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Each month, we explore a specific health and wellness subject. This month’s theme is “Unwellness”
Who is sick, and who is healthy? It’s 2021, and it would appear that all of us are recovering from something; however, some of the unhealthiest have mistaken their illnesses for vigor, and their ignorance for strength. This month, we’ll be exploring the epidemic of Unwellness in all of its forms, how how it can masquerade as wisdom and truth — and how true health and wellness can call it out.
Featured This Week

Physical Pandemic Prep
Alright! In betwixt the spiritual and the mental prep, you’ve also been doing some physical prep for your eventual re-entry into polite and not-so-polite society. It’s possible that a lot has changed with you since this all began. In fact, it’s possible that your daily yoga or Peloton routine has kept you alive and sane throughout the entire pandemic. Read MorePreviously featured

Physical Pandemic Prep
Physical Pandemic Prep
Alright! In betwixt the spiritual and the mental prep, you’ve also been doing some physical prep for your eventual re-entry into polite and not-so-polite society. It’s possible that a lot has changed with you since this all began. In fact, it’s possible that your daily yoga or Peloton routine has kept you alive and sane throughout the entire pandemic.
Read MoreMental Post-Pandemic Prep
Mental Post-Pandemic Prep
For many reading this piece, mental health may be equivalent to spiritual health, which we touched upon in the last blog post. And at the end of the day
Read MoreSpiritual Bypassing
Spiritual Bypassing
Around the terrain here in Tahoe, you’ll occasionally see the bumper sticker “Too ascended to be offended.” This always makes me shake my head — it reminds me how quickly WE enjoy doubling down on all the things we imagine THOSE people can’t stand. Because by now, everyone should have gotten the celestial download on spiritual bypassing, but they aren’t if they haven’t learned that far from ascending or transcending, spiritual bypassing represents complacency and paralysis.
Read MoreConspirituality
Conspirituality
Earlier in the year, we were called to send out an email regarding the infamous QAnon Shaman, and the toxic ideology he and his kinfolk brought into the White House. While our country has moved on to other collective pains since then, the embers still glow.
Read MoreDis-integration
Dis-integration
Over the past four years that we’ve opened our Medicine Box, we’ve learned one important thing about plant medicine: people need to complete the circuit. It’s never been about a magic pill that makes a person all better. Community and collaboration fill in the blanks.
Read MoreLines We Can Not Cross
Lines We Can Not Cross
Within and without this state, Lake Tahoe is seen as a pristine paradise. People from the San Francisco Bay Area and the rest of the world come here to escape from the chaos and uncertainty of their daily lives. The shifting climate realities of this region, however, has informed us locals that these problems have already arrived.
Read MoreUrban Renewal
Urban Renewal
Most of the time on this here blog, you’re hearing Brian talk about nature, wax rhapsodic about his latest hike, or share his daily purification in the waters of South Lake Tahoe. And if you’re wondering at all whether Medicine Box understands what those who are living in a city filled with food deserts and smog issues is going through — well, we’ve got news.
Read MoreWHAT REMAINS
WHAT REMAINS
Some things simply can’t be killed, no matter what you may throw at them, whether it’s disease, war or a big, fat meteor. That may include the cockroaches, but it also includes something pretty well indomitable in the human spirit as well. Medicine Box is built upon nurturing and championing these core strengths, so as we launch off into the Screaming ‘20s, we’d like to remind those beginning this year of what they — and you — can draw upon for sustenance in the months to come.
Read MoreMY GOOD FRIEND, COVID-19
MY GOOD FRIEND, COVID-19
Free speech. It’s on the lips of just about everyone you talk to nowadays, and everyone has an issue with what they can and cannot say about our world. Well, plant medicine practitioners have their own unique cross to bear, especially those of us here in California who remember another time, back when we were able to make our own unique connections with the consumer. It’s important, as we end this month’s discussion on the distinctions between our two brands, to remind you that if you’re using plant medicine, there’s more than one way to get well, no matter what anyone may insist upon.
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