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New York Cares Coat Drive Launches Early
With New York City’s homelessness and unemployment as high as they’ve been since the Great Depression, the New York Cares Coat Drive—one of the city’s largest and most cherished charitable winter traditions— has taken on special significance this year. In fact New York Cares has launched its 2020 drive early, to get coats distributed as quickly as possible to nonprofits, schools and communities most impacted by COVID-19. Every $20 donation to the drive buys a new coat for a New Yorker in need. The goal is to ensure that no one has to skip a meal to buy a winter coat, no parent is forced to choose between buying school supplies and staying warm, and no essential worker has to commute without a warm coat on their back. The program has distributed more than 2 million coats over the past 31 years. “I’ve always donated,” says one program volunteer. “I was raised on donations. Thrift stores carried my family through tough times. I’m not rich, but I’m happy. And if I can make someone else happy then I’m coming full circle.” The need for basic assistance in New York has been dire since spring. Between March and April 2020, the unemployment rate in the city more than tripled, from 4.1 percent to 14.2. The number of public assistance recipients in the city rose nearly 16 percent between February and June, and the number of residents enrolled in the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) increased by 12.5 percent during that period. To contribute or more information, visit NewYorkCare.org/coats. See ad, page 35.
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November 2020 | New York City – Long Island
Blue Star Biofeedback Mind-Body Technique Can Boost Overall Wellness
Most health and wellness practitioners have to rely on anonymous case studies when recommending a certain therapy or treatment. Lisa Doyle-Mitchell, owner of Blue Star Biofeedback, can speak from her own experience with the mind-body technique that is her professional specialty. “Biofeedback was one of the tools I chose to be part of my personal recovery through multiple sclerosis,” Doyle-Mitchell says. “It brought a voice to my subconscious as to the underlying cause of this bump in my road, which led me to a breakthrough. . . . I continue to use biofeedback to maintain my well-being to this day.” Nikola Tesla once wrote, “If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.” These concepts hold the secrets to health and healing too, Doyle-Mitchell says. Our entire body continually vibrates at a subtle level, moving energy and information through our connective tissues. As a certified biofeedback specialist, DoyleMitchell uses the L.I.F.E. Biofeedback System, which scans nearly 7,000 energy patterns. By identifying which energy vibrations are out of balance, she says, the system can put them back into harmonic balance, allowing the body to return to a state of resonance. She says she’s found that people are generally “ready, willing and able” to step out of their comfort zone to address and take on the underlying cause of their situation and be free from all that is holding them back. “I believe that when we shift our perception to asking, ‘What is the gift and lesson of this experience I’ve been hit with?’ we open ourselves to less resistance energetically, uncovering a solution and in turn producing results,” she says. Currently Blue Star Biofeedback is offering six biofeedback/coaching sessions for $495, a 40 percent savings.
For more information, contact Lisa Doyle-Mitchell at 239-851-4729 or visit BlueStarBiofeedback.com. See ad, page 19.
