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When Needs and Desires Collide

DURING THE HOLIDAY SEASON, desires and needs become conflated as I rush to meet the expectations of the season. Desires and needs, in fact, collide for me. I can’t seem to gauge when I’ve baked enough cookies or crafted enough goodies to give away. Despite the fact that I carefully budget and shop for loved ones, I’m left dissatisfied — or at least anxious — even as the last preparations pile up in the fridge. While my stomach lets me know that I’ve sated my need for food, the conviviality of the season leaves me desirous, wanting just one more homemade dessert, one more drink. I experience different feelings when I’m sated and when I’m satisfied. Determining what I need versus what I think I want helps me satiate the…

When Needs and Desires Collide

De-Stress the Season

WE ALL WANT to do the most during this time of year: Plan the perfect party, pick the perfect present, and participate in every event to which we’re invited. But it’s hard to bring happiness and cheer when you’ve worn yourself out. This year, don’t forget that the holidays are also about taking stock in, and valuing, what you already have. Take time to relax alone, or connect with your closest loved ones, and practice your self-care routine to be sure you have energy to rejoin the revelries.…

De-Stress the Season

ECO-FRIENDLY SEARCH ENGINE What if, while you hunted online for holiday gifts, you could also give back to the planet without any extra time, effort, or money? Ecosia (www.Ecosia.org) is a search engine much like Google, but it uses ad revenue to plant trees around the world. Not only does it publish monthly financial reports, it also stays true to its goal when it comes to operations: Its servers are run with renewable energy. With 60 million trees planted and counting, Ecosia is already helping the environment. All we have to do is search. PLANT-BASED FOOD In 2017, Packaged Facts estimated the total retail sales of the meat industry would be just under $100 billion by 2021, with plant-based meat alternatives accounting for less than $2 billion. So who could…

www.Soles4Souls.org WHY IT’S IMPORTANT: Most of us own a different pair of shoes for every occasion. But imagine if you didn’t own even one pair, and that walking was your primary mode of transportation. Consider the potential harm to your feet after years spent walking barefoot. Founded as a disaster relief organization, Soles4Souls now distributes shoes and clothing to 127 in-need countries around the world. WHAT IT DOES: Provides relief to children who have been prevented from attending school, adults prevented from working, and the millions exposed to pain from not owning shoes. Works with more than 1,200 other nonprofits to distribute its donations. Manages an international micro-enterprise operation to help transport, sell, and distribute shoes, creating sustainable businesses in nations where steady incomes are hard to come by.…

GROUNDED IN THE GARDEN

Jean’s July/August 2019 column “Attention, Perception, Awareness” really spoke to me, because this year I’ve realized how much of my self-care comes from gardening. It sounds cliche, but a day in the garden allows me to escape from reality and the stresses of life. My work involves long hours, a terrible sleep schedule, an unbalanced work and family life, difficult people, and intense micromanagement, rendering me a spent wife and mother. So, while sometimes garden projects seem daunting, after a full day of weeding, hoeing, raking, and planting, my tension and bound-up energy is released when I see the progress I’ve made. I feel much more like myself, grounded and content. While I might not be sure what choice to make, or what change I should pursue in my hectic…

NOVEMBER ▪ Clean, refill, and put out your bird feeders for those critters that overwinter in your yard. ▪ Create your own potpourri to refresh your home, or to give as a gift. ▪ Put your canned summer vegetables and cool-weather greens to use in hearty winter soups. ▪ November 28 is Thanksgiving, a day to step back, slow down, and remind yourself of what you’ve been blessed with. ▪ On November 29, instead of Black Friday, enjoy Buy Nothing Day by relaxing with friends and family and enjoying everything you already own. DECEMBER ▪ Poinsettia Day on December 12 marks the passing of botanist Joel Roberts Poinsett, who brought the blooming plant from Mexico to the U.S. (Learn more on Page 53.) ▪ Host a wreath-making party to use…

Mother Earth Living Book Club

JOIN US NOVEMBER 1 THROUGH DECEMBER 31 as we read Mark Nepo’s More Together Than Alone (Atria Books, 2018) and discover the meaning of community and the nature of the human need for connection. Nepo’s award-winning prose about spiritual practice and spiritual presence has been lauded by many, and his books help readers establish hope. This timely collection of meditations and reflections is organized in digestible bits that yield meaningful conversation. SEARCH “MOTHER EARTH LIVING BOOK CLUB” ON FACEBOOK TO JOIN!…

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Optimize Your Sleep

SLEEP IS A BIG DEAL, a fact we’re all waking up to. As research mounts on the benefits of getting a good night’s rest — as well as the detrimental effects of sleep restriction — the sleep aids industry is growing by leaps and bounds, and is poised to exceed $100 billion by 2023. Whether you celebrate or bemoan sleep’s rising star, the verdict is in: There’s no badge of glory to be earned in skimping on your zzz’s. The Growing Sleep Movement First things first: A good night’s rest isn’t just essential for growing children. And according to Catherine Darley, founder of the Institute of Naturopathic Sleep Medicine, the most common sleep problem is simply not getting enough of it. Seven to nine hours is ideal for the average…

Optimize Your Sleep

Natural Hacks for a Better Night’s Sleep

• Tossing and turning over your to-do list? Keep a pencil and paper by your bed for your thoughts so you no longer have to hold them in your head. Remind yourself it’s not time for being productive — and that’s OK. • If you frequently wake up in the middle of the night, sleep with a flashlight by your bed to avoid the stimulation of flipping on all the lights. • Refrain from eating a heavy meal 2 to 3 hours before bed, which can disrupt digestion and sleep. Consider light, lean snacks instead. • During the hour before sleep, certain yoga postures, such as child’s pose and pigeon’s pose, can help you fully drop your day and let go. • Chamomile tea is a researchbacked sleep aid that…

Natural Hacks for a Better Night’s Sleep

The Healing Fungus Among Us

‘SHROOMS ARE IN, MAN. I’m not talking about the psychedelic mushrooms that can take you on otherworldly trips, but the ones that can bolster your health. Modern cultures across the globe are reviving a medicinal mushroom culture to treat numerous different conditions, and today mushrooms are making their way into our kitchens and supplement cabinets. Personally, I find mushrooms to be downright fascinating for so many reasons. They have an entire biological kingdom (Fungi) to themselves. They’re neither plants nor animals, though, surprisingly, they’re more closely related to the latter. Thousands of different fungi exist in the world. Of these thousands, there are edible, glow-in-the-dark, medicinal, and poisonous fungi. For our purposes, we’ll focus on the 3 to 4 percent of the Fungi kingdom that we can call upon to…

The Healing Fungus Among Us

Healthy Hibernation

THE ENERGY OF WINTER is still; there’s so little movement that even a snowfall feels quiet. Aligning ourselves with this energy can help boost our internal health and set the tone for year-round vitality. This concept is based on the notion of “flow” from East Asian Medicine — using the power of nature to fuel our internal rhythms, which promote harmonious energy flow. Aligning with the energy of winter means burrowing in, cozying up, and hibernating against the dark and the cold. It’s a time to take a respite from the hustle and bustle, using the season as an opportunity to go deep within ourselves, take stock, and reflect. East Asian Medicine, also known as Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), bases its practices in thousands of years of nature observations. It’s…

Healthy Hibernation

Eating with Intention

Eating foods that have a resonance with the kidneys helps enhance their daily functions. These foods have even more of an impact during the winter months. Foods that help nourish kidney energy include: 1 CONDIMENTS AND SEASONINGS: Salt, soy sauce, seaweed or kelp, sesame seeds, walnuts and cashews, and spices such as clove and dried ginger. 2 FISH AND EGGS: Fish and shellfish, eggs whites from duck eggs, and chicken eggs 3 FRUITS AND VEGETABLES: Cranberries, blueberries, apples, spinach, cauliflower, cabbage, and asparagus. Eat these foods warm or cooked to promote easy digestion and extraction of energy. Eat with mindfulness; look at your food, taste it, savor it, and chew it slowly. Feeding yourself is an act of deep nourishment, and taking time to relish a meal helps your body…

Eating with Intention

Pressing Acupressure Points

In TCM, the kidney is paired with the urinary bladder. This acupuncture channel is the longest one in the body, and goes along the back. When strong and balanced, it can help create healthy boundaries that protect how you use your precious time and energy. To help strengthen this function, use the acupressure point UB 60, found on the outer ankle between the Achilles tendon and the anklebone. To help deeply replenish resources, stimulate the acupressure point Kidney 3, found on the inner ankle between the Achilles tendon and the anklebone. This helps nourish the deep source of the kidneys. When stimulated, this point promotes a sense of groundedness, improves energy, and boosts overall vitality. For improved metabolism and energy, acupressure points Ren 4 and Du 4 help boost the…

Pressing Acupressure Points

Miraculous Magnesium

ESSENTIAL AND ELEMENTAL, magnesium works nothing short of miracles when it comes to your health. Necessary for more than 300 enzymatic reactions in the body, it plays a chief role in regulating blood glucose levels and blood pressure, and it even ensures the conductivity of electrical impulses for a regular heartbeat. Among its other essential roles, magnesium synthesizes proteins, ensures proper muscle contraction, and aids in increasing bone density. It’s also a major player in healthy brain functioning. However, about 68 percent of Americans suffer from magnesium deficiency. Because it’s a macro mineral, large doses of magnesium must be consumed frequently to avoid deficiency. Gaining a thorough understanding of the impact of a magnesium-rich diet may help you assess whether you could be lacking sufficient intake. Increasing your consumption of…

Miraculous Magnesium

French Vegetables for the Fall Table

IN FRANCE, it seems as if everyone has a garden. In fact, for many people, vegetable gardens take precedence over lawns. And it’s not just homeowners who enjoy getting their hands in the dirt; apartment dwellers can find a small spot of land in city gardens, and cities and factories parcel out unused land and make it available to employees or residents. Perhaps it’s the heritage of years of deprivation during war, or perhaps there’s a peasant farmer in the heart of every French man and woman; whatever the reason, vegetables grow in the front and back yards of millions of homes and buildings across the country. My wife, Michèle, is from Normandy, France, and when we moved to Jamestown, New York, in 1965, we were constantly searching area markets…

French Vegetables for the Fall Table

Holiday Health in a Hot Mug

THERE’S NO NEED to feel conflicted about the choice between natural remedies and over-the-counter prescription medications, because they often complement each other perfectly. Modern medicine offers advanced diagnostics, lifesaving emergency treatments, and precise surgical and pharmaceutical interventions for conditions that are impossible to treat on your own. It also provides drug-free approaches to healing, such as physical therapy and psychotherapy. Natural remedies, on the other hand, offer safe, accessible ways to be proactive about your health. You can use them for self-care when you get a cold, during bouts of insomnia, or to ease digestion, without worrying about serious side effects, overdose, or dependence. As long as you heed your doctor’s advice about how to avoid unwanted interactions between natural remedies and any medications you’re taking, an integrative approach to…

Holiday Health in a Hot Mug

Clothing has always been my source of inspiration and a way to cultivate my sense of self. Used clothing in particular lets me play and explore with my style, while helping me incorporate fashion into my zerowaste lifestyle. Buy-sell-trade stores are wonderful places to shop because they help reduce the fashion industry’s carbon footprint. They keep older clothing in circulation, and give people the opportunity to replenish and refresh their wardrobes without buying new items. As the manager of a buy-selltrade clothing store, I can speak to the positive ways that shopping for, gifting, and donating used clothing affects our communities and our planet. For example, used clothing is full of possibility and potential; it’s unique, affordable, and far more environmentally friendly than buying brand-new garments. Trends come and go…

HAVE YOU ANY Wool?

When it comes to sustainability, what you wear makes a difference. In decades past, clothing was meant to last for more than a few seasons, but today’s era of fast fashion means we now buy more clothes per capita and keep each item for half as long as we did in the 1990s — and fashion wasn’t exactly “slow” then. This generates a tremendous amount of global waste, as the clothing industry accounts for 5 to 10 percent of global emissions and about 20 percent of wastewater production. So, what’s the solution? Besides buying used clothing when possible, and less of it overall, you can invest in sustainable fibers that leave a lighter mark on the planet. Wool is a fiber that’s been used for millennia, and there’s a strong…

HAVE YOU ANY Wool?

CREATIVE OPPORTUNITES IN Clothing Repair

Textiles arts are a great lens through which to view cultures around the world. When I started mending torn denim, I came across the Japanese form of mending known as boro, which translates to “rags” or “tatters,” but has recently become synonymous with the patched, stitched, and mended garments of Aomori prefecture in northern Japan. The history of boro is rich and complex: It evolved from the necessity to preserve the smallest scrap of fabric; add strength and warmth through patching; and use fibers such as hemp and cotton to withstand wide-ranging weather conditions, including very cold winters. The boro garments were mended with basic and utilitarian sashiko stitches. While modern sashiko has evolved into a more precise and highly skilled craft, traditional sashiko stitches prioritized utility over precision; the…

CREATIVE OPPORTUNITES IN Clothing Repair

Conscious Clothing

The fashion industry under intense scrutiny for perceived failings in diversity, workers’ rights, and animal welfare. But while we focus on these issues, we often overlook an equally important problem: fashion’s environmental impact. The clothing and textile industry is one of the largest polluters in the world. Not only does it contribute 10 percent of total global carbon emissions, but also a whopping 20 percent of global wastewater. (It takes more than 5,000 gallons of water to produce just over 2 pounds of cotton — enough for a single T-shirt and pair of jeans.) And that’s not to mention the approximately 15 percent of manufactured fabric that’s left on the cutting room floor. Worse, it’s not only clothing production that causes waste. Per person, consumers throw away an average of…

Conscious Clothing

Post-Holiday Poinsettia Care

WELL-KNOWN for its festive red and green foliage, the poinsettia routinely tops the list as the country’s best-selling potted plant. In fact, more than $140 million worth of poinsettias are sold annually in the United States, mostly during the month and a half before Christmas. Unfortunately, this means that approximately 34 million plants are bought, displayed, and then tossed out by the time January rolls around. I’m sure it’s not an accident that most of us treat the poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima) like an annual. After all, its ability to play dead just after the holidays is understandably confusing. But the poinsettia is actually a perennial, and, unlike a Christmas tree, isn’t cut down before we bring it into our homes, meaning that it doesn’t have to be thrown out. Most…

Post-Holiday Poinsettia Care

Supplies to Soothe You

Merino “Paper Wool” Scarf | $41 Made entirely of ethically and sustainably sourced Australian merino wool, this incredibly soft, lightweight scarf is still warm enough to stand up against winter weather. www.Sassind.com Birds of a Feather” Pillowcase Set | $40 The vegan pillowcases and eye mask in this luxurious bamboo bedtime set are quintessential in helping you reclaim rest during the hectic holidays. www.Ettitude.com Calm A.S.A.P. Capsules | $16 for 30-count Featuring soothing skullcap, holy basil, chamomile, and more, each dose of this supportive herbal blend is formulated to promote tranquility through stressful seasons. www.GaiaHerbs.com Sgraffito Mug Set | $51 (£45) for set of 4 With a style inspired by traditional lines, and colors chosen from nature, these nontoxic bone china mugs are perfect for your next hot holiday drink.…

Supplies to Soothe You

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