Today’s lemon balm harvest! This beautiful plant (Melissa officinalis), in the mint family and originally from the Mediterranean, grows easily and abundantly in my backyard garden. These leaves will be infused in water, in alcohol, and dried to eventually become tea/tissane or tincture… all yummy and powerful medicine. Lemon balm is known to help ease […]
This post originally appeared on the Full Circle Yoga & Healing Arts Blog on June 25, 2020. We’re headed into the height of summertime heat, and here in SoCal temps are certainly starting to rise. At the same time, most of us are still navigating the uncertainty of a global pandemic as well as picking […]
The global pandemic has made this a very surreal time to be on this journey. As a rather organized person who loves to PLAN, simply existing in such a state of uncertainty has been trying for me in many ways. While I am grateful that my family is safe and financially stable, I am struggling […]
The last several months, I’ve been hard on myself. It was a busy summer for my family. Without a lot of conscious intention, I filled the days and weeks with art classes, summer camps, family vacations, and lots of memory-making, nurturing experiences for my children. It wasn’t deliberate or intentional, but I lost much of […]
I’m baaaaaack! Today I returned from a five week vacation by sitting down to reflect on what I’ve learned during this time off. Let me share some of my summer reflections with you. The Importance of Mental Breaks Though my work is not necessarily spiritual, it does involve holding space for the journeys of others. […]
“When you settle a share of land, first plant an Elder tree, then make your home there.” ~T. Elder Sachs These days, it seems I can’t go a week without the immune benefits of elderberries being posted, shared, or pinned via one of my social media pages. BUT, there is good reason for it. All […]