MEDITATIONS

Thigmomorphogenesis is the phenomenon by which plants grow and develop in response to touch. It is made up of 3 ancient Greek words:  θιγγάνω (thingánō) to touch μορφή (morphê) shape γένεσις (génesis)...

The luminous beauty in everyday things is a quintessential feature of Spring. Not only is the natural world re-awakening to greater warmth and light, but we too are re-awakening to...

If you live with chronic illness, then you know that maintaining hope can sometimes feel hopeless. Especially during the depths of winter, when melancholy can once again sink its teeth...

"Insomnia is a kind of revenge for all those thoughts that you refuse to have in the day that are coming back to bite you." - Alain de Botton  ...

Honouring the magic and mystery of the darkest light, the longest night of the year.   Winter Solstice is a potent time of year, a threshold from past to future,...

May is the month that autumn really urges us to let go of anything that may be to heavy a burden to bear as we descend deeper into winter. It...

Falling back takes a lot of trust, that whatever is behind you will catch you and soften the fall. As we change the clocks this Fall, taking back an hour...

We all aspire to be calm, tranquil and peaceful but these can seem like lofty ideals when our lives are full of tasks, expectations and events that are out of...

"If the average person’s brain takes in 100 pieces of information, the sensitive person’s brain takes in 1,000." - Melody Wilding, Sensitivity Can Be A Superpower   Some people are...

What does energy, endorphins and empathy all have in common? Exercise. According to evolutionary anthropologist and metabolism expert, Herman Pontzer, we evolved to exercise. As we have evolved from ancestors...

Eudaemonia is a Greek noun for the highest human good, derived from the words eû (good, well) and daímōn (spirit or deity). We use this word today to describe a life...

From our biophilic perspective it may seem that we are attributing human characteristics onto plants, and in a way, that is exactly what we are doing! Now, before you brush...