Archive for February 2015
Gemmotherapy & Homeopathy: So what’s the difference?
Last week I discussed the use and benefits of gemmotherapy in addressing acute symptoms. In my practice I nearly always give gemmotherapy as the first protocol for acute symptoms and only when it is clear that further support is needed for healing do I add the correctly matched homeopathic remedy. So why gemmotherapy first? An…
Read MoreMidweek Pause: Perspective
“…Imagine what the world would be like if we could come to see our likes and dislikes as merely likes and dislikes, and what we take to be intrinsically true as just our personal viewpoint.” —Pema Chodron Consider: how we can get in our way when it comes to good health. We become stuck…
Read MoreLauren’s Kitchen: Soup Not Salad
My plan today was to be posting a series of my favorite salad dressings that I make in batches but look at this weather! While I hope you are eating plenty of salad it’s still clearly soup season and thankfully Jessica Nadel, author of Greens 24/7, offers up this great way to get your daily…
Read MoreGemmotherapy and Acute Support
If you need stitches or a bone set, I’ll have to admit I don’t have a Gemmotherapy protocol to help, BUT if you have an attack of seasonal allergies, a stomach bug, a headache, a staph infection or similar malady, then Gemmotherapy provides the cure you need and more. Why more? Over the counter medications…
Read MoreMidweek Pause—Collaboration
“The work of meditative thinking is a collaboration between these two natures—the seer that remembers and the seen that always forgets. As in rowing, if you pull more on one oar than the other, you go round in circles, and, as in rowing, all I can see is what I have passed as I…
Read MoreLauren’s Kitchen: Red Lentil Soup with Spinach
We are in that changeable weather season that calls out for having some fresh comfort food recipes on hand. One minute it’s glorious spring-like and then arrives a day or two of dreary cold (Austin-cold, mind you). Nothing beats the gray wet weather in my house like a steaming bowl of soup. Having a bag…
Read MoreA Crash Course in Gemmotherapy
Gemmotherapy is a cleansing protocol for the body that utilizes extracts from individual trees and shrubs. Because the extracts are made each spring from the first buds and shoots of the season, this botanical medicine has a potency and healing capability that far exceeds any current phytotherapy. The meristems within each bud or shoot contain…
Read MoreMidweek Pause—Freedom
“The chains of desire pull us into a life of frustration and suffering, while renunciation cuts those chains. Renunciation, though often understood to mean ‘giving up,’ is, more accurately, the willingness to experience things as they are, not as we want them to be. Here you discover true freedom, the deep, quiet joy that has…
Read MoreLauren’s Kitchen: Shredded Rainbow Salad
If you are done with baby greens and your salad plate needs something more to pique your interest, this is especially for you. Lucky for me, I happened upon this recipe while I was in Germany where cabbage is the national veggie. Jess Nadel’s Shredded Rainbow Salad was a hit with the family and it kept well for a second…
Read MoreMidweek Pause—Peace
“The peace that we’re looking for is not peace that crumbles as soon as there is difficulty or chaos. Peace isn’t an experience free of challenges, free of rough and smooth, it’s an experience that’s expansive enough to include all that arises without feeling threatened.” — Pema Chödrön, Practicing Peace Consider: How when rushed and pressed for…
Read MoreLauren’s Kitchen: Citrus, Fennel & Avocado Salad
It may not be spring quite yet but you will sure feel it’s approach with this citrus-y salad from foodiecrush. Chock full of spring flavors, this blend of crunchy fennel, creamy avocados and juicy sliced citrus makes a great pack along lunch or the perfect first course. Look for locally grown fennel available now at Wheatsville, Boggy…
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