The next edition will be issued on January 6, 2023! Happy New Year!
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After feeling her life was out of balance, Heidi Morgan founded her company Design The Life You Want, where she serves as a Functional Practitioner, Life Designer, Happiness Coach, and Health Detective.
This week we heard from Heidi Morgan about a new service she offers: Functional Health. Raised in Burlington, Heidi had a very successful career as a corporate salesperson. However, after feeling her life was out of balance, she founded her company Design The Life You Want, where she serves as a Functional Practitioner, Life Designer, Happiness Coach, and Health Detective.
Heidi explained that Functional Health is a holistic, integrative, and science-based approach to optimal health which alleviates illness and disease, while promoting wellness and vitality, by focusing on the unique needs of each client. It does not diagnose any disease or condition and treat with medicines (different than standard medicine). Specific data from the client and laboratory data are used as clues and tools to promote healing of the body. An individually tailored plan is then created to restore the body’s natural hormones, immune system, digestion, detoxification, energy production and nervous system, bringing the body into structural balance.
Heidi suggested that individuals with the following conditions may benefit from Functional Health services:
When you go to multiple doctors with no relief.
When your medications are not helping.
When you cannot figure out what is making you feel ill, tired, and not well.
When you can’t seem to lose weight no matter what.
When you know your hormones are out of whack.
When your gut always hurts, your skin is breaking out, or you can’t sleep.
When you have tried every last health method and finally want answers.
Her Functional Health approach is guided by four core principles:
Recognizing biochemical individuality (each person is unique with their own history, strengths, challenges, heredity, and epigenetic influences).
Treatment must be holistic in nature and not simply symptom or disease based.
Rather than a disease-centered approach, she takes a client-centered approach which allows her to create a therapeutic partnership with my clients, by empowering people to take ownership of their own healing and feel more in control of their own well-being and are more likely to make sustainable lifestyle changes to improve their health.
Health is not merely the absence of disease, but rather the enhancement of proper physiological function and vitality. Because health is a continuum, one that is challenged daily by environmental, emotional, chemical, physical, and energetic stressors, its achievement must be an ongoing practice and way of life.
Heidi previously presented a talk about mindset to the Rotary Club of Sycamore in 2020.
As with Happy Dollars and fines, 50/50 raffle proceeds have long been earmarked for the scholarship fund for Sycamore High School seniors. In an effort to "spread the wealth" and support more causes, the members of your Rotary Board have determined that 50/50 raffle proceeds collected each month will benefit a different cause.
For the month of June, 50/50 raffle proceeds will help support CASA DeKalb County, Inc. to advocate for and serve as the voice for children who have experienced abuse or neglect in DeKalb County. The Board has committed that the total amount given to this cause will be no less than $250.
Thank you for your support of this important cause...and best of luck with the raffle!
Posted by Joseph Derr, Rotary International on Nov 28, 2022
After oxygen, silicon is the most prevalent naturally occurring substance in the Earth's crust. Add two parts of oxygen to one part silicon (a process that happens naturally there), and you get silicon dioxide, a core component of most rocks and sand. Heat up that sand to about 3,090 degrees, and it becomes a liquid, hardening into glass when it cools.
Though glass is derived from a naturally occurring material, once that substance is transformed into bottles, it is hardly a boon to the environment. Each year in the U.S., people throw away some 8 million tons of glass, a bulky part of landfills that can last ages. The Environmental Protection Agency reports that only about a third of glass that Americans buy gets recycled.
The Rotary Club of Chelan, Washington, found an opportunity to mine some of that glass out of the waste stream. Its 911 Glass Rescue project turns used bottles and broken glass back into sand that can be used in gardening, landscaping, playgrounds, and biological water filter projects. The club partnered with local agencies and businesses to buy a glass pulverizing machine from Andela Products. Company President and CEO Cynthia Andela is not just a glass industry expert; she also happens to be a member of the Rotary Club of Richfield Springs, New York. "I've been a Rotarian for years, and I've been selling these machines for years," says Andela. "But this Chelan club project, which unites both worlds, made me realize just how much Rotary can do."
Club members told us the story of how they make sand from unwanted glass.
December 14, 1896 – World War II General James “Jimmy” Doolittle is born in Alameda, California. In 1942, he led a squadron of B-25 bombers launched from the aircraft carrier Hornet to conduct the first American air raid of the war against Japan.
December 15, 1832 – French engineer Alexandre Eiffel is born in Dijon, France. Besides designing the Eiffel Tower, he also helped design the Statue of Liberty.
December 16, 1770 – Ludwig von Beethoven, considered the greatest orchestral composers who ever lived, is born in Bonn, Germany.
December 16, 1775 – British romance novelist Jane Austen is born in Hampshire, England.
December 14, 1911 – Norwegian explorer Ronald Amundsen becomes the first person to reach the South Pole.
December 15, 1939 – The epic movie “Gone With the Wind” had its world premier in Atlanta, Georgia.
December 16, 1773 – The Boston Tea Party occurred as colonials dumped 342 containers of expensive tea into the harbor.
December 17, 1903 – After three years of experimentation, Orville and Wilbur Wright achieved the first powered and controlled airplane flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Birthdays & Club Anniversaries
Member Birthdays
Robert Wildenradt
June 1
Stephen Hansen
June 14
Jeff Keicher
June 17
Robert Brown
June 24
Christine Kalina
June 25
Join Date
Julie Sgarlata
June 6, 2012
11 years
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS, 2022-2023
President – Tim Neubert
President Elect – Brandon Diviak
Director (President Nominee) – Steve Wilder
Director (President Designee) - Jonelle Bailey
Past President – Paulette Renault
Treasurer – Dr. Michele Jurkovic
Secretary – Sally Bruch
Monthly Committees
July: Board of Directors
August: Jeff Keicher, Steve Kuhn, Pat Shafer
September: Michael DeVito, Dave Hamilton, Jeff Jacobson, Velvet Mason
October: Paul Callighan, Matt Nelson, Paul Stromborg
November: Jim Buck, Sue Emberson, Jeff Frank, Mark Spiegelhoff, Jim Stoddard, Heidi Wright
December: Paul Barnaby, Larry Berke, Troy Oates, Riley Oncken
January: Ray Dembinski, Chase Goodeill, Joyce Klein, Rob Mondi
February: Jonelle Bailey, Becky Springer, Steve Wilder
March: Chip Houdek, Brendan Wilson
April: Bob Hammon, Jeff Petersen
May: Bob Brown, Brandon Diviak, Paul Loner
June: Stephen Hansen, Fred Peltz, Paulette Renault
Standing Committees
Membership: Jonelle Bailey, Ray Dembinski, Bob Hammon, Steve Kuhn, Troy Oates, Jeff Petersen, Bob Wildendradt
Public Image: Bob Brown, Paul Callighan, Dave Hamilton, Stephen Hansen, Jeff Keicher, Joyce Klein
Fellowship: Paul Barnaby, Larry Berke, Jeff Jacobson, Paul Loner, Riley Oncken, Paulette Renault, Pat Shafer, Mark Spiegelhoff
Service: Brandon Diviak, Jeff Frank, Michele Jurkovic, Rob Mondi, Fred Peltz, Brendan Wilson, Heidi Wright
Foundations: Jim Buck, Sue Emberson, Chase Goodeill, Curt Lang, Matt Nelson, Jim Stoddard, Paul Stromborg
New Generations: Michael DeVito, Chip Houdek, Velvet Mason, Julie Sgarlata, Becky Springer, Steve Wilder
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