Posted: March 28, 2021
Rose Medicine I’m watching my garden and enjoying the gradual lengthening of the days. I know it is March but I long for the roses to bloom. If I am honest, I admit that I don’t know the species planted in my garden. Like many of the plants out there I inherited them when we
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Tags: healing, herbalism, Ottawa herbalist, rose medicine, self-care, spirit, Stress
Posted: February 1, 2021
Making an Herb Infused Oil Last week I wrote a post about juniper berries and using them to make an herb infused oil. I didn’t go into detail. This week I will start to cover it in depth. This will be in two parts. In my practice I do use essential oils, however, I prefer
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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: 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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