🌿 Meet the Woman Healing Long Island From the Root Up

🔪 Nassau Police Shoot Knife-Wielding Man in Westbury

🎤 Free Cole Swindell Concert Rocks Eisenhower Park Tonight

🍪 Crumbl Cookies Is Coming to Holbrook

There's a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from asking a doctor "why" and never quite getting an answer. Betty DeCandia knows that feeling from the inside, and it's the entire reason the Whole Life Living Method™ exists.

Twenty five years ago, Betty was dealing with health issues her doctors couldn't fully solve, and she went looking for alternatives herself. That search led her to a nutrition certification through the Institute for Integrative Nutrition in 2002, and from there into homeopathy, a 230 year old system of medicine built on the principle that like cures like. She became her own first client, working through migraines, hormonal imbalances, and food sensitivities using the exact approach she now teaches. She's 64 now, takes no medications, and says she's healthier than a lot of friends her own age. That's not a sales pitch, it's just where the research took her.

Betty's practice centers on nutrition, homeopathy, and a biofeedback bio-resonance scan that reads the body's energy in about 35 minutes, flagging inflammation, imbalances, and possible deficiencies. She's careful to say she doesn't diagnose, she's not a medical doctor, but she uses that data to build a personalized plan of nutrition, homeopathic remedies, and sometimes herbs. Her whole approach starts with root causes instead of covering up symptoms, on the belief that a symptom is the body trying to tell you something, not a problem to silence.

A full body scan runs $175, follow-up sessions run around $100, and a second scan at the eight week mark tracks your progress for another $175. Betty is upfront that she wants this accessible. Her whole mission is teaching people tools to manage their own health instead of reaching for a prescription every time something feels off, and the pricing reflects that.

Betty is also the newly appointed managing director of the Long Island chapter of eWomenNetwork, a global group of women entrepreneurs she's rebuilding from scratch after a few dormant years. On top of running Whole Life Living, she's hosting a webinar called "Feeling Off After 40? Discover What Your Body is Trying to Tell You" on September 22nd, followed by a six week introduction to practical homeopathy course starting September 24th.

One more thing worth knowing if you're in this world yourself: Betty is actively looking for other wellness practitioners to come on her podcast. If you work in nutrition, movement, mental health, or any corner of holistic care and you have something to say, she wants to hear from you.

You don't have to live near Kings Park to work with Betty, she sees clients remotely too. Head to wholelifelivingllc.org to read her full story and get in touch.

Whole Life Living is proof that the best guide through a health problem is often someone who's already found her own way out of one.

Late Monday night, officers responding to reports of a man threatening people with a large knife near Brush Hollow Road and 6th Street in Westbury found themselves in a scary few seconds. Adrian Thompson, 27, allegedly ran from behind some bushes and started smashing the passenger side window of a patrol car with the blade, according to Nassau Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder.

One officer fired twice and missed. A second officer fired once and struck Thompson in the jaw as he moved toward the back of the vehicle. He's now recovering at Nassau University Medical Center and facing two counts of menacing a police officer, with more charges possibly on the way. Thompson, a fourth year Columbia University medical student and Stony Brook grad, was allegedly struggling with depression and may have been using drugs at the time, his parents told police.

It's a rattling story for a quiet residential corner of Westbury, and a reminder of how quickly these calls can turn. Both officers involved were also treated at the hospital for trauma following the encounter.

👉 Read more: greaterlongisland.com/westbury-police-shooting-columbia-medical-student-knife/

If you don't have plans tonight, Nassau County just handed you one. Country star Cole Swindell headlines the Harry Chapin Lakeside Theatre at Eisenhower Park this evening as part of County Executive Bruce Blakeman's 2026 Free Summer Fun Guide, the county's lineup of free concerts, movies and cultural events running all summer long.

Shows at Lakeside Theatre typically kick off around 7 p.m., and past crowds have packed the lawn early to grab a spot. It's the kind of low key, high value night out that makes summer on Long Island what it is: bring a blanket, bring the kids, and let someone else handle the ticket price.

Swindell isn't the only act on the summer calendar either. Blakeman's office has been rolling out a full slate of free entertainment at the park all season, so if tonight doesn't work, there's likely another act worth catching before Labor Day.

👉 Read more: www.liherald.com/eastmeadow/stories/nassau-countys-free-summer-fun-takes-center-stage,222635

Suffolk County's cookie map is expanding again. Crumbl is opening its third Long Island location at The Shops at SunVet in Holbrook, with an official grand opening set for August 14. The new shop will sit at 5801 Sunrise Highway inside the redeveloped shopping center.

The Holbrook store is owned by husband and wife franchisees Malay and Riddhi Patel, who also run the Stony Brook and Massapequa locations. Stony Brook was the chain's first Suffolk County shop when it opened back in December, so Holbrook marks the Patels' third Crumbl on the Island.

Expect the usual rotating weekly menu of oversized, freshly baked cookies alongside the classic Milk Chocolate Chip. The shop is hiring ahead of its opening, so if you've ever wanted to work somewhere that smells like a bakery all day, now's your shot.

👉 Read more: greaterlongisland.com/crumbl-cookies-opening-soon-at-the-shops-at-sunvet-in-holbrook/

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