Hello loves!

In today’s blog post, we give you three healing recipes to keep yourself safe and healthy this season.

AS YOU KNOW, the Coronavirus has made its way onto the North American continent and fear is on the rise. While fear, itself, doesn’t keep us safe, we can use its energy to take actions that support our health and make us less susceptible to any microbes that threaten to take us down.

Below you will find three delightful and delicious actions you can take to stay robust and resilient in this virally active time.

Nap

We tend to get sick when we are depleted, and stay healthy when we are getting the nutrients and rest we need. Don’t wait to get sick to take the nap you need NOW!

•Tips for a Dreamy Nap•

Turn off your phone. Hang a DO NOT DISTURB sign on your door. Wear earplugs or play gentle music. Keep lots of blankets and pillows around for optimal coziness and temperature control. Dab lavender essential oil behind your ears for good, relaxing, aromatic magic. Start with a bath. Read until you get drowsy. Listen to a guided Yoga Nidra meditation as you drift away…. Do it for your health!

Magic Potion

Throw any (or all) of these goodies into a sauce pan, cover with 4-6 cups of water and simmer, covered, for 15 minutes:

• 1/4 cup elderberries, rose hips, hawthorn berries.

• 1 Tablespoon peppercorns, chopped fresh ginger, cinnamon sticks, cardamom seed.

• 1 piece of star anise.

• Turn off heat. Add 1 TB dried or 2 TB fresh:

  • Yarrow, lemonbalm, oregano, rosemary, sage, bay leaf, chamomile, lavender, or any other tasty healing herb.

• Cover and steep for 10 minutes.

• Strain. Add a couple Tablespoons of honey, a squeeze or three of lemon or orange, and a hearty dose of Sweet Relief, Cottonwood Bud, or Resilience Tincture.

• Find yourself a cozy place to relax and sip your magic potion!

Super Green Soup

Full of nourishing foods and powerful anti-microbial herbs and spices, this soup is the best kind of medicine!

• Grab a soup pot and pour a layer of your favorite oil into it.

• Sautee a chopped onion and as many cloves of garlic as you can. Aim for a full bulb. If you love garlic with a bite, hold back some to add at the end for an extra garlicky kick.

• Add a tablespoon or two or chopped ginger, ground cumin, and ground coriander. Ground ginger works if you don’t have the fresh stuff.

• And now, add some herbs! Oregano, thyme, parsley, rosemary, bay leaf, marjoram, and sage are all super anti-microbial and anti-oxident-rich.

  If you have fresh herbs, chop up a good fistful of them and throw them into the pot. If you have dry herbs, add about a tablespoon of each. This is medicine! Make it potent!

• For extra flavor and nutrition, add some chopped celery and carrot to your sautee.

• Once your veggies are soft, add a couple tablespoons of nutritional yeast to the mix.

• Next, fill your soup pot with lightly packed and chopped mixed greens (kale, chard, spinach, mustard greens, arugula… whatever you’ve got!), and cover that with water, broth, or coconut milk (or any combination of the three).

• Bring to a gentle simmer.

• In a few minutes when the greens are cooked, puree it with an immersion blender.

• Now all you have to do is church it up with flavor! Start with a spoonful of horseradish or mustard and enough salt to bring out all the flavors. Add apple cider vinegar or lemon juice, a tablespoon at a time, until there’s the right kind of bright pop. Add some black pepper and maybe more cumin or coriander.

• Top it all with finely sliced radishes and chopped cilantro for extra beauty and crunch!

May you live in love, be in beauty, stay well, take lots of naps, and eat and drink a lot of herbs!

In love and beauty, xoxo Nymph and Woodsman