LIFESTYLE
NATURAL SPRING CLEANING
When Life Hands You Lemons, Make Lemonade… and Household Cleaners The expression “when life hands you lemons, make lemonade” has become very familiar in our...
Homeopathy for Travellers
User Friendly Summer First Aid Remedies A few years ago I was sitting next to a mother and her young boy on a bus trip...
Cottaging in Canada: Sour Cherries and Summer Memories
One day several years ago, I was admiring the fresh fruit at our local farmers’ market. There were these odd looking cherries that caught my...
Homeopathy for Numbness and its Underlying Health Conditions
During my years of homeopathic practice I have heard many patients complain about experiencing numbness in some form, although in most cases numbness was not...
Homeopathic Medicine for Shingles (Herpes Zoster)
“The first thing I felt was tingling and itching on the left side of my scalp. I then discovered a blister when I looked in...
Autumn Morning
Already the sun is rising late. After 7:30 where I live, and it is going fast. Thankfully the dawn arrives well before the sun pokes...
Wolf Lake Red Pines
I first travelled through the Wolf Lake area more than 30 years ago. We travelled by canoe, paddling and portaging through clear lakes and cool...
Violets
Spring flowers are in full bloom, much to my surprise. It seemed that the forest floor was brown as ever, until I noticed the violets...
April Promises
After the shortest winter ever, I find myself looking out at a landscape without snow. I’m torn between the sadness of losing the ice from...
Lake Walking in Late Winter
This is the warmest winter ever. I’ve become so used to temperatures hovering around the freezing point that it seems really cold on those few...
Off the Grid: Here Comes the Sun!
February is a most wonderful month. Because of the LIGHT! Gone are the dark days of November and December. It is colder, yes. Minus 31ºC...
Sacred Journeys: “Remain calm, be brave, watch for the signs!”
What extraordinary times we live in, ‘time’ being the operative word here. This summer the energies have been intense, fluctuating between highly charged and periods...
Sacred Journeys – July/August 2011
Everyday Rituals & Celebrations My home is on a river with a couple of acres around it, so I was lucky enough to look out...
Family Constellations: Explore and Transform Unconscious Family Dynamics
An Experiential Methodology By being born into our family, we not only inherit genes and physical traits, but also belief systems, behaviour patterns, thoughts and...
Homeopathic Medicine for Tic Disorders and Tourette Syndrome
Kyle’s parents were disturbed by their son’s behaviour at school. The 11-year-old was often in trouble for pulling other students’ hair, then laughing about it....
Blackflies Love Bananas
Here we are, barely a week into spring, snow still lies heavily in the forest, why in the world would I be writing about blackflies?...
