It may come of no surprise to you that I tend to think about the holidays a bit differently than most. The usual family tension and meal preparation carry deeper meanings to me, reaching their tendrils into microbial gut colonies and ancestral meanderings. You all may have read previous blog posts on microbes, digestion, and … Continue reading
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Finding Light in the Dark
A friend of mine is collecting healing stories from various women and sharing them on her website. She asked me to flesh out some more details on my health crisis back in year 2000. As always, she was to-the-point with her request and said, “write about what made you keep going and not give up.” … Continue reading
Restoring Digestive Health
“All diseases begin in the gut.” ~ Hippocrates I just taught an intensive in Asheville, NC for the Organic Grower’s School on Restoring Digestive Health and it got all kinds of juices flowing on this topic (smile). Distant memories from my psycho-spiritual break-down (and break-through) re-emerged and reminded me how far I had come. Truly, … 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