While soothing the symptoms of a yeast infection is simple enough, addressing the underlying imbalance that gave rise to it in the first place is essential. When our lives are out of balance, we often
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Wise Guides
Digging Deeper
QUENTIN MONGE a guide for White people ready to do the real work The following guide covers practices for dismantling White supremacy in ourselves and in the world. The practices are separated into
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Wise Guides
Herbs For Dreaming
Dreams are where we go to meet the divine. Herbs can help us find our way. We have all we need within us to access the power of our dreams. Plant medicines are not necessary for receiving
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Wise Guides
Practices For Dreaming
Dreaming is an essential practice for a world in crisis. When we open ourselves to the world of our dreams, personal healing is radically accelerated, and collective healing becomes possible. Individuals versed in the language of dreams
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Seasonal Wellness
How To Rest
In Winter, our bodies ask for rest—gently at first and then with passionate longing. In the dark half of the year, we naturally crave sleep, warmth, and the regenerative gift of doing nothing. Our bodies
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Seasonal Wellness
The Medicine of Summer
Summer is a time to let your mind wander, to allow daydreaming to take hold, and to drift into a kind of restorative boredom. Remember the kind of boredom that once gave rise to blanket
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Wise Guides
Rites of Springtime
Here in Texas, the sweet scent of fresh blooms fills the air as primroses and bluebonnets burst forth, lining the hills and highway-sides in distinctive hues of blush and blue. The red-breasted Cardinals have begun
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Wise Guides
APHRODISIA
Herbs For LovemakingA P H R O D I S I A a guide to herbs for lovemaking When lovemaking becomes a sacred practice, its potential for healing is truly limitless. Making sex sacred need not be
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Wise Guides
Welcoming The New Year
The future is unwritten, and it is our sacred responsibility to be clear about what we want that future to look like—for ourselves and for the world. What we write becomes real. As our words materialize
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Wise Guides
Friendship
Friendship has rarely been easy for me, and to be honest, it’s a sensitive subject to write about. Since I was twelve years old and endured the utter devastation that followed my first friend break-up,
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Wise Guides
Reciprocity In Action
“The principal horror of any system which defines the good in terms of profit rather than in terms of human need, or which defines human need to the exclusion of the psychic and emotional components
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Wise Guides
Good Grief
We live in a culture that has forgotten how to grieve. And yet grief is such an essential part of human life. The practice of grieving is what will enable us to continue to live
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Wise Guides
Technological Hygiene
This might sound weird, but I have to tell you something you might not realize about yourself. You have a problem. I do too. We all do, most of us. You see, in the last few years, something has
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Garden Party
What To Eat In Springtime
Springtime is positively intoxicating; her procession of flowers endless. The momentum which propels life forward in Spring never fails to astonish me. Early Spring is also my favorite time to gather wild foods. The herbs
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Wise Guides
How To Fall In Love
Everyone I have ever loved has been my teacher. Because, love itself is a teacher, and if we choose to humble ourselves to the lessons that it offers us, love has the ability to leave
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Wise Guides
Herbs For Anxiety + Depression
Depression is the worst. And when you’re in the midst of it, it feels like it will never end. But it does. It always does. They say to write about what you know. And I know
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Wise Guides
How To Make Wise Choices
It is so easy to feel stuck; to feel like you are fated to remain where you are, how you are — forever. But it’s just not true. And the reality is, that change begins
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Wise Guides
Wholehearted Wildcrafting
The journey of a Wildcrafter begins slowly at first. Start where you are. Allow this journey to reveal itself to you, savoring each Season and seed. Begin simply, pausing to bask in the fragrance of
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