Healing Fortitude Botanicals LLC

19/04/2024

If I'm still enough I can hear my body cry...heal me.

If I listen to my innate wisdom I know that my food is my medicine.

The last several months have been rough.
And the rougher they got the less I listened.
You know, that's life.
Crap happens.

I like to keep my eye on how I rise from the ashes, not the regret of the crash and burn.

In my breakfast pot is chicken stock, chicken, a zucchini, lots of herbs, sea salt, and Jovial Borlotti beans.

This is what is good food medicine for me but yours may be completely different.

Tell me about the food that heals you. 💛

*music is Blessings by Hollow Coves

18/03/2024

Sometimes I let myself quit.

Temporarily.

FYI
This is a fantastic Dr. to follow for support. The best of the best.

12/03/2024

This little gem was in my email this morning, it changed the trajectory of my day.

Life is hard.

I'm going to trust that my overwhelming need to share it is because someone else needs to see it.

"All I know for sure is that this world will break your heart. There’s enough sorrow to go around and for everyone to have seconds.

But this world has a thousand forms of medicine too.

I’ve yet to find healing in:

Self-pity
Isolation
Pretending I am not hurting
Comparison
Hardening myself
Standing in judgement (although it sure feels good)

But I have found it in:

Eye contact with another person who is in a tender place
The rare moments I stop filling in the blank about another person
Compassion toward myself and others
Remaining open hearted in moments I want to shut down
The times when I manage to not be so self-referential
Using my pain to see it in others rather than only in myself"

-Nadia Bolz-Weber

26/01/2024

03/08/2023

If it suits you 🧡

21/06/2023

🧡💛🧡💛

08/05/2023

Sometimes the answers to the questions I have been pondering come from the oddest places. Tonight the answer came from my blueberries.

Oh! That's right!

Ok, will do....

💛

06/05/2023

This morning I had a photo shoot with some of the most beautiful creatures I know. Their makeup is all natural and their perfume? Oh my, so non-toxic.
There is perfection in their imperfection.
They exude love and elicit joy.

Now that is medicinal!

My medicine comes in so many forms.

Yesterday it came from prayer, the love of some spectacular humans, and a kick-ass workout in physical therapy.

So far today it comes from noticing the sun in a bright blue sky, the flowers I picked yesterday, and a really good cup of coffee.

I look forward to hearing about the medicine you find yourself taking in your every day life. The kind of medicine that does not come from a pharmacy.

💛

04/04/2023

“And in these days of emotional tension, when the problems of the world are gigantic in extent and chaotic in detail, give us penetrating vision, broad understanding, power of endurance and abiding faith, and save us from the paralysis of crippling fear.”

-Martin Luther King Jr.

Assassinated 55 years ago today

21/03/2023

Welcome friends of many colors, I've missed your sweet faces and subtle perfume.

Welcome Spring!

06/03/2023

Whatever you are recovering from.
Wherever you are on that journey.
Even if it is just at that first glimpse into the world of HOPE....

Here is a message for you.

🌻💛🌻💛🌻💛

You listen to me.

This path of recovery that you are on is not a straight one.

It is not flat. It is not without ditches. It is not without brambles and it is not without turnarounds.

It is not all mountain tops and it is not always sunshiny days filled with herbs and flowers.

It is hard and it can be brutal.

So this is what you will do...

You will keep your eye on the prize while your head STAYS in today.

You will not create a catastrophic ending in your head and live from that.

You will live from what's so.

Have you even looked to see how far you've come?

Here's what's so...

You are love.
You are recovering.
You have been recovering. You will continue to recover.

You will do the next right thing.
Your baby steps will add up. You will be out of this turnaround in no time.

How do I know?
Because you have Fortitude.

You have the tools you have picked up along the way.

And I have faith in you.

15/02/2023

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love.

But the greatest of these is love.

- Paul the Apostle