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Paleo Cinnamon Roll Cake
Paleo Cinnamon rolls aren’t the easiest thing going … if you’ve ever tried to make them.
{I’ve had a few fails myself!}
They’re dense. Hard to roll. Easy to fall apart.
I still make them though, because they TASTE great… and that’s what matters, right? Not how things LOOK?
But then I saw this recipe for a regular version of cinnamon roll cake. I though… hmmm… I bet I could make that Paleo?
And I did!
It was way easier than paleo cinnamon rolls and family loved it. I think you would even SKIP the glaze sauce… and obviously this is a special treat, because it’s pretty sugar loaded. BUT, considering what a regular cinnamon roll would be – this is a much better option.
PALEO CINNAMON ROLL CAKE
Cake:
1 cup coconut palm sugar
4 tsp. baking powder
1 1/2 cups canned coconut milk
3 eggs
2 tsp. vanilla
1/2 cup of coconut butter
1 cup of almond flour
1 cup of arrowroot flour
1/2 cup of coconut flour
Topping:
1/2 cup of coconut oil or coconut butter
1/2 cup of coconut sugar
2 T. coconut flour
1 T. cinnamon
Optional:
Top with 1/4 cup diced pecans after you swirl cake and topping.
Mix everything for the cake. Pour into 9×13 baking dish. Drop topping evenly over batter and swirl with knife. Bake at 350 for 30 minutes. When cooled, (if desired) top with glaze before serving.
Glaze:
1/2 cup of honey
1/2 cup of coconut butter
5 T canned coconut milk
1 tsp. vanilla
“Be still, and know that I am God.
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth!”
The Lord of hosts is with us;
the God of Jacob is our fortress.”
Psalm 46:10-11
The Power Of Words
When the song WORN came out… it immediately spoke to me.
Life wouldn’t let up, and I didn’t know where to turn. Medical doctors didn’t have answers – and I just kept getting sicker and sicker.
I had a good bawling session, {pretty much every time I heard it.}
I WAS worn.
The work it took to breathe sometimes – it was crushing. Feeling crushed by the weight of the world – and the struggle of that crying out to feel like no one is hearing you. It’s a nightmare.
If you knew you could get beyond where you are, it would make the fight seem doable. Unfortunately, when you don’t know IF or when the situation is going to end on earth… it’s normal to feel weak with defeat.
I’m one who always said to just have a positive attitude, and put a smile on – even if you were literally dying inside. Mind over matter always worked when it came to exercise… but for me – this health nightmare was different, my struggle was beyond that. I couldn’t fake the fear I had of knowing something was wrong, but no one could tell me what.
But there are times, when God lets us struggle… and it can be SUCH an empty, helpless, and alone feeling when you don’t know where the other side is. I compared it to a coma of sorts. You hear what is going on around you – but no one knows you’re “in there” – but are trapped, and you need out.
If only someone would listen.
Now that I’m on the upside of the worst year of my life – I realize how much continuing to fake it and stay after it – is what allowed me to stay alive, and fight. Staying in God’s word, continuing to move my body and having a good attitude is key.
My lowest point was in Nov. when my endocrinologist specialist was out of ideas, and told me I’d have to wait 2 more months for yet… another specialists to run more tests.
It was my God’s grace that He kept putting info and people in my path to help me, and I kept searching to keep the HOPE alive! When we give up hope… it’s detrimental to our health.
My Hope led me to a nautropath – who was able to turn this train around… and it was exactly what I needed at a time I was ready to throw in the towel because I was tired. I was worn.
Physical stress on our bodies makes us sick – but holding negative, emotional stress in, is also TOXIC to our immune system.
Inflammation is what causes cancer, and we all have cancer cells within our body. It’s no surprise then that feeling “hopeless” and sick CAN in fact make you more susceptible to cancer taking over in your body, and letting your auto immune disease or sickness rule your body and life.
My mom always said when she had cancer, she received her chemo as a miracle – as an opportunity at life. Three shots she would get weekly – in her arm, in her stomach, and in her leg. These burning shots left welts the size of a baseball under her skin… With every statistic against her, she survived her cancer, and a stem cell transplant 3 years ago. God is good – and it’s another example of why staying positive is so important!
My Gerson Therapy book had some GREAT positive talk ideas if you are struggling. It would be good to write these out to yourself – in the present tense – creating positive affirmation towards health! Don’t be fake about it – but be positive!
– Every day in every way I am getting better, better, and better.
– I am healthy and beautiful/handsome.
– I am whole and complete in the Lord.
– I give thanks To God for my life of health and happiness.
– I am happy to be alive, and anticipate what the future brings!
– I love and appreciate myself just as God created me.
– I am conquering illness because the treatment is working.
If you are struggling with auto immune disease, or chronic illness – I highly recommend trying a revised Paleo diet for at least a month to see if it helps you. At a minimum get gluten and dairy out of your diet. You’d be amazed at what a SMALL amount of gluten can do to people with the HLA-genotype. From GI issues to joint issues, to major neurologic issues. If left untreated – it will continue to worsen and break your body down. Don’t wait for that to happen. Be proactive and do what you CAN do. Eat to LIVE.
You are worth it. God says so.
“He who refreshes others will himself be refreshed.”
Proverbs 11:25
Under The Influence…

Stocked up with all of our new favorites from Trader Joes. Love the tea tree tingle shower wash and my new favorite is the stir-fry frozen veggie mix!
My husband made it home last week, with a slight deviation from where he should have landed. Regardless, he was happy to be home! We picked up his vehicle (2 hours away) a few days later.
An excuse to go to “the city” and refill our food stock was in the plan… as was a trip to Chick-fil-a for the kids.
I know, fast food isn’t good for us. It doesn’t matter if it’s salad, and fruit… and the waffle fries… wow. They’re really good. Chick-fil-a is usually really great about not cross contaminating our food.
I usually order a salad, but because I can’t have dairy – they custom make it, from scratch.
Well, my salad was brought to me and it was the wrong salad. No big deal, they would get the right one.
Then they brought me the right salad type, but with cheese… again I reminded the server (who appeared to be management on duty, though I had never seen him at this one before), and he said, “No problem”.
What my sons heard him say, and what I missed him saying was…”We’ll just take that cheese off of there.”
BIG mistake.
I’m not sure who made this salad, or who took the cheese off – but I got glutenated in a big way.
Unfortunately I also had to drive home as the increasingly debilitating effects kicked in.
First we had to drive to the airport – and I fell asleep on the way there. It’s never a good sign you fall asleep immediately after a meal…
I took some tumeric when we got to the airport – this usually helps me, but the “slight dusting” seemed to have the head shaking qualities of a major effect… I was ready to drive.
Things went from bad to worse pretty rapidly, and I focused on staying awake, and being able to see.
Haloing of the headlights coming towards me, headache and eye swelling were among the first effects. I was just. so sleepy.
I turned my AC down… and then again… and then again. I was holding steady at 63 degrees in the car, and lots of talking to my kids to keep me on task.
I shook my head a lot in desperate attempt to refocus and stay awake.
After 2 hours we arrived at home and I just hurt everywhere.
The joint pain, brain fog and eye swelling pain continues 4 days later, although I know it’s getting better. My digestive system completely stopped working as if someone poured cement into my stomach.
I countered this with fresh juices, warm Braggs and lemon water, spinach smoothies and Kombucha. I needed this out of my system – as I could tell it wasn’t moving on its own!
How soon do you think I’ll be eating at Chick-fil-a again? This is why eating out can be so dangerous.
This server’s “quick fix” made my body drop down a few notches.
I know. I shouldn’t have been driving in that condition.
I knew we needed our vehicle home – and I had 2 children with me. My husband, in our big van, had the other 6. Options were nonexistent and I knew freaking anyone out wasn’t going to get us home faster.
I was more than upset when we returned home, and emotionally exhausted. Everything hurt.
Frustrated with the server, with people who “forget” that this is a major issue… not a fad. For my body – which is at this point, can have reactions like that, which last like they do.
In my quiet time with God that night … He spoke to me with a reminder that MY inadequacy presents me with a continual choice – to depend on Him, or live in despair.
I choose to depend on Him.
A grateful heart is what protects us from negative thinking. I need to be thankful for this opportunity for constant dependence on God, and His plans in all things.
I have to keep doing all I can to share with others, who are willing to listen, why gluten is so dangerous and why protecting the health for your gut is essential!
Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful.
Colossians 4:2
Just Say No!

Here is my mid-morning and mid-afternoon line up of supplements. These don’t include my daily or before bed vitamins. Are they hard to take? No. I feel like I’m giving my body a treat. “Rebuild body! Go!” About 15 minutes after I take them, I feel this calm come over my body.
You remember that unforgettable slogan from the 80s that Mrs. Reagan birthed?
It was simple, to the point…
Unfortunately, statistically experts showed that it didn’t work. Drugs and alcohol consumption continued to increase – and prescription drug abuse became mainstream in many schools.
Apparently just saying NO wasn’t as easy of a reply when drugs were being offered.
Currently, we live in a society that there seems to be a magic pills for every ailment, and every disease has its drug of choice to make your body “work” again.
The cure?
Often times these medications can help people, in some areas, for some time. The downside to these pills is they often also have lasting effects that are equally as harmful. While, often patients are simply following what their doctors orders are, assuming that their doctor is looking out for their best interest – in a sense – they’re letting go of responsibility when being under-educated in the matter.
Honestly it seems that unless you have a debilitating illness with no cure, or something like cancer – most people don’t take their diagnosis serious enough to make the necessary dietary changes to be well. We often blame our genes for our biological predisposition to things, instead of owning how WE contribute to the demise of our health.
{Gluten-light, or cutting out “most” gluten – doesn’t cut it. It just doesn’t. The issues it causes are systemic. You may never feel them in your gut.}
Take for instance, if your doctor tells you that you have high blood pressure – and that by changing your diet 100% of the time, you could avoid medication… and reverse the effects… You might laugh, and call him a quack. Insurance doesn’t cover you to eat mainly live foods, and it’s not easy to watch your sodium intake. Maybe you don’t want to change the type of stress you hold in – because you have the attitude that something is going to kill us all, being so aware of our foods and toxins is a waste of time?
Essentially – you’d rather hand over your responsibility of your health care – to someone else and call it good.
That’s totally your call.
But for me, my wake up call this year was this:
The most important decision maker … was ME.
I had the right to refuse whatever it was they were selling. I had the right to refuse to see a specialist, or test.
I needed to JUST. SAY. NO.
I didn’t need to allow them to make me feel like I was wrong – when no one knew my body and what was going on – more than me.
So as my appointments drug on, and I began to think about what my END to my means really was, I realized that most of the books and studies I read said they would start me on a steroid or another prescription called Plaquenil.
As I prayed one night just crying out to God… WHAT should I do? Did I really want to be on a drug to function for the rest of my life? Was THAT going to get to the root of my problems? Would it be ignorant to NOT take the prescriptions offered?
The answer for me… was NO!
I had looked through the drug options. I knew my symptoms None of them seemed like a great road. Several auto immune disease drugs induce lupus because they were enzyme inhibitors. (Ironically, I’m already having those issues – thanks to my leaky gut issues – lacking enzymes and essential amino acids leads to lack of proper function and auto immune diseases) They told me I didn’t have lupus (at this point), why on earth would I want to risk that?
I didn’t.
I wouldn’t.
I was done!
Suddenly, I didn’t really care WHAT I had was called. I didn’t need a name for my “connective tissue disorder” – as I felt I already knew where my body was heading, blood test proof or not. My ANA titre knew, I could feel it – and I decided to make the LEAP to take my life back before they slapped me on the back with telling me what my life was going to be like for the next 40-50 years, if that.
Since then, I have read countless of encouraging stories of others with multiple auto immune diseases also… stepping out in faith, and trying a GAPS diet, or a Paleo diet, or an Auto-Immune Protocol diet… and feeling their way though what foods made them sick – and saying NO to drugs. Many have been on multiple scripts for years and now feel better than ever!
Personally, for me, the naturopath was the easiest and quickest way to get me turned around – but depending on where you are in your body’s destruction from food and toxins – maybe the elimination process works for you. You know pretty quickly when foods don’t like you. The problems can occur when it takes several days for the effects to build up or take hold – and by then you may have added in another new food. It’s much trickier than I imagined.
Just this past week I learned another valuable lesson. I started a new organic vitamin from Rainbow Light. It’s a vegan vitamin, in all other ways it was safe for me to take. In all other ways, means – within a few days of starting it – all of my chronic fatigue symptoms started back in. I felt like I was going crazy with brain fog and confusion.
It was my mid-cycle and I was tired, and grouchy and unmotivated. By day 4 my eye was swelling again and it hurt. I didn’t know if it was a combination of my hormonal shift and the vitamins, or what was going on… things were back sliding quickly and I began feeling frustrated after feeling unstoppable for several weeks.
I immediately removed the new vitamin from my daily intake, and went back to my safe, tried-and-true Juice Plus. Chronic fatigue again disappeared. I called Dr. K and had a great chat about what was going on. We added in a herb (Vitex) to help me mid-cycle and she talked to me about taking turmeric incase I get in an uncomfortable inflammatory state again.
It felt good – figuring out what was going on… recognizing it and making the changes to change my body’s response.
I suppose that’s why I speak out so strongly about gluten. It’s the reason that toxins take hold of me so quickly – and I’m thankful I can FEEL it. But for everyone like ME out there? There are countless people who AREN’T feeling a thing, but the damage is just the same – and they’ve treated their “symptoms” for years because no one told them their gut health was a mess.
It’s why my body has psycho auto immune responses to foods and drinks. I don’t want other people to live this tight rope. If I could have done it all over again – of course I would have made the necessary changes years ago before my body got to this point!
There is truth in the statement that you can have everything in the world, but without your health? You have nothing. Invest wisely.
“There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear,
because fear has to do with punishment.
The one who fears is not made perfect in love.”
1 John 4:18
Just One Little…K.I.S.S.
Oh the things we retain from college! My public relations professor was unforgettable in so many ways. His personality, his quirks… this sayings!
He was always encouraging us to write with the K.I.S.S. method – keep it simple stupid! Which essentially made it easy to really keep the MOST important news at the forefront of any standout press release. (although, we don’t say the “s” word at this house!)
I’ve used this method when home schooling my children. Some times, as adults – we just make things VERY complicated.
I’m totally guilty.
Obviously when you’ve learned something well, and it makes complete sense to you – you expect it to be easy for others also. But most often, it’s not.
We all learn so differently – and our 8 children, from the two same parents, are a great testimony of God’s diverse plan in originality.
Because of all of the change our diets, we do spend a quite a bit of time reviewing just what is going on in our bodies – and why what is happening to mommy, we DON’T want to happen to them. We want our children to have a solid understanding of just what food is and what it’s for, and what CAN happen!
Early on my children were teaching ME just how easy it was to go without food and goodies that we once thought were necessary, earned or expected!
After recently watching this fabulous video on how gluten effects EVERYONE, and how it triggers auto immune disease in HLA-genotypes specifically – my girls were discussing a few points and then drew the above picture.
“Why do people keep cutting off the top of the plant and covering up their symptoms with drugs?” they asked. “Don’t they realize you have to dig out the WHOLE root to remove the problem at the source?”
Great question.
I told them I think most people don’t realize that all disease begins in the gut – because most doctors don’t understand nutrition themselves. Many don’t focus on natural ways to keep toxins out of your body. They treat symptoms – with drugs – that have other side effects, many unknown.
However my kids cut to the chase and said they think it’s more about money and treating symptoms vs. truly making someone well. They said it seems like the drug companies want people to keep treating symptoms, and worsening their health for job security – vs. the easier change of diet. I would hate to assume that. My assumption is easier for me to accept and retain hope for our healthcare system.
My husband’s toe and psoriasis skin issues are a fabulous example of what is going on IN your body that you often can’t see. Most people keep treating the rashes, or unsightly fungus with topical treatments, or in the case of his toe nail issues – a high power drug that could have damaged his liver or kidneys. (after a one month round several years ago – he no longer took it, and of course it came right back – thankfully that drug was pulled off the market relatively quickly. Some people aren’t so blessed – and have lasting consequences from these drugs, including death!)
My husband has been gluten-free and mostly dairy-free for 10 months, and his toe has grown out almost perfectly within that time! His body no longer is fighting this chronic poison of gluten damaging his gut and slowly breaking down his body until something major finally shows up. Once we eliminated the main problem – it’s amazing that the goes back to healing itself – as it was intended.
Please. If you have issues with thyroid, depression, cancer, auto immune disease, asthma, chronic inflammation, sinusitus, allergies – do you struggle with fatigue or migraine headaches? Have trouble with brain fog? Do you not absorb vitamins? Are you iron, potassium or magnesium deficient? Do you have a hormone imbalance, rashes or light sensitivity? Trouble losing weight or getting pregnant? The list goes on and on and on – but you have signs in your genetics that gluten IS a problem and it’s possibly destroying your body. There is no reason to have a celiac diagnosis to remove it from diet. There are so many foods God made that you can enjoy – and regain your health and your life before it’s too late!
Rip out the problem at the ROOT system!
Personally – my favorite part of the video above, is the fact that our bodies should be viewed as a bagel. The inside “hole” of the bagel is still the outside. Our digestive system IS the outside of our body – and the food and drinks we put in should NOT pass to the inside of our body’s system. When they do – that is what creates havoc! Spend the 20 minutes watching it – you’ll be glad you did. The last 5 minutes is the best!
“For I am the Lord your God
who takes hold of your right hand
and says to you, Do not fear;
I will help you.”
Isaiah 41:13
Homework – Complete!
I finished the last of my homework today.
It was a simple 6 hour urine collection test called the DMSA Challenge test for heavy metal poisoning… They’re looking for mercury obviously. The metals bind to the substance, and it comes out through your urine. We’ll see what they say. I have an appointment with my naturopath in 2 weeks.
Ironically, in the time that I wrote to you about metals, and vaccines – we took our son, who had low IgA, IgM and borderline IgG to the immunologist specialist. It was a super nice facility – clean, and everyone was friendly, as it was child specific. The check in person was the only one who faced the computer… the usual questions with a new normal one this year, “what pharmacy would you like us to use?”
Hmmm….
Of course I’m thinking I’m not going to be leaving with a prescription… so that question throws me, but I answer it accordingly and move on.
The doctor was very informative, and friendly. He interacted greatly with my child. Friendly – kind and warm. He never touched the computer. He did wash his hands VERY well, twice, and I was quite impressed with him.
He could tell I was skeptical, and not the run of the mill parent looking to medicate their child for asthma immediately. After all, we had actually tried him on Singular for about a week – before realizing it turned him into 50 shades of evil. (Honestly, even after dealing with him on steroids for croup – that was nothing compared to this!) Asthma was mentioned several times… and several times, I reminded him of his marketed improvement since May… It’s not as if this child is monthly on an inhaler. This must be their catch-all answer for kids with respiratory issues.
So after my decline on that, his thoughts were, we could draw blood – check and see if his body made antibodies for the vaccines he had as a child… specific ones. He said, if he has antibodies for them – he made just have a weak immune system. {He called this “bad luck” – not realizing I’m not a believer in things like that… but anyway.} (I’m ok with working on that with a naturopath really…) If he doesn’t have any antibodies, that we have something else on our hands. I’m going to assume the first part.
It would make sense that his immune system wasn’t ever that stellar – considering he got croup at 4 months old… and has struggled with breathing issues and sleep up until about May.
When I was pregnant with him I had classic thyroid issues – freezing cold, sleepy, vertigo from low BP, and the worst bout of celiac in between him and my previous son. He probably has some major yeast issues as well – as the boy CRAVES sugar and carbs… and is a little tank.
Oh… one other thing he mentioned? About him having a severe reaction to the H1N1 vaccine? “It was probably his immune system doing it’s job, and we should try it again until doctor supervision.”
Let me tell you this… after you have a severe reaction like that with YOUR child, the LAST thing you want to do – is try that again. Once you put a shot in… there is NO TAKING IT OUT. It was an extremely HELPLESS feeling… to feel like you “did that” to your child. I would much rather prepare and build his immune system… then EVER try that again.
But I smiled… and listened… and thought he was a crazy man.
In 3 weeks we should know if he recommends more testing – but I’m going go with what we’re working on is already benefiting him. He’s not had a major bout or hospitalization since MAY, when we went gluten-free/dairy-free.
Call me crazy… they MIGHT be connected.
“Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.”
Proverbs 22:6
What It Takes To Change

This was our toast to the new year! Cascade Ice is just sparkling water. No calories, no sugar or anything artificial… Just refreshing without the junk. (and only $1 a bottle!) It rates an A- on Fooducate – probably only because there is no nutrition. Definitely worth it.
Happy New Year!!
Did you make any resolutions?
I’m not talking about empty goals… but rather, things you really set out to do – whole heartedly.
Did you write them down or commit them to your heart/mind?
If you spent 2012 in the health gutter, you are highly likely to welcome the new year with open arms. I, for one, could not be more glad to see 2012 come to an end… and the numbers 2-0-1-3 appear on the calendar.
But really, it’s just a different day – right?
What is it about the new year that gives people such high expectations of a fresh start?
I think, like most things – we like the idea of a clean slate, another chance, forgiveness… just in case things didn’t work before.
Well, many of you might have a word of inspiration for your year… mine is HOPE.
The great news is, there is truly HOPE in each new day of eternal value – in our Lord, Jesus Christ, and I’ve thankfully not lacked that… But my hope in the medical world being able to help me feel better is no longer where my hope abounds. I actually am filled with continued HOPE that I will feel well again. I do think I had given up hope in the past few months, and was beginning to settle for “this is now my new life…” and I’m probably going to need medicine for the rest of my life and still never feel well.
I will tell you, I never in a million years could have predicted my last year…and I’m thankful to the ends of the earth at how it’s gone. BUT, I’m also really thankful I went through it. I truly am.
Had I been slapped with an “easier” celiac diagnosis… I doubt I would have dug deeper for my kids, my husband and my extended family. I might have accepted my low thyroid feelings for depression and started on medicine, I didn’t need. I doubt we would have made the drastic health changes in our eating that we needed to. Sure, we were eating healthier before… but really we were only eating healthier, according to the world – and what the world TOLD us was healthier.
That made us feel smug, and comforted… but it obviously didn’t stop the damage that was occurring.
Soda now and then, coffee daily… eating pizza and quick meals out… no longer an option. (Well, technically it’s an option, but the consequence isn’t worth it.)
I walk down the grocery story through aisles of food we’ll never be eating again… and I think… “How is it, this is even considered food in this highly developed country, where science experiments in a box trumps common sense?” And and I wonder how it never occurred to me before? The bakery section of stores… seriously. We don’t even have a clue what we put into our bodies…
At least I didn’t. I was content with that.
I remember thinking people, “like me”… were a bit extremists in their eating and living. Maybe I assumed it was a choice… or a fad.
Let me tell you, given a choice, most people aren’t going to choose to eat how we eat… because the fad would wear off quickly. {more quickly than a half-hearted resolution!} The social aspects alone are not easy, but it’s getting better.
Oh, I know… the excuses abound… it’s expensive, it’s too hard, I don’t like change, I don’t want to change – give me my medicine instead. What if food WAS your medicine? What if you were poisoning yourself everyday, and it could have been avoided? Who would purposefully poison their children as well?
So, my husband and I have this little saying for people who are struggling, but still don’t want to listen, or change…
“I guess they’re not sick enough…”
We don’t say that to be prideful. We say it in the heartache of knowing how their bodies must be struggling, and the continued damage they’re putting on their systems – eating poorly, and taking medicines to mask the continued damage.
Once you know the Truth… it’s true. It sets your free – and you can’t look back. The more I’ve learned about how God designed my body to HEAL itself… and how I can be a part of that healing – the more “ALL IN” I am to looking at natural ways to cleanse, and heal – to give my body a chance, instead of offering more medicine to break it down.
But isn’t that the truth? We don’t change until we HAVE to, most of the time. We’re content until we realize things are as bad as they are… Until reality slaps us in the face!
It’s not about being a certain size, or being a perfect 10. God wants us to feed our bodies the fuel he designed, and He wants us to be able to perform at the level He designed for us to move at. Nothing less than His way.
No tricks, gimmicks, or fast fixes.
Just TRUTH. Healthy for Him.
Happy 2013. May God bless you with a healthy year of service and reflection of Him!
“Commit your way unto the Lord, and He will help you.”
Psalm 37:5
** Just a side note to say, I realize people need certain medicines or surgeries to be well – because their bodies are beyond the point of just eating well to be well. You TOO can make changes, and might be surprised. I’m simply asking you to take a true look at what you’ve done, or are doing to contribute to the problem. I was in shock to know the things that were still making me sick… and I’m sure I’ll find out more of what I was doing wrong!!
Having a teachable spirit is so important to being healthy for Him.