Reading Time: 3 minutes As many of us are staying safe within our homes, it is easy to become distracted by all that’s occurring and changing in our external worlds. Our daily lives and routines may have changed, our feelings and emotions are vacillating, and our connections with others looks different. We can take advantage of Social distancing and make it a time to …
Preventing Colds & Flu – An Ayurvedic Perspective
Reading Time: 4 minutes Everyone has respiratory infections. Statistics show that an average adult can expect to get two to three colds per year. When the body is invaded by disease, the immune system makes every effort to destroy both the germs and the infected cells. Because we are surrounded by bacteria and viruses constantly, even when we are healthy, these impurities can’t be …
Journal of an Ayurvedic Newbie: Starting the Year The Right Way
Reading Time: 6 minutes One of my personal mottos is, “There is no such thing as too much butter.” I have never met a cookie I didn’t like. And although I truly think of myself as a church-going, exercising kind of woman, I have only seen the inside of a church or a gym a handful of times in the past year. But the …