I had such a peaceful time on the coast last week. However, peace isn’t something that should just be felt while on vacation – we need moments to take a break and experience serenity in our everyday lives.
“After Dinner Ahh” Tea Blend
Tag Archives: Health
With Nature at Honey Horn
Yesterday, I finished Thich Nhat Hanh’s Peace is Every Step, an excellent written meditation to help foster mindfulness and awareness.
Often, Thich Nhat Hanh suggests that we would benefit to become more aware of nature. This is both to increase our level of mindfulness, and to reduce the suffering in others’ lives. When we are disrespectful to the Earth, we are being disrespectful to all other living beings and to ourselves since we are all connected. When we become more aware, more conscious, we are naturally inclined to be more respectful of the Earth. Continue reading
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A Night in the Dark & Echinacea Tincture
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I think today is another hodgepodge of a post for me. It seems that I have been busy, busy lately. All good things — friends visiting the states from South America, a conference, event planning, trying to continue a regular habit of eating well and taking walks in nature. It’s all left me with a lot of ideas for what I imagine to be profound posts, but time slips away quickly and then I wonder if it’s all still relevant. Continue reading
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Slippery Elm Balls for Digestive Distress
Medicine doesn’t have to taste gross or be filled with ingredients that a normal human cannot pronounce (let alone comprehend where they came from!). In fact, one of our first lines of medical help can be in the form of healing, all-natural products from plants we can identify outdoors that are made in our own kitchens with ingredients we trust. This is herbal medicine. It is people’s medicine.
The following recipe is for a fun, easy to make, and even easier to eat herbal ball that helps to calm digestive issues. Eat too much? Have heartburn? Feeling a general sense of malaise in your digestive region? Give a slippery elm ball a try! Continue reading
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The Fall Garden and Her Vegetable Soup
The peak of gardening has passed, but there are still plenty of things to be seen, done, and harvested this time of year.
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Straw Bale House in the City
Humans have been creating homes out of the Earth for as long as we’ve existed. It’s only recently that we’ve been building structures out of synthetic materials that may emit hazardous chemicals into our living spaces, and have consistently increased the size of the homes that we live in so that we must import materials from other regions and use massive amounts of fossil fuels in their construction. Continue reading
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Vegetable Stock from Scraps
Making vegetable stock from scraps is unbelievably easy — I can’t believe it took me so long to try! Continue reading
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Lemon Verbena All-Purpose Cleaner
It’s the time of year for harvesting herbs — to dry, freeze, make into medicine, and for use in recipes.
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Mabon. The Start of Fall.
Saturday was Mabon, the beginning of fall, and I can feel the change in many ways. It’s amazing how abruptly it becomes obvious that the days are shortening, shadows are longer, the humidity of summer has broken, and that nights now require blankets. Continue reading
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Healing Plantain Salve
Awhile back, I posted about the medicinal benefits of the common “weed” plantain (Plantago spp.) and described the process of infusing it in olive oil. (Read about it here!) Continue reading
These Light Footsteps 