Holistic Wellness Podcast is sponsoring this contest as a means to share real life natural health stories from our listeners. If you are some who has personal experience with pursuing natural health and holistic living, we welcome you to participate in this contest. By sharing your personal experience, story and information, we hope to help, motive, encourage and inspire others to consider and pursue a natural health and holistic wellness lifestyle.

One never knows how sharing your own personal story and experience can help and inspires others!

See rules and prize information below. Keep in mind, that first and foremost, this contest is about giving and sharing and not merely about the winning of a prize. Everyone who submits a story is a winner because you are taking time to reach out and help others. The prize is simply being offered as a way to make the context engaging and fun!  Good luck and a big thank you to all participants.

Contest Rules & Regulations:

1. In your own words, submit a story/essay sharing how you have personally benefited from using natural health practices, natural remedies, alternative medicine, yoga, acupuncture, aromatherapy, whole foods, supplements, juicing, exercise or anything else related to natural health and holistic living. Your story can touch on one or multiple topics mentioned above.
2. Your story must be 300 – 1500 words in length.
3. Before submitting your story be sure to do a spelling a grammer check. Stories with a lot of spelling and grammar errors will be rejected
4. Submit completed stories via email.  Send you story as you would send a normal email.  DO NOT send any attached doc in your submission email
5. Email your story to:   mystorycontest@holisticwellnessshow.com
6. Submission deadline is:   February 12, 2010
7. After reviewing all submissions I will select the story which I feel is the most thoughtful well delivered story. Write what you think and feel in a normal down to earth manner and presentation. Not interested in stories that sound like they should be published in a technical journal for scientists.
8. Prize winner announcement will be made on Holistic Wellness Podcast in February 2010. Be sure to subscribe and tune into the show to hear the winner announcement. You can also subscribe for free via ITunes. Instructions to claim the winning prize will be given out on the show so be sure to tune in February. Be sure you don’t miss a single episode!!!!
9. The prize winner will get a $40.00 gift certificate to purchase anything of their choosing from our Holistic Wellness Store and the winning story will be read on the air during a February or early March episode of Holistic Wellness Podcast.
10. At our discretion, all stories that meet the above guidelines may be shared with the world via our show and website. Upon submission of your story, you thereby agree to allow us permission to freely use, share and publish your story/essay.