How many years have you been making the same resolutions?  To get fitter, loose weight, give up smoking, cut down on drink? Reasons for Failure These are many reasons for failure.  But the most important reason you will fail will be utterly beyond your conscious control.  It can feel like we are climbing a mountain …

We make a special effort at this time of year to flavour our food with traditional Christmas herbs and spices, many of which have medicinal or health giving properties. The sage in your stuffing for example, is full of antioxidants, these help to clear up free radicals which cause damage to the cells of the …

Hand made gifts are quite in vogue at the moment. Aromatherapy products are an easy way to start and the results can be stunning with little effort.  My family and friends get a handmade something every year and they really love them. It’s the gift they remember out of all the other shop bought stuff, …

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This week I worked with a wonderful group of healers exploring shamanic techniques for cord cutting.  Our course has developed under the guidance of Spider and the Nornir and we have been led to work very much along the principle that in order to cut cords, we must understand how they come into being in the first place.  A cord is …

Perhaps my routes as a Medical Herbalist started with making home remedies, such as my Dad’s recipe for colds. He used to make mulled wine every winter and called it his ‘cold cure’. To some extent it works well as a herbal medicine, as the spices have properties which are very useful to warm the …

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When choosing herbs for dysmenorrhoea it is helpful to understand what may be causing the pain. Most often when a client come to me for treatment they will have explored the orthodox route, tried painkillers, going on a pill, used a myrena coil, sometimes with good results but sometimes not, so they are wisely exploring …

In shamanic healing we talk about concepts of power loss and soul loss; from a shamanic perspective the process of healing is considered to be one of recovery where the soul is restored to a state of wholeness.  In this state of wholeness we are more able to express ourselves, less susceptible to illness and wounding, and are able …

Now that Halloween is over, the supermarkets are choc a block with cut price pumpkins. I have been using this delicious soup recipe for the past 2 months to use up the three giant pumpkins that we grew on our allotment this year. This soup is so quick and easy to make and if you …