Blue Dahlia Wellness Cozumel

15/11/2025

Oh yuuumm. This recipe is 🔥. Great recipe for rainy season and when we get our nortes.
Skull-ita Joanne The turmeric (aka curcumin) has anti-inflammatory properties and aids with digestion. It's best to use with black pepper because it helps the body absorb the turmeric. Turmeric is also good for your liver. Black pepper is warming as well as ginger and cinnamon. Ginger is excellent for digestion, helps lower blood sugar and is a digestive aid. Cinnamon is an anti-oxidant and antimicrobial. Turmeric, ginger, black pepper and cinnamon are all warming herbs and used often in Traditional Chinese medicine and also Ayurveda . The lions mane 🍄 powder is a powerhouse for brain health. 💛 This entire recipe is warming, anti-inflammatory and antioxidant. 🙏🏼🙂 This man has the greatest vegan recipes!

15/11/2025

Did you know, each tea-drinking country's culture has developed its own distinctive way of preparing and serving tea, turning a simple act into an art form?
🇨🇳 China, tea's birthplace, developed the gongfu tea ceremony, a meditative practice emphasizing skill, patience, and appreciation for the tea's evolving flavors across multiple infusions. The Chinese recognize numerous tea varieties—green, white, yellow, oolong, black, and post-fermented—each with regional specialties that reflect local terroir and centuries-old processing techniques.

🇯🇵 Japan elevated tea drinking to a spiritual practice with its famous tea ceremony, or chanoyu. Rooted in Zen Buddhism, this ritual emphasizes harmony, respect, purity, and tranquility. The whisking of vibrant green matcha powder into a frothy beverage becomes a moving meditation, with every gesture deliberate and meaningful.

🇻🇬Britain transformed tea into a social institution with afternoon tea, introduced by Anna, the Duchess of Bedford, in the 1840s. This tradition of tea served with sandwiches, scones, and pastries became a cornerstone of British social life and class identity. The British preference for strong black tea with milk created demand that drove the development of tea estates across their empire.

🇲🇦 Morocco crafted a theatrical tea service centered around heavily sweetened green tea with fresh mint. The pouring technique—lifting the teapot high above the glass to create a frothy top—is both a practical method for aerating the tea and a performance of hospitality.

🇮🇳 India developed chai, a spiced milk tea that has become integral to daily life. Roadside chai wallahs serve this sweet, aromatic blend of black tea, milk, sugar, and warming spices like cardamom, ginger, and cinnamon in small clay cups, creating gathering places for conversation and connection.

🇹🇷 Turkey consumes more tea per capita than almost any other nation, serving strong black tea in distinctive tulip-shaped glasses throughout the day. Turkish tea gardens and tea houses serve as important social spaces where people gather to talk or play backgammon.
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~ From the Herb Society of America ~

15/11/2025

For Thanksgiving, ditch that gross corn syrup for your pecan pie.

15/11/2025

This is yum. I added cumin, chili seasoning, sea salt, a hint of olive oil, roasted corn and cubed panela (Mexican cheese). It was delicious .😋

11/11/2025

This is a beautiful 4-part Free series from Tara Brach. ~Letting in the Love.Tara Brach On Loving and Connection.~ Part One (12:37 min)
"Tara Brach explores the journey of returning home to ourselves through love and presence. She invites us to contact the deep suffering of separation, those moments when we feel lost, unworthy, or disconnected, and to open to the rawness within our hearts. By learning to be present with the pain beneath the voices of self-judgment, doubt, and fear, we begin to awaken to the love that is always available to us."
What you will learn in this session:
✨ How to recognize the subtle ways approval seeking and self-judgment shape our experience of love and connection
✨ Practices to open to the longing and pain within and allow it to become a doorway to presence and compassion
✨ Ways to soften toward yourself and others and awaken to the love that is already surrounding you

This talk is for anyone yearning to come home to themselves, to deepen mindfulness, nurture self-compassion, and open to love and connection in everyday life."

(See links in comments) for Parts 2, 3 & 4. 🙏🏼💛

In this talk, Tara Brach invites us to pause and remember the goodness that is already here, the basic goodness that deepens as we reconnect with a sense of ...

06/11/2025

Listeria Outbreak in the U.S. in pre-made pasta meals from a variety of different companies.

CDC: Listeria Outbreak Linked to Prepared Pasta Meals Expands, Leaves Six Dead Across 18 States. See link below ⬇️

06/11/2025

This is well worth the time to watch. He shares some beautiful and touching life lessons.
"Sometimes we have to go through periods in our lives where we don't know exactly where we are going. But all we need to do is take our next best step forward. The time will eventually come where we need to rebuild our lives, brick by brick. We'll be grateful for those few uncertain steps that we took when we're in the fog. It will not be the same life we started with, but it will be built by our very hands and we'll be given a new chance to discover who we really are."
~Thomas Brag, cofounder,
YES Theory.

28/09/2025

Acupuncture for Veterans - Update! ☯️ 📣

"Acupuncture is offered as a clinically necessary benefit within the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Whole Health System, with widespread integration across VA facilities to address conditions like pain, PTSD, sleep disturbances, depression, and more.

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is rolling out an important new tool to improve access to integrative care, including acupuncture, for U.S. veterans: external provider scheduling (EPS).
This initiative is part of a broader effort to modernize VA scheduling systems and improve coordination of community care.

The National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM) and the American Society of Acupuncturists (ASA) are working together to support the VA and our veterans in expanding access to credentialed acupuncture care through EPS. This initiative is part of a broader effort to modernize VA scheduling systems and improve coordination of community care."
(Acupuncture Today- Updated 9/23/25)

27/09/2025

Gentle thought for the day.
Let them. 🙏🏼

10/08/2025

If you can hear this picture...then it’s time to schedule your colonoscopy.