Homemade Inner Sunshine Herbal Tea
When everything is looking bleak, reach for the inner sunshine tea. Last Christmas I made a huge batch of a lavender version of this homemade tea and handed out little 50g packets of it as gifts. It’s lovely to give the gift of sunshine. This tea really does give you that content, nurtured, warm feeling in your heart. As I mentioned above this tea was originally made with Damiana, Lemon Balm and Lavender. Since then I’ve decided to swap lavender for chamomile as not only do I believe they harmonise much better together, I sometimes find lavender extremely heady and when life is a struggle, you need to move the energy from the head into the heart. I feel that the mixture of lemon balm, chamomile, damiana, cardomom and goji berry does just that. You may know chamomile as the before bed tea – this is because of it’s amazing powers of relaxation. For me, it’s not so much of a sleep inducing herb, but more of an overall tension reducer. Chamomile is also effective for …
Food for Thought 