Empowering Self-Reliance and Sustainable Living & Microbiomes
Empowering Self-Reliance and Sustainable Living & Microbiomes
Creating something like Living Ground Ecuador is not simply about having ideas. I have lots of ideas, probably far too many, but I can usually see the bigger picture very clearly. I think that is one of my gifts. I can look at a piece of land, a café, a …
A Lesson from the Magical Forest Experience I was chatting with a friend this morning about the years I lived in the Magical Forest at Chiruisco. That happened after I first moved to Ecuador. As we talked, memories I hadn’t visited in years came flooding back. I could see the …
Every meal sets in motion a carefully coordinated process involving the liver, gallbladder, pancreas, intestines, microbiome, and the production, storage, release, and transformation of bile. The liver produces much of the cholesterol the body needs by assembling it from nutrients and smaller compounds created during the metabolism of fats, carbohydrates, …
Just a little muse! Have you used GPS, Google Maps, or even Google Search? AI has been quietly helping us for years. The difference now is that it is no longer only helping us find information or navigate a route. It is beginning to think for us, write for us, …
There has been something on my mind for quite a while now. It isn’t really about resilience, although that is where it began. It is about the way we think and how easily we accept certain ideas as truth simply because we have heard them our entire lives. I have …
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 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 …
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 …