Personal Blog: Spring Growth in All Directions!
My view from the back of the new clinic is brown and grey now that the snow has melted. Green shoots are poking their way up through a blanket of old leaves. ...
Positive Turbulence!
The clinic basement is my new writing spot, with greying skies full of freezing rain and treetops visible through the high windows. A woodstove warms the damp, chilly air. This is where I...
Christmas Season Healing
It’s a quiet sunny afternoon and I’m at my usual writing place in the clinic kitchen, overlooking the front entrance where Stephen’s colourful glass art pokes out of the snowy garden. I’m sleepy...
Autumn Anxiety and Bliss…
As I gaze out the window from my kitchen writing spot I think this is the most beautiful fall I can remember. Felix and I spent two nights in the yurt over...
Ask a Naturopathic Doctor…
Why Meditate? When my spiritual teacher Baba Hari Dass heard us complain that we were too busy to meditate, he would be firm in telling us that this was absolutely the most important...
Getting Down to It
It’s lunch time and my mouth is full of buckwheat toast with peanut butter and honey. Ellie has given me a deadline so I need to use every minute The morning has been...
Ask a Naturopathic Doctor
Clearing Karma… Last week I had to smile after reading “Karma is Real” on a T-shirt. Eastern philosophy explains karma as consequences of good and bad deeds which attach us to the earth...
Summer of Unshed Tears…
It’s early, Felix still asleep on this hazy summer morning, cicadas humming after their mysterious emergence from seven years underground. I feel unusually resistant to writing, make a cup of tea, rouse...
It’s finally a sunny and warm day…
It’s finally a sunny and warm day and I will get in a few minutes of writing before heading out to pick up grandson Felix from the bus stop. It’s a ritual...