumatic memories. Research is scant, but suggests it may be as or more effective than EMDR. Find a practitioner at Brainspotting.com/directory. Somatic Experiencing has a client pendulate between subtle sensations of trauma in the body and safe, peaceful feelings, which allows the trauma to be gently released. Although extensive research remains to be done, more than 120,000 professionals in 30 countries have been formally trained in it. Find a practitioner at Directory.TraumaHealing.org.

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Internal Family Systems explores different “parts” of a personality held together by a benevolent core consciousness, which allows those parts damaged and hurt by trauma to express themselves and feel self-compassion. It is recommended by leading trauma theorist Bessel van der Kolk. Find a practitioner at Ifs-institute.com/practitioners. Emotional Freedom Technique shows a client how to tap certain rhythms related to acupuncture meridians on the face and the rest of the body while actively reframing traumatic memories. In a small study of veterans with PTSD, 86 percent no longer met diagnostic criteria after six, one-hour sessions. Find a practitioner at Members.iceeft.com/member-search.php.

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enough and no combination of treatments will be the same for every person. Christine Songco, a Los Angeles dental hygienist and wellness coach, used cognitive therapy, journaling and meditation to relieve the trauma of a grueling bout with cancer, but hearing loud and angry voices still made her panic. What ultimately proved healing was an hour-long session of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), in which she followed a therapist’s prompt to move her eyes back and forth while memories surfaced. “It got to the root of my fear and anxiety and the source of my trauma without hours of therapy talking sessions, but I do think the other work I did set the stage for EMDR to be effective for me,” she says. Schwartz says that two major approaches to treating PTSD have emerged: cognitive and experiential. Cognitive, or “talk therapies”, supported by academic research and insurance companies, emphasize mentally processing painful memories to manage such symptoms as nightmares, flashbacks and explosive anger, often using anti-anxiety and antidepressant medications. They can include such strategies as narrative recall, slowly increasing exposure to the traumatic material, mindfulness training and deep breathing exercises. “Cognitive approaches help survivors learn how to become an expert of themselves so that they can respond to their trauma in a healthier way,” says psychologist Sabina Mauro, of Yardley, Pennsylvania, author of The Mindfulness Workbook for PTSD. This type of therapy can take months to years and effectively treats about half of PTSD sufferers. Experiential approaches, which have been researched less, but have engendered substantial therapist enthusiasm, do a “deep dive” to work through traumatic patterning embedded 24

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in a person’s mind, body and psyche. “They help people restore not only their nervous systems, but their capacity for self-trust and self-forgiveness and their capacity for connection to their bodies and others,” says Schwartz. These modalities mostly focus, at least at first, on physical sensations rather than intellectual comprehension. For example, Somatic Experiencing defuses deeply held, fear-based contractions in the body by integrating those sensations with peaceful alternatives. EMDR, once an outlier but now practiced globally and endorsed by the World Health Organization, uses eye movements to lower the emotional charge of a traumatic memory. Internal Family Systems repairs a wounded psyche by relating a person’s deeply felt, damaged “child parts” to their essential goodness. To re-inhabit parts of the body frozen in the past by trauma, patients may be encouraged to use somatic meditations, trauma-informed yoga, acupuncture, massage and martial arts, as well as art, music, dance and other forms of expression. Psychedelics, which if used carefully can open a trauma sufferer to a larger sense of purpose, may become a legal option in a few years. In a recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved Phase 3 clinical trial on MDMA (previously called ecstasy), 67 percent of participants no longer met the criteria for PTSD after three therapist-guided sessions. Says Schwartz, “It can feel like a supermarket of options out there, so people need to read, become informed consumers and combine treatments at times. We have to think of the mind, the body and the spiritual as all needing attention and integration.” Health writer Ronica O’Hara can be contacted at OHaraRonica@ gmail.com.

Eco Tripping Around Dallas

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eople seeking immersive eco-adventures don’t necessarily need to travel around the globe for a unique experience. Plenty of chances for ecological getaways can be found locally throughout North Texas. Below are some options within a short drive from the Dallas-Fort Worth area where we can experience nature and wildlife while supporting sustainability and conservation efforts.

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ossil Rim Wildlife Center offers the opportunity to go on a safari right in North Texas. The nonprofit conservation center on 1,800 acres of diverse terrain focuses on animals in peril. Guided and self-guided

tours are available; visitors can drive in their own vehicles through Fossil Rim’s 7.2-mile Godsin Scenic Wildlife Drive and see 50 different indigenous and exotic species such as cheetah, giraffes, zebras, southern black and southern white rhinos, the scimitar-horned oryx, Texas tortoise and white-tailed deer. “It truly feels like being in wild,” says Warren Lewis, chief marketing officer. Entry times are staggered so there is a limited number of cars going through per hour. Visitors can hand-feed giraffes and explore the Children’s Animal Center, the Nature Store gift center and the Overlook Café. For a true safari experience, visitors can rent onsite cabins or a room in the lodge (for reservations, call 254-898-4268). Lewis says most people spend the night and then in the morning depart on a guided tour. Lodge options include four suites, including the spacious Peregrine Room on the top floor, along with a library, a pool table, a bar and a common space on the second floor with a

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lso in Glen Rose is High Hope Ranch, an eco-retreat located on the northmost confluence of the Great Plains and Texas Hill Country. Dedicated to wildlife habitat protection through biodynamic principles, guests can come for day hikes, guided activities, camp on the property or rent a vacation home or a guest room in the lodge. Each vacation home offers serene views of the forested hillsides and cliffsides. The Mwalimu—“teacher” in Swahili—home includes a pool, a fireplace, a library and a greenhouse. For those that truly want to lose themselves in nature, the Mata’Zamo is the most remote of the vacation homes and features a loft patio with cliffside views. Kasa Casa features an infrared sauna, hot tub, fireplace and a yoga studio. The Habari

can accommodate up to 10 people and has a waterfront view. All homes have access to the 20 miles of High Hope Ranch’s hiking trails, where guests can explore wooded areas, pastures and overhang caves. High Hope’s biodynamic farm celebrates the natural rhythms of the seasons and planets while using

balcony that overlooks the property. “People can see these animals in their near-natural environment, in natural, open spaces,” Lewis notes. “It’s important because it allows them to retain their social behavior and their social order, so that when we have an opportunity to reintroduce an animal back into the wild, these animals understand the herd structure.” Fossil Rim Wildlife Center was part of a group of organizations that reintroduced the scimitar-horned oryx antelope back to Chad, in Africa. The animal is supremely adapted to desert life, but was driven to extinction by over-hunting and scarce resources. “If you visit Fossil Rim Wildlife Center, you are actually contributing to the success of our programs that allow us to reintroduce animals back into the wild,” Lewis advises. Visitors can also stop at nearby Dinosaur Valley State Park and the Paluxy River to round out their day in Glen Rose.

Earth-friendly farming techniques. Guests can watch livestock such as goats and cattle in their natural pasture environments. Produce grown at the Spiral Garden supplies the permanent residents. In addition, the stone circle and a labyrinth offer places for meditation and mindfulness. High Hope Ranch conducts retreats and summits covering topics such as environmental sustainability, biodynamic agriculture, health and wellness, spirituality, personal development, outdoor skills, philosophy and writing. Guests can become Community Supported Nature members to support High Hope’s conservation efforts such as golden-cheek warbler habitat protection, youth biodynamic farming programs and nature education. Members receive access to exclusive member events, retreats, communal camping and more. June 2022

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asts. It encompasses more than 8,000 acres and features its namesake, Caddo Lake, one of the few natural lakes in the state. Guests can fish, go kayaking or canoeing, hike, camp or rent a cabin. Caddo Lake harbors approximately 70 species of fish. The lake also lends to unique kayaking and canoeing experiences through a bald cypress swamp habitat. As visitors paddle through, they hear gurgling water, singing birds and croaking frogs. The network of trails includes Carter’s Chute Paddling Trail, Cathedral Paddling Trail, Hell’s Half Acre Paddling Trail, Old Folks Playground Paddling Trail and Turtle Shell Paddling Trail. Hiking trails among bald cypress and oak trees range from easy to moderate. Most are less than one mile and can be completed in one hour or less. Campsites range from

sites with water only to full hookup sites. There are also 18 sites with electricity. Cabins are available with options for sleeping two, four or six people. Most cabins have bathrooms, showers and basic kitchen amenities. The Junior Ranger youth explorer program helps kids learn about nature and educates them about becoming good stewards of the land. The park is also a Texas Aquatic Science Certified Field Site, which promotes hands-on learning through six field-based activities for school groups. Caddo Lake State Park opened July 4, 1934. The Civilian Conservation Corps, a work relief program that employed young men during the Great Depression, built the trails, firebreaks and converted 15 U.S. Army barracks and a mess hall into the log cabins that still stand today.

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martphones come in handy for emergencies or checking directions while traveling, but a brief glance at a website or social media can quickly turn into a lengthy scroll session, distracting us from why we go on vacation in the first place. For those that want to truly unplug, unique off-grid, eco-options beckon.

Remote and Quirky Camping The National Park Service has many affordable campgrounds at parks, forests and lakeshores with little to no cell connectivity, allowing visitors to immerse themselves in nature. Listings of wilderness/backcountry camping sites, as well as front-country sites easily accessible by vehicles, can be found at nps.gov/subjects/camping/campground.htm. State parks offer closer-to-home refuge from the digital world. California’s Hendy Woods State Park, in Philo, is brimming with old-growth redwoods. “A lot of people head way up north to Sequoia National Forest to see old-growth redwoods, but there are also redwood forests closer to Sonoma and Mendocino counties, and similarly along the coast,” says Milwaukee-based travel writer Kristine Hansen, contributor to Fodors.com, NationalGeographic.com and other travel outlets. “Standing beneath these towering trees, you can’t help but feel like a small part of this large and wild world.” Hendy Woods’ proximity to wine country allows explorers to drop by a winery or creamery and put together a quick picnic, she notes.

Locally owned campgrounds can offer an escape to a pre-cellphone era. Camp Wandawega, in Elkhorn, Wisconsin, has a storied past of hosting both sinners and saints, opening in 1928 as a speakeasy and later becoming a Catholic youth camp. The historic charm remains intact. “Spending a night here is like dialing it back to the 1950s. Think The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’s upstate New York summer camp,” Hansen says. “You can climb into a treehouse or a glamping tent to completely unplug.”

Immersive Getaways River rafting tours provide an escape from the virtual world, says John O’Brien, a scientist and environmental advocate who, with his wife, Kellie, owns Fairbanks Trails and Rivers Tour Company, in Fairbanks, June 2022

Alaska. “The moment that we shove off from the shore, we’re immediately on what we call ‘river time.’ It’s best at that point to put your phone and camera in airplane mode. We’re often in areas where there is no cell coverage,” he says. “There’s something to be said about just unplugging and being in the moment.” Eco-activities such as river rafting might conjure up images of young, physically fit adventurers in rafts slapped by wild waves, but O’Brien notes river rafting is suitable for all ages and abilities. In tours with frame-style rafts, the guide does all the rowing. “If you are able to stand, walk and climb into and out of a raft, even with some assistance, you can go river rafting,” he says. Trekking is another proven eco-trip strategy. Sometimes confused with hiking, it involves a long journey across a large swath of land that often requires participants to pare down to the absolute basics, which means ditching the cell phone and charger. There’s often little to no service in these remote stretches. North American treks include Canada’s the Long Range Traverse, a 22-mile, unmarked, backcountry trail in Newfoundland with moose, bears and caribou. The Appalachian National Scenic Trail is a 2,100-mile stretch that takes explorers through 14 states. Stretching from Springer Mountain, Georgia, to the northern terminus at Katahdin, Maine, the trail passes through the diverse terrain of the Appalachian Mountain Range. Hikers of

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remote backcountry trips that are only accessible via foot, and some are offered at local, state and national parks as well,” says program manager Ellie Place. “There is a Volunteer Vacation for everyone, whether you want to sleep in a cozy cabin with amenities or sleep under the stars miles away from it all.” The American Hiking Society has more than 35 Volunteer Vacations planned this year; more information can be found at AmericanHiking.org. Sheila Julson is a Milwaukee-based freelance writer and contributor to Natural Awakenings magazines throughout the country.

Green, Healthy and Sustainable In McKinney

by Sheila Julson

cKinney is not only among the top 10 fastest-growing cities in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex region, but also in the United States. The 2022 population is 206,654, up 26,849 just since 2018 (McKinneyTexas. org/294/demographics-census-reports). The median income is $90,725. Thirty-one percent of residents have bachelor’s degrees, and 15 percent have graduate-level education. With a diverse and educated populace, McKinney is home to a mix of employers in the scientific, manufacturing and healthcare sectors. Wistron Green Tech, Tenant Tracker Inc., Encore Wire, Traxxas and Brandon Industries are all based in McKinney. Mayor George Fuller affirms that the city’s brand, “Unique by Nature” gives a nod to the natural beauty of the city. “McKinney is a beautiful community made up of gently rolling hills, natural streams and full of majestic mature trees,” he says. “Our residents care

deeply about protecting these open spaces. In our most recent citizen survey, 95 percent of residents said creating and preserving open spaces is the most important priority to protect our high quality of life.” Fuller adds that last fall McKinney residents put these words into action: a crew of volunteers planted 800 seedlings and 870 young trees near Wilson Creek. “This will positively impact the environment and help protect the crucial drinking water supply to Lavon Lake, which serves clean water to two million North Texas residents.” Both longtime and newer residents show community spirit through volunteer efforts that honor McKinney’s legacy. This has led to a budding arts and cultural district, verdant outdoor space and an extensive parks system. Dedication to historic preservation is prominent throughout the city, as evidenced by its historic downtown square. The city of McKinney’s environmental education division provides outreach about resi-

dential recycling and water conservation. “We place a high value on green initiatives and sustainability in McKinney, and these have long been important to our residents,” says Environmental Services Manager Eric Hopes. “There are a variety of programs and services that we offer to make it easy for our residents to participate in protecting our planet.” The city offers curbside pickup for recycling as part of their weekly trash services. Assistant City Manager Steve Tilton says the city is developing a 20-year master plan for refuse and recycling. “This will focus on identifying best practices in the industry we can incorporate into our next refuse and recycling contract that expires in 2024,” he explains. “We are taking a deep look into the latest technologies and potential partnerships with other communities to ensure we are maximizing our potential for increased sustainability.” The recycling program is supported by Trash Talk, the city’s successful and award-winning trash and recycling campaign series on social media. The series revolves around a family sharing quick trash and recycling tips in humorous ways. Denise Lessard, communications and media manager for the city of McKinney, says the engaging videos resonate with people and show them that it doesn’t take a lot of effort to make simple, small changes to their habits that make a huge environmental impact. Seminars and classes throughout the year educate residents on ways to be environmentally conscious. Topics vary from building a rain barrel to planting native and adaptive plants. The McKinney Monarch Initiative helps preserve the declining monarch butterfly population through 25 action items that include co-hosting native plant sales through partnerships with Collin County Master Gardeners and the Heard Museum. Kids’ programs feature Take Care of Texas, with an array of educational resources for parents and teachers to help instill green habits in children.

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Healthy Greenspace Equals Healthy People

The McKinney Parks & Recreation Department manages more than 3,000 acres of parks and open space. During the peak summer season, it employs approximately 500 people that maintain and program 50 parks, sports fields, recreation centers and public pools. “Overall, there is great support for our parks from our city council, city manager and so many of McKinney’s new residents,” observes Michael Kowski, director of the McKinney Parks & Recreation department. “I’ve seen newer residents really embrace how we address public green space. They

are bringing their own idea of recreation to McKinney which we are weaving into our very successful legacy that honors McKinney’s past while leaning toward the future.” Kowski notes that McKinney has an impressive tree canopy that allows the parks to function in different ways. Erwin Park showcases a natural setting with wooded areas, walking and hiking trails, native plantings and camping. The Master Naturalists group, a citizens’ organization that partners with McKinney Parks & Recreation to support the parks, helps maintain Erwin Park’s natural character. The department also partners with nonprofits such as the Dallas Off-Road Bike Facility for trail development and maintenance at this park. The smaller neighborhood parks within McKinney’s system average 10 acres. “We’re very intentional about incorporating nature

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into those, such as providing shade structures to reduce the heat effect,” Kowski says. George Webb Park has a manmade river with interactive water features. Prestwyck Park blends new park features into the existing floodplain and tree canopy. There are kiosks with informational boards along the trails so people can learn about the natural environment they’re looking at. The youth recreation program has roughly 10,000 kids enrolled. To meet the demand, Kowski says the department is always looking at creative ways to add sports fields and complexes while working with nature. They continue to install rain gardens and native butterfly plantings in the parks to attract monarchs along their migration route. Other sustainable practices within the department include repurposing old playground equipment. A company disassembles it piece-by-piece and ships to other countries, where it’s reused. The McKinney Parks Foundation (MPF) is not under the city’s umbrella of control, but is an extension of the department. Rich Szecsy, a founding member, had served on the city council-appointed Parks Board. “I wanted to continue to do more for the parks and open spaces. The City needed a resource to coordinate volunteers, seek access to grants and be able to partner on bigger initiatives,” he enthuses. The group works to preserve, protect and maintain park lands and open spaces. McKinney Parks Foundation offers education and advocacy for natural spaces within the city. They team up with Master Naturalists, civil engineers and other professionals. Accomplishments over the last four years include reclaiming the nature trail at Towne Lake. They’ve recovered and planted 1,400 trees at McKinney Greens. They recently cut more than four miles of a new nature trail at Gray Branch Park. “This is well over 4,000-plus volunteer hours for the MPF,” Szecsy notes. “The McKinney spirit allows us to embrace the natural environment because we

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think it sets McKinney apart from a lot of our neighboring cities,” Kowski says.

A Leader in Farming

When the first settlers arrived by covered wagon in the area that is now McKinney, they established commodity crops such as corn, flour and cotton, setting the groundwork for a farming culture that still stands today. Restaurateur Rick Wells, of Rick’s Chophouse and Harvest Seasonal Kitchen farm to table restaurant, is a leading farm advocate who works to promote McKinney and its family farmers and ranchers. “Since the 2010 census, Texas grew more farms than any state in the U.S.,” says Wells. The U.S. Department of Agriculture ranks

the Lone Star State as first in the nation for total number of farms, with just over 248,000. “There are so many exciting things happening in North Texas, and particularly in Collin County.” Farms such as Honey Creek Farm, Pure Land Farm, Lewellen Farms, Lake Forest Farms and Babylove’s Farm use regenerative

and organic methods such as no-till and open pasture animal grazing. Wells emphasizes that McKinney’s and Collin County’s successful gardening and farming ethos is cultivated in large part by the Master Gardeners program operated through Texas A&M AgriLife Extension. “Texas AgriLife is a huge resource to the community,” Wells says. The Extension has a network of 250 offices throughout the state, and 900 professional educators to assist with all aspects of farming and gardening such as plant cultivation, animal science, insect pest management, water resources and more. The Seed Project Foundation, started by Wells, funds educational, agricultural and

pandemic shutdowns, Wells offered him a full-time farmer position. McKinney Roots has hosted more than 500 volunteers at the farm since its inception. All those helping hands not only lift the community through farming, but encourage a rapid spurt of ecologically sound development. Nickols plans to launch a community composting program for people to bring their kitchen scraps to create compost to decrease the waste stream. “If I can turn the community’s food scraps and horse manure into food, then we’ve helped to close the cycle in a full way that provides food for members in our community that are left behind,” he notes.

Historic Preservation Offers a Window to McKinney’s Past

community farm efforts. McKinney Roots is The Seed Project Foundation’s donation farm, built on a refurbished baseball field. Wells says the farm produced 10,000 pounds of fresh produce last year and 180 dozen eggs per week, distributed through distribution channels including The Samaritan Inn and Community Lifeline Center. “Food pantries serve a vital need, but much of their donations are shelf-stable, processed food, so for us to be able to donate 10,000 fresh produce and 180 dozen eggs a week, that gives underserved families in McKinney opportunities they didn’t have before,” Wells notes. Tucker Nickols is a longtime North Texas resident and current manager of McKinney Roots. He was working at a farm to table restaurant and retail space, Patina Green, where he built connections with the North Texas farming community. During the

Historic preservation is promoted by academic leaders and environmental groups as a tool for building sustainable communities. Preservation uses existing materials and infrastructure while reducing waste and preserves the historic character of older towns. Chestnut Square Historic Village, located a block from McKinney’s historic downtown square, is overseen by The Heritage Guild of Collin County. It preserves and maintains 10 buildings, the oldest dating to 1854. The buildings include period artifacts showing how people lived in Collin County from 1854 through 1940. “We do what we can to support our community members and get them interested in history,” emphasizes tour manager Jamie Seibert. “We really try to connect our current residents with our past residents.” The organization hosts several exhibits throughout the year, such as a recent women’s fashion exhibit reflecting specific decades and a military exhibit showcasing past military patrons of McKinney throughout different wars. Events free to the community include the recent Easter Egg Hunt. The

McKinney Farmers Market is held on the Chestnut Square grounds from 8 a.m. to noon each Saturday. Chestnut Square hosts Public Village Tours twice per week, as well as school groups by reservation. Students can learn about history and how residents, not just in McKinney, but throughout Texas, lived. Chestnut Square uses a large number of volunteer docents, curators and people that tend the gardens on the grounds and perform housekeeping and maintenance tasks. Seibert emphasizes that volunteers are the backbone of Chestnut Square. The organization has many furnishings and clothing pieces donated by families in McKinney. “It really was a community effort to make the Village what it is now,” advises Seibert. Chestnut Square is part of a larger history, arts and culture scene in McKinney. The Heard-Craig Center of the Arts promotes fine arts through exhibits and education while preserving the historic properties of McKinney’s Heard and Craig families. The Collin County Historical Museum, located in a former post office building constructed in 1911, holds myriad artifacts of McKinney’s past and a free virtual museum. A dedication to sustainable lifestyles, green space and uplifting community proves McKinney is committed to creating a sustainable city well into the future. For more information, visit McKinneyTexas.org.

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Planet-Friendly Pours THE RISE OF SUSTAINABLE WINE AND SPIRITS

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conic food and beverage magazines such as Bon Appetit and Food & Wine affirm that sustainable and socially responsible wines and spirits are becoming a major force in the market, yet consumers wanting to pour an Earth-conscious tipple need a sobering amount of research to sort through what’s truly eco-friendly. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration does not require wine makers to list ingredients on labels or regulate the use of terms such as “natural” and “sustainably grown”. “There are more than 70 additives that are allowed in wine that don’t have to be disclosed on the label,” explains Brad Kruse, who with his wife, Allie, owns Nonfiction Natural Wines, a Milwaukee-based specialty wine retailer. “The only real requirement relating to additives is the declaration of sulfites, which makes it trickier, because even wines with no added sulfites have to have the 32

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warning on the label because some naturally occur in the wine.” Some wine labels tout that they’re made with organic grapes or grapes that are farmed sustainably. “But those may still have a host of other additives or lots of added sulfites,” says Kruse. Certifications can act as a shortcut to locate eco-friendly wines. Demeter USA, for example, certifies vineyards that follow strict biodynamic rules for how the wine is farmed and processed, including limiting sulfites. But many small producers that operate naturally don’t bother obtaining certification. Independent wine shops with knowledgeable employees can help consumers choose wisely. Kruse recommends looking for the name of the importer on the back label, saying, “If you learn a handful of importers that focus on naturally made wines, such as Louis/Dressner, Zev Rovine or Jenny & Francois, it can be a quick way to find a good option.”

Sustainability in the Vineyards

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Rudy Marchesi, the former chairman of Demeter USA, practices biodynamic farming at his vineyard, Montinore Estate, in Forest Grove, Oregon. “We view our farm as one whole organism, below and above the ground,” he says. Biodynamic farming, founded by philosopher Rudolf Steiner a century ago, requires using nutritionally rich compost teeming with microbiology of fungi and bacteria, as well as synchronizing specific farming practices with the seasons. These practices help the vineyards buffer droughts and weather swings, resulting in a consistent product that reflects the region. “Wine connoisseurs and collectors look for wines that have a sense of place and tell the story of where they’re from,” Marchesi says.

¼ oz cherry liqueur 2½ oz sustainably produced rye 1 oz sweet vermouth 2 dashes angostura bitters 1 dash cherry bitters 1 maraschino cherry

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Distillers Move Toward Sustainable Practices Alcohol is an agricultural product, so producing a sustainable spirit starts with the grain itself, says Herman C. Mihalich, founder and distiller of Mountain Laurel Spirits, in New Hope, Pennsylvania. “Rye is a much less resource-intensive grain to grow compared to crops like corn,” he says. The recipe for the company’s signature Dad’s Hat Rye Whiskey calls for malted barley and rye, but no corn. “Rye doesn’t need much fertilizer and few, if any, pesticides. It’s easy to grow and it preserves soil because it’s a fall planting crop that helps prevent erosion,” he says. Their grains are sourced from a nearby farmer, and they save water by capturing cooling water from the still’s condenser and storing it in a tank, then using it to clean tanks and make spent mash that can be used for livestock feed. The bottles are made locally by Stoelzle Glass, in Monaca, Pennsylvania. When seeking sustainably produced spirits, customers have to do their due diligence, Mihalich says. “It requires a little digging and asking the right questions: What grains are you using and from where? How are you using water?” When Extreme Chef host Marsh Mokhtari and his wife, Jan, founded Gray Whale Gin, they rotated proprietorship with two existing distilleries instead of using land and resources to build a new one. A vacation in Big Sur inspired the couple to “capture California in a glass” and make a product with ingredients found along the gray whale migratory route between the Baja Peninsula and Oregon. They hired a professional forager to collect juniper berries along the coast. “Juniper for most gin is sourced from Italy or Macedonia,” says Mokhtari. “We predominantly use juniper berries from California, which are light purple and larger, with a cedar component.” They also source mint and limes from sustainable farms in California. Gray Whale Gin gives back through a partnership with the environmental nonprofits Oceana and 1% for the Planet. They recently joined with Oceana and former California governor Jerry Brown to support responsible swordfishing practices off the California coast.

Coat a chilled cocktail glass with cherry liqueur. Add the remaining ingredients over ice in a a shaker. Stir and strain into the cocktail glass. Garnish with the cherry. Recipe and photo courtesy of Dad’s Hat Rye Whiskey.

WHALE HELLO THERE 2 oz sustainably produced gin ½ oz fresh lime juice ½ oz fresh lemon juice ½ oz agave syrup Fill a cocktail shaker with ice and pour in the gin, lime juice, lemon juice and agave. Shake vigorously and strain into a chilled martini glass, or over a glass filled with ice. Garnish with a lemon twist and serve immediately. Recipe and photo courtesy of Gray Whale Gin.

Sheila Julson is a Milwaukee-based freelance writer and contributor to Natural Awakenings magazine. June 2022

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4R Ranch Vineyard & Winery 1473 CR 477 Muenster, TX 76252 940.736.3370 4RWines.com Arche Winery & Vineyard 228 Wagner Road Saint Jo, TX 76265 214.536.6330 ArcheWines.com Blue Ostrich Winery & Vineyard 5611 FM 2382 Saint Jo, TX 76265 940.995.3100 BlueOstrich.net Caudalie Crest Winery 2045 Weston Road Celina, TX 75009 214.578.6390 GoatsNGrapes.com Eden Hill Winery & Vineyard 4910 Eden Hill Lane Celina, TX 75009 214.850.4081 EdenHill.com Edge of the Lake Vineyard & Winery 920 CR 231 Valley View, TX 76272 940.726.3785 EdgeOfTheLakeVineyard.com 34

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Eco-Volunteering HANDS-ON WAYS TO HELP OUR PLANET THIS SUMMER Helping nature while enjoying the great outdoors is a classic win-win opportunity. Here are a few ideas to join the fun while contributing sweat equity. Corral the Cleanup Crew Becoming a weekend cleanup community leader can be as simple as gathering family, friends and neighbors to beautify the surroundings and save animals from suffering. To improve water quality, pay special attention to beaches and rivers. Get permission from local authorities, arrange a special trash pickup and equip the crew with gloves and garbage bags. Afterwards, stand together proudly before the enormous hill of discarded plastics, fishing lines, beer bottles, aluminum cans, fast-food containers and other refuse. Congratulate the team and take pictures to post on social media. For more tips, visit Tinyurl.com/trashteam. Get on the Community Gardening Bandwagon Community gardens are springing up on school grounds, at hospitals and correctional facilities, on rooftops and balconies, and in unused public spaces and underserved communities. Researchers have proven what we suspect: Gardening is a great workout and leads to improved heart health and weight loss, while breathing fresh air and helping things grow in kinship with like-minded people is a surefire

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mood enhancer. Reaping the benefits of locally grown, fresh produce; beautifying a neighborhood with flowering plants or shade trees; and providing food and refuge for pollinators and other wildlife is not too shabby, either. Now is the time to join an existing group or start a new community garden. For inspiring examples and how-to ideas, visit FoodIsFreeProject.org and OneTreePlanted.org. Lend a Helping Hand at a Park Local, state and national parks rely on volunteers to conduct tours and maintain green areas and facilities. Even artists and scientists are welcome to lend their expertise. Consider combining a park visit with purposeful assistance. The National Park Service runs a Volunteers-in-Parks program (nps.gov/getinvolved/volunteer.htm) that offers one-time service projects and longer-term positions at parks throughout the country and in U.S. territories in the Pacific and Caribbean. Visit Volunteer.gov for tasks like a campground host at the Rocky Mountain National Park or climber steward at Joshua Tree National Park. Many state park systems and municipal parks and recreation departments use websites to manage their volunteer opportunities, such as Volunteers.Flo ridaStateParks.org or tpwd.texas.gov/ state-parks/help-parks. All it takes is an internet search of the name of the state or county plus “park” and “volunteer” to find local openings.

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orth Texas Wine Country is quickly becoming one of the hottest new wine destinations. More wineries and vineyards are being founded in North Texas every year, making the North Texas Wine Country one of the largest wine making and grape growing regions in Texas. Many wineries are located here in our own backyard, just waiting to be visited upon when you can fit it in. Here are a few.

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The Exercise Power of E-Bikes GET A WORKOUT ON AN EASIER RIDE

he familiar adage, “No pain, no gain,” doesn’t really apply to e-bikes. Although a pedal-assist electric bicycle is zippier and easier to ride than a conventional model, researchers are finding that as long as we’re pedaling, we’re still getting our heart pumping, building stamina and experiencing some of that cardio magic. That’s good news for those of us that like to work smarter, not harder. What’s more, that battery-enabled oomph supplies riders with the enjoyment, motivation and self-confidence to venture out more frequently and for longer periods of time, give hills and inclines a try and even pedal to work for an active, eco-friendly commute. It’s a win-win-win. In 2018, researchers at Brigham Young University (BYU), in Provo, Utah, sought to quantify just how good a workout was possible on an e-bike, and they discovered that the average heart rate was only 6.21 beats per minute lower than on a conventional cycle. “The e-bike and conventional bike averages both fell within that 50 to 70 percent maximum-heart rate threshold which is indicative of moderate-intensity cardiovascular activity, so there seems to be a similar amount of benefit for heart health when riding an e-bike, despite the fact that the perceived exertion was significantly lower than on a conventional bike,” says Taylor Hoj, lead author of the study published in the journal JMIR Public Health and Surveillance. The college-aged men and women that participated in the study rode the same 10-mile trail on each type of bike, so it was easy to compare how much faster the e-bikes were. 36

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Cyclists averaged 12 miles per hour (mph) on the conventional bike and 16 mph on the e-bike, reaching top speeds of 22 mph and 27 mph, respectively. On average, the same route took 54 minutes to complete on the conventional bike and only 39 minutes on the e-bike—a 30 to 40 percent time savings. For people considering using an e-bike to commute to work, that reduction might make it easier to give it a shot. Using questionnaires given before and after each ride, the BYU researchers found,

“In general, participants agreed that they could ride an e-bike on most days, in the cold, when they were tired or dressed in formal attire, while carrying groceries or books, or on hilly terrain,” says Hoj, a health equity epidemiologist at the Utah Department of Health and adjunct faculty member at the BYU College of Life Sciences. Notably absent from the study were e-bikes with throttles, which with a twist of the handle or the push of a button, provide a boost even when the rider isn’t pedaling. These bikes would probably not provide the same level of exercise benefits. In 2019, the same BYU researchers conducted a similar study with experienced mountain bikers, published in the JMIR Formative Research Journal. “Our results in that study supported the idea that using a pedal-assist electric mountain bike (EMTB) retained the cardiovascular benefit and that the participants overwhelmingly perceived the potential of EMTB use to be positive,” Hoj says. “Some of them said an EMTB could help get them out on the trails more or perhaps get them to ride longer and go further, and also would allow older, injured,

disabled or less-fit riders to enjoy mountain biking on dirt trails, whereas maybe their age, injuries or fitness levels limited their capability on a conventional mountain bike.” According to Hoj, e-bikes offer a great set of benefits for fitness buffs. “Even if you’re a very serious athlete and in training programs, there are days where maybe you’re recovering from a more intense ride and your muscles are really sore, but you still want to continue to train your heart and that aerobic side of things, and an e-bike could be a great use for a more laid back aerobic day while the legs are recovering,” he says. “And if someone is wanting to get into mountain biking but doesn’t feel like they have the fitness to get there or doesn’t know how to start, that pedal assist could remove that initial barrier.” Ultimately, the decision to buy an e-bike—good ones start at $1,000—may come down to emotional considerations. “They’re a lot of fun to ride,” Hoj says. Sandra Yeyati, J.D., a professional writer and editor, can be reached at SandraYeyati@ gmail.com.

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Living with Afflictions by Randy Kambic

Can you explain how a “sandwich-board theory of life” can be helpful?

How is your eyesight now? Did writing The Beauty of Dusk help you better cope with your condition?

I’m always thinking about David Tatel, a distinguished longtime judge, including with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, who retired last year, who never let his blindness impede him. And he once said to me of the human capacity for adjusting and adapting, “Starfish can grow new limbs, but that’s nothing compared to what people can do.” I hold tight to his words and to his example.

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ne day in late 2017, Frank Bruni, a writer for more than 25 years for The New York Times—including as a White House correspondent, op-ed columnist, Rome bureau chief and restaurant critic—woke up with partial loss of sight in his right eye. He found out that his condition was non-arteritic ischemic optic neuropathy caused by loss of blood flow to the optic nerve. While he began treatment, he started writing a memoir to document how he was dealing with his setback and to present the stories of family, close friends, previous interviewees and others that have also encountered and dealt with medical challenges. His new book, The Beauty of Dusk: On Vision Lost and Found, is a wise, inspiring and moving account that displays human perseverance and optimism in navigating trauma and afflictions. Some of the people he describes are his mother, who battled uterine cancer; a college friend that has Parkinson’s disease; Cyrus Habib, a blind Rhodes scholar who became the lieutenant governor of the state of Washington; Nebraska senator and wounded Vietnam War veteran Bob Kerrey; and Juan Jose, a Mexican diplomat dealing with retinitis pigmentosa, which causes progressive vision loss. Bruni, author of three previous bestsellers, is now a full-time professor at Duke University, teaching media-oriented classes in the Sanford School of Public Policy. He continues to write a weekly newsletter and occasional essays for The New York Times.

My eyesight is stable, but compromised. I have to read and type more slowly in larger fonts. Writing the book helped me cope in many ways including by showing me that with the proper adjustments, I could very much continue with my writing career.

How can we implement “taking deliberate, concrete steps to move beyond sadness” with our afflictions in practical terms? The first step I think is recognizing how many people confront or live with affliction. That helps dilute the self-pity part of sadness. But another crucial step is realizing that what’s gone is gone, what’s lost is lost and you only compound your sadness by dwelling emotionally on what’s unchangeable versus embracing what you still have. 38

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If each of us walked around wearing a list of the pain we carry or the struggles we have survived, struggles that are usually invisible, then few of us would ask, “Why me?” We’d ask, “Why not me?” And that’s the truer, healthier question.

Can terming a health struggle as an experience, not an ordeal, be applied to our lives? Oh, absolutely. Not with the most extreme hardships, but with some of them, many of them, I think, you can become a student of your hardship. You can at least try to view that what you are going through is a test and you can allow yourself a full measure of pride in passing that test.

Is there one person out of so many depicted in your book that stands out the most to you?

Randy Kambic is a freelance writer and editor in Estero, Florida.

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Misbehaving Dog Walks WAYS HUMANS GET IT WRONG

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ne of the primary activities we do with canine family members is to take walks because they love them and benefit from them. But just as some dogs, for a variety of reasons, are difficult to walk, some people are less-thanideal dog walkers. When we’re teaching our canine BFFs how to behave at the end of a leash, most of us aren’t nearly as concerned with our own behavior during these outings. We assume we’re doing everything right, and it’s our 40

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furry sidekicks that need correcting. But believe it or not, we’re just as capable of bad behavior during walks as the other way around. Here are a few reasons why. NOT ALLOWING SNIFF TIME. A dog’s most acute sense is that of smell. She explores and experiences the world through her nose. Smell is a dog’s “first sense”, much as sight is ours. Just as we depend on our eyes to inform us of the world around us, dogs depend on their noses. If we can imagine how it would feel to take walks with our eyes half-closed, then we can empathize with how it feels to our dog to be prevented from stopping to sniff things. It’s unnatural, slightly intimidating and, ultimately, boring. Dogs need lots of outdoor sniffing opportunities to help them learn about the world around them and stimulate their minds.

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Dogs need lots of outdoor sniffing opportunities to help them learn about the world around them and stimulate their minds. For a change of pace, instead of a normal walk, try taking the dog on a “sniffari”, letting him take the lead. Allow him to sniff whatever he pleases and make all the navigational and investigational decisions. IGNORING THE DOG. Unfortunately, there are pet parents that do everything but pay attention to their dogs during walks. The daily activity becomes so routine that they do it without giving much thought to the furry fellow at the other end of the leash. This is a bad habit primarily for the danger it can pose to the dog that is often busy looking for dead or possibly deadly things to pick up in his mouth or interesting places to lift his leg (like a car door). There is also the potential on walks for unexpected things to happen, like an unfriendly dog appearing seemingly out of nowhere or a car swerving dangerously close. Staying focused on our dog and our immediate environment affords the opportunity to react quickly when necessary, keeping both owner and pet out of harm’s way. If boredom prevents being fully present on a walk, change the scenery. Instead of heading outside in the same old direction, buckle the dog in and drive a few blocks away or to a neighborhood park or nearby hiking trail. Everyone will find new things to see, smell and experience. CHOOSING THE WRONG TYPE OF COLLAR, HARNESS OR LEASH. Many pet parents don’t realize the importance of choosing the right type of collar, harness and leash for their dog. Certain dogs should wear a harness and should never be leashed or even handled by the collar. These include dogs that pull or lunge while on a leash, those prone to tracheal collapse or a seizure disorder, and dogs with chiropractic issues involving the neck or back. Choke collars and other outdated training devices can

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walking, our attention is not on the dog. One of the most important gifts that can be given to our dog whenever we interact with him, including on walks, is our undivided attention. Put down the phone and other distractions and let him know through our focus how much he means to us.

For walks, training sessions and whenever the dog will be on leash, use either a head collar or no-pull harness. Be wary of retractable leashes, which have the potential to injure both dogs and their owners. Flat leashes should be no longer than six feet. MULTITASKING. This almost always involves a cell phone. If we have a phone to our ear while walking, we have only one hand available for our dog. And even if earbuds are being used and the phone is in a pocket, it’s impossible to be present for both the pet and the person on the other end of the line. The dog will inevitably be the loser in this deal. And if texting, searching the internet or even listening to a podcast or audiobook while

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Dig into Composting – 9-11am. Learn how to make high quality compost at home using materials most folks throw away. Free. Garland Fire Department Administration Building, Rm 417, 1500 State Hwy 66, Garland. Register: RootedIn.com.

E-Waste Recycling – 10:30am-1:30pm. Recycle computers, network and communications devices, CRTs and LCDs, point of sale equipment, wires and cables, other office equipment, consumer goods, batteries, appliances, and audio and video equipment. Free; some items have a disposal fee. Dallas College Cedar Valley Campus, 3030 N Dallas Ave, Lancaster. Tinyurl. com/2hhvky4a.

organic vegetables in Dallas and has “grown” it into a profitable business. Register: Tinyurl. com/mdtbskxe.

FRIDAY, JUNE 24 Online: Managing Prairies for Native Pollinators – 6pm. Presented by Carol Clark, Conservation Specialist with Monarch Watch. Via Zoom. Register: Tinyurl.com/3sufsthe.

SATURDAY, JUNE 25 Online: Perfectly Planted Pots: Container Gardening – 9-10:30am. If you have a small yard or patio that needs a pop of ornamental color, are frustrated with the poor soils on your property, or just simply don’t have the space to grow your fruits and veggies, then give container gardening a try. Free. Register: RootedIn.com.

THURSDAY, JUNE 9 Houseplant Horti-couture – 6-8pm. Learn the basics of indoor gardening with tips on selecting the right container, picking the right spot for sunlight needs and more. Free. Register: RootedIn.com.

SUNDAY, JUNE 12 Chalk the Park – 1:30-6:30pm. Leave your mark in chalk at the Historical Park. Chalk provided. Farmers Branch Historical Park, 2540 Farmers Branch Ln, Farmers Branch. Tinyurl. com/yckuf63c.

SATURDAY, JUNE 18 Morning Bird Walk – 7:30-8:15am. Join us for a monthly bird walk and enjoy the grounds and our amazing feathered friends. Trinity River Audubon Center, 6500 Great Trinity Forest Way, Dallas. Registration required: TrinityRiver. Audubon.org.

TUESDAY, JUNE 14 Online: Vermi-Composting – 6:30-7:30pm. Join us for piles of information on how to build, maintain and utilize a vermicomposting system of your very own. Free. Register: RootedIn.com. Dallas Sierra Club General Meeting – 7pm. Free. Brookhaven College, Bldg H, Geotechnology Institute, 3939 Valley View Ln, Farmers Branch. DallasSierraClub.org.

Summer Saturdays: Pollinators – 10-11am. Celebrate Pollinator Week with us and our friends from the Perot Museum. Learn about bugs and the plants they need to survive. Trinity River Audubon Center, 6500 Great Trinity Forest Way, Dallas. Registration required: TrinityRiver. Audubon.org.

TUESDAY, JUNE 21 Webinar: Planting Seeds to Growing Profits: Dallas Half Acre Farms – 12-1pm. Owner and operator Michael Blell built Dallas Half Acre Farms to fill the high demand for fresh, local,

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sunday Carrollton Runners Club Mile + 5K – 7:30am. A low-key 5K and 1-mile race every last Sun. McInnish Park, 2335 Sandy Lake Rd, Carrollton. CarrolltonRunners.com. Sunday Service/Meditation and Purification – 9-11:30am. Participate in meditation, chanting and readings from the Bible and Bhagavad Gita. 9-9:45am, Meditation and Purification; 1011:30am, Service. Ananda Dallas Meditation & Yoga Center, 4901 Keller Springs Rd, Ste 103, Addison. 972-248-9126. AnandaDallas.org. Vegan Sunday Brunch at Spiral Diner – 9am3pm. Vegan diner and bakery since 2002. Sunday brunch features vegan pancakes, tofu scramble, breakfast quesadillas and organic mimosas. 1314 W Magnolia Ave, Fort Worth & 1101 N Beckley, Dallas. SpiralDiner.com.

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Gentle Waves – 9:15-10:15am. A healing meditative practice that moves very slow and intentional. Gaia Flow Yoga, 3000 Blackburn St, Ste 140B, Dallas. Register: GaiaFlowYoga.com. Dynamic Meditation – 10-11am. One of the active meditations compiled by Osho. Breath, jump, scream and shout, let it all go, then be in the bliss of silence and stillness. Cosmic Cafe, 2912 Oak Lawn Ave, Dallas. 214-521-6157. CosmicCafeDallas.com.

offering. Unity on Greenville, 3425 Greenville Ave, Dallas. 214-826-5683. DallasUnity.org. Greater Dallas Organic Garden Club – 2:30pm. 4th Sun (Jan-Sept). Each meeting includes a special speaker presentation covering many topics of interest to local gardeners. Free. North Haven Gardens, 7700 Northaven Rd, Dallas. 214-363-5316. gdogc.org. Sunday Meditation – 3:15-4:15pm. With Lynne Patterson. Class offers many meditation techniques and styles, with a focus on mindfulness and open awareness. $10. Yoga Mart, 2201 Tucker St, Ste 101, Dallas. 214-238-2433. DallasMeditates.com. Chakra Sound Meditation – 5-6:30pm. Includes chakra sounds and breathing techniques. Cosmic Cafe, 2912 Oak Lawn Ave, Dallas. 214521-6157. CosmicCafeDallas.com.

Celebration Service Live – 11am. Meditation, music and lessons on YouTube live: Unity on Greenville Dallas, TX or Cutt.ly/2tzQx4i. Love

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Hot Yoga 201 on Zoom – 6:15pm. Open to all levels. This flowing-style class links the fundamental asanas (poses) of yoga linking body, mind and breath with music. Yoga4Love Studio Cabin, Ovilla. Yoga4Love.com.

Online: Zen to Go – 12-12:45pm. Mon-Thurs. An oasis in the middle of the day offering walking and sitting meditation followed by brief sharing. Donation accepted. Dallas Meditation Center, 810 We Arapaho Rd, Ste 98, Richardson. 972-432-7871. DallasMeditationCenter.com. Hatha Yoga – 7-8pm. A gentle hatha yoga geared for all ages and levels with a special focus on breathing, meditation and a specific intention each sequence. Cosmic Cafe, 2912 Oak Lawn Dr, Dallas. 214-521-6157. CosmicCafeDallas.com.

Online: Meditation for Everyone – 7-8:30pm. Classes are great for beginners that want to learn to meditate and great for more experienced meditators that want to expand their meditation. Must register: MeditationInTexas.org. Online: Metaphysics and Meditation – 7-8:30pm. Manifestation and mysticism: 2 sides of the spiritual coin. Let us practice together, while diving more deeply into universal principles and spiritual living. Open to all. Free. A Center for Spiritual Living, 4801 Spring Valley Rd, Ste 115, Dallas. 972-866-9988. CSLDallas.org.

thursday Meditation Mondays via Zoom – 7-8pm. Meditation Mondays focuses on the practice and the experience of various forms of meditation. Free. Unity of Dallas, 6525 Forest Ln, Dallas. 972-233-7106. UnityDallas.org.

tuesday Daily Harvest – 10-10:30am. Also Thurs. Join our horticulture team as they harvest fresh and seasonal produce in the garden. Included with garden admission or membership. Dallas Arboretum, 8525 Garland Rd, Dallas. Details: DallasArboretum.org.

Online: Ananda Yoga Sadhana Practice – 5:15-7:30pm. Also Thurs. Time to recalibrate and center through this transformational practice based on the yoga teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda. Ananda Dallas Meditation & Yoga Center, 4901 Keller Springs Rd, Ste 103, Addison. 972-248-9126. AnandaDallas.org. YES: A Young Adults Meditation Fellowship – 7-9pm. A meditation series for young adults in their 20s and 30s. Each evening will include a beginner-friendly walking and sitting meditation, Dharma teachings and refreshments afterwards. Donation. Dallas Meditation Center, 810 W Arapaho Rd, Ste 98, Richardson. 972-432-7871. DallasMeditationCenter.com.

Morning Tai Chi – 8:30am. Join Tai Chi Chuan instructor George Deerfield for this interactive class in developing strength, balance, improved breathing. Unity of Dallas, 6525 Forest Ln, Dallas. UnityDallas.org.

Second Saturday Guided Hike – 8:30-9:30am. Learn about our surrounding habitat while you enjoy a hike. All ages. Trinity River Audubon Center, 6500 Great Trinity Forest Way, Dallas. Registration required: TrinityRiver.Audubon.org. Pregnancy, Childbirth, Postpartum and Baby Classes – 6-7pm. Classes are held virtually online lead by our top AID instructors utilizing state of the art visual aids and activities to keep it fun and engaging while presenting the latest evidenced based material on each topic. $35/ class. Childbirth-Classes.com.

ImpactNights – More info: Inclusive-Economy. org/impactnights. Online: Celebrate Recovery – 6:30pm. A safe community to find support, hope and freedom from the struggles and realities that we all face through transitions, hurt, pain, loss or addiction of any kind. Free. First United Methodist Church, 777 N Walnut Creek Dr, Mansfield. FirstMethodistMansfield.org. Dallas Vegan Drinks – 6:30pm. Meets the 2nd Thurs each month at various veg-friendly locations for fellowship. Currently postponed. Facebook.com/DallasVeganDrinks.

friday Online: Friday Meditation Happy Hours – 5:30-6:15pm. Sessions begin every hour. Release stress with breath and gentle movements as you withdraw from the external and begin the journey within 15-min guided meditation. $10/session. DallasMeditates.com.

saturday Coppell Farmers Market – 8am-12pm. Yearround market. 768 W Main St, Coppell. Coppell FarmersMarket.org.

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calendar of events WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1 Wildlife Friendly Landscapes Class – 6-8pm. Learn ways to attract and provide habitat for butterflies, songbirds, hummingbirds, bees and other beneficial animals that bring your landscape to life with activity. Free. Environmental Education Center, 4116 W Plano Pkwy. Register: LiveGreenInPlano.obsres.com.

LLELA’s nature trails. Ages 10 & up. $5/vehicle. Lewisville Lake Environmental Learning Area, 201 E Jones St, Lewisville. Registration required: 972-219-3550 or llela.org. Ecology Walk – 9-10:30am. Local naturalist, Dr. Ray Chancellor, will focus on the flora and fauna that can be found throughout the BJNCP trails. Binoculars are a great way to enhance this class but are not required. Bob Jones Nature Center & Preserve, 355 E Bob Jones Rd, Southlake. Register: ExperienceSouthlakeTexas.com.

SUNDAY, JUNE 12 Meet the Meadow Introductory Trail Walk – 3-4pm. An introductory trail walk which is appropriate for families and those new to The Meadow. Led by Texas Master Naturalists and Meadow Volunteers. Free. Details: Connemara Conservancy.org.

SATURDAY, JUNE 4 Meadow Bird Walk – 7:30-9:30am. Birders of all skill levels welcome. A variety of birding habitats explored, and an excellent cross section of North Texas bird species can be counted. Free. Connemara Meadow Nature Preserve, South gated entrance, behind intersection of Bass & Roberta drs, Plano. ConnemaraConservancy.org. Date Night at the Heard – 6:30-9:30pm. Featuring live music and dancing in our outdoor amphitheater, a cash bar, tasty food trucks and more. Ages 21+. $20/person. Heard Natural Science Museum & Wildlife Sanctuary, 1 Nature Pl, McKinney. 972-562-5566. HeardMuseum.org.

MONDAY, JUNE 6 Meet the Meadow Introductory Trail Walk – 10-11am. An introductory trail walk which is appropriate for families and those new to The Meadow. Led by Texas Master Naturalists and Meadow Volunteers. Free. Details: Connemara Conservancy.org.

Eco-Friendly Shopping – 12-1:30pm, webinar; 6:30-8pm, in-person. Learn how to improve your eco-friendly shopping habits, drastically reduce your carbon footprint, food waste and decrease your grocery bill. Register: LiveGreenInPlano. obsres.com.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15 Online: Plant Party: Medicinal and Edible Plants – 10-11:30am. A joint project of AgriLife, TPWD, and USDA. It consists of 5 short talks and is free. See the flyer below for information about the specific topics. Register: Tinyurl.com/ mr3u6npb.

THURSDAY, JUNE 16 Lawn Care – 6-8pm. Revitalize your turf with a simple, effective approach to lawn maintenance. Register: Tinyurl.com/yrnx8fdp.

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Tour: Republic Services Recycling Center – 10:30-11:30am. Find out about how the City of Plano’s recycling partner, Republic Services, processes your recyclables for the recycling market. See the facility in action. Republic Services, 4200 14th St, Plano. Register: LiveGreenInPlano.obsres.com.

Zip Line Day – 9am-12pm. Guests climb a 23-ft tree to our zip platform then proceed to a 487-ft Zip line. Purchase one ticket ($12 each) for each time you would like to travel down the zip line. Pre-registration required. Heard Natural Science Museum & Wildlife Sanctuary, 1 Nature Pl, McKinney. 972-562-5566. HeardMuseum.org.

SUNDAY, JUNE 19 Nature Walk – 9-10:30am. Sights of plants and wildlife, smells of fresh air and trees, the sounds of birds and the blowing breeze. Free. Thrive Nature Park, 1951 S Valley Pkwy, Lewisville. Registration required: CityOfLewisville.com.

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daily Native Texas Butterfly House & Garden – June 4-Oct 2. 9am-5pm. Walk among free-flying native butterflies and other pollinators. Heard Natural Science Museum & Wildlife Sanctuary, 1 Nature Pl, McKinney. 972-562-5566. For dates: HeardMuseum.org. Grapevine Farmers Market – 9am-6pm, Sun; 8am-8pm, Mon-Sat. Eat healthy with locally-grown produce and products. 520 S Main St, Ste 203, Grapevine. 817-527-7446. FarmersMar ketOfGrapevine.com.

unique dining experience. Craft & Vine, 310 S Oak St, Roanoke. 817-464-8181. CraftAndVine. Restaurant. Horizon UU Worship Service – 10:30am12pm. Horizon Unitarian Universalist Church, 1641 W Hebron Pkwy, Carrollton. 972-4924940. Horizonuu.org.

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Dairy Farm Tours – Mon-Sat, by appt only. Experience life on a dairy farm with an educational tour including how and what cows are fed, the benefits of grass-crop based feed (silage), the milking parlor, bottle feeding baby calves along with the learning the benefits of drinking raw milk vs pasteurized milk. Everyone gets samples of milk. $7/person age 2 & up. Circle N Dairy, 2074 County Road 446, Gainesville. 940-372-0343. CircleNDairy.com.

Star Coyote Events – Monthly events include gong, Tibetan bowl and crystal bowl sound journeys, shamanic journey with a drum dance, kid’s energy and creativity events, and a Wed morning class series. Please see the calendar at StarCoyoteSoundTemple.com for the exact dates and times as they change each month or call 469-344-6484.

sunday Frisco Fresh Market – 10am-4pm. Also Sat, 8am-4pm. Frisco Fresh Market, 9215 John W Elliott Dr, Frisco. 844-776-2753. FriscoFreshMarket.com. Sunday Celebration Service Agape Center for Spiritual Living – 10am, meditation; 10:30am, service. Noah’s Event Venue, 5280 Town Square Dr, Plano. Rev Lee Wolak: 972-468-1331. AgapeSpiritualCenter.com. Sunday Worship: Unity Spiritual Center of Denton Service – 10am, coffee; 11am, service. Unity takes spiritual principles and makes them practical in your life. 6071 New Hope Rd, Krugerville. 214-453-0218. UnityOfNewHope.org.

Sunday Brunch –10am-3pm. Serves up farmto-table shared plates, 72 taps (wine & craft beer), and a welcoming atmosphere to create a

tuesday Buddhist Sangha Online – 7-9pm. The meeting of Horizon’s Buddhist covenant group. Meditation and study of the 8-Fold Path. Horizon Unitarian Universalist Church: Horizonuu.org.

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saturday 2nd Saturday Bird Walk – Sept-June. 8-9:30am. Helps beginning and intermediate birders with bird spotting and identification techniques. Included in general admission; free/ Heard Museum members. Heard Natural Science Museum & Wildlife Sanctuary, 1 Nature Pl, McKinney. 972-562-5566. HeardMuseum.org. Frisco Rotary Farmers Market – Thru Oct. 8am-1pm or sellout. Local growers offer fruits and vegetables. Also offered are baked breads, meat from local ranchers, honey, arts and crafts and various other products. 4th St between Main & Elm, Frisco. FriscoRotaryFarmersMarket.com.

1st Saturday Nature Walks – 10am-12pm. Monthly naturalist-led nature walk. Each season at LLELA is different, and we never know what we’ll find. All ages. $5/vehicle. Lewisville Lake Environmental Learning Area, 201 E Jones St, Lewisville. Registration required: 972-219-3550 or llela.org. Blackland Prairie Raptor Center First Saturdays – 10am-2pm. Meet raptors up-close. Take guided prairie hikes. Kids activities. Bring a picnic lunch. Blackland Prairie Raptor Center, 1625 Brockdale Park Rd, Lucas. Erich Neupert: 972-442-7607. BPRaptorCenter.org.

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KOZLOW & ROWELL

7700 Northaven Rd, Dallas 214-363-5316 NHG.com

Serving Dallas since 1951, NHG has grown into one of the most respected horticultural Start establishments Your Victory Garden in North Texas by serving our cusfor a Lifetime of Health tomers with quality & andWellness value. Offering gardening and plant education, concierge services, DIY classes, video library, gifts and more. See ad, back cover.

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Broccoli by seed (IN)

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Black Eyed Peas by seed (O)

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Swiss Chard by seed (IN)

Yellow Bush Beans by seed (O)

Zucchini Squash by seed (O)

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PRIMACARE

13 Locations in Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex 888-286-4603 PrimaCare.com With 13 Urgent Care Centers, PrimaCare serves the medical needs of area families with courtesy, convenience and compassion. Open 7 days a week with extended hours. No appointment necessary. Most insurance accepted. Use our Call Ahead Service and wait where your want. Open: Monday– Friday 8am-8pm, Saturday–Sunday 8am–5pm.

HOLISTIC DENTISTRY FLOURISH DENTAL BOUTIQUE Dr. Toni Engram 415 State St #800, Richardson 75082 469-676-2777 Flourish.dental

At Flourish Dental Boutique, we believe the best dentistry is often the least dentistry. We help your body thrive on its own with therapies that enrich and empower its natural healing processes. As a holistic and biological dental practice, we choose safe materials and treatment protocols with special attention to your nutrition and overall wellness. See ad, page 5.

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We strive to provide healthy, green alternatives for our dental patients by providing digital x-rays, mercury safe restorative options and chemical free dental hygiene products. Committed to total body wellness while avoiding the use of toxic materials, and continuing education to ensure treatments are up to date and effective in a kind and caring environment. See ad, page 41.

LYNN DENTAL CARE

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Dr. Philip Kozlow Dr. Josh Rowell 5050 Quorum Dr, Suite 300, Dallas 972-458-2464 DallasDentist.net

Dr. D. Brock Lynn 6190 LBJ Freeway #900, Dallas 972-934-1400 LynnDentalCare.com Practicing dentistry for over 38 years, specializing in periodontics, Dr. Lynn is board-certified and a diplomate of the American Board of Periodontics and Dental implants. He practices dentistry with a holistic approach and is a member of the International Academy of Oral Medicine &Toxicology as well as the American Academy for Oral Systemic Health. See ad, page 2.

SMILE UP DENTISTRY

Dr. Sonya Reddy 3000 FM 307, #300, Bartonville 940-301-0947 SmileUpDentistry.com

HOLISTIC NURSING ADVANCING HOLISTIC HEALTH HOLISTIC NURSING CERTIFICATION 254-751-7111 AdvancingHolisticHealth.com

The premier school of nurse coaching, offering the cutting edge of health care through the Resilience Paradigm. AHH is a nurse coaching program that meets the continuing education requirements for nurses to apply for national or international certification in nurse coaching and/ or holistic nursing through the American Holistic Nurses Certification Corporation. See ad, page 37.

HOMEOPATHY HEALTHY HEALING ARTS/HPWWC Cathy Lemmon 469-383-8442 Cathy@HPWWC.org HealthyHealingArts.com

Homeoprophylaxis (HP), a part of Homeopathy, is a major part of Cathy Lemmon’s practice at Healthy Healing Arts. HP has been used worldwide for hundreds of years with a success rate of over 90% to help fight off disease. Lemmon uses an energetic, nontoxic means of promoting immunity in a safe and natural way. See ad, page 12.

INTEGRATIVE MEDICAL ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH CENTER DALLAS

Dr.Reddy believes oral health leads to overall health and function has to coincide with form. With 15 years of experience, providing quality and compassionate care for whole family. Dr.Reddy is an expert in sleep, apnea, implant and orthodontic care along with regular checkups and cleanings. We provide Smart protocol in removing toxic silver fillings. See ad, page 15.

Dr. Elizabeth Seymour, MD 399 Melrose Dr., Suite A, Richardson 214-368-4132 EHCD.COM A nationally recognized medical facility specializing in the relationship of health and disease to environmental factors. Thorough investigation is made to determine the cause and correlation of the patent’s disease process to environmental factors. A leader in the field treating mold exposure/sensitivity; oil spill, pesticides and chemical exposure; chemical sensitivities, immune dysregulation and much more. See ad, page 11.

TMJ PLUS WELLNESS CENTER

TENNANT INSTITUTE FOR INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE

Dr. Becky Coats, DDS, MAGD, LVIF, FIDIA, FAACP 2631 Ira E Woods Ave, Grapevine 817-481-6888 TMJPlus.com Instead of focusing just on your teeth, we also look at dental issues connected with other health problems you may be having. We collaborate with Thermography, Lymphatic Drainage, and Osteopathic Medicine practitioners. Call today for TMJ Pain Relief, Sleep Apnea, Frenuloplasty(Tongue Tie), Biological Dentistry, Physiologic Orthodontics, Headache Relief, Mercury Fillings Removal, Metal Free Ceramic Implants.

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Dr. Jerry Tennant MD, Medical Director 35 Veranda Lane, Ste 100, Colleyville 972-580-1156 TennantInstitute.us Providing traditional “standard-ofcare” medicine using prescription as well as complementary medicine. Recognizing that the human body is not simply a collection of independent parts but rather an integrative whole -we treat it that way. Conditions treated include chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, macular degeneration and glaucoma, as well as thyroid support, adrenal support, hormone replacement. essential oil therapy and hyperbaric oxygen therapy. See ad, page 50.

NUTRITIONAL WELLNESS BACK2BASICS FUNCTIONAL NUTRITION BY NITI

Niti Shah, PT, MS, CNS, LDN 3365 Regent Blvd., Ste 130, Irving TX 75063 972-514-7956 Back2BasicsFXN.com Chronic diseases like obesity, diabetes, heart disease, autoimmunity have reached pandemic levels. My goal is to shift attention away from suppressing symptoms with drugs—to addressing the root cause of conditions with nutrition, supplementation, lifestyle change. As a Board-certified Clinical Nutritionist, I will show you the transformative power of a back to basics approach.

PAIN MANAGEMENT SENERGY MEDICAL GROUP

9901 Valley Ranch Pkwy East, Ste 1009 Irving 972-580-0545 Biomodulator@senergy.us Senergy.us We are the exclusive distributor of the patented Tennant Biomodulator® PLUS & PRO. These FDA accepted non-invasive devices are designed to offer an affordable, drug free, user-friendly option for the indicated use of symptomatic relief for chronic, severe or intractable pain; and adjunctive treatment in managing post-surgical and post-traumatic pain. See ad, page 50.

PHARMACY ABRAMS ROYAL COMPOUNDING PHARMACY 8220 Abrams Rd, Dallas 214-349-8000 4904 W. Park Blvd, Plano 972-599-7700 ARP-RX.com

Family owned and operated since 1980, with more than 135 years of combined experience. Our pharmacists work to provide proactive solutions to restore health and wellness. We work as trusted partners with physicians and patients to develop targeted treatment plans and customized wellness programs for your unique needs. Pharmacy Compounding. Accreditation Board (PACB) certified.

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Offering state of the art ozone therapy to clean your body inside and out, to refuel your body with clean oxygen to help build your immune system. Other wellness services offered include: Beauty Angel, Detoxification, Curewave laser therapy, IV therapy and supplements, much more. Call today for your $20 ozone treatment.

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As Celebration continues to serve delicious, affordable and locally sourced food, we want to thank our friends and customers for your loving and loyal support!

CONCORD DALLAS CHURCH 6808 Pastor Bailey Dr, Dallas 214-331-8522 ConcordDallas.tv

Concord Dallas is the church that grows people. Their core values are passion for Christ, passion for people and catalyst for change. Services are Sundays at 8:00am, 10:00am, 12:00pm and online at Streamingfaith.com. Mid-week service is Wednesdays at 7:00pm. Reverend Bryan L. Carter, Senior Pastor.

“Our goal is to offer our community high-quality wellness services in an exceptionally comfortable and healing environment. We know that time-honored healing traditions-Massage, Young Living Raindrop Therapy, Chiropractic, iV therapy, Juicing and Colonics work. RCW offers all of these things, come visit us and begin your journey to optimum wellness.

YOGA UNITY CHURCH OF SACHSE

CRESCENT YOGA STUDIO & ECO-BOUTIQUE

5502 Ben Davis, Sachse 972-984-8946 UnityOfSachse@gmail.com UnityOfSachse.com

We teach positive psychology based on Spiritual teachings of Jesus. Services are held Sundays at 11:30am. Join us as we share truths and principles to help along your spiritual journey. Each week’s message and all events are posted on our website for your convenience. Spiritual counseling and positive prayer available.

Dawn Harris, RYT500 306 W Ave F, Midlothian 214-817-8597 CrescentYogaStudio.com

Ellis county’s premier yoga studio and eco-boutique offers a variety of weekly classes, specialty workshops, private yoga and reiki sessions as well as natural health and wellness events. Come feel your stress and tensions away. New student intro offer: 2 weeks unlimited Yoga for $20. Empowering a healthy lifestyle.

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Natural Awakenings Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex JUN22 Edition

Articles inside

FRANK BRUNI

PLANET-FRIENDLY POURS

THE GIFT OF AN IMPERFECT FATHER

THE HEALING OF THE MODERN MAN

THE EXERCISE POWER OF E-BIKES

GREEN, HEALTHY AND SUSTAINABLE IN MCKINNEY

ECO-TRIPPING AROUND DALLAS

UNPLUGGED ADVENTURES

HEALING TRAUMA