Journal — Healthy Living

How To Get Through the Holiday Season With Your Mind, Body & Spirit Intact - this might be your most enjoyable holiday season yet!

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How To Get Through the Holiday Season With Your Mind, Body & Spirit Intact - this might be your most enjoyable holiday season yet!

How To Get Through the Holiday Season With Your Mind, Body & Spirit Intact - this might be your most enjoyable holiday season yet! - Tips for Mindfully Enjoying the Holidays This Year: How to have a mindful and joyful holiday season.  Seasonal affective disorder, depression, anxiety, loneliness, mindfulness, meditation, natural lifestyle, personal development, and so much more, so let's get right into it!

Have a Mindful & Joyful Holiday Season This Year!

 

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Natural Lifestyle Optimization: We Need You More Than Ever

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Natural Lifestyle Optimization: We Need You More Than Ever

Reflecting on the past ten years of Desert Mountain Apothecary in the social media landscape, how the changes in technology, platforms, and aesthetics have shaped the different chapters of my content. Challenging myself to learn how to create video content has been a long battle with a steep learning curve, and in those years I’ve gone through several different iterations of video styles and subjects. One thing that I think rings true from all of my videos is that they all showcase a deep and sincere love of nature, and I’m so grateful to share that with you with Desert Mountain Apothecary. Circling back to an earlier project, I’m reactivating Natural Lifestyle Optimization, which is a method for creating lasting transformational change in your life by harnessing the power of the mind, body, and spirit. Please join me on this inspiring journey of discovery deep into the subconscious where we use micro-habits to improve all aspects of life without making drastic changes. So I hope you enjoy this expansive look back at this fascinating experiment, my calling to re-start Natural Lifestyle Optimization, and some helpful advice for finishing out 2024 and the holiday season.

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Supreme Superbloom! Anza Borrego Desert Spring Wildflowers! New Video

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Supreme Superbloom! Anza Borrego Desert Spring Wildflowers! New Video

Experience the Supreme Superbloom in the Anza Borrego Desert! The wildflowers are blooming and the sun is shining, so let’s hop in the 4x4 and explore the superbloom across the Anza Borrego desert and mountains! I’m so grateful to share such a beautiful day in the low and high desert surrounded by blooming desert sages, chuparosas, blazing star sand verbenas, fiddlenecks, sacred dulturas, and so many more. The desert mountain botanicals are just on another level this season after just the right amount of rain and sun over the winter. Please enjoy my video: Supreme Superbloom! Anza Borrego Desert Spring...

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The Spiritual Energy Is Incredible Touching The Morteros: Unbelievable Kumeyaay Winter Village Archaeological Site Anza Borrego Desert

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The Spiritual Energy Is Incredible Touching The Morteros: Unbelievable Kumeyaay Winter Village Archaeological Site Anza Borrego Desert

Morteros Archaeological Site Anza Borrego Desert State Park – San Diego Backcountry Offroad 4x4 Jeep OHV Overland Adventure! Let’s visit the Native American Kumeyaay archaeological site in the Anza Borrego Desert State Park. This very special place features incredible morteros, or mortars that were used for cooking, set within the cozy winter Kumeyaay campsite. You really get a sense of the tribal life of the indigenous people within the gorgeously sculpted boulders, and the many morteros. This video is dedicated to the Kumeyaay people past, present, and future, both north, and south of the United States, Mexico border.   I...

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Coyote Canyon Trail Overland Adventure! - Jeep OHV 4x4 - Coyote Creek, Winter Wildflowers, Anza Borrego Desert State Park, San Diego County, Southern California

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Coyote Canyon Trail Overland Adventure! - Jeep OHV 4x4 - Coyote Creek, Winter Wildflowers, Anza Borrego Desert State Park, San Diego County, Southern California

Coyote Canyon Trail Overland Adventure! - Jeep OHV 4x4 - Coyote Creek, Winter Wildflowers, Anza Borrego Desert State Park, San Diego County, Southern California.  Join me for an epic overland adventure to Coyote Creek in the Anza Borrego Desert State Park, in eastern San Diego county, Southern California. This is one of the most pristine and beautiful desert wilderness areas I have ever seen, and is only accessible beyond the first few miles by high clearance 4 wheel drive vehicles. The northernmost area of Borrego Springs is the entry point to Coyote Canyon for vehicle traffic, and the winter wildflowers are starting to bloom over the open fields.

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