This is the story of how it all began or, to quote The Hobbit, a story of there and back again. It began with a garden. It wasn’t an herb garden. It was a vegetable garden, or rather a series of them tucked into the sunny spots of our quarter-acre Read more…
My grandmother’s greenhouse was one of the first places my little roots passed through on their way to becoming the woman I am today. I feel her memory in every greenhouse I walk through today. It rests on my shoulder like a warm presence, and I am taken back to that first greenhouse I knew and the woman who filled it with plants. It is a place and a woman who would be absent for the majority of my life. Yet it is a place and a woman who left its essence forever entwined in my psyche.
When I share the potential health benefits of the herbal teas I blend, I do so with a bit of hesitation.
Sometimes I choose to share the practical, physical attributes of a plant. Other times I mention its energy personality, or focus on how it has featured in stories and mythology.
None of it is set in stone, but it all plays a part.
Plant medicine can be a powerful ally in our search for wellness and vitality. Other times, however, it seems as though it does nothing. What gives?
The story of La huesera, or the bone woman, is an old legend from the mountains of Mexico. The bone woman wanders the deserts and collects the bones she finds, specifically wolf bones.
Wounds. We don’t like to talk about them, especially those complex emotional wounds of ours that defy fixing. Happiness is supposed to be our goal. But for the ones who are walking wounded through this big world, this one is for you. What causes emotional wounds? Our wounds can stem from Read more…
