Brain Gains: The Cognitive Benefits of Physical Movement
Lace up your shoes, and let’s get moving. Exercise to Improve Memory Exercise improves brain function by stabilizing blood sugar levels, spurring development of new neurons, and maintaining neurons in optimal condition.[i] Long term, movement can be a good predictor...
How to Improve Your Memory with Food
Are you interested in improving your memory? Have you ever walked into a room and forgotten why you were there or bumped into your new neighbor at the grocery store and drawn a blank on her name? Improving your memory can make daily tasks easier, save you embarrassment in social situations, and reward you with quick access to important information. And the good news is that you can fine-tune your memory without expensive programs, medications, or interventions.
Daily Activism: Planting a garden in troubled times
We live in extraordinary times, so I am veering today from my usual posts about plant medicines to address one of the deepest levels of health and healing: living in right relationship with self, family, community and Creator. I have wept almost daily for the past 10...
Flu-Proof: 8 Steps to Boost Your Immune System
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure – and that is particularly true in cold and flu season. Whether or not you “catch” a cold depends on the strength of the virus or bacteria and the health of your immune system. The intersection of these two major factors...
The Top Four Essential Oils for Calming Anxiety
Over one-third of the people who visit a doctor’s office have sleep issues, yet they rarely mention these problems, and doctors rarely ask. Essential oils can be powerful natural allies in improving your sleep.
Recipe for Catching a Cold
Although we refer to “catching” a cold, the truth is that we are surrounded by viruses all the time. Whether or not the viruses take hold in our bodies depends on two major factors: How virulent (“strong”) the virus is How weakened our immune system is The following...
How to Wake Up Without Coffee: 3 Essential Oils to Boost Your Energy Without Caffeine
You can use essential oils instead of caffeine to boost energy and increase concentration.
Winter to Spring: Post Traumatic Growth
I have seen cancer patients whose disease opened unexpected veins of gold in their lives. Post traumatic growth is the new research term, the clinical name for this soul-driven miracle. What for some gives rise to trauma, for others seeds new growth, and the vigor of that growth (new word) is in direct proportion to the depth of the pain.
Five Essential Oils for Peaceful Sleep
Over one-third of the people who visit a doctor’s office have sleep issues, yet they rarely mention these problems, and doctors rarely ask. Essential oils can be powerful natural allies in improving your sleep.
Intimacy for Single Women
Living as a single woman does not necessarily mean living without intimacy or sexual pleasure. As a sovereign woman, you can take your own physical pleasure just as seriously as you would a beloved’s.