Thinking about Inflammation due to Food & Toxins

What is Inflammation? Inflammation is the body’s way of protecting itself from infection, illness, injury or something that doesn’t belong in the body such as germs and toxins. It is a normal and important process that allows healing, occurring when inflammatory cells travel to the place of need. The inflammatory response traps germs or toxins…

Reiki Session for Peace

We have previously mentioned Mainstream Reiki by Andrea Kennedy. Today we are pointing out her recently published Reiki for peace youtube. Inner peace and peace for the world. It feels appropriate. Today and always. Andrea offers various of resources and classes. We have also enjoyed her live broadcasts on the first Thursday of each month…

Dirty & Clean Fruits and Vegetables

Since 2004, The Environmental Working Group (EWG) has released an annual Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce, a.k.a, The Dirty Dozen. The nonprofit organization uses data from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to account for contamination in nonorganic produce. The FDA and USDA analyzed 47,510 samples of 46…

Enjoy Cherries?

July 2024 The short cherry season is here and we understand there is a bumper crop this year. Cherries have many health benefits and, for many of us, they are delicious. If you are one of those who enjoy them, now is the time to dive in. We enjoy them whenever organic cherries are available. And…

That Crepey Skin

Advice regarding what to do for crepey skin seems prevalent lately. This has stirred us to add our very short thoughts to the mix. Crepey skin is crepey due to hydration. Hydration needs to happen from both the inside and the outside. For the outside, whether crepey or just generally dry, we currently like Tallow…

Emotional Freedom Technique for Anxiety

We find many are anxious right now. This is not surprising given all that is going on in the world, creating unknowns. (We will not elaborate on the goings on in the world here as this is a post about healing anxiety.) Since Emotional Freedom Technique or EFT (also known as Tapping or EFT Tapping),…