The Ripened Heart

holistic health and human design

Healing is a Deconstructive Process + a Remedy for Travel Anxiety!

Healing is a deconstructive process to get back to the core of who you are underneath all the layers of adaptation. When the body is under stress – be it emotional, physical, spiritual, it puts up defense mechanisms in order to adapt – hence, “layers of adaptation.” I see this all the time on my own healing journey and with clients. They ask, “Didn’t I already deal with this? I thought that this part of me was healed, why is this coming up again?” Sometimes it feels like we just come full circle with an issue. We see the same traumatic situation from every angle before it is completely integrated and healed. This is because there is so much healing potential to be harnessed from difficult situations. Without difficulty, we would actually be quite weak and one dimensional.

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The Life Changing Impacts of Homeopathy – Eczema & Psoriasis Clear

My experience with homeopathy is hard to put into words. Sometimes the only way I can think to describe it is pure magic. Today I wanted to talk potencies. If you go to the grocery store and look for a remedy, you will typically see them labeled as “30c” or “6x” if it’s a cell salt. However, there are higher potencies that work on deeper levels. While a 30c can certainly help the body heal from everyday ailments like digestive upset, skin conditions, organ imbalances, and psychological maladies – a 200c or a 1M or even a 10M potency (much stronger) can help literally turn someone’s life around.

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Why You Should Know About Homeopathy

If I had to pick favorites when it comes to healing modalities – I would have to pick homeopathy. I have never seen any other modality transform lives quite like homeopathic remedies do. I think that the reason homeopathy isn’t mainstream like it used to be (other than the fact that Pharma has always suppressed homeopathy because it interferes with their profit margins) is because people have a hard time grasping what it is and how it works. I want to do my part to demystify homeopathy for people because it’s one of the best ways to take your health back into your own hands.

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Are You Addicted to Progress?

When was the last time you REALLY celebrated how far you have come instead of worrying about how much further you have to go? Are you overly critical of your progress in life? Remember that cheesy saying – “progress not perfection” – Sometimes we mistake our unconscious need for perfection for a healthy and natural drive toward progress.

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Relationships Are Our Biggest Mirrors

Relationships – our biggest mirrors, our biggest triggers, and therefore our BIGGEST catalysts for healing. The behaviors that trigger us in others are alerting us to inner wounds that have yet to be transmuted and healed. Sometimes these behaviors can be lost aspects of ourselves that we need to integrate, sometimes they are reminders of painful relationships from the past. There are always going to be specific patterns that continue to show up and trigger us because it is a call for healing.

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Want to Change Your Life? Start with the Minimum Effective Dose

When it comes to making positive changes, start with the minimum effective dose. Usually this concept is applied to exercise as a way for the body to adapt to the stress of a workout without getting injured, but I believe we can apply it to most things.

There’s this false narrative in our culture that more is always better – and I think this pervasive idea has done a lot more harm than good. Not only are we always looking for more, doing more, being more to the point of exhaustion – but we believe that things are only worth doing if we give it 110%.

If we can’t commit the full hour to the gym, why even bother? If we can’t meditate for an hour every morning at sunrise, why not just sleep in and not meditate at all? Well – I had pizza this weekend so might as well order takeout tonight and start my diet again next week.

We trick ourselves into thinking it’s all or nothing. But what if we started with the minimum effective dose? What if we started with adding in more greens instead of depriving ourselves of every “bad” food we can think of? What if we start by doing a 5 minute meditation before we begin our day, whenever that may be?

By starting with the minimum effective dose, we give ourselves a fighting chance to do better and be better consistently over time. Healthy living is not a race – it’s about showing up for yourself a little more than you did before.

I Made You Winter Squash Soup – Hope You Like Ginger!

If you’re like me, you unintentionally hoard squash in wintertime. I was making a meal plan for the week and realized I had like 4 different types of squash lying around. Why? Who knows. I’m a sucker for squash I guess. But what to do with all this squash? Perhaps make a spicy gingery soup 😉

Ingredients

  • 2 medium winter squash (I used black futsu and delicata), peeled and diced
  • 1 large onion
  • 4 garlic cloves
  • 3 carrots, roughly chopped
  • 2 celery stalks, diced
  • 4 cups bone broth / veggie broth
  • 3 tbs grated ginger
  • 1 tsp red pepper flakes
  • 1 tsp sea salt (or to taste)
  • 2 tbs miso paste
  • 1 tbs rice vinegar
  • 1 cup organic cream (sub full fat coconut milk if dairy free)

Directions

  1. Chop and peel veggies
  2. Sauté onion, garlic, and ginger over medium heat until onions are translucent
  3. Add celery, carrot, and squash and sauté for another 5 minutes
  4. Add red pepper flakes and sea salt and stir to coat veg – 2 minutes
  5. Add broth and bring to a boil. Once boiling, simmer for 25 minutes or until squash is soft
  6. Let cool, then transfer in batches to a blender. Blend on high until smooth.
  7. Add soup back to pot – add miso paste, vinegar, and cream.
  8. Gently simmer for 5 minutes to meld flavors together, ensuring miso paste is fully incorporated
  9. Taste and adjust spices as needed – pepper flakes for heat, vinegar for acid, and miso for depth
  10. Serve! I topped mine with pickled watermelon radish and cracked pepper

My Moon Time Essentials

Okay, lets just get right into it. I used to have the WORST cramps ever on the first day of my period. Not only that, but my periods were super heavy and just all around uncomfortable. Now, I definitely don’t have the “perfect” pain-free period now, but it’s so much better than it used to be. I owe it to these tools I’m about to share with you below along with being on a nutritional balancing program to address mineral deficiencies and imbalances (your body requires a ton of minerals to have a healthy period, or any period at all!) I call it my moon time because our periods are naturally synced with the 28-day waxing and waning of the moon. It shows just how connected to nature we are on all levels. Now onto the tips!

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Why Healing Isn’t Linear

For most of my life I have felt unwell. I remember as young as age 4 having chronic ear infections, intestinal gas, constipation, and muscle tension. By age 12 I was seeing psychiatrists for depression and gastroenterologists for my chronic acid reflux. Nobody ever found anything “wrong” with me. They just shoved anti-depressants, antacids, and prune juice at me and told me I was fine. But even from that early age, I had an inner knowing that something wasn’t right, regardless of what the specialists insisted.

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Coconut Horchata Smoothie

Sometimes you just need a really nourishing smoothie, even when it’s just pushing 50 degrees. I created this room-temperature smoothie with warming spices to fill the body with healthy fats, anti-inflammatory proteins, and bile thinning coconut meat. That’s right! Coconut meat is a liver decongestant. How cool is that?

Collagen is going to stand in as the anti-inflammatory protein here. These are so important to get into the diet if you consume a lot of animal protein that can cause inflammation if not balanced out by anti-inflammatory protein sources. Anti-inflammatory proteins include things like raw dairy, eggs, collagen, gelatin, bone broth, and fish. These proteins will also keep your liver nourished and happy and will help to balance metabolism. Now onto the recipe!

You’ll need
  • 1 whole coconut
  • 1/2 a frozen banana
  • 1 tsp mesquite powder
  • heavy dose of cinnamon
  • 2 scoops collagen peptides
  • 1 tsp vanilla bean paste
Process
  1. Get someone strong to open up your coconut (or maybe you’re strong! go for it!) Funnel the coconut water into your blender.
  2. Scrape out coconut meat, being sure to not get too much wood pulp and chuck that into your blender.
  3. Throw in remaining ingredients and blend on medium/high for 2 minutes or until silky smooth.
  4. Sip + enjoy!

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