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) [...]
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 [...]
Weeding Life – What needs to go.
Weeding Life -What needs to go. I just spent my early morning meditation time in my garden. I sat out there to be surrounded by nature as I watched the light rise. I have a small garden…and it is wild. [...]
Winter Solstice – A Time to Go Deep and Listen
The winter solstice represents the depth of winter. The midpoint or height of the season. Yes it may get colder in the months to come, but it’s at this point, the longest night of the year that we start to [...]
Re-membering ourselves.
We so often go about life on auto pilot. Same schedule, same foods, meals, workouts and ways of doing things day after day. This can work for awhile, but somewhere in there we lose touch with ourself. The deeper self. [...]
Your Morning Elixir
After a night of sleep, we will often wake up thirsty vs hungry. That’s a natural result of sleeping as our body dehydrates over night. A little bit of thirst is normal in the morning, but if you find yourself [...]
Essential Care for the Essential Workers
Care For The Caregivers Strength, calm and resiliency tools for front line workers If your anxiety and fear peaks at the end of the day after you’ve cared for everyone else and you’re left not being able to sleep or [...]
Top TCM Herbs for Everyday Use
As seen in The Hearty Soul Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) uses herbal medicine to rebalance the body and bring the body back to a state of health. Herbal medicine is highly customized as no two people are the same – [...]
Remembering Gratitude
We are living in such interesting times, we can be pulled a million different directions at once and sometimes, the feeling of gratitude isn't the first things that springs to mind. But sometimes, if we're able to focus on the [...]
My obsession with cozy
I’ve always appreciated warmth in life – people, environments, cultures, foods, fabrics – you name it, if it feels warm and cozy, it feels good to me. I’ve developed a healthy addiction to cashmere (thank goodness it’s coinciding with [...]