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Making my own blend: the start of my journey into aromatherapy

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  So over the past year or so, I’ve been looking more and more into what I can do to look after my body and my mind, which as someone with a number of physical and mental health problems, I believe it is always worth exploring different avenues of help and coping strategies.   Now I love modern medicine and I’ve had my fair share of medical treatment from scans, x-rays, blood tests, operations, etc. I am so grateful for ate fact I was born in a time I have access to all this, but when you’ve been in so many hospitals and are on so many daily medications you do sometimes find yourself yearning for something a little more natural and familiar. In my personal opinion, I don’t want to use natural methods to explicitly treat my conditions as even the medical community doesn’t have complete understanding about some of them, and I already get overwhelmed with my symptoms and working out which one is caused by which condition. It is for this reason that I would prefer to look into usin

Time for a new look

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  I’m not too sure if anyone will have noticed, but now that I’ve decided to come back here to my little corner of the internet I decided that a new beginning calls for a new look. Many years ago when I was setting up this blog, I had rather different tastes and so it was time for this blog to now show those tastes. It started with a new logo. My old logo will always be special to me, it was made in the early stages of this blog but looking back on it I’ve now realised I needed something a tad simpler. So I loaded up Canva and started to think about what exactly I wanted in a logo. I settled with a simple black background with white detailing; something not too overwhelming and gets to the point. Then obviously the name was needed, but something was still missing. I then decided to go for the simple depiction of the brain as what I talk about here more often than not discusses matters of the mind.   I then went about changing the background of the actual blog pages themse