Life is challenging right now. We have tax stress on top of pandemic stress on top of general life stress. Stress causes pain.

When I started my practice, I tried to stock herbal formulas and products that might be useful to my patients. I quickly realized this was too broad of a goal! So, now I stock products that I know I’ll use myself. Here’s a list of my favorite home first-aid and wellness products for you to consider stocking at your house, too.

I want to talk about productivity today, and the pressure we’re maybe or probably putting on ourselves to be productive with this time. I’m definitely feeling that. I have so many projects, and so many books I’ve been meaning to read, and so many hobbies or self-care rituals waiting for me to engage them. Isn’t it crazy how even relaxation can feel like an obligation sometimes?

"Keats aspired to what he called Negative Capability, when one is 'capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after facts and reason.' Uncertainty is a liquid state where you float, swim, and take in the view." - When the World Stops, Traveling in John Keats’s ‘Realms of Gold’