Let’s Talk about Life... Finding Answers, One Question at a Time A Weekly Conversation about Your Everyday Concerns The Results are in from our survey. We will leave it up on the website for another week (under the tab that says blogs, but it does look like Bedford is leading the race. Next, we will ask whether you prefer Saturdays or Sundays. This Week’s Conversation: What Am I Taking In? Most of us think about what we are taking in when we talk about food, supplements,

You cannot make an informed choice about something you’ve stopped noticing. Something can become part of your normal environment long before you ever stop to ask whether you actually want it there.

You cannot make an informed choice about something you’ve stopped noticing. Something can become part of your normal environment long before you ever stop to ask whether you actually want it there.

There are times when we want a room to smell lovely, and then there are times when we walk into a kitchen after a strong meal, open a room that has been closed up for a few days, or notice that damp, stale feeling that can settle into the house and think, this room needs more than perfume. That is exactly where "Clear The Air" earns its place, because it was created as a strong, purposeful household spray rather than a light background fragrance.

Long before European settlement, the Mi’kmaq were living from the land and waters of Mi’kma’ki, drawing food from the ocean, rivers, forests and changing seasons. Fish and shellfish, eel, game, berries, roots and edible plants all formed part of traditional foodways, while smoking, drying, roasting & boiling allowed foods to be prepared and preserved according to what was available at different times of year. That knowledge of the land and sea forms the beginning of the food

Not all movement gives us the same experience, even when our bodies are doing the work.

Air is one of those things we rarely think about until something changes. We notice it when wildfire smoke rolls in, when a room feels stuffy, when traffic fumes are heavy, or when we step outside and suddenly realize how fresh the air feels. And yet air is with us every moment.

Meal planning is so much more than creating a grocery list. Long before your first bite. Behind each meal comes awareness, intention, and planning — or lack of them. When does your supper actually begin? Most of us would probably say that it begins when we sit down with the plate in front of us, or possibly when we take the first bite, but by then a remarkable number of decisions have already been made. Someone has decided what the meal will be, the ingredients have been chos

Let’s Talk about Life... This week, our Letter is a little different. It is about the everyday concerns you have with Casaroma. 'This week's Wellness Letter is going to look a little different. We've made some important changes here at Casaroma Wellness, and we wanted to take one issue to speak directly about them. Next week, we're back to our usual in-depth wellness conversations. This week our subject is 'Keeping Casaroma, Casaroma For more than 30 years, Casaroma has gro

Where would pickups be easier for you? One idea we are considering is moving the regular pickup point to somewhere such as Bedford Place Mall or Sunnyside Mall, where parking is easier, and access may be more convenient for many of our customers. We could also consider a location in Sackville, and we are looking at the possibility of creating another pickup or drop-off option in Elmsdale. But there may be another solution we have not thought of yet.

There are times when we know something in our lives needs attention, but we cannot necessarily put our finger on one single thing that needs to change. We may recognize patterns that keep repeating, feel disconnected from parts of ourselves that once felt very familiar, notice that certain areas of life seem to take far more energy than they should, or we reach a point where we know it would be worthwhile to stop and look at ourselves more closely.

Over the past few months, we have been taking a much closer look at the services we offer through Casaroma—not only at what those services are, but at how easy they are for people to understand, access, and actually use. Some of our services work very well by phone or online, while others need to take place here with us because they involve hands-on care, equipment, or a more direct in-person experience.

When you order from Casaroma, the price you see on the product is the price of the product. We have worked very hard over the years to keep those prices as reasonable as we can while still making products in smaller quantities, choosing our ingredients carefully, and maintaining the quality of the formulas themselves. That is one of the reasons you can still purchase products such as a 60 ml shampoo or shower gel for $6 rather than watching those prices climb.

What are you actually getting when you choose to put some of your household dollars into Casaroma?

We use the word energy all the time. We say we have none left, that someone changed the energy in a room, that certain foods give us energy, or that getting outside and moving can somehow make us feel more alive. Most of us recognize these experiences immediately, but we rarely stop to ask what is actually happening, why our energy can change so quickly, or how much of what we feel each day may be influenced by what we eat, how we move, and the people around us,

Everything has its own way of being in the world, and we recognize that far more readily than we may realize. A rose does not present itself in the same way as a pine tree, just as wild orange has a completely different character from patchouli, and frankincense creates a very different experience from eucalyptus. We notice these differences through scent, colour, shape, chemistry, and our own response to them, but there is often something more difficult to describe as well.

For most of us in Canada, water has always seemed abundant. We turn on the tap and expect it to be there. And most of the time it is! But increasingly erratic weather is changing the way we need to think about water. Long dry stretches can be followed by sudden heavy rain — sometimes so much, so quickly, that instead of soaking into the ground, it rushes away.

This helps explain something many people already recognize. You can sit through several hours of work and become increasingly foggy and tired, yet a short walk can change the way you feel, even though the walk technically requires additional energy.

We have become very accustomed to deciding whether a food is good for us by turning the package around and reading the numbers. We look at calories, protein, fibre, sugar, and perhaps a few vitamins and minerals, and if the numbers seem respectable, it is easy to assume that the body will experience that food in much the same way as another food containing similar nutrients.

We use that word in so many different ways that it is worth stopping to ask what we actually mean by it. We say we have no energy, that someone has wonderful energy, or that a place feels strange. We talk about food giving us energy, music changing our energy, and certain situations draining it from us, and most of the time the person listening understands exactly what we mean even though none of those experiences is necessarily the same thing.