Goddess Health Course Preview
Hello friends! I recently created the Goddess Health course for Your Wellness Academy (YOWA) and wanted to share a little preview on my blog.
❤️ Motherhood ❤️
As a mom myself, I can say it's been a beautifully imperfect journey, where my heart is worn outside of my body most of the time. When we appreciate the role of a Mother, in whatever form it is defined to you, we see it is complicated and beautiful.
Happy Hands ~ Soap, Hand Sanitizer, Do’s, Don’ts & Recipes!
Liferoot now carries hand sanitizer! So you all know my love for all things natural, tree-hugging and herbal. But I have a hard time getting behind a hand-sanitizer that contains nothing but essential oils and water. There are several natural hand-sanitizers out there that may not be working for you and your family, so please use safe judgment before using.
Emotional First Aid: Botanicals that Support Balancing Emotional Health
When we speak about administering first aid, our first inclination is to tend to something on the body… such as a cut, burn or scrape. But what about emotional first aid? Many times, when an emotional trauma occurs, we don’t deal with it the same way we would bodily first aid. Emotions are shoved down: press on, push past, keep trucking, suck it up.
10 Unconventional Ways to Boost the Immune System
The human body is such a wonderful and amazing creation. The immune system is such a marvel, so complex that many devote their whole lives to understanding it. As soon as an invader enters your territory, the body is already hard at work (like a small army), defending you at all costs.
Could your moldy orange be hurting the planet?
Here at Liferoot, we love to compost. We have been doing it for years, loving the amendment and nutrition it gives our plants through the soil. You might be thinking, ok I have food scraps and don’t they all break down because I am throwing it away in my trash bag? What’s the difference? Well, oxygen is the difference.
Dry Skin Brushing
Skin brushing exfoliates and brings increased circulation to the skin, thus helping in the renewal of skin cells. The benefits of dry skin brushing are more than just skin deep.
Mulching...What's the Point??
For lazy gardeners like myself, the multitude of benefits are too advantageous to not be taken advantage of. Another good use for mulch is it diminishes the chance of weeds.
Flower Power! How to use Edible Flowers to Beautify & Nourish your Spring Meals
Many edible flowers offer wonderful nutrition. The colors in edible flowers yield phytonutrients, which can enhance immunity, intercellular communication, repair DNA damage from exposure to toxins, and detoxify carcinogens.
Love Your Earth this Valentines Day!
We love love! But….Have you considered our impact on the planet for the consumer-driven Valentines Day?
The kids have been doing a climate change unit at their school and have been coming home passionate (and somewhat judgy I might add, haha) about the plastic, excess, and throw-away items that live at our home and in our lifestyle.
Using Herbs to Adapt to the New Year
Liferoot loves using herbs as a New Year habit to help with whatever life is pitching and demanding of you. The following herbs are adaptogens in our book, and can assist you in keeping your body resilient and thriving in your current or desired lifestyle.
Open Door Healing and Liferoot Botanicals Collaboration
You could say this collaboration began over yoga :) Cathy and I have frequently attended some crazy hard hot yoga classes, and in the end when you are laying in shavasana, you get all sorts of visions (or maybe just lack of electrolytes).
Incense Ritual and DIY Incense Blends
The ritual of burning flowers, herbs & plants has been around for centuries. Many religions and groups have used incense and smoke of them burning as part of their spiritual rituals.
Healing Bath Soaks (with recipes!)
Over the bathtub in our backhouse we have a small blue sign that says, “When all else fails, take a bath.” That phrase has definitely rung true with our family, because a bath makes you feel so much better. If you’re sick, sad, need a rest, need a detox, if it’s a full moon, feeling like the world is caving in on you, whatever…
DIY Elderberry Syrup and Gummies Recipe
Elder is by far one of my favorite plants, herbs, fruit & flower. All in one, this plant can pack an immune system punch and is safe for most everyone* to use.
DIY Potpourri
One of my favorite things about the holidays when I was a child was walking into the kitchen and smelling the potpourri simmering on the stove. Warm fragrant wafts of cinnamon, cloves and grapefruit floated through the air…
DIY Sugar Scrub (several scents & variations)
Sugar scrub is invigorating & exfoliates your skin… as well as moisturizes the heck out of it. AND…it has an intoxicating aroma that leaves your skin feeling soft & amazing.
Infused Sea Salt
Salt has gotten a bad rap in the last few years (with some merit to hypertension), but it mostly applies to white table salt. Sea salt is a wonderful additive to your diet, and in balanced amounts can be beneficial for your cells, heart, muscles, and adrenal glands.
Salted Pistachio Dark Chocolate Bark
If you know me personally, you probably know how much I love chocolate. If there was ever a choice of flavor as a kid, I always picked chocolate, cake, ice cream, lip gloss flavor…and to this day I do.
DIY Infused Olive Oils
Herb-infused olive oil is great for a salad dressing, a dip for bread, a garnish for veggies, tomatoes, or over pasta. Depending on the blend, it can be very nutritious, help boost the immune system, and supply many herbal properties to your meal.