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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
RETURNING TO NORMAL?!?!
For me and many who have turned towards their own sovereign mental and physical health, the word “normal” may have always seemed a little weighted. When our entire way of life is lived at a dangerous remove from the natural systems which sustain us, one has to ask whether or not the normalcy it created was ever really that healthy. Read More
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MY 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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REBUILDING
REBUILDING
While we’ve thankfully made it past 2020, It’s hard not to look at where we were a year ago at this time without some sorrow. That whole world seems gone now, and it’s hard for most to imagine from here how we return to those things we used to take for granted: gathering or going to the grocery store without fear, treating human beings as something other than vectors of disease and regaining the broken threads of community that we desperately need to heal. In short, rebuilding.
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What Comes Next
What Comes Next
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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The herbs that help you rest
The herbs that help you rest
Not many people are given good instructions on how to get to sleep. Up until recently, it’s been posed as a binary, and indeed, the more stress you put on oneself, the less likely you’re going to get the sleep one needs. The moment to start preparing begins, interestingly enough, when you first wake up. According to sleep scientist Matthew Walker, both your circadian rhythms and the sleep pressure built up by the steady increase of adenosine throughout the day will eventually intersect to bring your waking life to a halt.
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Stop the Censorship of Plant Medicine
Stop the Censorship of Plant Medicine
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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The whole plant vs some of the plant
The whole plant vs some of the plant
This will be another opportunity to talk about our relationship to whole plant remedies and why we can't do what we necessarily want to do with our product line - yet.
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1Cab and the entourage effect
1Cab and the entourage effect
This will be a chance for Dr. R to speak about the combinations in 1CaB and how they heighten the effects of each product.
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Reintroducing Medicine Box
Reintroducing Medicine Box
This is our moment to recontextualize what Medicine Box is, and where we discuss THC Equanimity and why it's still important for us to maintain our foothold in this market in the 1CaB era.
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The Wellness Muses: Lynette Cenée
The Wellness Muses: Lynette Cenée
Every human being has their unique life path, but some are so fascinating, it means those who have them will end up pursuing a calling, rather than a career. This is Lynette Cenée, one of Medicine Box’s most iconic Wellness Muses.
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The Wellness Muses: Elizabeth Mack
The Wellness Muses: Elizabeth Mack
Elizabeth Mack has never been a person to do things halfway. Before a fateful bike accident brought Elizabeth to the world of cannabis healing, she had spent 20 years working in both sales and operations for several health insurance carriers, including Anthem Blue Cross.
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The Wellness Muses: Jam in the Van
The Wellness Muses: Jam in the Van
f you could take a solar-powered multiwheeler filled with recording equipment and wired for sound anywhere in the world, where would you go? Jam in the Van founders Jake Cotler took theirs all around the country, giving hordes of talented artists and musicians a shot at gaining an audience while supplying a reliably rocking alternative stage at the festivals they visited, which included SXSW, Bonnaroo and High Sierra. But unfortunately, you know what came next
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The Wellness Muses: Doctor Karina Klimtchuk
The Wellness Muses: Doctor Karina Klimtchuk
Like many in the fields of functional and integrative medicine, Dr. Karina Klimtchuk’s path of healing has taken her to many unique ports of call. Graduating with a dual major in sociology and psychology from the University of Massachusetts-Boston, Dr. Klimchuk earned a Psya.D in Psychoanalysis, while also picking up additional training in yoga, acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine.
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