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Plant Harvesting
 Materia Medica
Evening Primrose (Oenothera biennis)
Wind flower (Anemone Tuberosa)
Hawthorn: Faery Guardian of the Heart
Birch: Lady of the Woods
Sweet Scent of Summer: Sweet Clover (Melilotus spp)
Verbena: Bittersweet Medicine
Wild about Walnut
 Listening to Plants
Vitalism, Energetics and Plant Medicine Ecology
 Therapuetics 
Herbal Hydrotherapy: How to unwind
Self Care for Menses

 Nutrition, Food & Recipes
The Sweet Taste of Life: Therapuetic Properties of the Sweet Taste
Nutrition and Pregnancy: NAIMH Thesis
Beet Kvass
Your morning cuppa: Choca Maca Matte Latte & More
Primal Pie
Road Rules: Stay healthy on the go: part 1
Road Rules: Part 2
 Medicine Making
Elderberry Syrup
Wildness & Rewilding
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Vitalism

"Vitalism in healing is a clinical strategy based on the principle that Life, Nature, and the Great Spirit from which they arise are fully present in all the tissues of the body, and also in the psyche, the spiritual heart, and the soul, sustaining life and health, providing momentum for personal evolution on all levels, and for the fulfillment of the highest purpose in social and spiritual life. Vitalist practitioners employ clinical strategies and methods which support this life power through encouragement of nourishment, digestion, rest, and appropriate activity, identification of purpose in personal life, connection with nature, an active spiritual life, identification and removal of obstacles to cure on all levels, and avoidance of methods which suppress or distort life processes. The Vitalist incorporates all aspects of science, especially physiology and pathophysiology, but equally values knowledge from traditional medicine, empirical observation, instinct and intuition, and is not confined to the narrow materialistic world view that dominates much of modern science, medicine, and social life."
Paul Bergner from http://www.naimh.com

Elements of Wildness

In my element with dirt and stone, crow and madrone.
Feeding an inner flame that burns in everything.
I am no longer tame.
In every creature a wildness teacher.
Wind in the pine whispers to me that it is time
to shed the tears and break the bonds of fear.
When the wildness calls the flame won't be quenched,
it is fed with each and every breath.
Now my wild heart is burning, my being is yearning
to embrace the call
and dance with the wildness in all.

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