Compassionate caregivers, parents, child care workers, lightworkers, nurses, healthcare workers, hospice workers, body workers, salon workers, sex workers, and healers of all modalities. We salute you because we are you. We, have walked many paths of caring, and we have learned that the measure of your care is limited only by your own self care. That is to say, you cannot give what you do not have, and self care is something that only we can give to ourselves, and thereby inspire others to give to themselves. In reverence for the sacred moments of caring for our selves and our beloveds, we offer our own authentic solutions, based upon principals of Ayurveda, Aromatherapy and Traditional Herbalism. "The act of caring for...
Caring for ourselves has been twisted into a strange version of its original raison d'etre. Self-care is cast into an odd light within the context of a culture that doesn't perceive individuals as sovereign unto themselves. Within the modern western culture of which promotes a victim/bully dynamic of patriarchal systems, self-care's main purpose is to make your appearance match a predefined norm as mate bait, glamour, or camouflage.
The polar vortex, the vigilant hand washing, the dry air, all coalesce to deeply dehydrate your skin leaving you chapped, flaky, cracking and raw. Unless you've got Trillium's Solutions at the ready. The Trillium approach to keeping skin resilient is older than the Wisewoman with young hands who told me her secret on the train platform, so many years ago. A simple habit which can keep your skin soft and protected no matter how cold, dry, and over sanitized the world gets. A simple habit which spawned my life's work. Skin is protected in it's outermost layer, the stratum corneum, by lipids. Those lipids are easily stripped by the harsh conditions, leaving the stratum corneum unprotected from dehydration. Washing hands,...
