September 2026 Newsletter - Healing Herbs and Healing Grounds

Dear reader,

Summer did us good here. Time to simply be and to do a little less. Healing Grounds is fully in motion again and there is plenty to share. Four new stories on the website, from a cleansing herb to our view on your health data.

Healing Herbs: Mugwort, mother of all herbs

New on the site is the recurring column Healing Herbs. Odile Oort, energy therapist and herbalist, shares a wild herb that is at the height of its power at that very moment. She starts with Mugwort, ‘the mother of all herbs’, which has been used for cleansing for centuries. Including how to make your own smudge stick, because early September is exactly the right moment for it. Read on

Where the air raid shelter stood, our canopy now stands

Enny Hoenselaar, initiator of Healing Grounds Milsbeek, shares a personal story. In it she turns over the grounds that shaped her: the Limburg villages where her parents were born, the woods in Schaijk where she could romp about without a care and the ground in Milsbeek where her canopy now stands. Her question to you: on which ground do you flourish? Read on

How we match visitors with the right professional

How do you know which professional fits what someone is looking for? Isabel turned to Nelieke Wismans, with her years of experience in recruitment. Together they developed an interview technique that includes a meditation and captured the soul of every professional on a single sheet of A4. Those sheets help visitors choose a professional who fits and so far satisfaction with these matches, among visitors as well as professionals, is 100%. Read on

How Healing Grounds handles your health data

Health data is a sought-after target, so we deliberately leave yours with you: you decide what you share and with whom. You fill in the Positive Health questionnaire in your own browser, your answers stay there and you download or print the result yourself. This story also sets out, per contact channel, what is visible to third parties, so you can choose what suits you when you get in touch. Read on

What we are working on

We are currently working on The Health Logbook: a simple, safe mirror to help people listen to what the body wants to tell them. We are organising a series of gatherings around that same theme. More on that in a next newsletter.

More insight into your health

Would you like more insight into your health? Fill in the free Positive Health questionnaire, you will get your own Spider Web and more background on where Positive Health comes from. Bring that to the Clarity Session and discover what you truly long for.

Curious to hear what you make of these stories, or do you spot something we could improve? Do email us.

Warm regards,

Isabel Brouwer, founder of Healing Grounds