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.

September Is Coming. What Is It Changing in Your House? Let's Talk About Life... Finding Answers, One Question at a Time A Weekly Conversation about Your Everyday Concerns September Is Coming. What Is It Changing in Your House? There is something about the end of August that makes September feel like a beginning, even when nobody in the house is actually starting school. Vacations wind down, schedules return, children head back into classrooms, work seems to pick up again,

It isn't simply a place where vegetables grow. It is a small living system — soil, roots, insects, rain, sun, compost, weeds, vegetables, and people all interacting with one another. As our weather becomes hotter and less predictable, perhaps those of us who grow even some of our own food can learn a few things from the idea of climate-resilient farming. We don't need hundreds of acres to use the principles.

The cuddly baby becomes the fiercely independent toddler. The toddler becomes the child with questions about absolutely everything. The child becomes the preteen who suddenly has opinions about clothes, music, privacy, friends — and, occasionally, the astonishing incompetence of every adult in the house.

How do you let your child become their own person without losing the relationship that helped them become one?

When we send a child back to school in September, most of our attention naturally goes toward the things we can see and prepare for. We make sure the shoes still fit, find the backpack, buy the supplies, figure out who the teacher will be, wonder whether any familiar friends will be in the classroom, organize lunches and transportation, and, particularly with younger children, spend at least a little time wondering how that first morning is going to go.

Long before January meant resolutions, diets, gym memberships, and promises about what we were going to do differently, September was already teaching us what a new beginning felt like. For twelve or thirteen years, and considerably longer for anyone who continued into college or university, our lives were divided not primarily by calendar years but by school years, and every September we crossed a very clear boundary from the person we had been into the person we were now ex

Let's Have a Tea Together, Spend some time together, and learn about Time.

There is some good climate news coming out of Canada this summer.