Define estrogen dominance and the effect it is having in women’s hormonal imbalances.

My story behind a change of diet that led to estrogen dominance and what I didn’t know then. How I found out the root causes of estrogen dominance and what I have done about it.

Understanding that through our genetic makeup, we can find the root causes of hormonal imbalances. How this information can be used to a personalized wellness plan in order to achieve better outcomes in terms of dealing with reproductive hormones health issues like PCOS, endometriosis, infertility, menopausal symptoms, etc.

In celebration of International Women’s Day, we came together as a panel of coaches, leaders, and wellness advocates to share our personal insights on what it truly means to empower women. This conversation was a heartfelt exploration of self-care, resilience, authenticity, and the power of community. Each of us brought forward our unique perspectives, touching on:

💜 Self-love as the foundation of empowerment—how embracing our true essence allows us to step into our fullest potential.

🌱 The deep connection between women and nature—reclaiming our relationship with the earth as a source of abundance and strength.

🧠 The science of well-being—how our lifestyle choices impact not just ourselves, but future generations.

💡 Breaking through societal conditioning—rewiring our beliefs to prioritize self-worth, inner peace, and personal growth.

👭 The importance of sisterhood and support—how community plays a crucial role in uplifting and inspiring one another.

Throughout the discussion, one message was clear: women are powerful agents of change—not only in our own lives but in the lives of those around us. By prioritizing self-care, reconnecting with our inner wisdom, and supporting one another, we create a ripple effect of transformation and empowerment.

✨ This International Women’s Day, we invite you to reflect: What does empowerment mean to you? How do you show up for yourself and for others? Your full potential when you embark on a journey of conscious living & celebrating International Women's Day

This transformative wrap-up of this celebration is where you decide on a practical strategy to enhance your well-being to thrive naturally. In these times, you need to empower yourself and live a more vibrant, fulfilling life. 

Key Takeaways:

• Mindful Living: The power of mindfulness to reduce stress, improve focus, and cultivate inner peace.
• Community and Connection: Build supportive relationships and foster a sense of belonging. 
• Personalized Health: Implement practical tools and techniques to empower your personal healing and transformation.

Women's Health & Empowerment: Taking Charge of Your Well-Being Journey Mary Lummerding, Dr. Pamela Jackson-Smith, Cecil MacIntosh, Moderator Maggie Grueskin 

This transformative wrap-up of this celebration is where you decide on a practical strategy to enhance your well-being to thrive naturally. In these times, you need to empower yourself and live a more vibrant, fulfilling life. 

Key Takeaways:

• Mindful Living: The power of mindfulness to reduce stress, improve focus, and cultivate inner peace.
• Community and Connection: Build supportive relationships and foster a sense of belonging. 
• Personalized Health: Implement practical tools and techniques to empower your personal healing and transformation.our full potential when you embark on a journey of conscious living & celebrating International Women's Day  
• #empowerment #wellbeing #wellnessforlife

Believe It or Not I Care Day Challenge

The students in school B.I.O.N.I.C. Teams (Believe It Or Not I Care) have a Dream! They want to inspire adults by helping them see what the world could look like in one day if everyone did 10 acts of kindness on 10/10 - Care Day (October 10th)! Or 12/12 - people have been inspired to continue making a difference each day by being aware of the needs around them. Monthly, some are picking a day to do outreaches - doing 5 things on the 5th day of each month. Some families are choosing to do one thing on 1/1 (January 1st), two things on 2/2 (February 2nd), and so on all year. Let's make the kids' dream of a more caring world come true by making caring go viral! Thanks for caring!! #viralcaring #bionic #caring

From Stressed to Blessed: Your Natural Wellness Blueprint

What happens when you listen to the earth? This Live day highlights the importance of **collaboration** and **teaching** in achieving **wellness**. It promotes **positive affirmations** and **healthy living** through mindful practices, encouraging viewers to improve their **health affirmations** and integrate **mindfulness** into their daily routines. Explore practical ways to improve your #mentalhealth and overall #wellness through simple daily habits. Discover the power of #natural remedies and the importance of #nutrition in maintaining #healthy living. Prioritize #holistic health for a balanced life. Welcome to our fall live event, "Back to Nature, Forward to Abundance"! The Natural Health Collaborative explores how the earth supports our health and abundance. We believe in the power of natural healing and holistic living to enhance your overall wellness. This session sets the intention for a day focused on holistic health and embracing natural medicine. Back to Nature, Forward to Abundance Fall Live Welcome, Panel 1 & 2

Are you ready to unlock your full potential and embark on a journey of conscious living & celebrating International Women's Day?

You have permission to start the next quarter of the 21st century with new vital science behind transformation. Download the challenges, tracker and habit stacker all to make your 2026 your best year ever.

Let's Get Wild Challenge 2026

https://giveaway.naturalhealthcollaborative.com/challengefree-6075 

How to Stay Wild Forever (The Art of Habit Stacking) is about permission to let go of the challenges that didn't fit, and doubling down on the ones that did.

[Part 1: The Stack] The New Habit I want to keep: __________________ The Old Habit I do every day without thinking: __________________ My New Formula: "After I ____________, I will ____________." [

Part 2: The Tracker] A simple grid for 7 days. [ ] Mon [ ] Tue [ ] Wed [ ] Thu [ ] Fri [ ] Sat [ ] Sun [Part 3: The Identity Shift] I am not just "trying" this. I am a person who prioritizes nature. 

Key Takeaways:

• Mindful Living: Discover the power of mindfulness to reduce stress, improve focus, and cultivate inner peace
• Personalized Health: Discover practical tools and techniques to empower your personal healing and transformation.

Are you ready to unlock your full potential and embark on a journey of conscious living? Join us for this transformative presentation where you'll discover practical strategies to enhance your well-being and thrive naturally. Whether you're a seasoned natural health expert seeking to expand your impact or a curious individual on your own wellness journey, this presentation offers valuable insights for everyone. This presentation will equip you with practical, actionable tools and knowledge you need to empower yourself and live a more vibrant, fulfilling life.

Over a hundred years ago, before food plants were all hybrids, seed saving was part of farming and gardening. It offers so many gifts: nourishment, flavor, biodiversity, and climate resiliency. Saving seeds connects people and builds healthy communities. Over the decades, we’ve lost many of the techniques and knowledge about how to collect, share and keep viable seeds. Empowered Gardening is bringing this vital practice back into use. I pick before I eat them. To me, the point of having a garden is freshness. Lettuce is likely healthier than you realize. It provides Vitamin A, Vitamin K, and small amounts of many other healthy nutrients. It is low in fiber with high water content. Really, the perfect diet food. Once the temperature gets to about 75-80 degrees and sunny, lettuce doesn’t like it. It starts to grow tall branches or stalks, which is bolting. Then it develops flower heads and eventually produces seed. Once your lettuce bolts, leave a few plants in your garden bed, allow the flowers to bloom, and go to seed. Then dry out completely on the stalk. One lettuce plant can produce hundreds, if not thousands of seeds – you only need a few plants to save lots of free seeds. When your lettuce heads are completely dry and fluffy (like a white dandelion seed head), the seeds are ready to harvest. You can handpick individual seed heads. Once the pappuses, which are the scales or featherlike hairs, have emerged, but before they have fulfilled their seed dispersal function, a gardener can simply take hold of the pappuses to gather the seeds from each mature head. Shake the individual mature flowers onto a plate or even into another pot. More seeds can be collected easily as other heads on the plant mature. Another technique is to bend the flowering branches or stalks into a bag and gently shake them to dislodge mature seeds. This process is more efficient than hand-picking seeds from separate flowers. You can start when about one-third of the seed heads are mature. Repeat every week or two or until the desired quantity of seeds is collected. The bagging-it-up method, which I prefer, is that you can bag all the flowers and wait. Cover the whole plant or fruiting branches with a bag and gently shake them to dislodge mature seeds. This process is more efficient than hand-picking or bagging seeds from the separate flowers. Cleaning and Processing Cleaning methods vary depending on how the seeds were collected and how much chaff (dry, scaly protective casing of the seeds) is present. If seeds are gathered by hand-harvesting or shaking plants, there should be relatively little chaff. Cleaning techniques can focus on separating the seed from the pappus. Lightly rubbing the gathered material together between one’s hands or against a screen should detach the seeds from their pappuses without damaging them. On a larger scale, entire plants can be shaken or threshed, loosening the seeds from the chaff by rubbing the seed heads, or just shaking the plants over a large container, or moving the seed heads on a tarp. It can be challenging to get rid of all the chaff with your lettuce seeds. But don’t worry, the chaff won’t affect your lettuce seeds’ ability to germinate.                                                                            Key Takeaways:

• Holistic Wellness: Explore the interconnectedness of physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health.
• Mindful Living: Discover the power of mindfulness for reducing stress, improving focus, and cultivating inner peace.
• Sustainable Practices: Learn how to incorporate sustainable living into your daily life, from eco-friendly choices to ethical consumption.
• Community and Connection: Explore the importance of building supportive relationships and fostering a sense of belonging.
• Personalized Health: Discover practical tools and techniques to empower your personal healing and transformation.

This 20-minute talk empowers midlife women to experience menopause as a powerful transformation rather than a decline. Drawing from my signature program; The Unstoppable You: Navigating Menopause and Beyond, Naturally  I'll share a practical approach to easing symptoms like hot flashes, brain fog, sleep disruption, and mood swings using natural strategies aligned with the body’s design.

Grounded in five pillars—restorative sleep, intentional movement, nourishing foods, nervous system regulation, and sound-based practices—participants learn simple, sustainable tools they can start using immediately to feel more energized, clear-headed, and emotionally steady.

Ideal for health-conscious, professional women who want to stay sharp, effective, and authentic in their work and relationships while honoring this life transition. It aligns with International Women’s Day by reframing midlife as a leadership and self-advocacy opportunity.​

Dr Peggy explores how chronic stress, over-responsibility, and emotional depletion quietly erode women’s confidence from the inside out. Dr. Peggy reveals why body dissatisfaction is often a nervous system response—not a discipline issue—and how true body confidence rebuilds through regulation, self-awareness, and restoring internal safety. This talk offers a compassionate, science-informed reframe for high-achieving women who feel disconnected from their bodies despite outward success.

Gloria brings an integrative, trauma-informed approach to emotional and physical wellness, guiding participants through the foundational program release, relax, and recharge. Her overarching work bridges body, mind, heart, and soul, offering accessible entry-level tools for stress reduction, emotional release, and self-discovery. Drawing from modalities such as meditation, visualization, energy psychology, somatic education, yoga, and guided inner journey, she supports individuals - including women navigating PTSD and MST- in understanding and transforming their internal landscapes. Gloria's teaching explores genetic pain release, chakra awareness, communication skills, leadership development, and stages of healing. Through experiential practices, emotional debriefing, and compassionate guidance, she helps participants reframe memories, restore balance, and reconnect with innate resilience. Her mission is to empower individuals to cultivate clarity, confidence, and renewed purpose on their path toward holistic well-being. 

Your full potential when you embark on a journey of conscious living & celebrating International Women's Day

Deep Sleep Is Where Healing Happens. Maricel Rocha, a health extension specialist, provides valuable sleep tips and explains how to sleep better by focusing on restorative sleep. She emphasizes that deep sleep is a key pillar of age reversal and discusses sleep science with a focus on rejuvenation. This video is a great resource for sleep optimization, offering practical advice to improve your overall well-being. You can build small habits one evening at a time to improve your sleep. Maricel Rocha created a "5-day sleep challenge" to guide you through small, science-based changes to support deep and REM sleep. Join the challenge for more energy, clear thinking, a better mood, and stronger health. Restorative sleep is an incredibly powerful tool for rejuvenation that you have access to every night. The most powerful anti-aging treatment is not a supplement, skincare, or food; it is quality sleep. When sleep is consistently high quality, we age more slowly from the inside out. Sleep is not the absence of activity; it is when your body does its most important work. Poor sleep can lead to feeling moody, irritable, foggy, and off balance. When you sabotage sleep, you lose critical stages of repair. So learn how to sleep better. #sleepscience, #deepsleep, #sleeptips, #sleepoptimization, #howtosleepbetter

Using communication personalities to navigate conversations that could lead to misunderstanding, anger or hurt feelings.

In a culture that rewards pushing through, many women override their natural rhythms to meet rigid expectations. Over time, their energy and clarity begin to slip. The Harmony Principle offers another way.

In this session, K. Miller explores how restoring alignment between your body, mind, and natural rhythms rebuilds capacity and shifts the patterns that keep you stuck in exhaustion and self-doubt. Rather than striving for constant productivity or endless energy, you will learn how to work with your rhythms so clarity returns and strength feels steady instead of forced.

This is not about becoming more resilient. It is about creating a life that no longer requires you to fight yourself in order to function.

Stress isn’t just something we “feel.”
It’s something our body records.

In this empowering and science-backed session, Maricel Rocha reveals how hidden mental patterns — often formed in childhood — silently drive chronic stress responses that disrupt cortisol balance, hormones, immunity, metabolism, and emotional well-being.

Many women focus on supplements, detoxes, and diet changes… yet overlook the most powerful driver of inflammation: the way their nervous system is wired to respond to life.

Attendees will learn:

• How chronic stress alters cortisol rhythms and impacts hormones

• Why self-sabotage patterns (like people-pleasing, hyper-vigilance, and perfectionism) keep women stuck in fight-or-flight

• How stress directly affects blood sugar, gut health, and immune resilience

• Practical, natural tools to regulate the nervous system and restore balance

• A simple daily “mental fitness” framework to reduce cortisol and improve long-term health

This session bridges functional medicine, metabolic health, and neuroscience — offering both insight and actionable steps for redicing stress.

Simple ways to start healing yourself now. Why loving yourself changes everything. Embark on a journey of self-love and discover the transformative power of emotional healing. Collaborative members offer self-help insights and inspiration for managing stress relief, fostering spiritual growth, and enhancing overall wellness. Embrace these practices to live a more fulfilling life. This discussion emphasizes the profound impact of self-love as the cornerstone for personal growth and emotional healing. We explore daily practices to cultivate self-esteem and how loving yourself can positively impact all aspects of your life and relationships. Learn how to embark on a journey of self-healing. 

Back to Nature, Forward to Abundance Panel 3 & 4, Conclusion

Most thyroid problems in women aren’t just a gland issue; they’re an immune–metabolic systems problem you can influence every day. In this fast, practical session, we’ll cut through the confusion on hypothyroidism and Hashimoto’s, show which tests matter beyond TSH, and map the five most common “sparks” that drive autoimmunity—food sensitivities, gut imbalances, toxins, stress, and nutrient gaps. You’ll leave with a clear roadmap to reduce antibodies, support T4→T3 conversion, and feel more energy, focus, and metabolic function. 

Are you ready to unlock your full potential and embark on a journey of conscious living & celebrating International Women's Day?

Join us for this transformative presentation where you'll discover a practical strategy to enhance your well-being.  will share a quick reset to help you thrive naturally. In these times, you need to empower yourself and live a more vibrant, fulfilling life. 

Key Takeaways:

• Mindful Living: Discover the power of mindfulness to reduce stress, improve focus, and cultivate inner peace.
• Community and Connection: Explore the importance of building supportive relationships and fostering a sense of belonging by participating on camera. 
• Personalized Health: Discover practical tools and techniques to empower your personal healing and transformation.

Your full potential when you embark on a journey of conscious living & celebrating International Women's Day

This transformative wrap-up of this celebration it is where you decide on your a practical strategy to enhance your well-being to thrive naturally. In these times, you need to empower yourself and live a more vibrant, fulfilling life. 

Key Takeaways:

• Mindful Living: The power of mindfulness to reduce stress, improve focus, and cultivate inner peace.
• Community and Connection: Build supportive relationships and foster a sense of belonging. 
• Personalized Health: Implement practical tools and techniques to empower your personal healing and transformation.

Are you tired of having your stories run your life? From a young age, we have been conditioned to play different roles adapting to society. What if I told you that it doesn’t have to be that way anymore. Chances are that story isn’t even true but a memory that’s locked in from a child’s perspective. Do you want to continue letting them run the show - consciously or sub-consciously? It’s ok to hit the delete button and choose to live differently. Together we will track the patterns that are playing on auto repeat and then energetically release them. When you are in alignment with self, a different world opens up where the journey called life becomes magical. Remember, we are the creators of our reality and now is the best time to begin.

For many women, being dependable, capable, and selfless began as a strength. We were praised for helping, achieving, and holding everything together. Over time, those patterns followed us into our careers, families, and communities. The result? Chronic over-giving that quietly drives stress, elevates cortisol, disrupts the gut, and increases risk for inflammation, blood sugar instability, autoimmune conditions like hypothyroidism, heart disease, and more.  But exhaustion is not a requirement for success.  

In this energizing and eye-opening talk, you’ll learn how over-functioning impacts your biology—and practical, science-backed strategies to protect your gut, regulate stress, stabilize blood sugar, and build sustainable energy. You’ll walk away with clear next steps to lead, serve, and succeed without sacrificing your health in the process.  You’ll discover how strengthening four essential pillars—Nourishment, Movement, Restoration, and Connection—creates the biological resilience needed for long-term leadership and service.

Are you ready to unlock your full potential and embark on a journey of conscious living & celebrating International Women's Day?

Key Takeaways:

• Mindful Living: Discover the power of mindfulness to reduce stress, improve focus, and cultivate inner peace.
• Community and Connection: Explore the importance of building supportive relationships and fostering a sense of belonging by participating on camera. 
• Personalized Health: Discover practical tools and techniques to empower your personal healing and transformation.

Are you ready to unlock your full potential and embark on a journey of conscious living & celebrating International Women's Day?

Join us for this transformative presentation where you'll discover a practical strategy to enhance your well-being. Cindy Terrell will share a quick reset to help you thrive naturally. In these times, you need to empower yourself and live a more vibrant, fulfilling life. 

Key Takeaways:

• Mindful Living: Discover the power of mindfulness to reduce stress, improve focus, and cultivate inner peace.
• Community and Connection: Explore the importance of building supportive relationships and fostering a sense of belonging by participating on camera. 
• Personalized Health: Discover practical tools and techniques to empower your personal healing and transformation.