Leah Drinen

Friends, please consider my Black Friday-thru-Cyber Monday SALE!!! great harvest this year but still getting back on track business-wise, cause last year was no honey 😲 Thank you!

these little bundles on SALE this BLack FriDAY! featuring my plant-dyed knotted cotton satchel, beeswax ornament, Kailua Honeycomb, and organically scented beeswax candle!

All sewn, dyed, harvested, crafted and poured by me!
Starts today!! 😘♥️🍯🐝 www.Posy&TheBee.co

give health this Christmas! these sweets will last into the new year and bring us closer to those healthy resolutions we all make!

Honeybee Housekeeping :: Honeybees make propolis from the resins and essential oils of plants, and use it to protect their immunity and sanitize their homes. They coat the walls of the hive with propolis to ensure that the air they breath is clean and mold free. They also fill any gaps where moisture or pests may enter.

One of the only natural antibiotics, it is the most antibacterial substances on earth. If a mouse were to enter the hive, the honeybees would sting it to death and mummify it with propolis. The purification would be completely contained and they simply go about their lives, mouse in house!

These 2 oz candle and 2.5 oz honeycomb packages will sell out. Order yours soon! Link in bio

“you’re creating this illness,” a small voice said in the night, and my soul accepted the truth without query.



with the acceptance came empowerment. if i was creating it. i could stop it.



i stopped indulging in the drama and exaggeration of supposed future events. i stopped telling myself my issues are any different than anyone else’s.



invoking a sense of presence where i was then and there, in my clean, quiet, warm, dry and safe bed, i dropped into my present reality.

this skill has been called mindfulness, and seems to me a kind of meditation, but whatever it is, it’s delicious. in daylight hours, it sometimes begins with peripheral vision. i move my awareness from what’s going on in my head down into my beating heart and to my belly deep breath and let my eyes and ears become aware of the space i’m in.

as a young adult i can remember my mother telling me that while lying awake and anxious at night, she’s learning to count the things she feels. “i feel my long leg’s between the sheets, i feel the softness of my feather pillow, etc.” and then there was my newly-wedded husband telling in bed sometimes he starts by telling his toes to relax and moves his focus upwards until he’s all cozy and chilled-out (my words😂).



as a child i remember learning to control my temper by “keeping things in my outer environment”. my mother had had her own mental health crisis and recovery at age 30, and was always passing these type of phrases on to me, most of them helpful.



what i’ve learned more recently is to to do the reverse. bringing my focus into my outer environment and my body’s experience of it, not only does it free me from internalizing everything; it makes me a participant. i become the subject, the actor, not just the observer way up inside my head somewhere. someone to whom her life just happens, a victim. i become the force of my life.



i needed to to learn to take my experience outside of myself. we live with this duality. life is an inner and an outer experience that requires a measure of balance. this is wellness: not abandoning yourself in either realm. . . continued in blog, please visit! Link in bio

Propolis extract is anti microbial, anti inflammatory, anti cancer, anti bacterial, anti tumor, analgesic and even antibiotic. New findings show potential for reparations to spike protein damage, mostly due to a property called chrysten.

Every once in a while, regular life looks so picturesque. But I guess the country is always romantic. Loving my Spring chores this year. Despite lack of rain, the honeybees round here look to be set up for a good season. Seasons in Hawaii? Oh yes. It’s a rhythm a little more subtle but it still shapes our lives, dictates what we do and where we go and even what wear. And the bees live a life so connected to the plant life around us, so they help me to listen…and I hear swarm season is coming. This year I’ve got big plans for it. My oldest son has moved back to Oahu and we’re building new hives, refurbishing old ones and savoring our last stores of last years’ honeycomb. Spring honey this year? Maybe. Crossing-fingers 🐝☀️🌷