Flax - Linum usitatissimum Credit N Cullinan I spy with my little eye… A vast crop of luminous lime fields… long stalks with green bobbles… what is it? This is flax! Evidently flax flourishes in Normandy’s temperate climate of alternating fine rain and generous sunshine. Travel opens one's mind through our senses. It is true that travel stimulates, teaches and gives us new experiences… this is what I learned on a recent getaway to France, gazing out of the car window while ro

Jasmine is all around us - Credit: N Cullinan Plants are an unassuming and invaluble healing resource - as food, medicine and inspiration. Here I focus in on the intangible yet powerful ways in which aromatic plants can inspire health on deep levels. Aroma and aromatic plants like jasmine, can impact our nervous systems and be like keys that unlock entire worlds of sensation, feeling and memories. How can a scent bypass logic and speak directly to your heart? Smell is unlike

Purple Comfrey - Symphytum Officinale Credit: N Cullinan Let's go on a plant safari... growing with the seasons and learning with plants ;) Meet the common Comfrey... it is also called Knitbone, Boneset, Consolida, Healing Herb and Bruisewort. Its Latin name is Symphytum officinale. I have some growing in my garden. And during a trying time where my dog Rosy tore her cruciate ligament and required surgery to fix it, I noticed that she started to eat it. At first I thought sh

Plantfulness - is a form of Mindfulness but focusing on PLANTS, a lifestyle choice and self help tool. If mindfulness is being in the present moment by focusing on one thing - like your breath, then Plant-ful-ness is actually a form of Mind-ful-ness. It is being in the moment, and noticing every detail, using a PLANT(S) - like a flower - as a focus point. This bring us into the present moment, in our bodies with our feet firmly on mother earth and helps us stay there. Plant-f

Part Two in my blog series on Women's health. This blog is based on a recent presentation on women's hormonal health. I shared how to cultivate Hormonal balance with Nutrition and the role of plants as food and medicine. H ormones may feel like they limit us, but they also have superpowers when we understand how they work and how to keep them in a flexible balance. I am proposing that when you align your eating habits, food and nutrition with natural cycles, you also align yo

We need a different mind-set when looking at women’s health - this blog offers a view of hormonal health through a 'FEMALE LENS' Watching the seasons change outside, I have come to understand that Female Hormonal Health too is a spectrum and a continuum of cycles... beginning before birth and influenced by so many variables... from your genes, nutrition, hormones including transgenerational trauma, adverse childhood events (ACE's), environment and life circumstances etc. I

Let's go on a plant safari... growing with the seasons and learning with plants ;) Everyone needs an elder in their midsts for support......

Everyone needs an elder in their midsts for support... and here is the elderberry! I invite you to go on a plant safari with me......

Elephants… are symbols of continuity, endurance , strength, remembrance and matriarchy. What comes to mind of when you think of an...

When I was 18 years old I took the intuitive leap of a highly sensitive person (HSP) and went on to study Homeopathy. I didn’t know much about homeopathy. I didn’t know anything about highly sensitive people except that I knew I was 'sensitive', but not in a good way. Luckily for me I found community with other HSP in my fellow homeopathic students and support in using homeopathic remedies including constitutional care to manage the many so called psychosomatic complaints I h

The Lead with Love book collaboration of 17 authors curated by Adie McDermott, is an International bestseller!!!!!. I am privilaged to...

‘Wild seasons’ is the name of my book series. It is a metaphor for our ever changing, growing and evolving human natures. It describes a...

Echinacea 'White swan' Credit: N Cullinan This article is not actually about the hippie movement, flower power or flower children. But I could not resist using the symbolism of counterculture. As a movement standing for peace, love, passive resistance and nonviolence... I think it has brought much-needed healing and balance to the world. Health foods, medicinal herbs and homoeopathy have also been designated to this counterculture movement along with psychedelics and new age

Credit: oliver-hale-Qse3AFWnc48-unsplash This is no joke… and the answer is at least 7! Fresh strawberries are an enticing sight in supermarkets from late spring and throughout summer. Rows of strawberry punnets are on sale as you enter many food stores and displayed prominently in the fruit and vegetable sections. They are like nature’s eye candy and difficult to walk on by without putting a punnet (or two) in your shopping trolley. However, they may not be as healthy as the

Walking the Eindhoven Urban fringe. Credit: N Cullinan This past year has taken its toll on all of us in a variety of ways. While we...

The canary in a coal mine is a highly illustrative metaphor that I frequently use with my clients to explain susceptibility to certain...

It has been my experience that once you mention the word Homoeopathy in casual conversation, it is almost impossible to be thought of as...

Here is something not many people know about me… In 2000 I completed my Master’s degree thesis on the homoeopathic treatment of sick...

What is a wearable health tracker? The market is flooded with wearable health technology including electronic devices that consumers can...

How listening to one's body can provide clues to its inner biochemistry and the potential connections between nightshade vegetables,...