Sweet Sleep Tea
This is the perfect tea if you're feeling frazzled with too much to do and you feel a wave of exhaustion along with some irritability. Soothe and Settle Ingredients 1 oz dried lemon balm (for flavor and its calming properties) [...]
Warm Lemon Soup
Detoxing and cleansing Lemon Soup Ingredients: 2 medium avocados * 2 cups of hot filtered water 2 cups vegetable stock or bone broth 3 tbsp. lemon juice (about 1 medium-sized lemon juiced)** 1/2 cup cilantro (coriander) leaves 1 garlic clove, [...]
Blueberry Shrub – A delicious drinking vinegar
Blueberry Honey Shrub Shrubs are drinking vinegars (stay with me here) that make wonderful additions to cocktails OR, if you're just in the market for a bright and vibrant drink that has some beautiful health benefits. Apple cider vinegar [...]
Herbal Steam for Lingering Congestion
Herbal steam for congested nose and sinuses Herbal steam baths have been popular all over the world in many ancient civilizations and cultures. They are really helpful when you’re sick or have lingering congestion or cough. You can pick from [...]
Seed Cycling
Foods have the ability to balance our bodies and support healing. Adding in small amounts of certain foods regularly can have a profound impact on your health. Seed cycling is one way to do this. Seeds are considered YIN foods [...]
Seasonal Fruit Bake
Seasonal fruit bake As many of you know, particularly if you’ve worked with me in the clinic, I’m somewhat obsessed with warm foods. Warming foods - slightly or doing a long slow roast, adds warmth to the foods and can [...]
Are You Tired or Just Saturated?
Are you tired or are you just saturated? I’ve spent much of my life saying I’m tired. It was a way I justified taking time for myself. If I was "tired" then I could opt out of something. It made [...]
Seasonal Transition Salad
Ingredients: 4 cups mixed greens or baby spinach or kale 1 Red or yellow peppers, thinnly sliced 2 Thinly sliced green onions 1 lg Fresh tomato, diced 1 carrot - shredded Cube tofu into 1"cubes Saute the pepper in [...]
Opportunity through loss, transitions and unexpected events
I’m currently in a state of transition. It was also my birthday recently, which marks the passing of time, the passing of another year. A marking of my birth. I love the ritual that comes with my birthday - I [...]
Celery Soup
Celery is considered cool, sweet, spicy and slighty bitter according to Eastern Medicine. It also works on the Liver system along with the lungs and stomach. It's been shown to help with dizziness associated with hypertension, it's anticancer, helps to [...]