Key points:

• Redefining health, wealth, and fulfillment
• How to live authentically
• Action steps to get started

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.

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.

This talk is perfect for parents who are struggling or are looking for different perspectives on how to connect with their child(ren).

Link to my TEDx Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e0Nkl0Aezs

In this International Women’s Day reflection, I explore how equal dignity and biological difference can coexist — and how collaboration, contribution, and shared work gently dissolve barriers. Drawing from experience in STEM leadership and community gardening, this talk offers a grounded, human approach to thriving together.

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

Your family’s eyesight affects far more than how clearly they see—it influences learning, screen use, work, safety, confidence, independence, and quality of life. In this practical, family-focused presentation, Eyesight Advocate Katie L. Friedman draws on more than 40 years in eye care to share 5 simple tips for clearer vision at every age. From children heading back to school to parents, working adults, caregivers, and grandparents, you’ll learn what vision changes to watch for, how to reduce digital eye strain, ways to make everyday environments easier to see in, and questions to ask your eye care professional. You’ll leave with practical strategies you can begin using immediately to help your family see, learn, work, and thrive—because caring for your eyesight shouldn’t happen only when something goes wrong.

In "The Vitality Blueprint: Anti-Aging Through the Six Pillars of Health," participants will embark on an enlightening journey to explore transformative strategies for enhancing longevity and vitality. This presentation delves into the fundamental areas of health that promote not only a longer life but a life filled with energy, resilience, and well-being. Attendees will learn about the interconnectedness of nutrition, exercise, sleep, stress management, mental wellness, and social connections—each serving as a pillar that supports a comprehensive approach to anti-aging.

Many families sense that something is not working in their child's education but feel overwhelmed, unsupported, or afraid to make changes. In this session, Kristina Heagh-Avritt shares practical strategies to help parents better understand their child's unique learning needs, reduce educational stress, and make confident, values-based decisions. Through storytelling, practical examples, reflective questions, and real-life strategies, attendees will discover how to evaluate whether an educational environment truly supports their child's growth and well-being. Parents will leave encouraged, empowered, and equipped to create a learning path that helps their children thrive academically, emotionally, and personally.

We often assume that what works for one person in a family should work for everyone. But biology doesn’t work that way.

In One Family, Different Biology, Maricel Rocha reveals how small genetic differences can help explain why one child thrives on a certain diet, another struggles with recovery, one handles stress easily, and another may be more sensitive to caffeine, sleep disruption, inflammation, or specific nutrient needs.

Through the lens of nutrigenomics, parents will discover how genetics can provide clues about the way each family member responds to food, exercise, stress, recovery, hormones, and everyday lifestyle choices.

The goal isn’t to predict the future. It’s to understand your family more deeply.

Because when you understand how someone is wired, you can stop relying on one-size-fits-all advice and start making choices that fit the person in front of you.

Back-to-school season can throw off sleep, meals, stress levels, and daily routines before anyone even notices. In this live workshop, you’ll learn how to spot the early signs that your family is getting run down, where herbs can fit into a busy school day, and how to create a simple wellness rhythm that supports your household through the season.

You’ll leave knowing what to watch for, what to prioritize, and how to use herbs more intentionally—Before the First Sick Day

Your Back-to-School Immune Support Herbal Guide can help you put the plan into action.

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

Even the most caring parents can find themselves reacting in ways they wish they hadn’t, especially when everyone is tired, stressed, or overwhelmed. But what if those difficult moments could become opportunities for greater understanding and connection?

In this practical and encouraging presentation, Mindy Green, MSW, helps parents understand what happens in both their own brain and their child’s brain when emotions run high. She’ll explore how stress, triggers, and personality can shape our reactions and show parents how to interrupt the cycle before it takes over.

Attendees will leave with simple, brain-based strategies to pause, get curious about what’s beneath the behavior, and respond in ways that strengthen connection and build resilience. Because healthier family relationships aren’t created by getting every interaction right. They’re built through the small moments when we learn to respond differently.

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

What if better health didn’t start with another quick fix… but with reconnecting to the foundations that truly nourish us?

In this practical and inspiring session, Patrice Porter, The Gardening Grandma, explores how food, nature, and simple lifestyle practices can support whole-person wellness in sustainable, meaningful ways.

 In this session, you’ll discover:

• How reconnecting with real, nourishing food supports long-term wellness
• Why gardening changes our relationship with nutrition and health
• Simple ways to incorporate nature into everyday healing practices

Attendees will leave with actionable steps they can begin using immediately to create a more grounded, nourishing, and sustainable approach to health.

Every parent wants a healthy, happy child who is ready to thrive at school and in life. Yet the greatest influence on a child's well-being isn't found in another parenting strategy, it's the emotional environment created at home. This session explores how a parent's state of mind shapes family relationships, resilience, and a child's ability to learn, grow, and navigate challenges.

Through a simple understanding of how the mind works, you'll discover how greater calm, connection, and presence naturally create healthier families and set the foundation for a successful school year. Small shifts at home create lasting ripples in your child's life.

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.

You’re juggling careers, family responsibilities, packed schedules and trying to keep everyone healthy along the way. What if better health didn’t require doing more, but making a few simple choices that create a powerful ripple effect?

Join Certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach Terri Rahman for a practical, uplifting introduction to her four pillars of family wellness: Nourish, Move, Restore, and Connect.

Discover simple, gut-friendly ways to bring more nourishing whole foods, joyful movement, restorative habits, and meaningful connection into everyday family life—without perfection, complicated routines, or overwhelm.

Whether you’re raising children, supporting grandchildren, or simply want to model healthier living for those you love, you’ll walk away with realistic actions you can start using immediately.

Small choices. Stronger families. Healthier communities. A more abundant future.

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.

The presentation begins with a visual to help participants visualize their life as I share parts of my story and the tools and resources I used for myself, my child and other to see life as we choose not as it may be. Designed to uplift, encourage, inspire, motivate into action and educate.

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