Posted: February 19, 2023
Improving Sleep Improving sleep is sometimes overlooked in prescriptions for health. The next decade will see more research on how critical sleep is. For example. If you don’t get enough sleep your risk for obesity, diabetes, stroke, cancer, depression, autoimmune disease, and cardiovascular disease increases. The average adult should be getting 8 (or more) hours
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Tags: california poppy, herbalism, herbalist, medicinal, Ottawa herbalist, passionflower, sleep, Stress, valerian
Posted: April 4, 2021
Hard Times and Dangerous Days. Here in Ontario we are facing hard times and dangerous days. Despite being over a year into this pandemic it has never been more dangerous. Community transmission is running like wildfire across the province and the vaccine rollout is a muddled mess. Combine those facts with the new variants that
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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: January 12, 2021
Stress during the pandemic Each of us is dealing with stress during the pandemic. I think of each of us as walking around with an invisible backpack of bricks. When I have to line up (again) to get into the grocery store and the person in front of me isn’t as fast as I would
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Tags: adaptogen, herbalism, immune system, memory, nervine, Ottawa herbalist, pandemic, Stress
Posted: March 10, 2020
Longing for spring I work almost exclusively with fresh plants and as winter drags on, I am longing for spring. The days are getting longer, and the sap is starting to run. I am missing spending time out in the wild. Winter makes me feel hunched and chilled. I recently decided to bite the bullet and
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