most used herbs, essential oils, and diys,
with a few midnight musings.

using ESSENTIAL OILS

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Going no/low tox doesn’t mean you have to give up loving pretty scents. Start creating your own beautiful essential oil perfumes!

4 Reasons to Use Essential Oils (and 3 reasons to not)

There is little else in this world my body responds to in the same way it responds to essential oils. The oils can illicit physiological and emotional responses. I hate to call it biohacking, but there are ways to use the oils and how they work with your bio-individuality to support your body…

We'll Make it Through {sneezes in spring}

We are full into Florida spring. God help us. I have no idea what is blooming but my body does not like it. Sneezing and inflamed sinuses only exacerbate my trigeminal neuralgia. So, what do we do? Use our tools. Here’s the plan…

DIY: Home Insect Repellent

It’s that time of year again. Spring is in full bloom and the insects are making their home a little too close. (i.e. inside my home)…

Protecting your Energy with Essential Oils

Any time I’m down or I need a little assistance blocking outside energetic noise - these are the oils that I use.

Essential Oils for Seasonal Discomfort

It’s that time of year again. Seems like everyone we know is coughing, sneezing, or just fatigued and run-down. These are my essential oil and herbal secret weapons that are my go-to this season.

Energetic Cleansing Diffuser Blends

Using my diffuser is one of the tools I use to cleanse a space energetically. Sometimes rooms can just feel stagnant and a little icky. Whether the . . .

DIY: Hair Oil

This hair oil is comprised of beautiful oils that are believed to nourish and promote hair growth.

DIY: Body Oil

One of the best thing about essential oils is the variety of ways that they can be used. This DIY is one way I use oils daily.

Use Your Tools - or the story of how I came to love Magnolia

It’s like everything else in life we know is good for us. You experience how good you can feel and then something happens and we fall into a kind of amnesia . . .

Essential Oil Skincare Routine

Want to learn how to integrate essential oils into your skincare routine? Let my routine be a jumpstart guide for you.

DIY: Custom Diffuser Blends

Learn to DIY a more complex diffuser blend. Whether you’re a seasoned blend builder or just getting started this DIY (plus an up-cycle) is just for you.

from the heart of an herbalist

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Spiced Vinegar

In April of this year I made my first batch of spiced vinegar. It’s surprisingly tasty. I use this as a bitter before I eat lunch . . .

Passionflower: A Love Affair

This flowering vine is everything I never knew I always needed and why she just might be for you, too.

Lessons from Gathering Rose

I started gathering rose petals a few months ago and in the process I’ve learned a few things…

simple and savvy DIYS

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Essential Oil Perfume Recipes

Going no/low tox doesn’t mean you have to give up loving pretty scents. Start creating your own beautiful essential oil perfumes!

DIY: Home Insect Repellent

It’s that time of year again. Spring is in full bloom and the insects are making their home a little too close. (i.e. inside my home)…

DIY: Hair Oil

This hair oil is comprised of beautiful oils that are believed to nourish and promote hair growth.

DIY: Body Oil

One of the best thing about essential oils is the variety of ways that they can be used. This DIY is one way I use oils daily.

DIY: Custom Diffuser Blends

Learn to DIY a more complex diffuser blend. Whether you’re a seasoned blend builder or just getting started this DIY (plus an up-cycle) is just for you.

3 Tips for Green Laundry

If you have been searching for ways to make your laundry process a little more green and eliminate more toxins from your home here are three easy ways to get started.

DIY: After Sun Spray

For when you want to give your skin some extra love.

DIY: Kick the Tension Blend

When you want to kick the head tension to the curb…

DIY: "Pure"fume

I’m obsessed.

DIY: Sugar Scrub

Only three ingredients that you probably already have in your pantry.

DIY: Lavender Linen Spray

DIY: Bathbombs

DIY: Dusting Spray

Recently I experimented and made my own dusting/wood polishing spray and want to share the recipe. It works like a charm and smells gloriously fresh.

DIY: Body Spray

getting personal - midnight MUSINGS

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I'm here.

I have wanted to share more, to be more transparent, in an effort to help others who may be in a similar spot to me to not feel so alone. I’ve wanted to do this via Youtube because there is something about seeing another human that helps us feel not so alone in our struggles. And I’ve tried. But I have to be honest…

A Canary in the Coal Mine

I have spent most of the last 13 years of my life avoiding talking too much one very specific topic. My chronic pain. I never wanted to focus on it outwardly because it rules my life hindering so much of what I want to do with my life and how I exist day to day. Beyond the cursory acknowledgment of it I didn’t want to go into what it actual is like living with it. In short - a nightmare…

Staring Down the New Year

I have a lot of feelings about the new year. I love planning and creating systems and organization so you can imagine I love a new year turning. There is something about it that feels like a blank slate - and my calendar is yet blank for the new year (anyone else a paper planner person?). The harsh reality is - I will still have trigeminal neuralgia …

Weaving the Magic in the Mundane - or how life has been lately

It would take hundreds of pages to explain it all. Neither of us have time for that now. I’ll just pick up like we’re old friends. The long story of it all will be scattered in and out of my personal updates and musings… but I felt like there needed to be a moment of recognition.

Spring Musings

Spring is in full force here. (How lucky we are, I know.) The azaleas, jasmine, forest rose, camellia, and citrus are blooming. The scent wafting in the air is heavenly this time of year. The seeds I planted are up and just getting their first true leaves…