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Wisdom Within Weeds

The chaos amongst me is but the confusion within me.  The more neglected my yard, the more out of balance my inner ecology seems to be.   I don’t super love a perfectly manicured landscape as I appreciate the wild wisdom that grows outside the lines of control.  Nature is messy, brilliantly adaptive and it is smart and purposeful in its ordering of systems despite the conditioned perception of a colonized mind.  However, every now and again I do thin out the congestion…

Foods for Depression & Anxiety

To those who have been asking, thank you for your patience....... The gut is often referred to as the second brain, and some suggest even the first. There is overwhelming evidence reinforcing the distinct correlation between what we put in our belly and how it affects our brain, and specifically our mental health. Foods that cause inflammation are significantly linked to depression and anxiety, both of which are often a result of an over-worked (fighting/flight-ing) or underworked (freezing) nervous system.…