DoctorSuz

There’s medicine in the weeds. 🌱

What we call weeds are often potent plants with restortive, tonifying, detoxifying, nutritive and purifying properties.

Dandelion is my absolute favorite by the way; great for the liver, kidney, gallbladder and lymph. Deeply nutritive and deliciously bitter.

Spring time is a new beginning but it also offers us time to tend to our own weeds .

To take inventory of the parts of our lives and ourselves that are overgrown and take up too much space in our lives and minds.

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The parts of the garden that can be overlooked and overwhelming.

The ugly parts of ourselves.
The bits of us that we keep hidden.
The beliefs that no longer work.
The things that you don’t want to get rid of.

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Yet, the things that we ignore anchor in deeper.

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Tending to the weeds involves carefully and objectively looking at the things that hinder our growth;

Our mental scripts, our beliefs and behaviors, the narratives that aren’t useful anymore.

Tending to the weeds allows us to till the soil so that we can clearly see a new landscape.

And to plant new thoughts, patterns, beliefs, & habits.

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There’s medicine in the weeds, but sometimes the garden needs to be pruned in order to make room for something new & beautiful to grow.

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May you observe the medicine in the weeds.

May you honor all that they have taught you.

May you pluck & plant with intention.

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Healthy eating doesn’t have to be hard or time consuming.

It can be fast, inexpensive and you don’t even have to turn on the stove 😊

I’m sharing my recent obsession; this comforting, satisfying, satiating salad that I’ve been looking forward to nightly for the last few weeks as life gets busy.

It’s fast & simple:
🥬 bed of greens (arugula, baby kale, spinach)
🥬 layer of brown lentils (I get the French lentils from Trader Joe’s)
🥬 cucumber, cherry tomatoes and avocado
🥬 3-4 hardboiled eggs
🥬 aged Parmesan for extra protein
🥬 Kimchi or sauerkraut for that xtra kick and fiber and probiotics
🥬 olive oil, ACV, salt and pepper
🥬 olives (sometimes)

If you try it, let me know if you love it as much as I do. And drop your favorite go-to, quick & healthy, no-cook, weekday ideas below 👇