A Winter Herbal Almanac
With winter’s seemingly omnipresent cold and flu season upon us, it is in our best interest to be proactive and to start taking preventative measures.
Spirit of Change - Winter 2007
Ayurvedic Solutions For Women
Every stage of a woman’s life presents specific needs and challenges. Today’s women, in particular, are looking for ways to balance family, career, community, and personal growth.
Chelation Therapy: A Shot in the Arm Towards Better Health
Each year over 500,000 Americans die of cardiovascular disease, our nation's number one killer, and an estimated 1,500,000 new cases are diagnosed.
EarthTalk: Environmentally Friendly Sanitary Pads
Women of ancient cultures couldn't buy feminine hygiene products at the supermarket or drugstore chain, so they improvised, fashioning them instead out of various natural and biodegradable materials...
Every Woman Deserves a Doula
A doula. It’s not so new, actually. There have been women supporting women through birth since the dawn of time.
Musings: We Are All Born Healers
My 83-year-old friend Jerry shared this story with me recently about natural healing “the old way.”
The Cambridge Doula Program: Helping Women Access Their Deepest Courage
When Kate Ellsworth birthed at the Cambridge Birth Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts last September, she had support from a doula provided free by the Cambridge Health Alliance.
The Joys of Plant and Natural Medicine
When I was about 12, my family moved into a new house. Exploring the backyard, I found an interesting smelling plant with green spikes shooting up.
Winter Health the Natural Living Way
Winter is coming and our immune system is often put to the test. How will yours do this winter?
Stevia: Nature's Sweet Little Secret
If you want to decrease your sugar intake and are concerned about the safety of artificially manufactured non-caloric sweeteners such as Splenda®, Sweet ’n Low® or Equal®, then consider using stevia.
Test Before You Ingest
For years, in search of the cure for a deep relentless bellyache and inability to digest anything, I tried nearly every diet intervention that I ran across.
Whole Foods Healthy Cooking: One Pot Wonders
Last week a colleague of mine excitedly showed me a new diet she found. It promised rapid weight loss by eating fast foods like donuts, potato chips, cheeseburgers and frozen meals.
An Indoor Winter Reiki Garden
A new age in garden practices is blooming including organic gardening and bringing heirloom varieties of seeds back into home gardens.
Earth Talk: Dishwasher and Laundry Soaps
The average North American produces between 60 and 150 gallons of wastewater every day, much of it a result of washing dishes and clothes.
Feng Shui For Everyday: Office Spaces
Feeling trapped in your windowless office cubicle? Try some feng shui advice to bring harmony to your office space.
Tips For "Greening" Your Wedding
With all the excess of energy and material expended for just one day of a traditional wedding, planning a wedding for the “green” bride and groom may seem impossible...
Journey Into The Amazon
It was the winter of 1994, and I traveled upriver in the Amazon, away from the remote frontier town of Iquitos. As we traveled further and further upriver each day...
A Druid Looks at Plants and Planets through Flower Essences
When I began my astrology practice twelve years ago, I felt constricted by the traditional once-per-year contact with the client.
Clay As A Remedy
The four essential elements offered to us from Earth — earth, air, fire and water — have tremendous healing power. While clay is not a cure all, it is a natural remedy that can have an enormous impact on body mind and spirit when used in a variety of different ways.
Living With a Nature Lover
My husband has four pairs of glasses. He also has three toothbrushes, three different kinds of shampoo, and an entire duffel bag full of health and beauty aids that he carries around with him whenever he goes on overnight trips.
The Downside of Multitasking: The Benefits of Being Present
We are living in the age of multi-tasking, a practice so pervasive it has permeated the home, the workplace and even childhood.
Winter’s Mysteries
The silence of a frozen swamp at dusk deep in snow is close to the moment of pure being when one breath is exhaled before another is drawn in.
Cultural Crossroads: Columbus Day
"Gold is most excellent; gold constitutes treasure; and he who has it does all he wants in the world, and can even lift souls up to Paradise."- Christopher Columbus, 1503 letter to the king and queen of Spain.
The Guatemala Midwives Project
Maya medicine for many thousands of years has a sort of trinity formed by Mother Ixchel, and the great couple of Citbolontún and Itzamná. These last two worked to discover the medicinal strengths of plants.
