My name is Cindy Lowe, and I’m the creator of HomeMade Health & Wellness. If you’ve visited the “About” section of my website, you know that I’m a nurse by profession.
While this blog is not intended to provide medical advice, my hope is to offer insights and information that empower you to make wise choices regarding your wellness. After all, we’re all on this journey together.
So, let’s start at the beginning: what does “wellness” mean to you?
For some, wellness might mean the absence of illness. For others, it could be being in the best physical shape of their lives. Still, for others, it might simply mean feeling good—physically, mentally, and emotionally.
To me, wellness is about helping our bodies function the way they were designed to. This belief is a cornerstone of HomeMade Health & Wellness.
Consider the different facets of our lives—physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, social, and environmental. Each of these areas plays a vital role in our overall wellness. True balance comes from nurturing every part of who we are.
Here are two questions to consider:
- What does wellness look like for you?
- If you were to join me on this wellness journey, what is one step you could take today to improve your well-being?
Small changes can make a big impact. Maybe it’s as simple as taking the stairs instead of the elevator, drinking more water, or adding vegetables to your meals. For some, it could mean quitting smoking, introducing plants into your living space, or deepening your spiritual practices. It might even be about spending more time with loved ones or taking moments for self-reflection.
So here’s my challenge to you:
What does wellness look like to you, and what is one step you can take today to move closer to it?
Personally, I’ll be working on increasing my water intake—it’s an area I can always improve.
I’ll leave you with a quote that inspires me, from Jimmy Dean:
"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination."
Until next time, I hope this blog serves as a supportive companion on your own wellness journey.
Thousands, if not millions or even billions of people around the world have been making the switch from consuming a grocery store-bought diet, to returning to our roots and harvesting our own foods. With the amount of additives and unnaturally occurring ingredients that are found in 99% of all the products in store shelves, you can't blame them! So besides there being so many additives and unnatural ingredients being found in our grocery store food items, why else would people be making the switch on a large scale? Let me tell you!
So long before the commercialization occurred within the food distribution system that we have today in the modern world, all of us were mostly eating straight from the earth from our own gardens, or from our local farmer's markets. This tradition roots back to our ancient history and is our most natural way of eating. It was the original lifestyle that God had laid out for us, right since the beginning of time in the Garden of Eden. The entire garden was for us to consume as food! (So long as we didn't eat from that tree of knowledge of good and evil!) But it seems that we have lost our way and it might have actually been the result of us eating from that tree of knowledge long ago.
One of the original benefits that God had given us with the plants and herbs that are naturally occurring is that each and every consumable plant has their very own medicinal properties, purposes and uses. That is what I would love to teach you all about here in these blogs. Long ago, before we consumed just whatever was being sold en masse on store shelves, we had the natural inclination to eat what we knew would be good for us. When we were sick, we would consume honey, ginger, garlic and lemon concoctions. When we wanted to relax, we would have some chamomile tea or if we wanted energy, we would go for the green tea. Back then, we just knew what was good for us and our diets and eating habits reflected that natural instinct.
So let me tell you some of the benefits of making the switch.
