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Thyme cough syrup made with honey and lemon is a useful homemade cough remedy to have on hand for cold and flu season for dry or wet coughs.This recipe makes about 2 cups.
Thyme cough syrup made with honey and lemon is a useful homemade cough remedy to have on hand for cold and flu season for dry or wet coughs.This recipe makes about 2 cups.
Are you concerned about your impact on the earth? Here is your guide to sustainable living for beginners. Go green today!
I'm Not Italian...... I'm not Italian, but I did learn the authentic way to make homemade pesto sauce in Genoa Italy, the home of pesto. The name Pesto
Natural sweeteners - Are they really better than real sugar? Can we live without sugar and should we? Introducing 11 natural sweeteners.
There's a theory that the tastiest things need the best defenses. If you've ever stepped on or brushed by a bull thistle, you've experienced their robust defense system. What on earth are they hiding behind
In recent years, there has been a growing awareness of the impact of toxins and chemicals present in our everyday environments. From the air we breathe to the products we use, our homes can potentially harbor a myriad of harmful substances that affect our health and well-being. Creating a low-toxicity home has become an essential aspect of fostering a healthy living space for ourselves and our families.The pivotal moment in my journey towards a low-toxic home began when I started to understand m
This 21 day anti inflammatory diet for beginners will boost your immune system and keep your autoimmune disease under control while also helping you to lose weight!
Herbal tincture recipes allow you to take charge of your own herbal health at home. Make your own potent, shelf-stable herbal tinctures with fresh or dried plant material and high-proof alcohol using the recipes in
Healthy living feels overwhelming + expensive at first! Sharing all my *secrets* to make it attainable so you can afford a healthy lifestyle too!
Learn somatic stretching - a mindful practice that focuses on the mind-body connection, relaxation, body awareness, and tension release.
This is the easiest way to make soap without using lye--and it's safe to do with kids. Customize your homemade soap with any scents or colors you like!
This delicious 7-day anti-inflammatory meal plan will help boost your immune system, keep your autoimmune disease under control, and aid in weight loss!
Horsetail (Equisetum sp.) is a common edible and medicinal wild weed that grows just about everywhere. It's been around since the time of the dinosaurs, and it knows how to thrive in a variety of
Herbal salves can be made from a wide variety of medicinal herbs, many of which are considered common weeds. This roundup contains over 20 of my favorite recipes for herbal salves that soothe ailments as
Herbal salve recipes are easy to make for a variety of uses. These salves incorporate herbs and can help to soothe, calm, and ease the skin.
What is homeopathy? This article is a basic guide for moms on the basic premise of homeopathy, and how to use it in your home.
Explore foraging basics and connect with nature! Learn self-sufficiency through wildcrafting native plants, and sustainable harvesting tips.
For seven consecutive days you agree to carefully select your thoughts. We know you cannot control the first thought that enters your mind, yet you can control the second one. At first this is going to be challenging, exceedingly challenging, especially in the first few days, and if you persevere you will find that it will become rapidly easier. This experiment will become a thrilling hobby that your entire family could become involved in. Many people, including yourself, work at being positive from time to time. Much like the person that goes on a food diet and then loses weight, and then immediately gains the weight back because they were not conditioned to eat correctly every day. This diet can be like those diets if you do not commit for seven days straight. You can work at a thought every now and then and have sporadic efforts, or you can commit today and get fabulous results that can continue to condition you for the rest of your life. You can be on this diet every day for the rest of your life without harmful side effects. As you continue on this diet, your new thought habit will lay a foundation within the first week.By the seventh week you will have built a habit that will be challenging to break. This is how to put your mind on a negative thought diet: 1 Make up your mind to devote the first seven days, one week, to watching your thoughts. 2 Wake up in the morning and think of it being a great day! No matter what happens, you must not allow yourself to dwell on a negative thought, not even for one single moment. 3 You must not allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, or optimistic. This is discipline that you may find strenuous, and if you find yourself being unusually tired in the evening, then you know it is working and you are altering your life for the better. 4 What changes did you see? Know with certainty that you do not have to change conditions. They will change automatically just by watching your thoughts and images you place in your mind. 5 As you embark on any diet, you know that your mind plays tricks on you. You crave the old food you use to partake of. This diet is no different, you will find your mind wanting to go toward the negative, wanting to say something or gossip about someone or something. 6 Sometimes it will be exhausting to fight the urges you have to just say one thing, much like just having one taste of that delicious cake when you are on a food diet. So if you make a false start, or fall off the wagon, you must stop and start again the next day. 7 You must count every time you dwell on a negative thought. And if you do find yourself dwelling on the negative thought, then you start the diet over again. 8 The goal of the mental diet is to go for seven straight days without having a negative thought. 9 It may take you the entire seven weeks to finally get to seven consecutive days of not dwelling on a negative thought, going into judgment, or talking badly about something or someone. 10 Negative thinking is when you are dwelling on failure, disappointment, or trouble; any thought of criticism, or jealousy, or spite or condemnation of others or yourself, or any thought of sickness or accident. In short, any kind of limitation or pessimistic thinking. Any thought that concerns you are anyone else that is not positive or constructive. 11 This diet is about not dwelling on negative thoughts, in fact not even entertaining them. 12 Once again we know you cannot control the first thought that comes in your brain, yet you can control every thought after that. Disregard them and replace them with a positive thought. Some negative thoughts or comments will come from other people, a newspaper, television, email, or telephone. These do not matter; just disregard them and do not dwell on them. 13 During your diet do not fear negative thoughts, do not give them any power at all. Any negative situation that you must deal with during this time will not affect your diet, provided you don’t dwell on it. 14 When someone at the office or at home talks about things in a negative way, do not ask them to shut up. Allow them to talk, just don’t accept what they are saying. Remember it is your choice to allow someone to affect you and your mindset. 15 Of course it will be very helpful for you to remain on your diet if you can avoid meeting people you already know are negative, people who get on your nerves or rub you the wrong way. If you cannot avoid them, then take extra discipline to listen and not take it in or contribute to the conversation. 16 Everything in the universe is made of energy. When you begin to stir the energy in your life, especially positive energy, you may bring some negative to you. This is just the universe testing the positive energy in your life, so be prepared just in case you find more things going wrong than usual. Much like when you are on a food diet, everyone seems to be offering you sugar-filled treats, sodas, etc. Hang in there and keep on the diet. 17 Be steady and do not tell anyone that you are on this diet. Keep this tremendous project strictly to yourself. When you have completed seven consecutive days successfully, then you can tell the story to anyone. 18 Seven straight days of positive thoughts, with no negative in your life. Seven straight days is what it takes to successfully complete the diet. If you make it to day six and then dwell on something negative, you must start the diet over. 19 You have seven weeks to accomplish this task. If you slip off the diet, you must wait one day (twenty-four hours) to begin again.
It has many uses, is easy to identify, and can readily be made into a plant medicine. If you are new to herbalism, yarrow is for beginners.
This homemade calendula salve recipe is the perfect herbal remedy for dry skin, rashes, bug bites, minor cuts, scrapes, and burns.
If you suffer from endometriosis, this post breaks down the endrometriosis diet, with a list of 12 foods to eat and avoid to manage your symptoms.
Learn how to identify and forage for plantain, a valuable first-aid “weed” that’s easy to find- perfect for beginning foragers and medicine makers! (This post was contributed by Melissa Keyser.) I just returned home from traveling
We created this At-Home Tabata Workout for Beginners to introduce you to the joy, exhaustion, and benefits of tabata work.
This recipe is used with permission from Chris Dalziel's book, Dehydrator Cookbook for Beginners, Copyright © 2022 by Rockbridge Press, Oakland, California.
Comfrey salve is easy to make at home, using homegrown herbs or by purchasing dried comfrey. Studies show that comfrey is an effective herbal pain reliever when applied topically.
Fireweed (Chamaenerion angustifolium), also known as rosebay willowherb, is an edible wild plant often found in disturbed areas. Fireweed is one of those distinctive plants that's easy to identify and plentiful around the globe. The
Late summer foraging is an exciting time to find edible berries, flowers, mushrooms and more! Get started with this guide for beginners.
Ready to grow your own food but not sure where to start? This helpful guide on how to start a garden for beginners goes over everything you need to know.
Elderberry tincture is a simple way to convert fresh or dried elderberries into a homemade remedy to boost the immune system. You may have come across elderberry, in either tincture or syrup form, if you've
Everything you need to know about cleaning your home with eco-friendly products (that aren't vinegar). This evidence-based guide debunks myths, teaches how to make DIY homemade cleaners and talks about which brands are sustainable.
11 canning mistakes that can kill you. Learn how to avoid these canning mistakes to keep your family safe.
Please see more detailed instructions below this printable recipe.I adapted this recipe from the book Making It: Radical Home Ec for a Post Consumer World by Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen of Root Simple.
Before you run out and begin stockpiling toilet paper and face masks read these practical tips before you start prepping!
What is so special about somatic workouts? Let me share why you need to start doing somatic exercises today and how it can change your life
