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Natural Awakenings Central New Jersey / December 2025

Dec 17, 2025 03:03PM ● By Jerome Bilaos

This month features a range of articles and briefs on The Heart Work of Kin-Keeping, The Joy of Local Holiday Shopping, Cultivating Joy, The Magic of Gourmet Salts, Wise Words with Katie Kritikos, Holistic Dentistry: The Missing Link to Whole-Body Wellness, December’s Duality and more.

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Balance and Flow® Studio Opens in Gladstone

Nov 06, 2025 09:41AM ● By Jerome Bilaos

Balance and Flow® Studio offers daily group classes, private lessons, and specialty workshops, available both in-person and online.

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Ancient Wisdom Meets Modern Skin Renewal at Acupuncture Works Center

Nov 06, 2025 09:39AM ● By Jerome Bilaos

Spectral Light Therapy supports skin health and overall wellbeing by reducing inflammation, accelerating wound healing, easing pain, and even improving mood, energy, and sleep.

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Publisher’s Letter

Nov 06, 2025 09:35AM ● By Jerome Bilaos

When it comes to work, emotional landmines can explode in the most unlikely areas. If I’m surprised by an issue that hasn’t been dealt with, it can make me feel isolated and alone.

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Natural Awakenings Central New Jersey
Natural Awakenings Central New Jersey / November 2025

Oct 31, 2025 09:21AM ● By Jerome Bilaos

This month features a range of articles and briefs on Tired but Wired, Indoor Oasis, The Burnout Reset, Patrick Hanaway, Balancing Act and more.

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Breaking the Cycle of Silence with Jason M. Dotson and Fellow Changemakers

Oct 01, 2025 03:48PM ● By Jerome Bilaos

Silence has consequences. Children who are told not to speak of the pain inflicted within their homes often internalize guilt, shame, and fear.

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Finding Calm with Hypnosis at the Hypnosis Counseling Center

Oct 01, 2025 03:20PM ● By Jerome Bilaos

Hypnosis is a safe, natural state of relaxation that opens the mind to positive change. Instead of relying on willpower alone, it helps release worry, improve sleep, and build calmer responses to daily challenges.

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Live Fully Now Rehab & Wellness: Real, Honest Healing in Hackettstown

Oct 01, 2025 03:17PM ● By Jerome Bilaos

Live Fully Now offers a peaceful setting for those seeking a grounded, heart-centered path to healing. Free 15-minute consultations available.

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Publisher’s Letter

Oct 01, 2025 03:14PM ● By Jerome Bilaos

The key is doing something you love because doing what you hate makes no sense.

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Spring officially sprung on March 21. We have turned our clocks ahead. We are looking forward to warm winds, sunny skies and the smell of fresh cut grass. The daffodils and tulips have recently bloomed and we are just starting with the yard work that comes with the warmer weather.  Sadly, another season has started ramping up.  Tick season.

•             The best form of protection is prevention. Educating oneself about tick activity and how our behaviors overlap with tick habitats is the first step.

•             According to the NJ DOH, in 2022 Hunterdon County led the state with a Lyme disease incidence rate of 426 cases per 100,000 people. The fact is ticks spend approximately 90% of their lives not on a host but aggressively searching for one, molting to their next stage or over-wintering. This is why a tick remediation program should be implemented on school grounds where NJ DOH deems high risk for tick exposure and subsequent attachment to human hosts.

•             Governor Murphy has signed a bill that mandates tick education in NJ public schools. See this for the details.  Tick education must now be incorporated into K-12 school curriculum. See link:

https://www.nj.gov/education/broadcasts/2023/sept/27/TicksandTick-BorneIllnessEducation.pdf

•             May is a great month to remind the public that tick activity is in full swing. In New Jersey, there are many tickborne diseases that affect residents, including Anaplasmosis, Babesiosis, Ehrlichiosis, Lyme disease, Powassan, and Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiosis.

•             For years, the focus has mainly been about protecting ourselves from Lyme disease. But other tick-borne diseases are on the rise in Central Jersey. An increase of incidence of Babesia and Anaplasma are sidelining people too. These two pathogens are scary because they effect our blood cells. Babesia affects the red blood cells and Anaplasma effects the white blood cells.

•             Ticks can be infected with more than one pathogen. When you contract Lyme it is possible to contract more than just that one disease. This is called a co-infection. It is super important to pay attention to your symptoms. See link.

https://twp.freehold.nj.us/480/Disease-Co-Infection

A good resource from the State:

https://www.nj.gov/health/cd/topics/tickborne.shtml

 

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