Wellness Made Simple

07/10/2021

Early Spring, and the garden is waking up. Flourishing at the moment are the heritage apple I planted for my mother, my Babcia's lilac, lavender and multiple natives for the 🐝🐝🐝, jasmine and nasturtiums. Herbs, seedlings and passionfruit are starting as well.

28/09/2021

It’s becoming evident that the foods that have become taboo to mine and the next generation are less harmful that the diet and food-fadist industries have been claiming. Food alergies and sensitivities aside, it’s actually beneficiall for us to eat a balanced and varied diet.

A new Swedish study says decades of official dairy wisdom is wrong. Here, a nutrition expert examines more science that questions standard health advice

15/08/2021

Bread, because otherwise we die.

As I travel along my journey with food, I increasingly distill my eating down to the basics: bread (in a form that supports my body), lots and lots of veg, free range protein, some grains and pulses and hydration. My food now largely resembles something my Polish ancestors would recognise.

24/07/2021

Something I value about our home is the central space that we use for cooking, work, crafting, entertaining, very much as our foremothers would have used the hub of their home.

We might sleep and do most of our work elsewhere, but this is the centre of our life.

22/07/2021

Sometimes, it’s the small things that make a big difference: flowers from .is.steph, rose tea and delicious room scent from .

19/07/2021

We neurodivergent folx are out there, in the middle of the herd, and can spend our lives feeling othered, othering ourselves and wondering where we fit in, in this humanity soup. This article is about identity, and masking, and (not) / “fitting in”.

“ This article is a deep dive into the importance of Identity and how the medical model of Autism and societal views towards Autism have a huge negative impact on Identity.

Someone who proofread this before publication asked me who the target audience is. My answer was everyone. Autistics, parents, professionals – anyone who cares to read and wants to understand why Autistic people are being broken upon the back of the wheel of society. I’m talking to all of you. But especially you. The person that’s reading this right now.”

“Some people have an identity. I have an alibi. I have a shadow self.” – Andre Aciman I’ve been writing a fair amount of training material recently, for myself and for several other organisations and it’s had me questioning what I want people to take away from them. Knowledge about Autism ...

22/05/2021

Food for free: the beginnings of apple scrap cider vinegar from foraged apples that are stewing away. And in the background, gluten-free sourdough starter that I’m (still) working on.

22/05/2021

After our first serious frost this morning, it was time to pull up the sweet potatoes. These are a different variety from last year’s orange fleshed ones, and not as prolific.

01/05/2021

When a loaf of bread takes 24 hours to prepare. Still working on perfecting a gluten-free sourdough.

29/03/2021

07/03/2021

She repurposes leftovers of a cooked and pickled nature into a delicious veggie slice.

Every * last * scrap

19/02/2021

Those of you on this journey of living well with chronic illness might be interested in this seminar series that considers our biological and emotional terrains as places to look for the root cause of our illness. I’ve listened to some of the introductory talks and have found them intriguing, particularly “ Rage, the Emotional Terrain and Ancestral Healing”.

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