Rumination is a response to prolonged stress and/or trauma where we experience repeated involuntary and intruding thoughts about past experiences, and in recent years this definition has been broadened to include the same form of circulating thoughts about what may happen in the future. Since the beginning of the pandemic, there has been a significant […]

Healing Diets Coach graduate, Laura Gualtieri, shares her journey towards studying natural medicine and her experience with her Healing Diets studies as she launches her own practice, and continues her studies towards her Naturopathy diploma! Laura will also be graduating as a Healing Diet Nutritional Consultant in October. Enjoy! My journey to the School of […]

By Jonathan Hinde at Oshadhi Essential Oils, with exerts from Oshadhi founder Malte Hozzel Helichrysum italicum (Immortelle, Everlasting) is one of those oils that far too few people seem to know about. It’s not exactly a secret, but for reasons I don’t fully understand, it doesn’t seem to appear on many of the standard ‘lists’ […]

by Naturopathy student, Jemima Rose “Food reveals our connection with the Earth. Each bite contains the life of the sun and the earth….” – Thich Naht Hanh My eldest child, when a toddler, would go into the garden and pick what he would call ‘boregano’, (oregano to you and I), and would stuff handfuls of […]

by Healing Diets student, Amy Hiller While researching the 5 elements and their significance in Ayurveda, I felt particularly drawn to the earth element. Initially this was because I considered it to be one I was lacking and was interested to discover ways to bring more of it into my life. As I delved further […]

by Quantum Botanicals Advanced student, Erin Shaw Known as Darwin’s “abominable mystery” and distinguished by their unique, usually obvious, rather beautiful and intriguing reproductive organs – their flower- angiosperms dominate the kingdom plantae. Or to put it simply, flowers rule the plant world. A huge ca. 90% of the plants we experience on land are […]

Carol Mead QBT Owner of Elyse & Me, an essential oil company offering exquisite blends that provide support during periods of stress. Almost one year ago, I felt a “ping”, that said, look for a course that would expand the depth and breadth of my knowledge of essential oils. I let GOOGLE do the work, […]

Right and Left Brain Hemisphere Processing The popular view of the left and right brain is that the left brain is the realm of logic, language and the ‘rational’ mind, whereas the right brain is the realm of emotion and creativity; that we are either left or right brain people; good at one thing or […]

By Amy Hiller (Healing Diets Student) What are toxins and how are we exposed to them? The term “toxin” is thrown around a lot these days without a great deal of thought for what a toxin actually is. While the word is generally used to describe any substance which is harmful to the body, the […]

By Rachel Rudy, Quantum Botanicals Student Cardamom insisted I write this. And those of you who have had a scent irrevocably weave itself into your life will understand what I mean by this. Such is the way with some plants, finding their way to you. I hadn’t even seen cardamom before I knew I needed […]

by Helen Wainwright (Herbal Medicine online course student) Spiritual and Philosophical values of the Native American Tribes For many years, the Native American tribes peacefully wandered the vast and often challenging expanse of the America’s. This was a formidable landscape but one which they were adept at dealing with having migrated down from Asia, to […]