Work, family, housework, and finances – they all take up your time. It’s easy to get lost in the mundane details life requires. You do what you must, but do they make you happy? Do you feel fulfilled or are you just going through the motions?

No matter how chaotic life can get, we need tools to help bring us back to our centre and ground us. Mindfulness practice is a great start for this. Life can get stressful at the moment, though it always passes. A popular quote is ‘You can’t calm the storm, so stop trying. What you can do is calm yourself. The storm will pass’ – Timber Hawkey. When we are in the storm, it feels like a big dust storm in our minds. Thoughts are flying around everywhere, not making any sense at all. The idea of mindfulness is to calm this dust storm down enough to let the thoughts settle and allow the breath to slow down.

Medical advancements constantly change, but herbal medicines remain as a powerful ally of our nutrition, health, and wellbeing. Echinacea is a clear example of how a traditional North American herb can outperform some drugs to treat the common cold, one of the most elusive ailments known to man.

What exactly does Echinacea do and what else can we expect from this promising natural remedy?

Female hormone balance support tonic contains carefully chosen herbs, blended with The Green Naturopath signature formular hormone balancing herbal mix. This nourishing female tonic was created to help replenish and balance hormones, assist with PMS and PCOS Support, menstrual relief, mood swings, vitality, and energy.

Most people associate stress with emotions and mood. It is something you feel for a while and then focus on something else. But did you know feeling stressed out affects your nervous system in a longer term?

Stress can actually change the way your brain works, and the connections it has with your outside body. One example of such association is the vagus nerve.