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Clutter creates a mess, and messes add to stress. To destress your mind, cull the clutter from your home—and it doesn’t have to be KonMari if you don’t like it.

Every good dog owner knows the importance of both physical exercise and mental stimulation for our canine companions.  Frequent walks and jaunts to the dog park become part of the routine in order to keep our furry friends healthy and happy (and let’s be honest—it helps our health factor, too).

Have you ever found yourself in a flurry to spontaneously reorganize a room or space?

Is there a room in your home that you don’t feel inspired to frequent?

Are you trying to choose the “right” color palette for certain rooms in your home?

Our first and most essential biological need as humans is air. Without water we would survive three days, without food we would survive three weeks. But without air we would only survive for three minutes.

Through life’s many challenges, inviting equanimity into the foreground of your home practice can have remarkable results.  With equanimity, true balance can be restored in all aspects of our lives.

I once lived on a magical little farm and had a fairy godmother landlord. It was a great place to be an herbalist. But…the house I lived in also housed a small country’s worth  of moths. Some of them hitchhiked with me to my new place, as evidenced by the occasional moth fluttering around the bedroom and holes I sometimes find in my shirts.

Here are some great oils and a few ideas for blends to get into the seasonal mode and lighten up the dark days. Essential oils are fun and useful to use any time of the year, but especially to spice life up in these (for some of us) colder and darker months.

Do you have guests coming over in an hour?  Or maybe not until tomorrow, but you’ve got approximately 60 scrabbled together minutes of time that you can spend cleaning between now and then?  No worries!  We’ve got seven things you can do around your home to make it ready for company, without the obligatory “Sorry, I didn’t have time to clean!” from you (really, don’t say that—you won’t need to with these tips!).

Most of us who are young (even if just at heart!) are pretty comfortable using technology.  From smart phones to tablets to driverless cars, we’re used to a world where technology facilitates our experience, saving us time or energy or allowing us to do things once thought impossible with the swipe of a finger.

Those long, warm summer nights are dwindling.  The sun is setting earlier in the evening; there’s a welcome coolness to the morning air.  But before you swap out all your summer recipes for pumpkin-spiced everything, there’s one last summer chore you should take care of: cleaning the grill.