Reading Time: 5 minutes The lavender plant has been used for centuries to help with depression, stress, and irritability. And while the dried flowers stuffed in sachets – or the fresh ones just pinched and sniffed – definitely have that aroma-therapeutic action, the essential oil will really pack a punch.
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Reading Time: 4 minutes What you wear, read, drink, eat or bath in does not make you a Goddess Warrior or Spiritual Woman. It is that which lies within our hearts and souls that connects us to the Divine Mother. It is how inclusive we are, how caring and kind we are and generous with Unconditional Love that pulls us closer into the realm of Spirit.
Reading Time: 7 minutes By: Janette Dalgliesh – Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know.…
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The Root: Revolution, Reparations, Revelry: The Root’s Black (AF) Gift Guide 2019
by Confluenceby ConfluenceReading Time: 8 minutes This year, we’re talking “Revolution, Reparations, and Revelry,” because we like alliteration, and because these three go together like greens, yams, and ham (turkey ham, if you don’t swill swine. If you don’t eat meat, please pass).
Reading Time: 9 minutes By: Sarah Grace Powers – Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women…
Reading Time: 8 minutes By: Janette Dalgliesh – Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know.…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Are you ready to renew and refresh your outsides and your insides for Spring?
In my last two posts on Confluence I wrote about how the changing of the seasons—especially the advent of spring or autumn—is an excellent time for a Detox. A Spring Cleanse if you will.
In Ayurvedic Medicine – which is one of the world’s oldest holistic healing systems, developed more that 3,000 years ago in India—it is customary to detox for 2-6 weeks at the beginning of Spring and again at the beginning of Autumn. The Ayurvedic detox involves limiting your diet to specific foods, herbs and spices, and several other practices.
But cleansing and detoxing with the seasons is a practice that spans many cultures, and in modern times it can be particularly helpful after a winter spent consuming heavier foods, which is our natural tendency when it’s cold outside.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Fragrance…. It sounds like such a benign word. We say, that flower has a lovely fragrance.
The truth is that many companies are using the word ‘fragrance’ as a catch-all term for a chemical cocktail that is now being shown to disrupt the function of important hormones, including thyroid and adrenals, causing all kinds of problems with your health and wellbeing.
Reading Time: 5 minutes Famed family therapist Virginia Satir once said that “Most people think the will to survive is the strongest instinct in human beings, but it isn’t. The strongest instinct is to keep things familiar.”
That instinct to keep things familiar is primarily how lizard brain manages our survival.
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Your Cold and Flu Arsenal #6: Five More Essential Oils to Treat and Beat Cold and Flu
by Confluenceby ConfluenceReading Time: 5 minutes I love essential oils because they’re basically concentrated plant medicine. The small bottles are so easy to carry with you and pull out at need.
A lot of people get confused because essential ‘oil’ is somewhat of a misnomer. These substances are actually not oily at all, and are created (most often) through a complex distillation method that extracts the medicinal essence of a plant from the water and plant matter.