How To Use The “3-Day Effect” Vacation Plan To Boost Your Health, Happiness, & Creativity
Vacation time! Exciting, right? You’re jazzed about hanging out on the (overcrowded) beaches and eating at the (overpriced) restaurants. Then you think of the endless list of things you have to do to get ready – a year of loose ends to tie up in the next week. And...
Make a Healthy Bug Spray with Essential Oils
Summertime brings hot, muggy days, the perfect weather for flowers - and bugs - to bloom. Mosquitoes, stinging ants, and ticks lurk in the soft green grass, and their stings can harbor infectious diseases including West Nile virus, dengue fever, malaria, and Lyme...
Earth Day and Green Medicine
What does Earth Day have to do with medicine? In my world, everything. As a teenager, I began backpacking. The first time out, on a four-day trek in the foothills of the Appalachians in southern Ohio, I had blisters on every single toe, my shoulders and low back were...
Dreaming Seeds: Spring Equinox
Gardeners dream in seeds. All winter those potent points of life slumber, waiting expectantly for the first stirrings of spring. Now, as the days pass the spring equinox, the light luxuriously out-stretching the dark, the gardener in me stirs. I read seed catalogs...
Original Medicine: Deep Listening
Within a month of graduating from college, I headed West to Vision Mountain north of Spokane, Washington. That summer I spent four days sitting on the mountain, praying for a vision for my life. Never before had I sat in one place on the Earth for several days in a...
Signs of Spring
Yes, spring has arrived. I know it by the violets emerging through last autumn’s half decomposed oak leaves, and the apricot boughs swelling and bursting with the first brave white blossoms. I say brave because spring is a risky business, and no gambler’s money is...
Original Medicine
For years I have worked with “classical medicine,” the deeper roots of medicine that recognize the body as an organism gifted with the wisdom to restore and repair itself. This paradigm is very different from the conventional view of the body as a machine with...
Sovereign Territory of Love
I am celibate – partly by happenstance and partly by choice. At this point in my journey, I am grateful for my solitary status. After years of tending children and wrangling with teenagers, I rejoice in the recovery of my sovereign territory. Loneliness comes from...
5 Natural Remedies for Seasonal Affective Disorder
For many these dark, winter days can trigger feeling “blue,” moody, or even depressed. This particular winter, the symptoms may be even more pronounced with the strain of worry and loss of loved ones from Covid-19. A survey by the Centers for Disease Control and...
How often do you catch yourself yawning during the day? In 2020, Americans averaged 5.5 hours of sleep per night, far less than the 9 – 10 hours most humans require for optimal health. I know, I hear you. “I already have too much to do! How can I spare even one more...