Posted: February 17, 2020
Braiding Sweetgrass Braiding Sweetgrass is a New York Times bestseller by Robin Wall Kimmerer. I got this book just before New Years and have been savouring it. It was published in 2013 and I’ve had it on my to be read list ever since. I saw it in the bookstore and I had to pounce.
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Posted: February 4, 2020
The pain of endometriosis The pain of endometriosis is twofold. Women with this condition frequently suffer from infertility. On top of this – women often experience crippling pelvic pain. For those unfamiliar with the condition, endometriosis is when tissue that ordinarily lines the uterus (endometrium) grows outside the uterus on other pelvic organs like the
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Posted: January 26, 2020
Stress and the immune system. To successfully fight off any infection we need a healthy immune system. Stress is something that has a direct impact on how well our immune system works. My husband left yesterday on a business trip to China. It would be dishonest of me to say I am not thinking about
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Posted: January 14, 2020
Rosemary is for more than cooking. Rosemary is for more than cooking. It is a potent medicinal herb. I remember some rosemary I saw in a community garden. I know we have community gardens here in Ottawa. In Vancouver it seems that they are more common. This particular garden was smack dab in the middle of
Posted: December 31, 2019
Self-care and herbalism seem to go together like peanut butter and jelly. All part of that amorphous wellness we are all searching for. Lately I have been thinking about what true self-care is. This passage below inspired me. “Self-care is often a very unbeautiful thing. It is making a spreadsheet of your debt and
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