White Pine medicine

As I write this, my acupuncture practice is on hold while we attempt to ‘flatten the curve’ of the covid-19 transmission. While my herbal consultations are still available via online meeting platforms, I know that some people at home are feeling vulnerable and are seeking empowering ways they can work with their health. As of… Read more »

Mullein Milk

With the Wheel of year turning towards the winter and chest colds and coughs becoming something we all will encounter at one point or another, it’s time to talk about the wonders of Mullein Milk! Mullein, whose latin name is Verbascum thapsus, is a common plant to our local area. As a biennial, Mullein grows in compact,… Read more »

Wisdom Teacher- Joanna Macy

This video speaks for itself. Joanna Macy is a true elder of our time, and her wisdom needs to be shared! Her deep experience and feeling for the Web of Life ignites a remembering in me, and her call to reimagine our relationship with one another and the earth urge us towards action. Joanna Macy… Read more »

Be Patient

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart….and try to love the questions themselves liked locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given to you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is,… Read more »

An Advent Mood

     As  I awaken to my connection with the cycles of Light and Dark within day, a month, a year, this still time before the Winter Solstice has become one of my most treasured times of the year. Years ago, out of the stillness and darkness of this time grew a hunger in me for a particular… Read more »

Wisdom Teacher, Mary Oliver

Wild Geese – Mary Oliver You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about your despair, yours, and I will tell you… Read more »

Onion Poultice for Earaches

I want to share a really potent home remedy for earaches that I have used with my kids for over 5 years. It has always  resulted in restoring balance (within 1 day) without having to visit the doctor’s office. This is kitchen medicine, so please use your good judgement about when to administer this treatment… Read more »

New Beginnings

Vernal Equinox, Solar Eclipse, New Moon at 29 degrees Pisces. This degree is also known as the omega degree, the last degree of the zodiac before the cycle begins again at 1 degree Aries, also known as the alpha degree. The omega degree and the alpha degree…completions and new beginnings not only of an astrological cycle… Read more »

Wisdom Teacher, Marion Woodman

There are so many beautiful teachers in the world at this time. We all find our own teachers, those who speak to our heart, and a teacher for one is not a teacher for all. Marion Woodman is one such teacher for me. A Jungian therapist and prolific author and speaker living in Canada, her… Read more »

Kitchen Medicine for Spring

We as human beings are not only intimately connected to the seasons, we ARE the seasons. We are physical forms of a similar essence. Just as the nutrition of the tree stores in the winter among the miles and miles of roots down below the frozen ground, there is also a hibernating, a storing, of… Read more »

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  • Nourishing Life

    I am a student of the art of nourishing Life. My roles as Wife, Mother, Chinese medical doctor, farmer, friend and last but certainly not least, as lover to myself,  provide endless opportunities to develop this Way of being in the world. My intention is to consciously create a space to study, explore, reconnect to,… Read more »