Two days ago, I was having a tough afternoon. Without any thinking, I found myself walking into the kitchen, pulling out a bunch of vegetables and herbs, and filling a large metal pot with water. Sometimes the heart knows what the mind does not. Cooking is one of the most grounding and satisfying practices I ...
Yesterday, I had the rare opportunity to interview two bold pioneers who are risking it all to uncover natural remedies that heal cancer. They blew me away with their knowledge and I’ve shared it with you in the video below! Ty and Char Bollinger are a truly inspiring husband and wife team who are tracking ...
I have a sneak peek video from our upcoming docuseries Remedy: Ancient Medicines For Modern Illness to share with you today. Over the past year, we’ve interviewed some of the most remarkable voices in the realm of natural healing – including herbalists, physicians, naturopathic doctors and ...
The ancient Kahuna prayer below stopped me in my tracks on a recent journey into the jungles of Hawaii. These words are particularly potent right NOW – in an era where it has become so easy to get distracted by our phones, computers and TVs. Our senses are overloaded with constant information – ...
The Shamanic Healing Diet In the Amazon rainforest, there exists a shamanic healing diet that is often prescribed to people who are sick. It is believed by many native healers that the delicate compounds in each of the herbs that are being prescribed to a patient, including the Banisteriopsis caapi vine (one ...
I came across the Taoist prayer below at just the right time a couple weeks back – on a morning that felt particularly challenging. As a global tribe, many of us struggle to maintain our sense of sanity in themidst of the chaos, suffering and unrest that is unfortunately part of the reality we meet in our ...
Over the past year, the team and I have been filming a brand new documentary series about ancient healing herbs that has taken us on a green medicine roller coaster ride. The new series is going to be called Remedy: Ancient Medicines For Modern Illness and I can’t wait to share it with you in a few months, ...
We certainly live in unusual times, don’t we? When the news headlines are filled with fear and uncertainty, it’s easy to be thrown off keel and get into our heads. But the elders have taught for thousands of years that personal evolution doesn’t occur without a little ruckus, just like new seeds won’t...
A few months ago, we had the rare honor of sitting down with master herbalist Stephen Harrod Buhner to document his wisdom for our upcoming film series on herbalism. In the middle of the interview, Stephen dropped some unexpected wisdom (as brilliant thinkers often do!) about seeing what cannot be seen. He ...
“I can’t see a [email protected]#% thing!” I said to my college girlfriend as we drove through a blizzard, making our way south down Interstate 57 from Chicago to Champaign, Illinois, where we were both in school. In the winter, a drive down 57 is a rite of passage for Midwestern drivers. On a clear winter day, ...
10 years ago, I stepped into a ceremony that changed my life. Before entering this sacred ritual, I thought I knew something about this reality and who I was… I was wrong. How do you find yourself leaping off the edge, plummeting into a confrontation with ultimate truth? Thinking back on it, I had been ...
Growing up, I was fascinated by the hundreds of interesting plants that grew in the forests behind my childhood home in rural Connecticut. We would wander down old forgotten trails for hours, lost in the greenery and enchanted by the timelessness of the place. I would later come to realize that these old ...