The Balanced Approach® Mission Statement
Let food and exercise help you manage stress,
not create more!
The Balanced Approach is a National Nutrition/Weight Management Education Program designed to help clients maximize health, energy, and digestion, lose body fat, satisfy their cravings, and individualize their eating and exercise program. We specialize in western and complementary medical nutrition, sports nutrition, Ayurveda, yoga, and fitness.
Our mission is to help bridge the gap between integrative and western medical and sports nutrition, as well as Eastern & Western philosophy.
We are committed to supporting organic, globally conscious companies who practice humane and respectful treatment of our children, animals, and environment.
The Balanced Approach is also committed to helping clients learn simple, easy ways to eat, shop, and cook, while re-allocating a portion of the $60 billion spent on weight loss to children's hunger and animal welfare programs.
This poem by
Ina Hughs was one of the original inspirations for mission behind
The Balanced Approach. It was put on my plate at a fundraiser event
for RESULTS International, a wonderful organization dedicated to
helping end world hunger and poverty thru political activism and
micro-credit, (see www.results.org)
A
Prayer/Pledge of responsibility for the Children:
We pray
(accept responsibility) for children
who put chocolate fingers
everywhere,
who like to be tickled,
who stomp in puddles and ruin their
pants,
who erase holes in math
workbooks.
who can never find their shoes.
And we
pray (accept responsibility) for those
who stare at photographers from
behind barbed wire,
who can't bound down the street in a
new pair of sneakers,
who never "counted
potatoes",
who are born in places we wouldn't be
caught dead,
who never go to the circus, who live
in an X-rated world.
We pray
(accept responsibility) for children
who bring us sticky kisses and
fistfuls of dandelions,
who sleep with the dog and bury the
goldfish,
who cover themselves with Band-aids
and sing off key,
who squeeze toothpaste all over the
sink, who slurp their soup
And we
pray (accept responsibility) for those
who never get dessert,
who have no safe blanket to drag
behind them,
who watch their parents watch them
die,
who can't find any bread to
steal,
who don't have any rooms to clean
up,
whose pictures aren't on anybody's
dresser,
whose monsters are real
We pray
(accept responsibility) for children
who spend all their allowance before
Tuesday
who throw tantrums in the grocery
store and pick at their food, who like ghost stories,
who shove dirty clothes under the
bead, and never rinse out the tub,
who get visits from the tooth
fairy,
who don't like to be kissed in front
of the car pool,
who squirm in church r temple and
scream in the phone,
whose tears we sometimes laugh at and
whose smiles can make us cry.
And we
pray (accept responsibility) for children
whose nightmares come in the
daytime,
who will eat anything,
who have never seen a dentist,
who aren't spoiled by anybody,
who go to bed and cry themselves to
sleep,
who live and move, but have no being
We pray
(accept responsibility)
For children who want to be carried,
and for those who must,
For those we never give up on and for
those who don't get another chance,
For those we smother and for those
who will grab the hand of anybody kind
enough to offer it.
By Ina
Hughs
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