Somehow, I have not posted my ginger-garlic sauerkraut recipe yet on my blog. And, with spring cabbages beginning to roll in, I decided to whip up a batch…while listening to Sade. I think that Sade makes the lactobacilii happy (smile)…especially Smooth Operator. So, I really wish I would have been a foodie, plant-lover, and fermenter … Continue reading
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The Honored Middle and Gut Health
Some thoughts on gut health ~ Practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) say that gut health actually provides the necessary ingredients to protect the heart (where spirit or “shen” resides). In Japan, the large intestine is referred to as both the “honored middle” (onaka) and “center of the spiritual and physical strength” (hara). The soul … Continue reading
Embracing the Unseen: Microbes, Fermentation, and the Gut
I’m so thankful that a friend of mine got Sandor Katz, the fermentation wizard of the Wild Fermentation movement, to come to my hometown last night! I was able to geek out on all things gut and all things bacterial for an *entire* evening. For those of you that know about my health crisis, healing … Continue reading
I Was Born to Do This
This is my most personal blog post ever. Please be forewarned that it is long. This is my first attempt to express and explore the complex world of my experience of trauma and recovery ~ and a psycho-spiritual break. “The diseases do not come to us form Heaven, but develop from the small, daily offenses … Continue reading
Late Summer Tummy Love
Late Summer arrived near the beginning of August. In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), a rare type of ancestral medicine that has remained quite flexible and integrated, Late Summer is one of its five seasons. It falls between Summer and Fall and is time when the yin (feminine) and yang (masculine) energies are balanced. When Fall … Continue reading
Lindsay Kolasa 