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Try This Quick and Easy Five Ingredient Kale & Bacon Recipe
This Easy Kale and Bacon Recipe Came From a New York Farmers Market I found this recipe when I was wandering around one of New York farmer’s markets a few years back. It has now become one of our family favorites! This kale and bacon recipe is super easy and quick. After making this for a few years now I find myself experimenting with adding in different veggies. Also, the great thing is if bacon isn’t your jam you can easily swap it out with turkey or tofu versions. This recipe is a great way to use up kale from the garden I usually use one package (1LB) of bacon,…
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My Top 10 FREE Meditation Videos on YouTube
I found that listening to guided meditation works best for those whose minds wander. Here's a list of my top 10 that I recommend, most are around 10 minutes.
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What Does It Mean To Live A Holistic Life?
How To Start Down a Holistic Path So, I knew that I needed to change the way I lived my life but other than that I didn’t really know what that meant to me. I did some soul-searching with the help of yoga and the word holistic kept coming up. I heard people say that they want to live a more holistic life or in a more holistic way but what does it really mean to ‘live’ a holistic life? Dictionary Definition of Holistic If you want the dictionary definition holistic is described as a philosophy of full comprehension of the parts of something that are interconnected and explicable only…
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Try This Amazing and Easy Chocolate Chip Banana Bread Recipe
Use this easy banana bread recipe before they go bad When our bananas are on their last leg I turn to making my quick and tasty banana bread. I usually make a few loaves or muffins and freeze the extras so we have this delicious snack or quick go-to breakfast on hand. I don’t add any white sugar to this recipe because I find that it is sweet enough without but feel free to add a bit if you want something sweeter. This recipe makes about 2 loaves so you can cut the ingredients in half if you’re just looking to make one loaf. Recipe for Amazing Banana Bread 6…
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Can a 40-Day Revolution Through Yoga Really Work?
40-Day Yoga Journey Here’s to the start of my yoga journey. Are you a believer in everything happens for a reason and happens at the right time? I admit sometimes at the moment, usually, when it’s going against me, I do not. Then inevitably once I see the full truth, I realize that the universe knows what it’s doing…most of the time. After being on this spiritual enlightenment journey for a better part of a year. I now realize that when I started, I wasn’t fully ready for that shift. I felt like I was trying to mold myself into something that wasn’t yet fully thought out. But now things…
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How To Know If You’re Going Through an Ego Death
What is ego death? First, one must bring it back a layer and start with the ego… Ego death ultimately involves our ego. Ego is the Latin word for “I,” In the simplest sense, the ego is defined as “a person’s sense of self-esteem or self-importance.” Our ego is where we develop our sense of self, usually well-defined (or at least you think) at a young age. Which makes sense; kids are always so sure of who they are and stand in their convictions. However, this sense of self can often wavier over time once the outside world becomes stronger than the “I” we had believed in for so long.…
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Anxiety Soother by Herb Pharm – an easy, go-to support
Natural Remedy For Anxiety Relief One of my favorite products I found to manage my anxiety I came across at my local co-op is a liquid supplement by Herb Pharm. What I absolutely love is that their products are certified organic or made with certified organic ingredients. What they are not able to grow enough of in Oregon they make sure to source ethically from growers and wildcrafters across the globe. Just in case you’re wondering because I didn’t know at first; wildcrafters are people who harvest plants from their natural, or ‘wild’ habitat, for food or medicinal purposes. Now you can say you learned something new today 😁. From…
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Nettle – One Amazing and Versatile Herb
Nettle (Urtica dioica) is one versatile herb with Many Medicinal Properties Nettle or Urtica dioica is a versatile herb noted best for its ability to help relieve allergy symptoms. Urtica – “to burn.” Dioica translates roughly to “of two houses,” meaning that this magnificent plant can produce both male and female flowers. Its use has been traced back thousands of years, and in that time, Nettle has spread far and wide, reach to Europe, Asia, North Africa, and North America. In North America – or at least in my yard Nettle spreads far and fast. I never once intentionally planted Nettle in my gardens, but it has shown up in…
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Nettle – A Nourishing Plant and Its Therapeutic Possibilities
This is the last part of our series on Nettle. If you’re interested, here you can find part 1 and part 2. Stinging Nettle (Urtica dioica) Active Constituents Like any plant or herb, many chemical compounds make up the Nettle plant and contribute to its therapeutic properties or modality uses. Unfortunately, not all chemical components have been studied, so there is still much more to learn regarding plants and plant medicine. Nettle is a great source of iron, calcium, magnesium, and protein (Modern Herbal Dispensatory: A Medicine-Making Guide, n.d.). In addition, uric acid is secreted from Nettle and helps with rheumatism and gout. Other constituents are formic acid, acetylcholine, choline,…
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Nettle – Identification, Growing, Harvesting & Parts Used
This is the second blog post in our herbal knowledge series on Nettle. If you want to learn about Nettle’s history, folklore, mysticism, and magic head over to read about it here. Want to learn about its therapeutic actions you can find that here. How to Identify Nettle Nettle (Urtica dioica) is a plant that can go fairly unnoticed, especially in the younger plants, that is, until you happen to brush up against it, and then you will understand why its other common name of stinging Nettle. At first, when this happens, many get this plant confused with poison ivy, even though the two are very different looking from each…
