Hi There! You haven’t heard from me in awhile. That is because I’ve been busy getting my Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology . Now I’m done. You may have noticed a change in the subtitle of my blog: I decided to add Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) to the list of topics. Over the years I’ve [...]
Archive for the ‘Healing’ Category
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Skills. I haz em.
Posted in Healing, Rants, Survival Skills, tagged chronic fatigue syndrome, chronic illness, fibromyalgia, primitive skills, tule, wilderness therapy on September 9, 2011 | 10 Comments »
The Portland Water: Part 1
Posted in Healing, Health and Beauty on May 21, 2011 | 4 Comments »
I was told by, ahem, a psychic recently to change my drinking water, which is primarily Portland tap water. I know that city water is probably mildly bad for me, like duh, but then so are a lot of things from the air I breathe, to food I consume, to the electromagnetic fields I’m bathed [...]
Cold Cleavers Tea: Tastes Rad
Posted in Healing, Plants, tagged cleavers, galium aparine, herbalism, medicinal plants, weeds on May 15, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I was demonstrating the cold infusion technique to a class of herbalism students when I discovered my new favorite drink: cold cleavers (Galium aparine) infusion. I had never actually used the cold infusion method on cleavers before. “It tastes like Easter!” I exclaimed. “Banana Laffy Taffy!” said Gabe. You can decide what it tastes like [...]
Remythologizing the Breaker of Hearts
Posted in Healing, Philosophy on December 27, 2008 | 15 Comments »
“It is by breaking our hearts that we can give respect to the victims of our culture.” -Laurel Luddite, Fire and Ice It was a name that came to me in an instant. It had a nice ring to it. Originally it had to do with the ones I’d left behind. Some applied it to [...]
