I have begun 2021 by trying to cultivate the quality of stillness in my life. Stillness as the definition suggests brings silence, the absence of noise or disturbance, tranquillity, quietness and the absence of movement’. Mine has been a life that has been defined by perpetual motion and constant engagement, I went to 17 different […]

The Elder tree (Sambucus nigra) is sacred to many European goddess-traditions who held in high esteem the Elder Mother, a spirit who inhabits the Elder tree and offered protection from physical and psychic harm. She was also called upon to make contact with the faerie realm. When viewed in the light of modern pharmacological understanding […]

A soothing gel for burns, bites, stings and itches There is a particular kind of giddy joy that I feel whenever I see chickweed poke its pretty little green leaves up out of the ground. Here on the Sunshine Coast where it goes from warm to hot, to ridiculously hot, it is only cool enough […]

Finding a nature ally When I stumble out of bed half naked with bleary eyes and crazy hair… she is there. When I rush around like a headless chicken, frantic to get lunches made, children dressed, breakfast, lunch and dinner sorted, emails, texts and phone calls returned, play-dates and meetings orgainsed…she is there. When I lie […]

This month I am all about embracing imperfections. Our imperfections are not something we can overcome by resisting, ignoring or making ourselves better than them. We cannot be better than our imperfections because they are us. It is only by taking the time to stop and listen that we get the messages our imperfections bring. […]

By Heidi Merika BHSc.Nat A common philosophy in naturopathy is the concept of ‘wholism’ or ‘holistic’ healing, which we use to explain the interconnectedness of the human body and its relationship to it everything that influences it. We acknowledge that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts and that everything that happens […]