Natural medicine provides the gardening tools and the education to help you care for your Body Garden. You just have to take the time to take a walk and explore your Body Garden. You need to feel the leaves, plant new plants, weed and dig in the soil. You will get dirty but it’s worth it.
Read MoreThe time to pay attention to the kidneys is before the kidneys need attention.
Read MoreLet's say that recently you began eating organic whole-milk yogurt. After you eat it, you don't feel so well. Your stomach feels upset a bit. So what do you do?
Read MoreWhen we were kids, some of my fondest memories were rolling down a grassy hill, slinging mudballs at my sister and eating snow (well, not the yellow or dirty snow!). Now everything is antibacterial, kids live in sterile capsules and we are constantly washing everything in sight.
Read MoreRecently my photography mentor sent me a poem by an Irish poet friend of his: I would love to live Like a river flows, Carried by the surprise Of its own unfolding - John O'Donohue. In truth, we do live like a river and this is the best analogy I've found to explain our health and the path of wellness.
Read MoreOver the past couple of years I have been spending more time with my friend's children. It reminds me of my grandfather's stories about walking 400 miles to school each day through the snow in the same pair of shoes for 18 years. What brings up those reminiscences are the sheer tsunami-size flood of toys that require batteries.
Read MoreMany years ago I had the most wonderful old salty client. His name was Tom and he was a grizzly old Irish guy from Southie. He used to swear that a drop of the creature (a bit of imbibing) was the cure for every ill.
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