Qhama Lifestyle

My natural journey continues and it has brought me back home, in my own backyard! The reason for titling this blog roller coaster is because I feel like I have had some extremely euphoric moments with my journey and at the same time with the education comes the realization of the abuse that I have been subjecting my body to. I am thankful that it is still standing and frankly looks really good despite my past treatment. I'm not saying that this transition is easy, believe you me, it is not! But I have committed myself and will stick to it, baby steps. Well, the discovery that I have made in my own backyard is that of aloe vera of "ikhala" in Xhosa, my mother tongue. This is a plant native to our country and especially in rural eastern cape, it and the cactus dominate the landscape. Well, I have been recently making trips to my aunt's house where she has some aloe growing wildly in her yard. I have gotten myself and my family to use this wonderful product. My...

Okay people, I just have to tell you about this amazing all natural product. I have been using it for a year now and I'm telling you it is permanently on my shopping list.  I suffer from severe period pains and I read somewhere that cranberry juice helps. I was thinking the cranberry juice that you get from the store that's sweet and so on. Now imagine my surprise when I came across it on the shelf. When I looked at the label it said "concentrate" so I thought of the juice concentrate we buy. I though, "uh great, I'll substitute and have this instead of juice". Boy was I wrong! Upon mixing it as per instructions, it taste bland and downright awful! My immediate thought was why does everything that is good for you taste awful and everything bad taste so good! Anyway I got over my initial shock at the taste and drank it anyway. Immediately I could tell it was working, within 24 hours my period pains subsided. And after a couple of months I notic...

There is a reason why green is one of the prevalent colours in African flags along with red and yellow (Pan Africanist Colours). Green stands for the richness and fertility of the African soil which is not only rich in nutrients and mineral but also in precious metals and stones. I have been trying to locate the statistics regarding the plant species found in Africa and so far I only have the figure for South Africa which is 10%.  This is mind blowing if you take into account the size of Africa, South Africa is only a tiny part of the continent and one that has been highly developed. For such a small part to hold so much, one can only imagine what the figures will be if we took into account the rest of Africa. In case you are wondering my babbling is leading to something, that as Africans we really need to look at our own backyard for alternative natural solutions to our modern ailments. Let's not look down on our remedies just because they are not packaged in an easy to swall...

The heading of this post is one of my favourite quotes of all time. I do feel like throughout my life I have been on this journey but I was always unsure as to where it was going. I knew where I wanted it to lead but lately it has seemed as if everything that I have been doing has not been having the desired results. This led me to finally decide to let go and let God which is not as easy as it sounds especially if you have a type A personality that constantly tried to control every single variable. The serenity prayer has also been a constant companion, "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference". The journey I'm embarking on is not just about being healthy but is mainly about connecting with the earth from whence we come from. I do believe that our modern lifestyles has led us to being removed from the earth. We are no longer in contact with the earth as the clothes and s...