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✨GIVEAWAY⁠ ALERT!✨ ⁠ Re-connect with your

✨GIVEAWAY⁠ ALERT!✨
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Re-connect with your inner-self and enjoy holistic and effective tools to tap into your inner-consciousness!⁠
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YOU'LL WIN:⁠ @woashwellness - Our NEW Awaken Flower Remedy⁠🌸 @forageandsustain - 25 Min Session w/ me - @artijalan! This will be a mini coaching call, open to anyone, not just business owners! This session will help you strengthen your self-listening tools, as a way to guide you in understanding how to listen to your intuition, and how to drop into your body when you need answers/confirmation.🔥
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TO ENTER:⁠ ✔️Like + save this post ⁠ ✔️Follow @woashwellness and @forageandsustain ⁠ ✔️Tag someone you care for!⁠ Open to Canada + US ⁠🇨🇦🇺🇸
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Good luck! #WOASHWellness⁠ #forageandsustain
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*Giveaway runs until September 19, 2021 @11:59pm PST⁠ 📷: @jo.anne.haley

FLOWER REMEDY LAUNCHES TOMORROW!!🌸✨ Have you

FLOWER REMEDY LAUNCHES TOMORROW!!🌸✨ Have you marked your calendar yet? And more importantly, have you signed up for our newsletter that gets you access first?👉🏽 We honestly have only made a handful of these remedies to test the waters, so if you’re interested, sign up for free newsletter (link in bio) to get yours first!🙌🏽 I think ALL of us could use a dose of this beautiful blend, don’t you think?💕 Have you ever tried a flower remedy before? Drop any questions you have in the comments👇🏽👇🏽 Link in bio to sign up, or keep an eye on this space tomorrow!👉🏽👉🏽 #forageandsustain x @woashwellness

Access to water is a basic human right. Those of u

Access to water is a basic human right. Those of us who do have access though, often take it for granted, forgetting that clean water isn’t a reality for so many people worldwide💧 It’s no secret that aside from the obvious life force that clean water provides, it also has a significant effect on communities when it comes to economic stability and education💕 You might have heard that I’m launching A NEW PRODUCT, in collaboration with @woashwellness, which launches THIS WEEK on September 15th!!✨✨✨ We’ve created a flower remedy to help bring humanity back together, to uplift our collective consciousness and love, and to simply bring joy and open-heartedness back into a community that is becoming increasingly divided. Along with the actual essence, @woashwellness will be donating $1 from EVERY flower remedy sold to the @obakkifoundation 💧 The Obakki Foundation is a Vancouver-based organization that’s on a mission to facilitate real, strategic and sustainable change in various African communities, mainly in South Sudan, by investing in the potential of people. They’ve already helped close to 3 million people, choosing to empower individuals to transform their circumstances. Their clean water initiative allows children to go to school and women to care for their families. The foundation also helps with agriculture and food security, local artisan support, and economic initiatives that help support income-generation and small scale entrepreneurship. Their 100% model means that 100% of contributions received go directly towards these efforts and programs!💵 This partnership is blooming in the best way possible, and I love that for a remedy that needs clean spring water to be made and that has the intention of helping the collective thrive, we’re also taking it a step further in true reciprocity🌱 👉🏽👉🏽👉🏽Mark your calendars for September 15th - this Wednesday!! Link in bio to sign up for my newsletter so you get access first. There is a VERY limited quantity available, so head there now to sign up for free 👉🏽👉🏽 #forageandsustain x @woashwellness
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✨A NOT so subtle hint 😉 If you’re on my e

✨A NOT so subtle hint 😉 If you’re on my email list, you would have already seen my newsletter from yesterday sharing my newest product in collaboration with @woashwellness 🌸 But some of you may be wondering - what IS a flower remedy?🤔 👉🏽👉🏽Click the link in bio to read the full blog post and to get a better understanding of how these tasteless tinctures can make waves on your emotional plane!💕 I’ve taken two different blends from Woash this year, and I have to say - I was REALLY skeptical at first. Like how would a flower be able to change my emotional state? After taking the two different blends, I’m honestly blown away! They’re SO, SO cool! 🤩 I didn’t even notice anything until I was almost done the bottle. But when I checked in with myself, I had this wonderful “aha” moment of realizing that the things that used to bother me, didn’t anymore, and that I felt SO grounded and deep in my being. It was WILD and truly amazing!😍 🌸🌸🌸So, all this to say - STAY TUNED for my newest product drop with @woashwellness, coming September 15th! We’re SO excited and can’t wait for you to try our limited custom blend🌼 It’s surfacing at exactly the right moment, when all of us on an individual level, and all of us on a collective level need it the most - I CAN’T WAIT to share!🥳 Have you ever taken a flower remedy?👇🏽👇🏽 #forageandsustain

In short, the huge global uptick in adaptogen usag

In short, the huge global uptick in adaptogen usage is frankly, NOT sustainable 🤭 I’ve been a huge fan of taking adaptogens for years, as Ayurvedic healing is rooted in the regular use of adaptogens (like Ashwagandha and Holy Basil). TCM and other eastern philosophies have also used adaptogenic healing for centuries. But recently, I started wondering about the sustainability of these natural herbs, and if this health-friendly trend is earth-friendly as well🤔 Ayurvedic and Chinese medicine practitioners knew how to sustainably harvest these plants, doing so in a reciprocal way. The eruption of adaptogens in the west has changed this gentle way of consuming (🙄), to the point where so many traditional plant populations are declining👎🏽 In fact, @juliebernier of True Ayurveda mentioned that “as early as 2009, 300 of India’s medicinal plants were on the IUCN’s Red List of Threatened Species”. Yikes...😲 Over-harvesting is a major issue, which affects the wild plant itself, but also the entire local ecosystem🌱 So much of what we see in the modern “wellness” industry is such a contradiction, where personal well-being is taken into account, yet the effects and destruction caused in its wake aren’t considered🤦🏽‍♀️ Personal well-being is honestly nothing without environmental well-being. We are all connected, and our actions have an impact on everything around us. If we desire true self-care, we absolutely have to consider the earth and how we extract these resources for our health💞 Some adaptogen brands that I really like for their ethical and conscious efforts are:
@apothekaryco (use code FORAGEANDSUSTAIN for 20% off)
@animamundiherbals
@banyanbotanicals
@moonjuice
@thenewnewage Beware of brands that are hopping on the adaptogen trend just to make a quick buck. Remember the tips on how to spot #greenwashing and always ask questions! Look for ethical sourcing, organic, non-GMO, and fair-trade claims. Are they adapting their adaptogen remedies when made aware of a species or plant that is endangered? Peruse their websites to get an idea of how much they actually know about plant medicine! Do you take adaptogens often?👇🏽
#forageandsustain

I mean periods WERE sustainable for centuries, unt

😳Let that sink in for a minute… We seem to t

😳Let that sink in for a minute… We seem to think millionaires and billionaires are all on the same level, and we often group them together…but the difference in wealth accumulation is honestly MASSIVE! 🤯 It seems like old news now, but when Bezos blasted off into space and then proceeded to shamelessly thank his (underpaid) employees for funding his newest toy, there was outrage. And for good reason 🚀 When we’re able to consciously differentiate between states of wealth like millions versus billions, we’re able to see and understand WHY it’s so imperative to hold billionaires accountable for their actions, and why the global wealth disparity is such a problem😤 Imagine how different, just, and fair the world would be if some of the world’s multi-billionaires gave even just 5% of their wealth to actually helping communities thrive? Or I mean they could start by just paying their employees fairly too…🙄 My client @thegreener.good and I had a call last week, and we were talking about wealth and how it is perceived in the sustainability movement. It can feel almost shameful in this space to want wealth, given that we’re calling for a better way of interacting with the world and letting go of material possessions. In many cases, it does feel out of alignment (no one needs to be a billionaire). But, in many ways, denying ourselves wealth is in line with lack mentality, a state of being that isn’t conducive to uplifting humanity and being our best selves 🤔 👉🏽👉🏽One thing we both agreed upon that I want to share is: We NEED more conscious, ethical and kind people to be wealthy💰💵 This is a way in which we can help others, invest in ethical portfolios and schemes, make a true impact, and support small businesses that help us contribute to our local economy💸 So, while we don’t need to strive for billions and while the current billionaires who built their empires off the backs of others need to be held accountable, on a personal level, we also don’t need to deny ourselves wealth, when we know we’ll be using it to better the world!🤍 What are your thoughts?👇🏽 #forageandsustain

Do you earth or ground often?👣 For anyone who

Do you earth or ground often?👣 For anyone who is new to this, grounding helps us to consider our body’s electric fields and how we can pull benefit from the earth. This is often practiced by Indigenous folk, as its an intrinsic understanding of how our bodies relate to the earth’s magnetism🧲 Earthing or grounding is the practice of placing bare skin on the earth in order to absorb millions of electrons into the body. The earth is a conductor, as are all living beings, and it is negatively charged with ions and electrons. When our bodies become too positively charged, we begin to notice disease and illness occur🦠 When we place our feet (or any bare body part) on the ground, we begin to flow with the current of the earth, which provides us with raised health, higher consciousness, and a feeling of connection and stability✨ When you are electrically grounded, you feel centered, balanced, less tense, and less stressed. All of these are areas where the modern person feels a lack, a link that is not arbitrary. With so many of us living in high-rises and condos, walking on concrete, and living in worlds of steel and cement, it’s not surprising we feel off-centre😔 All you need to do to ground is to find a patch of grass, sand, earth, or rock, and connect to it via bare skin. You can do this while gardening, picnicking, basking in the sun, or just standing for a few mindful minutes a day🪨 Some of the benefits of grounding include:
✔️Calms the nervous system
✔️Improves circulation
✔️Protects against EMFs
✔️Eases chronic pain and inflammation (one of the most common health concerns of our time - the link is uncanny)
✔️Helps us recover almost immediately from jet lag You can also check out @raumgoods (in the shop!) for their earthing shoes - I wear mine ALL the time 😍 #forageandsustain

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