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Sandia Piñon Sap Salve
8-26-2025 This is one of my favorite herbal “experiments” to date. Pine is the best most smoothing smell to me. It smells like Christmas, though I love it all year long. This salve ended up being silky perfection. I collected the sap in the Sandia mountains over the past year. I would find trees with…
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Let’s not forget the time-tested ways of thinking, praying, healing, and being together.
9/26/2024 Even in the US, far too many people do not have access to the basics of what they need to be healthy. In my last blog post I mentioned that many people, including myself, struggle to find medical “providers”. This is nerve wracking, especially when someone is experiencing worrying symptoms. We need more medical…
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Spiritual States and Subconscious Math
3/18/2024 I started thinking about this subject in earnest nearly fifteen years ago. A family member was told by her doctor she had just months to live. A bit later, he told her that he thought she was depressed and prescribed an anti-depressant. This seemed very strange to me. Isn’t “depression” a normal response in…
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Letter to the Health Teacher
Dear (teacher), Thank you for sending me the syllabus for the health class. I would like for my daughter to NOT participate in the Week 3-7 Unit 2: Mental and Emotional Health. The reason is that we believe the human person is a body, soul, mind unity. Our approach to the nature of the human…
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Lactation Counseling: An Age Old Calling
I recently became a certified lactation counselor (CLC). I have mixed feelings about the process. The entire certification was online. The classes were virtual. My counseling practice were mock situations on the phone. I certainly learned a lot of facts. I especially appreciate being able to identify warning signs that someone requires immediate medical attention.…
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Embrace Emotional Eating…With Your Loved Ones
7/11/2023 It is natural that we find joy in eating. I suggest we embrace this joy. Supplying our body with good tasting things is one of the good things in life. And yes, this includes cake, chocolate, wine, and all kinds of high calorie junk food. It is so hard to “diet” because it is…
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No, You Don’t Need to Exercise
8/27/2023 The obesity rate of the US is 41.9%. Compare that to the UK at 27.8% and Japan at 4.3%. This causes enormous suffering in our country. I am convinced that the whole attitude embodied by the concept of “exercise” is one of the problems. When I’ve lived and traveled overseas, I am always struck…
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Turning to Herbs
Posts about herbalism are simply my own ponderings and should be taken as such. I am not a medical professional. 2025-9-26 When I first started on my herbal journey, I had this idea that there was a choice between holistic medicine and modern industrialized medicine. Any pharmaceutical use would mean a person was not truly…
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Trauma Processing as a Flow
2025-11-13 Everyone is different. This way of visualizing healing is probably something that will resonant with some people but not others. This is a mystical approach and is not meant to be medical advice. I am currently reading through some of the writings of Paul Bergner on the topic of medical herbalism. (See below.) He…
Maranatha Perinatal Support 