Holistic Living With Rachel Avalon
True Health With True Purpose
The Mask You Live In follows boys and young men as they struggle to stay true to themselves while negotiating America’s narrow definition of masculinity. Pressured by the media, their peer group, and even the adults in their lives, our protagonists confront messages encouraging them to disconnect from their emotions, devalue authentic friendships, objectify and degrade women, and resolve conflicts…
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Written and directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, Miss Representation exposes how mainstream media and culture contribute to the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America. The film draws back a curtain to reveal a glaring reality we live with every day but fail to see – how the media’s limited and often disparaging portrayals of women…
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America the Beautiful, is a documentary directed by Darryl Roberts, which explores the often toxic cultural norms of self-image influenced by marketing, modeling, celebrity culture, and questionable beauty products. A note from Rachel Avalon: “This is a powerful film for Americans of every age to watch because it raises so many important questions about how we are, in essence, programmed…
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Compost deserved a new story. One of nature’s most astonishing processes, the black gold we call compost has been undervalued for too long. Compost as the regenerating, probiotic, solution for our depleted land, could play a major role in rebalancing the world’s carbon cycle. Turning polluting waste streams into a valuable resource is a win-win proposition, an elegant solution to…
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So often people assume that in order to eat healthily they need to dedicate endless hours to meal preparation, but this is so untrue! Here’s one of my favorite, super-quick, delicious recipes for making vegan tacos. It wins over picky eaters and meat-eaters all the time. Save Print Super-QUICK Vegan Taco Recipe Author: Rachel Avalon Ingredients Required Ingredients: Taco…
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Who isn’t feeling overwhelmed or exhausted by the political mess that America has become? Regardless of which way we’ve voted, we all know the system is broken and little is going to change by arguing about it on Facebook or Twitter. How can we feel consistently empowered though when we only get to vote every 2-4 years and go to…
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The ubiquitous pink ribbons of breast cancer philanthropy – and the hand-in-hand marketing of brands and products associated with that philanthropy — permeates our culture, providing assurance that we are engaged in a successful battle against this insidious disease. But the campaign obscures the reality and facts of breast cancer — more and more women are diagnosed with breast cancer…
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In this explosive follow-up to his Oscar®-nominated film GASLAND, filmmaker Josh Fox uses his trademark dark humor to take a deeper, broader look at the dangers of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the controversial method of extracting natural gas and oil, now occurring on a global level (in 32 countries worldwide). GASLAND PART II, which premiered at the 2013 Tribeca Film…
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Holistic Living with Rachel Avalon, Feb. 2018. Re-sensitizing vs desensitizing with food, media, and more, #healthyrecipes #cleaneating #mindfulness - https://t.co/bEWOvJMyp6
