This is the season for soups and there are so many ways to make them. I like to make broths, use a bit and stick the rest in the freezer. Those broths serve as a base for soups or can be used for sipping, cooking rice or sauteeing vegetables. Bone broths can be very nourishing for those who are willing and there are also great veggie and vegan options. Consider this a soup recipe smorgasbord.
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Last Sunday we set our clocks back and temperatures quickly plummeted giving us a taste of winter. I don’t know about you but I wasn’t ready. I’m a spring and summer gal through and through. There is beauty in the dark/cold season and I’ll tell you what has helped me, and many of my clients, to shift our relationship with it.
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The lessons of goldenrod have come through research, experimentation, knowledge shared by other herbalists and direct teachings from the plant. It’s always the teachings that come while I’m meditating with a plant or making medicine that touch me most deeply.
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Spring Cooking Spring is my favorite season to cook. After a long winter of eating foods that have been stored or bought from the store I’m finally able harvest fresh greens. I am not much of a vegetable gardener so foraging for the weeds in my garden, local meadows and woods helps me to create
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Ayurveda Medicine sees people as unique combinations of basic patterns that are influenced by environment, seasons, diet and lifestyle. These patterns can help determine a person’s dosha or inherent constitution. There are three doshas and most people have one primary dosha with one or both of the other doshas adding to the whole picture.
Discovering Your Dosha (Exploring yourself through an Ayurvedic lense) Read More »
Anxiety is a reality for so many people. It can act as a filmy layer keeping us from shining brightly in our intentions and goals. In some families anxiety is passed from one generation to the next. For others anxiety is a result of trauma. Simply being a human being in a world with so
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