Healing Remedies 101: The Magic of Pine Nuts and Pine Nut Oil

Siberian Pine Nut Oil

DID YOU KNOW?

-Siberian Pine Nut Oil enriched with pine resin(живица) can be used to treat the following conditions:
        - cuts and burns
        - nappy rash, eczema, dermatitis, psoriasis and           any other skin problems
        - oral thrush
        - ear infection
        - eye infection
        - gastritis
        - duodenum ulcers

        - skin ulcers

        - cholecystitis and hepatocholecystitis

        - chronic pancreatitis

Parenting 101: Teaching Social IQ Skills to Kids

Last week I was invited to attend a "Connect for Kids" workshop at my daughter's school, hosted by Amanda Styles-an expert in working with children and adolescents with social, language, learning and emotional-behavioural difficulties.

 I wasn't too sure what I was going to learn there, but had a good feeling about it. The workshop was promising to teach parents how to develop their child's social and friendship skills by introducing concepts like conflict resolution, joining in, active listening, being positive, dealing with the silly and annoying.

I don't know about you, but I was never taught anything like this when I was little. So, I always assumed it was sort of a common sense and didn't need to be taught. Well, I was wrong.

Healing Remedies 101: Naturopathic First Aid Kit

We have relatives living on three different continents, so travelling long distances is a normal thing for our family. Whenever I pack, I always have the biggest dilemma of wanting to take my whole cupboard full of herbal remedies with me. Luckily, since there is only that much you can take with you on the plane, I have come up with a short list of remedies with a wide range of uses that have become a part of my Herbal First Aid Kit.

So today I want to share this list with you.

Top 10 Tips of How to Prepare for the Gentle Pregnancy and Birth: #3: Watch a lot of Positive Birth Movies

From day one, the most important thing you can do for yourself and your baby is to read about as many happy gentle births, as you can, and to watch as many beautiful births, as you can (see Resources section of my web-site for useful links and recommended books to read).

And the earlier you start, the better. Because as soon as we announce that we expect a baby, people tend to share all sorts of things, and not all of it is pretty. So, whichever birth you see the first, and whichever stories you hear first, it may have a major impact on how your birth and pregnancy goes.

Yummy Superfood 101: Chocolate Chia Hemp SuperSmoothy

This one is another of my favourites these days. Great meal replacement or just a filling snack. 

Can be made with either cow's milk, soy or almond milk. 

Contains not only a nice serving of proteins(more than 15g, 

Healing Remedies 101: Oxygen - The Little-Known Healer

Today I want to talk about one of the remedies I recently learnt about, that really surprised me with its wide scale of useful properties, no side-effects, that is also extremely easy to use and has no bitter taste. How cool is that?

Top 10 Tips of How to Prepare for the Gentle Pregnancy and Birth - #2 Book a Naturopathic Consult

Ok, so the second one on this list will be going for a Naturopathic Consult to make sure you are not low on any of the minerals, vitamins, essential fatty acids and making sure your system performs at its best, as it will be up for a very big test for the next few years.

Back when we decided to get pregnant, we went for some routine GP test, were told that we were both healthy, I was advised to take a good multivitamin supplement, folic acid and flaxseed oil. Luckily, I came across the Well-Adjusted Babies book which gave me a lot more informative directions than that for pregnancy and birth preparation, but looking back I still think that it wasn't enough.

Yummy Superfood 101 - Hemp Green Juice

Did you know that:

 "Celery is a good detox remedy, celery stem, leaf, and seed stimulate the kidneys to clear waste products, especially helping to cleanse salts that accumulate in joints, causing stiffness and inflamation". 

"Juice from the stem and leaf is an excellent dietary supplement in aiding detoxification and weight loss. It is particularly suitable for people with a tendency to fluid retention".

"Both the juice and seed of celery stimulate urine flow and can prove useful as part of a broad approach to treating high blood pressure"(Andrew Chevalier "Herbal Remedies"). 

The recipe I want to share today is so simple to make and is so good for you!

Nutrition Discoveries 101: Importance of Eating enough Proteins

Today I want to start a series of posts about simple nutrition tips that are so easy to forget to do on a day-to-day basis, especially when you have kids, which have a critical impact on our long-term health.

As the post name reveals, today I want to write about Proteins.

To me it seemed for a very long time as the most non-important part of my diet. Watching sugar intake-yes, drinking enough water-yes, obtaining enough of different vitamins and minerals-yes, but I never counted proteins I ate. Well, let me tell you- I was wrong and I should have listened to my Phys.Ed teacher better. I definitely underestimated the role they play in our health.

Top 10 Tips of How to Prepare for the Gentle Pregnancy and Birth: #1 Purchase the "Well-Adjusted Babies" book

I want to start with something, I must have shared with dozens of my friends.

 I was very fortunate at the begining of my pregnancy journey to have come across a book called Well-Adjusted babies by Jennifer Barham-Floreani.

It was not by accident that it received a number of acknowledgements from numerous celebrities like John F Demartini, Miranda Kerr and many others.

About the Golden Middle and Searching for the Missing Puzzle Pieces

I love reflecting, putting my thoughts into words and sharing my everyday insights with people who might be going through the same sorts of experiences. I believe there is no one truth, put each one of us discovers their own Truth by putting different experiences and perspectives together.

I like thinking about it like putting a puzzle together. We sometimes like other people’s       puzzles(ideas) and make them a part of our own.