WHIPPED UP! HANDMADE COSMETICS

One of the Vendors Joining us at the Better Me Luncheon-Redford, MI September 2013 

"Better Me. Better You. Better World"  

Pamper your skin and celebrate your senses with our natural, paraben free, glycol free, sulfate free, mineral and petroleum free, silicone free, 
cruelty free, vegan formulas.  Looking for something luxurious and gourmet? Smooth on the Candy Girl Whipped Butter. In the mood for energizing and fresh? Choose the Lemongrass Verbena natural soap. Need a little romance? Smooth on any of our sensual massage bars. Mix them match them or choose them all!

WHIPPED UP! HANDMADE COSMETICS

Tickets 10.00 

Are We Our Brother's Keeper?

A saying from the Bible's story of Cain and Abel. After Cain had murdered his brother Abel, God asked him where his brother was. Cain answered, “I know not; am I my brother's keeper?”

Cain's words have come to symbolize people's unwillingness to accept responsibility for the welfare of their fellows — their “brothers” in the extended sense of the term. The tradition of Judaism and Christianity is that people do have this responsibility.

Somethings are real weather we agree, or believe it or not "it just is" everything we do effects someone else whether it is our intention our not, even if we don't see it. 

Holistic Health

Holistic health includes not only treating or curing specific symptoms, but also supports promoting the overall health and well-being of individuals, families and communities. Spirituality and religion have a role to play in this aspect of holistic health by supporting actions that enhance physical and mental health. For example, many traditions address caring for the body, avoiding behaviors that debase body and spirit, or support healthy diet choices. Holistic health and mental health approaches can also offer opportunities to promote spiritual well-being.

Holistic health recognizes that for some individuals and families, the experience of illness and pain may relate to spiritual concerns and that those concerns may manifest as physical or emotional symptoms.

Holistic health approaches address not only curing or treating a specific physical ailment, but also ensure that support and comfort are provided to the individual and his or her family and community. Thus, holistic care would address the care and support of families who have a child or other member who is seriously or chronically ill or has a disability. It would address the pain of the bereaved. Part of that support can include spiritual and religious resources.

When seeking quality care, reference is often made to its being “holistic.” Each person, adult and child, in a clinical encounter - patient, family members, and health and mental health care providers - enters with his or her own personal configuration of body, mind, and spirit. For each individual, the component parts may have different levels of significance and, for some, the “spirit” part may not be important at all.

Rarely is one person’s configuration identical to that of others. There may be many similarities or there may be extreme differences (even among family members, or between the patient and the provider). Importantly, health and mental health care providers may have to negotiate their own notions of what is perceived to be a professional rather than a personal map. 

Traditionally in health and mental health care settings, providers have become comfortable with treating the mind and the body, but the “spirit” part, the whole person, continues to elude us

Definition: Religion

1. “a set of beliefs and practices related to the issue of what exists beyond the visible world, generally including the idea of the existence of a being, group of beings, an external principle or a transcendent spiritual entity” (Adapted from Random House Dictionary of the English Language, 1967).

2. “set of beliefs, practices, and language that characterizes a community that is searching for transcendent meaning in a particular way, generally based upon belief in a deity” (Astrow et al. 2001).

3. religious beliefs – “formed within the context of practices and rituals shared by a group to provide a framework for connectedness to God” (Davies, Brenner, Orloff, Sumner, and Worden 2002).

4. “an organized system of practices and beliefs in which people engage … a platform for the expression of spirituality…” (Mohr 2006).

5. “outward practice of a spiritual system of beliefs, values, codes of conduct, and rituals” (Speck 1998).

Definition: Spirituality

1. “the experience or expression of the sacred” (Adapted from Random House Dictionary of the English Language, 1967).

2. “…the search for transcendent meaning” – can be expressed in religious practice or …expressed ”exclusively in their relationship to nature, music, the arts, a set of philosophical beliefs, or relationships with friends and family” (Astrow et al. 2001).

3. “individual search for meaning” Bown and Williams 1993).

4. “the search for meaning in life events and a yearning for connectedness to the universe” (Coles 1990).

5. “a person’s experience of, or a belief in, a power apart from his or her own existence” (Mohr 2006).

6. “a quality that goes beyond religious affiliation, that strives for inspiration, reverence, awe, meaning and purpose, even in those who do not believe in God. The spiritual dimension tries to be in harmony with the universe, strives for answers about the infinite, and comes essentially into focus in times of emotional stress, physical (and mental) illness, loss, bereavement and death” (Murray and Zentner 1989:259).

7. …refers to a broad set of principles that transcend all religions. Spirituality is about the relationship between ourselves and something larger. That something can be the good of the community or the people who are served by your agency or school or with energies greater than ourselves. Spirituality means being in the right relationship with all that is. It is a stance of harmlessness toward all living beings and an understanding of their mutual interdependence.” (Kaiser 2000)