Taking Stock in Your Life

I found fifteen different uses for the word 'stock.'  All the way from livestock, to finance stock, to taking stock in one's life.  Today, I'm sharing with you chicken stock....as a way of taking stock in your life.  The origin for the word 'stock' in Old English as well as in Old High German means 'tree trunk.'

I think of the Tree of Life.

Watercolor by Teresa

Adding a daily warm mug of chicken stock or chicken soup to your diet is highly nourishing.

Watercolor/mixed media by Teresa

"Why is chicken soup superior to all things we have, even more relaxing than Tylenol?  It is because chicken soup has a natural ingredient which feeds, repairs and calms the mucous lining in the small intestine.  The inner lining is the beginning and the ending of the nervous system.  It is easily pulled away from the intestine through too many laxatives, too many food additives (Including sugar!)...and parasites.  Chicken soup heals the nerves, improves digestion, reduces allergies, relaxes and gives strength."   Ageless Remedies from Mother's Kitchen by Hanna Kroeger

Chicken broth is  mild tasting...you can add ANY of your favorite vegetables to the stock to make a delicious soup.  The broth is soothing and provides a wealth of nutrients that are very easy for the body to absorb like calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, silicon, sulfur, collagen (gelatin), trace minerals and probably a whole lot more! Chicken broth can help reduce inflammation, heal the gut, and boost the immune system.  If sugar cravings are eating away at your core- your Tree of Life- then take a daily dose of chicken broth.

Nourish the core stock, yep, your gut, the roots,

 in your Tree of Life (YOU!)  

with chicken broth. 

Chicken Stock Recipe 

with Chicken Feet

Ok, lets talk chicken feet for just a minute.  Chicken feet are full of gelatin which is found in cartilage and connective tissue.  This gelatin is downright healing from common colds to malnutrition (from sugar addiction).  It boosts the immune system and improves bone density.... super important if caffeine is high in your diet (it steals calcium from your bones). Your broth is alchemy at its best if it is gelatinous.  So put those chicken feet in the pot.  I get mine from my local co-op and they are super clean...weird to look at... but just toss them in!

My favorite recipes for chicken stock are from Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon, Eat Fat, Lose Fat by Sally Fallon,  the Heal your Gut cookbook by Hilary Boynton and Mary G. Brackett and just google it and you'll get it.  Organic and pasture raised chickens and ingredients are important, too!

Fundamental transformation of thinking and authentic living 

begins in the gut.