Immerse yourself in the vibrant energy of summer with our latest article, "Vibrant Growth: Ancient Wisdom for Summer." Discover how the Fire Element of Chinese medicine can enhance your season with joy, passion, and connection. Embrace the warmth and learn to live fully in tune with summer's abundant yang energy.

Dive into the art of wild plant identification with our latest article. Perfect for budding herbalists and nature enthusiasts, it offers practical tips and expert advice to help you confidently recognize and utilize wild medicinal plants. Start your journey to becoming a seasoned plant identifier today!

Arti finds joy in helping her patients achieve mental, emotional, and physical wellness. Currently, as an Extern at the Canadian College of Homeopathic Medicine (CCHM), Arti is offering subsidized consultation to develop individualized treatment plans for her patients to address the underlying cause of their sickness. Her work, supervised by a CCHM Supervisor, reflects her commitment to providing effective and accessible care.

Witness the delicate beauty of violets, one of the first wildflowers of spring. Despite their unassuming size, violets are botanical powerhouses with diverse medicinal and culinary uses. From the antioxidant-rich leaves to the pH-sensitive flowers, discover the multifaceted benefits of the humble violet in our latest article.

“Why Eat the Rainbow—What Does it Do for Me?" offers a vivid guide to enriching your diet with a spectrum of colourful foods. Each colour provides unique nutrients that boost health, from immune support to liver detoxification. Embrace a diverse palette for better health and vitality.

Discover the vibrant world of "Eat the Rainbow," a guide to enriching your diet with the colors of nature. It's an invitation to transform your meals into a palette of nutrients and flavors, promoting better digestion and health. Embrace variety, simplicity, and creativity in your culinary journey.

"Emerge & Awaken: Ancient Wisdom for Spring" delves into the rebirth and renewal that spring brings. Highlighting the Wood Element of Chinese medicine, it explores creativity, planning, and growth as spring's gifts. Learn to harness this season's energy for setting intentions, cultivating flexibility, and embracing movement. Discover how to align with the upward and outward energy shift, plant beneficial seeds for the future, and navigate life's challenges with grace. Welcome a season of transformation and growth, preparing for a vibrant spring and summer.

Stinging Nettle, often seen as a nuisance, is a rich source of nutrients and offers remarkable medicinal properties. Its sting, a defense mechanism, deters herbivores, yet when handled correctly, nettles can be safely used. Ideal for allergy relief, inflammation reduction, and as a general tonic, nettles embody a potent natural remedy from roots to leaves, heralding numerous health benefits including allergy relief, anti-inflammatory effects, and support for the body's elimination processes.

"Radical Rest" challenges the norm by advocating for rest as a fundamental aspect of productivity and well-being, drawing inspiration from Chinese medicine's principle of 'wu wei'. Embracing the natural rhythms of each season, it offers practical guidance for deep rejuvenation and self-discovery. Dive into this transformative journey and unlock the power of radical rest.

In a world that glorifies hustle and grind, the essence of true rest often gets lost. But "Rest is a Verb!" invites a paradigm shift, urging readers to prioritize self-care without guilt. Exploring the multifaceted nature of rest, the post delves into the seven types: physical, mental, social, creative, sensory, emotional, and spiritual. Through insightful descriptions and practical tips, it empowers individuals to reclaim their right to rejuvenation. From serene meditation sessions to joyful creative pursuits, each aspect of rest is celebrated. With a gentle nudge toward self-compassion, the post encourages small yet impactful steps towards a more balanced and fulfilling life.

Explore the transformative power of hypnosis in managing Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). This comprehensive guide delves into various hypnotic techniques to reduce stress, enhance mood, and build mental resilience. Discover how hypnosis aids in cognitive restructuring, improves sleep, and strengthens coping mechanisms, offering a tailored approach to combat the unique challenges of SAD for lasting positive change.

Explore effective strategies to manage Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) with 'Coping Strategies for Seasonal Affective Disorder: Small Changes, Big Results.' Learn how diet adjustments, increased light exposure, regular exercise, and improved sleep can significantly alleviate symptoms. This concise guide offers practical tips for small yet impactful changes, providing a path to better well-being during the challenging fall and winter months. Embrace a holistic approach to combat the winter blues and enhance your mood and energy through manageable, daily actions.

With Winter upon us, the shorter days and frigid temperatures can be enough to try even the most cheerful among us. Many of us feel a little less than great over cold and dark Winter months, but for some, those feelings can grow into an overwhelming sense of depression known as Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). 

Why is January 1st the magical date that everything changes and we magically start doing all the things we want to do?  This also extends to starting anything on the first of any month, or Mondays, for that matter.  Why do we have to wait for these specific days to change, and are these the best days to start?

For the last month or so, I’ve been getting newsletters and social media posts prompting me to buy my new planner for the new year, to name my “word of the year”, and to set my resolutions, intentions, or feelings for the coming year.  Of course, this also comes with prompts to buy all the things to help me finally achieve all my goals…  

On a cold winter day, there is nothing better than sitting curled up in a cozy chair with a comfy blanket, a warm drink and a good book. There might even be a fireplace or wood-stove nearby.

For many, including myself, this deep rest is something we crave in this season. More so if we’ve been ‘sprinting’ and ‘doing’ most or all of the rest of the year. In this season, the days are shorter and the nights longer; our drive to get things done isn’t as strong and that’s okay! It’s not supposed to be. This is a season of hibernation for a reason. This is also a season when Yin is at its height. The longest night of the year (the Winter Solstice) is also the most Yin night of the year. Quite literally the opposite of the Summer Solstice and the longest day of the year (ultimate Yang).

The coming winter is sure to bring that magical first snowfall, the excitement of the holiday season, and, inevitably, a familiar chorus of coughs, colds, and runny noses. Whether they follow our children home from school, or we encounter them at work or in the check out line at the grocery store, winter sniffles are a ubiquitous part of the season.

No matter what you’re trying to accomplish, habits are at the heart of everything you do. Making them work for you is where the magic happens. Motivation is often the driving force behind the beginning of change when trying to change a habit.

In my last article, we looked at the five things we need to successfully complete any goal or task, namely motivation, resources, vision, process, and details. In particular, we looked at how these last three - vision, process, and details - interact with each other, and how to make them work to your advantage.

Many of us struggle to get things done – whether that’s a long term work project or simply folding the laundry (ok, maybe especially folding the laundry).

There are many wonderful motivational speakers and resources that offer anything from gentle encouragement to a proverbial kick in the rear to help folks accomplish their goals. I am not one of these people, and this is not a motivational article.

This is about the things we need besides motivation to accomplish a goal, and how to make those things work for you. 

We can’t stop habits from forming and nor do we want to!  Habits help us!  Habits are great when they work for us and not against us.  Whenever we want to change our routines, we need to change our habits.  This is especially true every time there’s a change in season or a change in routine.  Think back to the end of August and the beginning of September.  There’s a lot of change in a couple short weeks.  Not having habits and routines that support you can make changing things harder than it needs to be.

Changing habits can be as easy as making the new habit easy or making something we want to stop doing more difficult.  As humans, we naturally gravitate towards easy over hard - let that work for you in this case!