With Purpose Therapeutic Massage & Wellness LLC

09/11/2025

Self-care is important. 🦋

09/08/2025

Did you know there's a referral reward? 😳

09/02/2025

08/16/2025

💛 Become a Bin Buddy — Love Lavishly on the Hardest Day 💛

Many of you have asked, “How can I help?”

Here’s a powerful way to make a real and immediate impact in a child’s life.
When children enter foster care, it's often on one of the hardest days of their lives—and many arrive with nothing more than the clothes on their backs. At Isaiah 117 House, we have the privilege of stepping into that moment with radical love and dignity, offering each child a duffel bag filled with brand-new essentials—clothing, underwear, hygiene items, shoes, blankets, toys, and more—valued at around $300 per bag.

This is where YOU come in.

🌟 Become a Bin Buddy?
A Bin Buddy is a family, civic group, business, faith group or church, anyone that partners with us to keep our donation bins stocked with the essentials we give to each child who walks through our doors.
Here’s how it works:

* You choose a bin to sponsor for a period of 1 year.
* You stock it initially with the needed items
* When the bin runs low, we send you a gentle reminder of what is needed

We do the rest, putting your generosity straight into the hands of a child who needs it most.

➡️ Sign up now:https://tr.ee/HqrAxbugXb ( leave your phone # in message)

💫 The Commitment
We ask each Bin Buddy to commit to sponsoring their bin for one year, beginning with the initial stocking of items. This ensures that our inventory remains ready to meet the needs of every child we serve.

🤝 Join Us — Stand in the Gap
Being a Bin Buddy means more than collecting items. It means standing in the gap and declaring, to each child you are loved and you matter!

➡️ Questions or ready to arrange a drop-off? Contact us at: Lucasoh@isaiah117house.com.

Thank you for being a community that chooses love, hope, and action. Together, we can make their hardest day a little softer, and their new beginning a little brighter.

08/15/2025

Here is good info about something that many of us are probably consuming daily. 👇🏼

Let's discuss the "C" word...
This ingredient is in so many of our foods we buy at the store. Even that yummy healthy looking rotisserie chicken has it! 😞 The cottage cheese I picked up today (couldn’t get organic today) had it 😡 Obviously I didn’t buy it. Remember and recognize this word!

Here’s a little information for you about it:
Carrageenan is a common food additive but it may cause digestive side effects and has a potential link to colon cancer. While more research is needed, you may want to remove it from your diet.

What is carrageenan?
Carrageenan is an additive used to thicken, emulsify, and preserve foods and drinks. It’s a natural ingredient that comes from red seaweed (also called Irish moss). You’ll often find this ingredient in nut milks, meat products, and yogurt.

Since the late 1960s, there’s been controversy surrounding the health effects of carrageenan. Some evidence suggests that carrageenan triggers inflammation, gastrointestinal ulcerations, and that it damages your digestive system. People have been petitioning for products with carrageenan to be labeled with a warning or removed entirely. Read on to learn more about this common food additive and why you may want to avoid it.

Dangers and side effects of carrageenan
Products with carrageenan may be labeled as “natural,” but limited studies show that carrageenan may promote or cause:
* inflammation
* bloating
* irritable bowel syndrome
* glucose intolerance
* colon cancer
* food allergies

Increased inflammation can lead to a greater likelihood of other diseases, such as:
* inflammatory bowel disease
* arthritis
* tendonitis
* chronic cholecystitis, or gallbladder inflammation

Is it safe for consumption?
There needs to be more human studies to confirm any link between carrageenan and digestive problems. In the meantime, you may want to limit how much carrageenan you consume.

The Food and Drug Administration still approves this ingredient. But in 2016, the National Organic Standards Board voted to remove carrageenan from their approved list. This means foods made with carrageenan can no longer be labeled “USDA organic.”

Which foods have carrageenan?
Carrageenan tends to be in vegan and vegetarian products. Since it’s a plant, manufacturers use it to replace gelatin, which is made from animal parts.

Common sources of carrageenan
* chocolate milk
* cottage cheese
* cream
* ice cream
* almond milk
* diary alternatives, such as vegan cheeses or nondairy desserts
* coconut milk
* creamers
* h**p milk
* rice milk
* soy milk
* deli meats

The bottom line
If you’re worried about the side effects of carrageenan, take it out of your diet and see if there’s any improvement in how you’re feeling. It’s legally required to be listed under a product’s ingredients, so it should be easy to start to figure out what foods to eliminate.

Talk to a doctor if you continue to experience inflammation or digestive issues after removing carrageenan. This may signal that carrageenan isn’t responsible for your symptoms.
Another reason to buy organic!!

Source: healthline

08/07/2025

08/01/2025

Something to think about. 🤔

I'm gradually working on correcting my diet and doing better. 💯

Some of you saw this picture and immediately thought "HEART ATTACK"!

Sounds like we need to have a conversation.

Did you know that its SUGAR that causes damage inside the arterial walls from inflammation and oxidative stress?

Did you know that cholesterol (the thing we have been taught to fear) is just the one that comes in BEHIND the sugar and patches the damage already made?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24493081/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39717036/

Lets stop talking down about the foods that our ancestors for generations ate 👏 every. 👏 single. 👏 day.

It wasnt until the 80's when we were brainwashed into thinking cholesterol was bad and heard LOW FAT/NO FAT is better for you. No, it just brought down the material to patch the damage. Thats why cardiovascular disease is at an ALL TIME high!

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30198808/

Animal based protein is the best thing you can consume for:

🔹️Balanced vitamins and minerals
🔹️Keeping iron and amino acids up
🔹️Healthy fats help with inflammation
🔹️It tastes GOOD 🥩

Grab a ribeye and lets get healthy!! 🍽