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02 May How My Guest Blogger Got Her Healthy Groove Back

Posted at 14:55h in Food, Diet, Recipes, Inspiration, Natural Health, Seasonal Health, Women's Health

Today's guest blog that started as an enthusiastic email from my friend Carolyn, who was tired of being 'stuck' in her old patterns. She found a way to break through after a couple weeks of seasonal cleansing. With some light editing of exclamation points, I'll...

26 Apr Are You Too Comfortable With Your Comfort Zone?

Posted at 11:49h in Inspiration, Natural Health

When was the last time you took a new route to work or changed the part in your hair? Did you decide a really long time ago you didn't like a certain food, like brussel sprouts, so you never, ever tried it again? It's easy to...

22 Mar Purifying Herbal Ritual Reboots Your Liver In Spring

Posted at 15:18h in Natural Health, Seasonal Health

In Chinese medicine, it's taught that a healthy Liver means more than a nicely ‘detoxed’ body. It also holds the key to the free and healthy expression of emotions. Your Liver ensures balanced expressions of righteous anger, sadness, fear, and even the creativity. When you're robbed...

Bees provide nature's remedy for allergy symptoms

19 Mar 5 of Nature’s Best Allergy Remedies – For Prevention, Too!

Posted at 12:27h in Natural Health, Seasonal Health, Specific Herb Remedies

Every Spring, Mother Nature launches clouds of pollen that stir up misery ranging from sneezes to red eyes and swollen faces. Then, she provides the gift that calms, soothes, and relieves it all. Start now, and lower the chance of spring allergies morphing into infection. Stop...

21 Feb Snow Day Soup is Healthy & Hearty

Posted at 19:56h in Food, Diet, Recipes, Natural Health, Seasonal Health

When I think of snow, I think soup. So, of course I spent our Nebraska snow day in the kitchen cooking up a bowl of tummy-warming homemade soup. White bean soup with gluten-free cornbread. Snow day deliciousness. Here's how to start a pot of white bean soup...

19 Feb Kitchen Favorite Doubles as Natural Sleep Remedy

Posted at 22:08h in Natural Health, Specific Herb Remedies

Since I was kid, I've been fighting sleep. When everyone else was snoring in their beds on Saturday morning, the 12-year old Mo was awake, buzzing around, making homemade cinnamon rolls from a box of Bisquick. It's been a source of frustration, and a blessing, to...

Blending old and new medicines, herbalism

18 Feb Time for Herbalism to Come Out of the Closet

Posted at 08:43h in Inspiration, Natural Health

Everyone's got that favorite sweatshirt or pair of jeans they keep for weekends at home. The ones you slip on when you wanna feel comfortable and relaxed. Over time, the color's faded and the newness has worn off, but you're not completely at home unless you've...

12 Dec If You Were a Plant, What Kind of Plant Would You Be?

Posted at 08:29h in Natural Health, Specific Herb Remedies

Are you a mint person? Cool, kinda sweet. Lifting spirits everywhere you go. Or maybe you're a cinnamon girl. Warm and spicy, and full of good taste. Or an ancient oak, with sprawling limbs, and roots anchored for centuries. Maybe it's silly, but spices and their...

27 Nov Small Changes Bring Health in 20 Minutes a Day

Posted at 13:22h in Inspiration, Natural Health

Today's blog is written by someone special to me, but more importantly, the person who inspired my 100-day meditation. I hope his story sparks an idea for change or growth in your life like it did in mine. I am a philosopher by nature. And I...

Colorful fall foods are rich source of nutrients

04 Oct Vitamin-rich Fall Foods Power Up Immune System

Posted at 18:54h in Food, Diet, Recipes, Natural Health, Seasonal Health

Every Autumn, I get a little closer to nature by eating more of the foods that are abundant in the Fall. Coincidentally, Fall foods happen to be nutrient-dense and easy to stretch over several meals. Take butternut squash for instance. Since I rarely use a...