Healing Grief: Natrum Muriaticum

When I was 21 years old, my father unexpectedly died 10 days after my birthday. He was 47 years old. Death is strange. It's as natural as birth, we all know it's going to happen, yet when we see someone grieving the loss of a beloved we treat them like an...

It's hard to feel steady when there is so much to be overwhelmed by. 

Today, I share with you a very simple and yet effective Grounding meditation I share with students. Sometimes I'll share it in clinic too when someone is in crisis. 

I use it myself after hearing bad news, or after...

While I don’t really burn when exposed to the sun, many members of my friends and family do. I wish I could credit who I learned this recipe from – It might be that I read a version of this from Rosemary Gladstar or James Green decades ago. Nonetheless, this is a simple recipe I want...

As we near the spring Equinox and the pagan holiday Ostara the nettles beckon from the field behind my home.

Ostara, or spring equinox, is the holiday celebrating birth and renewal as the sun warms the earth. The sun coaxes the plants upward to receive nourishment. New life sprouts out of the...

Nothing says spring like the intoxicating scent of lilac blossoms. Their sweetness reminds me of childhood, my mother's birthday, and the hope and renewal that spring rains bring. Their fragrance is so heady and delicious that I've always wanted to eat them - and you can! While I enjoy lilac...

I woke early this morning to harvest nettle root from my small but healthy patch of nettles (Urtica dioica)

The peak time to harvest roots is early spring while the vitality still resides in the root pushing upwards for new growth, or autumn while the vital energies are drawing...

Castor oil is derived from the Castor bean (Ricinus communis) and has a long medicinal history dating back to ancient Egypt.  The plant was mentioned in the Ebers Papyrus, an ancient Egyptian medicinal treatise,  and evidence of the plant was found...

Hello! 

It feels like it’s been far too long since I last sent a newsletter out to you dear community! That’s because spring for me begins in February, and that means lots of time harvesting outside every spare moment I have, with little spare time on the computer.  The...

Wise sages throughout history have been known to say nature provides humans with all the medicine we may need for every illness. While it may be so that we haven’t yet decoded all of Nature’s elixirs – or perhaps we’ve collectively lost much of this wisdom through our...

I’ve never considered myself skilled at making face creams until I experimented with eliminating shea butter and cocoa butter from my recipe– two staple ingredients listed in every face cream recipe I’ve ever come across. It took me a while to realize the reason my...