“Comfort is a fountain of youth. It restores the body, renews the mind, and energizes the soul.” ~JT

Learn how the power of comfort keeps you young no matter what your age!

Aging is a natural process. We can’t stop it. However, Americans certainly try by spending 114 billion dollars every year to lift, suck, and color their age away. Whatever your anti-aging routine is now – add the power of comfort and enjoy a dance in the fountain.

Anti-Aging Comfort Therapy for Your Skin and Hair:

Comfort Silkie’s satins are like living water to skin and hair. Our soothing satins help your skin and hair maintain its moisture balance as you sleep. Comfort Silkie Satin Pillow Covers soothe the surface of your skin and allow your skin to move smoothly, reducing wrinkles. Our silkie satin also protects the natural oils in your hair, preventing tangles and breakage.

Anti –Aging Comfort Therapy for Your Joints and Muscles:

No matter what age you are your joints and muscles take wear and tear. When your muscle or joint ache, it is asking for comfort. Use theComfort Silkie Effleurage Massage Circle to bring relief. This amazing little product provides healing by bringing warmth and increased blood flow. Just use a light stroking motion with the silkie side of the Effleurage Circle against your skin over the tender area. The soft friction creates warmth, additional blood flow and soothing touch.

Anti –Aging Comfort Therapy for Your Body:

Being chilled or cold can be stressful for the body. Trying to create and maintain warmth produces tension in your muscles and weariness. Wrap yourself in the Comfort Silkie Shoulder Shawl and release the tension from your shoulders.

Are you a person who chills easily? Have a Comfort Silkie Shawl close to throw over your shoulders when reading a book in bed, watching TV, or out and about.

The Hot/Cold Packs are a favorite comfort item for cold and hot weather. They are made of grains and herbs with a slow temperature release to soothe.

Anti –Aging Comfort Therapy for Your Brain:

Comfort helps keep the brain healthy by reducing stress and allowing comfort hormones to release. Whether you are using an Effleurage Massage Circle, Hot /Cold Pack or enjoying a Satin Pillow Cover take time to allow the comfort response to bring its full strengthening and soothing effect. Soothing sensations trigger the comfort response. Your brain receives the sensory input and actives your limbic nervous system, the amygdala – your emotional brain, the thalamus – your sensory processor and the hippocampus – your memory chooser.

Comfort Therapy is key to loving life and living it to the fullest.  Be good to yourself and thrive … forever, forever, amen.

“Comfort sleep is the restoring nectar our bodies require to renew.” ~JT

Learn how the power of comfort can bring you sweet sleep in 1-2-3.

Our bodies and minds are designed to need regenerating sleep to function and flourish everyday. If you have a difficult time falling or staying asleep, you’re not alone. One in three people or nearly 60 million Americans struggle with getting a good night sleep. Our high tech world, stress, and demanding schedules make it difficult to shut down and soothe to sleep.

The Comfort Solution:

Comfort Sleep Therapy uses a mind/body conditioning that elicits a relaxation and sleep association response. Your brain remembers, your body responds, and takes you to your sleep zone. 1- 2 -3-zzzzzzzz

Here what you need to do:

1. Choose a Comfort Silkie Throw or Pillow Cover. These items are designed to evoke a comfort response. The use of your Comfort Silkie in Sleep Therapy will be a critical part of your sleep routine.

2. This step is – you and your brain: You know how babies respond to their security blankets – this is your comfort and security item. Take time to educate your brain and create an association with the Comfort Silkie’s soothing feel, color, fabrics, and its comforting feel. Snuggle into your Comfort Silkie and choose your best memory of bliss and relaxation, and go there, feel sensations of comfort and letting go of tension. Your brain will begin to identify your Comfort Silkie with these thoughts and comforting sensory input and take you to your sleep zone. zzzzzz.

3. This step is – you and your body: Let your brain and body work together. Your brain will create a comfort association with your Comfort Silkie as you combine your soothing thoughts with your body responses.  Lay down, get comfortable, cuddle up with your Comfort Silkie and breathe deep slow breathes. Snuggle, sigh, release any tension, relax your shoulders, relax your face, totally let go until you feel completely limp. If your mind is still busy, go back to a bliss memory and soothe into your sleep zone. Do not feel anxious about the process, give your brain and body time to create the comfort connection by surrendering yourself to the process that evokes sleep and relaxation response. Soon you will have created a conditioned comfort/sleep response.  When you use your Comfort Silkie and have created that connection your brain will automatically take you to your sleep zone. 1-2-3-zzz.

The Science of Comfort:
The conditioned comfort response involved the limbic nervous system, the amygdala – your emotional brain, the thalamus – your sensory processor and the hippocampus – your memory chooser.

Additional Sleep Therapy Tips:

Make sure your sleep environment is soothing to your senses.  Give your body and brain what it needs to shut down from its daily workload and quiet you to sleep.

Dark curtains, comfortable bedding and pillows, white noise or low music with a timer. Shut off light giving stimulation; television, computers, and phones, a half hour before bed time. If you have a worry that is keeping you up: write it down and then tell yourself that you will work on it tomorrow and choose to not think about it until then. Pray and let someone else work on it while you sleep.

Be good to yourself, develop a comfort response. You deserve sweet sleep.

Jeanelle Troncone, designed Comfort Sleep Therapy after studying comfort response for over thirty years. “My research began when I patented the first little soft and silkie security blanket designed for baby comfort response. Babies recall the silkie sensations that surrounded them in the womb. After birth they have an innate desire to soothe themselves with that same silkie feel, thus began the Comfort Silkie Company. From our beginnings we are wired for comfort. Deep within our Limbic System are those beginning moments. Tap into them and surrender to comfort.

Product Suggestions:

Comfort Silkie Pillows & Pillow Covers

Comfort Silkie Throws & Blankets

Take Comfort Travel Collection

“The power of comfort is key to living life with resilience and joy.” ~JT

De-Stress and Release Tension 1-2-3

Can we expect life to slow down and get easier? Probably not, that is why over a billion Americans take anti-depressants or mood elevators just to make it through their day. Seventy-five percent of us say we are over-tasked, uncertain about the future, and experiencing “great stress.”

Learning how to “comfort through” is a skill that brings joy and resilience. Life can be complicated. Our mind and body is wired to work on solving our problems. Stress is our physical and mental reaction to any thing threatening our well-being. The Comfort Response is the yin to the yang of stress response. Comfort is your reset button within the body and mind.

The Comfort Response is critical to a healthy life. Stress is known to: lower your immune response making you more susceptible to disease, trigger depression, impair memory and learning, increase your chance of heart disease and stroke, and upset your digestive track.

You know when you are stressed. Your heart races, you feel panicked, your shoulder stiffen, your stomach aches, you want to cry.  Stress is a complex physiological response that automatically takes place within your mind and body.

The Comfort Response is a powerful antidote to the stress and the cascade of physical responses stress sets off. The Comfort Response involves the limbic nervous system, the amygdala – your emotional brain, the thalamus – your sensory processor and the hippocampus – your memory chooser. Comfort has the power to quiet your mind, soothe your soul, and renew your body.

Here is are the comfort keys 1-2-3 to de-stressing and soothing away tension:

1. Give your mind and body a comfort trigger. The Comfort Silkie products are designed to evoke a comfort response. Choose a Comfort Silkie Throw, Pillow Cover or other comfort product. Your brain will begin to associate this product with the Comfort Response within your body.

2. Create the comfort association by using all your senses to embrace the tactile comfort item. Take time to see and appreciate the color, smell the fabrics (you may use your favorite soothing scent on the Comfort Silkie), feel and embrace the stroke-able satin. Allow your senses to comfort you. Baby yourself with comfort like a little one snuggles in to their security blanket. Don’t move on until your brain is focused on the sensory input you are experiencing.

3. Allow the sensory input to trigger a comfort response by being aware of your body; get in a comfortable position and slow your breathing. Rock yourself with your breathes and snuggle into the Comfort Silkie. Sigh, sway, soothe, listen to your heart beat slow, and snuggle in deeper. Let go of tension, relax your muscles, and drop your shoulders. Let your muscles go limp, breathe slowly, drop your jaw, stay in this moment, notice the softness of the Comfort Silkie satin, and feel the Comfort Response. Soak in the moment and sense how our body feels refreshed by comfort.

Comfort is available every day …

Enjoy this moment whenever you realize you are under stress. Think of it as a life giving reset of your brain and body.

Soon your mind and body will identify the Comfort Silkie item as a trigger to an automatic Comfort Response.  Taking time to create this sensory connection with your brain is important. There will be stressful times when you can’t soothe. Then just think of your Comfort Silkie and how you feel during a comfort moment and it will trigger the Comfort Response.

So, there you go. Embracing the power of comfort gives you control of how your body responds to stress and its’ effect on your life. It is the best gift you will give yourself.

Now, pass on the wisdom to someone you love.

Comfort is a powerful preventive and healing tool. Learn how to incorporate comfort into your family and everyday life. Less stress, more comfort, stronger hearts.

You are the heart of your home. Take care of yourself.
Your heart is an amazing pump that forces blood around a network of blood vessels in your body that would circle the Earth two and half times. This small grapefruit size miracle muscle beats around 70 beats a minute – 100,800 beats a day – every day. With each beat it pumps the oxygen and nutrients that nourish all the systems that carry on life in your body.

Did you know?
A woman dies of heart disease every minute.
It is the leading cause of death for women in America.
More women die of heart disease than all forms of cancer.
8,000,000 American women are living with heart disease.

Can you name 5 things that comfort your heart?
1. More comfort & less stress – slow down, relax, unwind, and listen to your heart beat. Remember next time you’re rushed and stressed, stop and take a few deep breathes. Take a comfort moment every day. Wrap up in your Comfort Silkie blanket and reset your body and mind. Learn how to be kind to your heart.
2. More comfort exercise – enjoy a walk or some exercise. It helps your heart, your brain, and your bones. Take care of your body, it’s the only one you have.
3. Eat comfort foods like veggies, fruits, whole grains that nourish your heart.
4. Less fatty foods. Next time you pick up that yummy fatty item don’t think “A minute on my lips, forever on my hips.” Instead think “Forever in my heart.”
5. A merry heart is like good medicine. Remember something funny and take time to laugh.

If you or someone you know has heart disease:
The Cardiac Comfort Collection products by Comfort Silkie can bring comfort and reduce stress during their Cardiac Rehab.

Comfort Your Heart – Cardiac Rehabilitation

The Cardiac Comfort Collection products are designed to provide soothing comfort to help relieve tension and anxiety. Comfort can help you relax and heal. Comfort and relaxation can help your body release natural soothers: endorphins and enkephalins, that reduce pain perception and increase a sense of well-being.

Comfort is a safe and effective tool that enhances the healing response.
Choose a Cardiac Comfort product and incorporate it in your relaxation and comfort therapy.

Embrace the circle of comfort
♥ Body: Comforting touch
♥ Emotions: Comforting self talk
♥ Mind: Comforting thoughts
♥ Soul: Comforting faith
Each comfort connects to the next, encircling you with a sense of well-being.

Snuggle into your Comfort Your Heart product whenever you are feeling anxious or fearful.
Take a few deep breathes, loosen up your shoulders, and snuggle into comfort.

Comments or questions at heart@comfortsilkie.com

The information above is not provided as medical advice. Please ask your physician if you have specific questions about incorporating comfort in your rehabilitation program.

Turkey, stuffing, sweet potatoes, mushroom green beans, mashed potatoes, and gravy. I can smell the turkey cooking now. There are so many delicious foods at Thanksgiving that stuffing is often thought of as an ordinary; but traditional side dish. No more boring stuffing; it will be a highlight of your Thanksgiving meal!

I usually start Thanksgiving day around 5am to get our turkey in the oven. I wrestle a  25 pounder and stuff it full of delicious ingredients because – I LOVE stuffing. Fill up your turkey with love and yummy ingredients and experience the taste of comfort. If your not cooking a turkey you can still make a delicious stuffing in a oven dish.

This is making me hungry!

Be creative – put your favorite tastes into your stuffing. I like to add: chopped onions, walnuts, apples, golden raisins, or dried apricots.  Add your favorite goodies to your choices of the dried stuffing bread crumbs/cubes. I don’t like my stuffing mushy. Be careful when combining the bread, ingredients, and liquid to add less liquid if you are including items that will add moisture, like apples or other fruits.

Prepare or chop the ingredients the night before and refrigerate the in individual plastic bags or containers. In the morning, prepare the turkey for the oven and combine the ingredients and stuff.  Get one of those big aluminium cooking-to-go-containers to easily mix all the ingredients together.

Enjoy this time of year – stuff it with love and comfort!