• bee venom therapy - chronic illness

    Bee Venom Therapy Timeline

    October 28, 2025

    Bee Venom Therapy is a therapy that has been around since ancient times! Cool, right? Weird how no medical books really mention it. At least, none that I’ve ever read. I’m in the beginning stages of pursuing bee venom therapy for my mystery chronic illness. I already performed my initial sting test to see if I’m allergic. Since I know now that I’m not(that could change any time, I know), it’s time to move forward with bee venom therapy. Bee venom therapy resources are hard to find. There are no apitherapists where we live. Because of that, I knew I…

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    Herbalism - Nervous System

    Nervous System Basics Every Herbalist Should Know

    October 23, 2025

    In herbalism, it’s important to understand how the nervous system works. Knowing the basics of the nervous system can help herbalists know what is happening in the body. Understanding how the body works will make is easier to recognize the herbs to recommend to alleviate the ailment. Knowing the nervous system helps us understand what constitutional imbalance may present. Nervous System: The Three Main Parts There are three main parts to the nervous system. There is the CNS (central nervous system), the PNS (peripheral nervous system), and the ANS (autonomic nervous system). The CNS consists of the brain and spinal…

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    bee venom therapy - chronic illness

    Bee Venom Therapy: Testing Myself To See If I’m Allergic

    October 18, 2025

    Bee venom therapy can be used for healing chronic illness and I’ve struggled with chronic illness since getting Covid in November of 2020. Doctors never found anything wrong with me even though I was bed bound for over a year. I made it out of bed, and actually thought I was cured for a short time. But the symptoms all came back with a myriad of other symptoms as well. Treatments like ozone therapy, acupuncture, bio resonance, an EBV supplement protocol, and steroids all helped until they didn’t. For five years it’s been this constant battle of ups and downs.…

  • honey bee on a purple flower
    Bible Study - Encouragement

    Bible Study & The Honey Bees

    October 3, 2025

    I’ve been studying honey bees a lot lately. Strange intro for a blog post on Bible study, but I’m totally hooked on getting to know honey bees. I dream of being a beekeeper one day. Maybe when I’m old and all my kids are grown, I’ll be a hippie herbalist beekeeper. I think that sounds pretty nice. Visiting the Honey Bee Hive At a family party, my sister-in-law mentioned that she had just gotten her first honey bee hive. She said she needed some extra help, and I jumped at the opportunity. While I slipped into the bee suit, my…

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    Herbalism

    Blemish & Skin Cream DIY The Easy Way

    September 29, 2025

    Tincture Cream I’ve had an idea brewing. What if I could make a lotion or cream with tinctures in it? As a beginning herbalist, I’m trying to find a way to incorporate the power of tinctures into a skin cream or lotion. Because my body is so sensitive, I wanted a low key way of getting the benefits of a tincture. By low key, I mean using a cream or lotion instead of taking a tincture by mouth. There is nothing wrong with taking tinctures orally. In fact, that’s the best way to get all the good stuff that a…

  • Family - Family Relationships - Foster Care

    Our First Two Weeks Being Foster Care Parents

    September 23, 2025

    I’ve thought a lot about what I should write. I still don’t know. We’ve been foster care parents for two weeks today. It feels like a million years. I need a place to land my chaotic mess of weary thoughts swirling around in my mind. But I don’t have the time or energy to explain any of them. All I know is this: The world is broken. People are broken. I expected this to be the hardest thing I’ve ever done-but it’s more than that. I find it chipping away at my soul. Eating me, tearing me apart, breaking me…

  • Herbalism

    An Herbalist’s Steps

    June 9, 2025

    An herbalist’s steps are important. They are a sort of road map that each herbalist follows in order to come to a remedy best suited for a person’s imbalance. Each herbalist follows these steps in their own way; herbalism is intuitive. Different herbalists may come to different remedies for the same ailment, but each remedy, although different, can bring balance. There are four steps that an herbalist follows. These are flexible steps that herbalists around the world will execute differently. The names and descriptions of each step will not look the same for every herbalist, but the ideas are similar.…

  • Fixer Upper

    Before and After : Our Mid-Century Fixer Upper

    November 6, 2020

    I can’t believe the time is here. We’re about to say good bye to our fixer upper. After almost 5 years, it’s time. Time to move on to-well, we have no idea where we’ll end up. But we will always remember the time we spent here making this little house a home. I hope that whoever lives here after us loves it because we really loved making it what it is now. It really doesn’t look like the same house. So thankful for the ability God gave us to finish it. It was hard. But when I look at these…

  • Cleaning - Pots & Pans

    Cleaning Stainless Steal Pans

    March 31, 2020

    Cleaning stainless steel pans involves a process. I’m excited to share it with you because of my love-hate relationship with stainless steel pans. In the past, I’ve given up. I wanted to be that amazing chef who could cook on any surface successfully. Ha. Yeah, whatever. Obviously, I’m not. In fact, a few months ago I had shoved all my stainless steel pots and pans into the bottom of the oven. There was no hope for them. They were beyond rescuing. I eventually threw them out. Then for my birthday, I thought I’d save the day and become a hero.…

  • Family

    Liv and Asher

    March 31, 2020

    The light. The smiles. It’s the simple stuff. I have no fancy words. I’m tired. I’m about to go make a cup of coffee and get breakfast and it’s already 10:30 a.m. It’s actually early for me to be eating. I usually don’t do breakfast until noon. Does that make it lunch? I don’t know. But I do know that I love this little life of mine. I love the smiles in these photos. I love the light…and I love coffee.