Empowering Self-Reliance and Sustainable Living & Microbiomes
Empowering Self-Reliance and Sustainable Living & Microbiomes
I often wonder where my fascination with gardens, herbs, and growing food really began. Looking back, I think it started in my mother’s rose garden. I didn’t realize it then, but perhaps that was also the beginning of learning about self-reliance. As a little girl in England, I decided I …
This is a long article and was inspired because I was working with some workshop participants and friends and I wanted to go deeper into understanding the thyroid and most especially, Hashimotos. Over the years I have worked with many people diagnosed with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis and I did not have …
There are times when we simply need to step away from everyday life. Away from the constant demands, the stress, and the routines that often keep us disconnected from our own health. A Private Terrain Immersion at Living Ground gives you the opportunity to do just that while spending several …
I just finished the participants final reports, detailing each person’s live blood journey from the week-long experience and personalizing their experience. My goal was to get to a point where I was no longer explaining and each person was witnessing and understanding. I gave this everything I had. I shared …
The body is always in motion. Blood moves through the arteries and veins, nutrients travel into the cells, waste products move out of the tissues, and the lymphatic system quietly gathers what needs to be cleared, recycled, or carried away. Beneath the skin there is a whole living landscape of …
This past week, during the Live Blood workshop, we saw something again and again in the blood: the markers of a sluggish, congested, stagnated gallbladder. The marker is called a protrusion, and it is a type of poikilocyte. It can look like a small thumb-like projection coming out from the …
We did it! Seven days of intensity, observation, learning, questioning, and remembering. The intention of this workshop was never simply to teach people how to look at blood. It was to invite each participant to see health through a different lens. To step outside of the germ theory paradigm and …
Today is the day before we begin the Live Blood Analysis workshop, and I can feel the fullness of everything that has brought us here. I think we have completed the schedules, the food purchase, the teachings, the manuals, the rooms and all the details checked. It is all of …
I am exhausted. The preparation over the last few weeks has been intense, brutal, satisfying, concerning, and fortifying. I feel confident. I know what I am doing, I know the material, and I know the purpose. But I also feel as though I have been doing the job of an …
This is a little synopsis of the story behind Living Ground and a somewhat vulnerable sharing of my own journey. It is not the whole story, nor could it ever be. Like everyone, I carry chapters that are still unfolding, questions that remain unanswered, and experiences that are difficult to …