Emotional Healing Resources: Plants for Psychological Recovery
Plant medicines are perfect partners for helping us heal through and recvoer from traumatic experiences. As we move through these experiences, making space to draw on the healing energy of herbal home remedies can help us make better choices for ourselves and our familiies. It can also help us shore up the places where we feel the […]
Aromatherapy in a Cup: Herbs for Grief
Of the many beings who inhabit this world, Plants are perhaps the most well-adapted to handling Grief with Grace and Compassion. They have learned how to endure personal loss, such as the deep pruning we give our roses each spring or
Herbs for Anger: Healing Emotional Trauma, Plant Medicine Support
Anger comes in many forms. Irritability and peevishness among others describe the lighter side, rage and bullying behaviors the darker. What all aspects of Anger have in common, according to emotional intelligence expert Karla McLaren, is that Anger is a message from within alerting you to take a look at your boundaries. Anger shows us […]
Atlas Cedarwood Essential Oil Properties, Uses
I’ve been using Atlas Cedarwood essential oil in my Gear Defender disinfectant spray and other disinfectant blends for a few years. It’s warm, woody scent offers a wonderful grounding base note to those blends while enhancing the anti-microbial aspects of the other essential oils. I’ve thought of Atlas Cedarwood as a partner in those blends.
Stinging Nettle: Resource Guide to Home Remedies using Urtica sp.
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Plant Medicines for Emotional Healing and Trauma
Trauma is part of the human experience. Some people seem to glide through Huge experiences, like the Covid-19 pandemic, without breaking a sweat. Other folk are torn apart by what seems to be the tiniest bumps in the road. We’re all affected by our experiences differently, so it’s hard to clearly define what causes Trauma. […]
Rosemary Resources: Herbal Remedies for Memory care, Digestion
Rosemary has enjoyed a whole lot of cultural popularity through the ages, too. European culture is replete with Rosemary references, and not just the Shakespearean sort, either. While Rosemary isn’t a modern-day super-star herb like Lavender, Elderberry, and Dandelion, many of us are quite familiar with the pungent, bitter, pineyness of this temperate shrub. Who hasn’t made at […]
Cineole in Herbs: How it Works
Most of the plants that produce higher levels of Cineole are connected with respiratory health and reducing inflammation. Rosemary and Eucalyptus, for instance…
Elderberry Electuaries: Immune System Strengthening Treats
Wouldn’t you love to avoid getting sick this year?
Electuaries are one of my favorite easy herbal remedies. They’re simple enough you can engage the whole family in creating them, or you can go it alone like I do and think of it as a meditation of sorts.
Magic and Rosemary: Protection and Integration Magick
Through the ages, Rosemary has played a rather large part in the rituals of our culture. In daily life, Rosemary has helped keep both critters and germs at bay. It’s been infused into vinegar, burned and distilled into
Rosemary Essential Oil Properties and Use
Aromatherapists have long employed Rosemary’s strongly aromatic qualities to treat infectious diseases including colds and flu, heart and circulatory conditions including low blood pressure and cold hands and feet, slow or sluggish digestion, menstrual irregularity and infertility, and what was once called
Rosemary Energetics: Digestive, Anxiety, Cleansing Herbal Remedy
Modern herbalists have some good scientific studies to back their use of Rosemary, and many of us draw upon both traditional practice and modern scientific study when we reach for Rosemary. For the most part, we all agree that Rosemary tends to be