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Hygieia: The Goddess of Health and the Herbal Path to Well-Being
Hygiene, from the Greek hygies as in Goddess Hygieia. Hygieia bestows the world with the kind of healing powers that go a real long way: the power of prevention. It always comes back to the wisdom of the Goddess, don’t it? Preventive medicine is the cosmic realm where Self Care resides alongside the wise idiom of ‘Let thy food be thy medicine”.
The ancient Greek “hygies” translates as “living well”- hygiene is a “healthful art”. Hygiene as a “Healthful Art” implies a creative practice. What a sharp contrast to the very clinical, antiseptic associations connected to the word ‘hygiene’.
Fat and the Moon is all about the re-frame. Can we transmute limiting ideas we’ve inherited from our culture about the unworthiness of our bodies into creative juice for Healthful Art? It might take some offerings to a certain Goddess, but I’ll say YES.
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Herbs for Wildfire Support: Plant Protection and Respiratory Relief During Fire Season
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Menu of Meaning and Medicinals: An Herbal Feast
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Practitioner Spotlight: Meghan Henshaw on Herbal Healing and Bodywork
Meghan Henshaw is an herbalist, educator, and owner of Ocotillo Herbals. She was also the inaugural member of our Practitioner Program, and we want to share her magic with you, our community. We had the opportunity to interview Meghan and get the full scope of the expertise she brings into her practice and the world.
