Legend has it fennel bestowed immortality in the Greek island of Prometheus. If you needed a reason to learn to love its aniseed flavour, that’s a good one right there. Romans thought it helped with maintaining a healthy weight. Add another tick! File this away for next Halloween, but fennel was hung over doorways and its [...]
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.” Charles M. Schulz (Companion oil: Young Living Valor™) Love and chocolate. They are inextricably bound. Falling in love? Falling out of love? Longing for love? Love thyself and eat some chocolate. By chocolate, we’re talking the real deal, authentically chocolatey-chocolate. High [...]
Today’s essential oil spotlight lands on clove. If you ever saw the movie Marathon Man, the mention of clove will dig up the dentistry scene from your memory banks. Argh! Let's say it was a long time before I made it to the dentist again after watching that! But don’t worry, clove was the good guy. [...]
Looking for a rock climbing boost? If you thought the sport was the sole domain of thrill seekers or someone who’s one sandwich short of a picnic, think again. Head down to your local indoor climbing establishment (if you don’t have one yet, you might not have to wait long!) and you might be surprised to [...]
Ever feel like you’re a square peg in a round hole? If my outdoor dining setting was a sentient being, it would be nodding, given it’s currrently inside getting acquainted with my sofa and armchairs. (Actually, they are armless armchairs. I'm guessing they have a technically proper name, but I’m more versed in plant names than [...]
Someone once told me cricket is the sound of summer holidays. I don’t watch much cricket, but I got what they meant. Even if you were last pick for sporting teams at school, you’re probably happy enough to have a go when the bat, ball and makeshift stumps are arranged for a game of backyard cricket. [...]
When people ask if you’re glad the kids are going back to school, do you deny it on the outside in case it sounds like you’re a bad parent while letting a small ‘Yippee!’ loose on the inside? Don’t worry, there are plenty of brilliant mums and dads who love their children to the ends of [...]
Massage a drop of Young Living Gathering™ essential oil into your temples before a round of golf to help keep distractions at bay. A friend of mine asked which essential oils could help his golfing confidence. He confided that one of his pet peeves when golfing is that he feels self-conscious about his skill level and [...]
A friend of mine has a signature when serving up coffees to guests at home. He always includes a cinnamon quill in the cup for stirring in your low GI sweetening agent of choice. And even if you don’t add sugar or honey, you score a cinnamon quill. He says, “Everyone can do with sweetening up [...]
Christmas is a special time for giving homemade gifts. This spiritual occasion is always at risk of being over-commercialised in spite of our best intentions. With 24 hour Christmas trading hours on offer, have you ever found yourself hitting the shops in your daggiest clothes and joggers at the eleventh hour, beating down feelings of gift-giving [...]
