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   #145 (Winter): Health and Well-Being
#146 (Spring): Family

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Winter Issue: Health and Well-Being

Arriving in subscriber mailboxes and on newsstands in December, our winter issue (#145) focuses on Health and Well-Being. Here's some of what readers will find:

Growing a Culture of Community Health and Well-Being at Earthaven Ecovillage by Arjuna da Silva. At a permaculture-based ecovillage in North Carolina, care for the earth, care for people, and care for inner health all benefit from a dynamic culture based on local self-reliance, holism, and community.

Health and Community: A Move to Edinburgh by Sophie Unwin. Leaving London to regain a sense of well-being, the author lands in a Scottish housing cooperative, where she finds mutual support, health, and the ability to be herself amongst others.

Embracing a Terminal Illness by Fred Lanphear. A community rallies in support of a long-time member diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s Disease, discovering opportunities and possibilities for new connections with each other and becoming more present to the priceless experiences of both living and dying. Here's an excerpt from this article:

   I received a diagnosis of ALS, better known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease. ALS is a
  fatal disease without any known cure; the life expectancy averages two to five
  years after diagnosis. It was about this time Songaia Cohousing Community
  began the 10-week course Aging in Place Successfully, which explores the
  notion of community providing a place to live until death. I was to be a “guinea
  pig” for the concept of aging in place, as ALS is a degenerative disease that can
  be cared for at home, but does require an intensive, shared care structure as
  the disease progresses. I requested a community circle in January 2008 to
  share my diagnosis with everyone and to ask for their support as I move into
  the last phase of my life.

Garden as Therapist and Community Organizer by Craig Chalquist. Neither the therapist diagnosing Major Depression nor the psychiatrist prescribing an antidepressant asked the fundamental question: Do you like to garden? When the author discovers this doorway into the natural world, he also finds community and inner and outer health.

Cell Phones, Education, Farming, and Mental Health by Shepherd Bliss. A professor and farmer suggests that the nearly-ubiquitous cell phone may, instead of being the best thing since sliced bread, endanger our health and threaten our relationships within human and natural communities.

Gut Health by Dona Willoughby. Both in traditional cultures and at La’akea, close loving relationships, consistent community connection, a life close to nature, fresh non-processed food, satisfying work, regular exercise, clean air and water, attunement to biological rhythms, joy, and laughter all support health.

The Shakers’ Secrets of Longevity by Susan Matarese and Paul Salmon. For more than 200 years, a wholesome diet, regular physical activity, hygienic practices, comprehensive health care, economic security, and social support combined with religious principles contributed to the Shakers’ general good health and longevity.

Artabana Solidarity Communities: New Paths for an Integrated Health Care System in Germany by Ina Meyer-Stoll. Based on principles of freedom, responsibility, solidarity, transparency, giving, sharing, and healthy, integrated lifestyles, a European-based alternative health care network offers practical models that could be enacted anywhere.

Healing Work in a Healing Biotope: An interview with Dr. Amélie Weimar by Stephen Davis. Tamera Healing Biotope seeks to promote healing on physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual levels, within individuals, within the whole community, and between genders, cultures, humans and nature.

The True Need for Community by Joshua Canter. Both scientific studies and personal experience confirm the importance of community in healing and healthy living. Mutual support and a sense of connection to a whole help us thrive physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

Community Cured My Asthma and Allergies by Mandy Creighton. Turning to her community for support and advice, and opening up to healing alternatives, a chronic asthmatic finally discovers the health that has eluded her throughout 27 years of conventional treatment.

Want to Be a Healer? Be a Creek! by Niánn Emerson Chase. In order for us to begin to feel union with others, we must realize that we have a common need to heal, and that healing is an ongoing process—dynamic, flowing, moving, and cleansing.

Community and Health: Immigrant Senior Cohousing in the Netherlands by Dorit Fromm and Els de Jong. Innovative Dutch cohousing projects allow ethnic minorities to spend their elder years in dignity, community, mutually supportive relationships, greater connection to their traditions and families, and better health.

Senior Cohousing: Establishing a Healthy, Sustainable Lifestyle for an Aging Generation by Chuck Durrett. Senior cohousing enhances quality of life, supports physical, social, and emotional well-being, and allows seniors to live lightly on the planet at the same time.

Health and Quiet—book review by Chris Roth. Noise and quiet can both affect well-being profoundly. Gordon Hempton’s One Square Inch of Silence offers ear-opening stories and perspectives, practical suggestions, and simple, radical wisdom.

The issue also includes letters, a profile of the PEACH Health Care Plan, a Cooperative Group Solutions panelist discussion on "The Bully Question," and a retrospective on the historic community, High Wind, in which its cofounder, Belden Paulson, reflects on decades of work at the intersection of academia, community, and sustainable living.

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Winter issue: The theme for the spring issue (#146) is Family. If you're interested in submitting articles, photos, or illustrations to future issues of Communities, please follow this link for details.

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