Body Soul Wisdom Blog

Maybe you read the title of this post and it horrified as I was when this realization first dawned on me. Because if you are like me, you...

I was talking with a friend yesterday about weight gain and some of what we're seeing online about weight gain. She had gained some...

In honor of New Year's Resolutions, and the inevitable wavering and ultimate failing of those resolutions (has anyone anywhere ever...

A friend asked the other night “how do you know when you are restricting because you’re trying to maintain control over your appetite and...

I re-opened my massage practice at the beginning of the year. Massage is pretty straightforward work, locate muscles throughout the body,...

Fall is officially here in the midwest. We had our first 55 degree night and I am just elated. I love so much about living in a four...

This is the third post in a series of posts called Foundations of Vitality, about what truly creates a vital relationship with our body,...

This is the second in a series of posts called Foundations of Vitality, about what truly creates a vital relationship with our body, soul...

This is the first in a series of posts called Foundations of Vitality, about what truly creates a vital relationship with our body, soul...

When you grow your own food, you realize that there is something elemental about the act of eating, of being sustained and nourished-...

In my Botanical Soul Membership, we started our first seasonal program and I posed the exercise of connecting with the nuance and...

The first exercise I offered the women in my Botanical Soul group was to contemplate their relationship the *actual* darkness that exists...

What do you avoid? In October, shortly after moving into my current home, I started painting the main bathroom. It’s not a big bathroom,...

When I was in herbalism school, one of the key tenets in training us as healthcare practitioners in cahoots with nature, was for us to...

For the past many years, I’ve been in a bit of a gestation period with the work I was here to offer the world. Did I really only want to...

I used to consider myself an “emotional eater.”  As in, I ate when my emotions were so high and life felt so out of control that I needed...

If you didn’t catch Part 1 of this series, you can do that here. We’ve been taught to listen to our minds, believe all our thoughts as...

As we head into a new week, the last one in January, my mind is on where I started the year and how I want to move forward with the rest...

The idea of listening to our bodies, or what experts in the field call somatic intelligence,  has been so conditioned out of us that even...