The Danish practice of hygge in everyday life
Hygge is the concept of creating cosiness and contentment through your environment and attitude. Livskraft lives by the concept of Hygge for self-nourishment
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Eating Consciously Through the Holidays: A Mindful Approach to Christmas Feasting
'Tis the season to eat, drink, and be merry! As the festive vibes fill the air, it's only natural to look forward to the joyous feasts that mark the holiday...
Unveil Your Radiant Glow: Summer Skincare Essentials
Summer’s here! Keep you skincare routine up to speed with Livskraft for glowy, healthy skin through these hotter months.
Nurturing Well-being: Thoughtful Self Care Gifts from Livskraft
A gift that encourages self care is a thoughtful choice all year round, so whether you've got a celebration coming up or you're like us and always have an eye...
Transitioning Your Skincare Routine from Winter to Spring
As the chilly winter days give way to the warm and blooming embrace of spring, our skin, just like nature, undergoes significant changes. Transitioning your skincare routine from winter to...
Livkraft’s Award-winning all natural skin care products
Here at Livskraft, we're proud to be creating all-natural, organic and clean skincare and beauty products. We're humbled and honoured to have received awards in the The Clean and Conscious...
Living the five seasons of Chinese medicine for natural wellness
Chinese medicine teaches that each season offers a unique rhythm and energy, which can help us tune in with what our minds and bodies need throughout the year. In Chinese...
Why you should reassess your skincare routine in winter
A few boosts to your winter skincare rituals to keep your skin glowing!
How to Use Intention Oils and Mists
Learn how to use Intention Oils & Intention Sprays in your mindfulness practice to help meditate on abundance, protection, self love, gratitude and grounding.
How to Care for your Cuticles
Are your cuticles something you pay attention to or are they something that you ignore until there’s a tear in them? Are you aware what their role is in your...
Hygge Self Care Rituals - Face Mask
Hygge. A word that has become part of the English language in recent years. One word that takes so many in English to explain what it actually means. It comes...
Naturally Glowing Skin in Isolation
In Australia, it's been two months now that we've been in some form of isolation. We are very lucky, in Europe and other parts of the world it's been a...
What on Earth is Grounding
Grounding is a word that is thrown around a lot these days. But do you really know what on earth it means? Well, that's exactly it. It's earthing. Connecting with...
Crystal Infused Intention Oils
Our recent addition to the Freya's Nourishment range deserves a special introduction. The five beautiful scents and intentions I first created for myself, as I do with all of the Freya's Nourishment...
Anger - Spring Wood Element
Oh Spring how we love you! The promise of warmer brighter days after the hibernation of winter. New growth everywhere you look, and even within ourselves we can feel renewed...
Why An Attitude Of Gratitude Will Change Your Life – 5 Easy Steps To Getting There
You’ve heard the expression ‘Count your blessings’ and when tragedy strikes we do recall what we are grateful for. We clearly see what we have and we hold it close....
Self Care Tips for Busy Working Women
This week we are joined by Vicky Shilling from The Flourishing Pantry. Vicky is a coach for wellness entrepreneurs. She has a great way of breaking down all those things that are overwhelming...
Fear - Winter Water Element
We are now well and truly in the depths of Winter, rugged up and hibernating. Eating warmer and more dense foods, maybe taking some weekend naps, saying no to social...
Busy is the New Black
Ask someone these days how they are and the universal answer is "busy". There are variations on this - super busy, crazy busy, really busy, SO busy. Super busy is...
Grief - Autumn Metal Element
As the weather turns colder and the leaves drop from the trees, we move out of Late Summer and the Earth Element and into the Metal Element of Autumn. And...
The 3pm Slump
You had a decent sleep, you started your day well - perhaps with some exercise, a healthy breakfast. You've done a good morning's work and had a healthy lunch. So...
Ripen and Transform - Late Summer Earth Element
Late Summer. That little season in between Summer and Autumn. It's an unnamed season by some, whilst others call it an Indian Summer. Summer is still here, we have the same temperatures,...
Summer - the Season of Abundance and Harvest
Summer. Just that one simple name conjures memories of waterslides in the garden, jumping through the sprinkler, cicadas screeching and long lazy days. Bare feet and limbs, living day in and...
5 Ingredients to Avoid
Deciphering the ingredients on our food is hard enough but when it comes to our beauty skin care products, some of the ingredients are so hard to read let alone...
3 Reasons to Use Oils for Your Skin
Long gone are the days where people baulked at the idea that oils would make your skin oily. Or do people still believe that? Why chose an oil over a...
10 Ideas for Radical Self Care
Does ‘radical self care’ mean upside down yoga poses, spirulina-spiked smoothies and meditating for an hour before the sun comes up? No. Radical self care simply means knowing yourself and...
5 Benefits of Sweet Almond Oil
There are so many beautiful carrier oils available, each with its own characteristics and benefits, and Sweet Almond Oil is a particulary popular one! Did you know almonds belong to the...
Behind Freya's Nourishment
Freya’s Nourishment is the perfect culmination of my studies and life experience I am often asked why I create recipes and post them on social media, what is the connection...
The Importance of Hibernation in Winter
Since we were kids, we have heard about winter hibernation, how the bears crawl into their caves and sleep for the season. We hear from wellbeing practitioners and read in...
Five Ways to Winter Wellness
The first day of winter, Melbournites woke to a cloudless sky with frost on the ground, steam exuding from our mouths as we released each breath, and the yearning to...
5 Ways to use Bath Salts without putting a toe near a tub
At the mention of bath salts, I find you generally get one of three responses... Ooooh bath salts!!! I love baths!!! Awww I love baths but I don't have one...
3 Ways with our Coffee & Coconut Scrub
Whether you use our Coffee Coconut Scrub as a body scrub on a regular basis, as a face scrub a few times a week, a pre-shave scrub when your pins are...
Five Reasons to Fall in Love with Epsom Salts
For many generations we have enjoyed the therapeutic benefits of Epsom salts. Back in the good old days we indulged more often in an epsom salt bath but in modern...
PART TWO: 14 natural cleaning recipes using essential oils
Last week, I wrote about four of my favourite essential oils and why I think they should be part of your home cleaning kit. Today, I want to share some...
PART ONE: Four essential oils for your home cleaning kit
You love a clean home, but you’re not crazy about chemical-laden products. Sound familiar? The great news is, there are lots of ways to get your home environment squeaky-clean using...
3 simple pantry ingredients to use for pampering
Yes, it’s true – you DO have a day spa waiting to happen in your kitchen! Here are some common pantry ingredients and how to use them on your face...
8 great ways to use coconut oil on your face and body
Coconut oil just for cooking? Think again! Here's a heap of ways you can use this pantry staple for everything from fixing dry, brittle hair to keeping skin baby-soft.
Getting through Cold and Flu Season without the Bozo features
Getting sick in any way is never pretty. The body, normally such an inspiration of strength and durability, suddenly becomes a weak shell housing a never ending supply of snot,...
Rose Hand Scrub
Quite a few years ago I was given a hand scrub as a gift I loved the idea of it, as I've always felt I have old lady hands. The...
Recipes - Face and Body
Gratitude Essential Oil Blend
How grateful are you? Are you aware of your blessings or do you need to count them when things go wrong as Genevieve Morton wrote about on our last Journal post Why An...
Three Natural DIY Facial Steams
There is something quite satisfying about walking into your kitchen, putting a few things in a bowl and creating a spa experience for yourself. Sure, it's beautiful when someone does...
Matcha Face Mask
There's nothing more satisfying than walking into your kitchen, taking a few things out of the cupboard and/or fridge, mixing them together then slathering them all over your face. I mean,...
Recipes - Food
Nuttery Peanut Buttery Caramello Cake
Choosing a name for a recipe I always find odd. It either jumps out at me or I struggle with it. See I want something that basically tells you what the dish is,...
Chocolate Mousse Tart
After our last post 6 Ways to Self Care in Isolation what could be more fitting than a beautifully grounding, delicious tart that is ALSO full of goodness? We've taken...
Flourless Chocolate Cake
Usually we find ourselves saying "I can't believe it's Christmas already" or "where has the year gone". I am currently trying to get head around it being Easter in a...
Raw Mango Cheesecake
This cheesecake was originally made for the Earth Element Retreat with Amanda Adey earlier this month. Mangoes are a beautiful Earth Element fruit due to its yellow colour (the colour of...
Chocolate Lovers Mousse with Salted Caramel
Do you celebrate Valentine's Day? I remember what a big deal it was at school to give cards, and to receive a card that you had nooooo idea who it...
Raw Strawberry Swirl Cheesecake
We're in the month of love, and that always gets me thinking about either strawberry (or pink) desserts or chocolate. Chocolate desserts have to be my all time favourite to...
Raw Nutella Cheesecake
It's one of those perfect pairings. Strawberries and cracked pepper, caramel and salt, pineapple and mint, peanut butter and banana, chocolate and hazelnut. They combine together as you chew them...
Strawberries 'n Cream Raw Cheesecake
At the beginning of June Vicky from The Flourishing Pantry featured Freya's Nourishment on her blog Flourishing Entrepreneurs. Vicky and I connected very early in my Instagram days, and one of the...
Christmas Pudding Bliss Balls
In another country, another lifetime, I sold Christmas Puddings. The real deal. Wrapped in calico with pretty tartan Christmas ribbon. I made and sold hundreds of them. It all started...
Raw Pavlova Cheesecake
Let's be clear. This is an ode to, not a recreation of, the pavlova. My mum makes the best pavlova. That, in my opinion, is a fact. It is crunchy...
What on Earth is Mesquite Anyway?!
When you start to dabble in raw desserts, you feel like you need to learn a whole new language. Ingredients you can’t pronounce start appearing in recipes and you’re left...
Green Tart with Charred Vegetables
Do you have a favourite season? I can never decide! I love each season when we're in it, but then I love the change too. I guess we're lucky to...
Salted Caramel Chocolate Cheesecake
I have been trying to decide for a while what sort of birthday cake I would like this year. My mind has been distracted with the Nourishing Treats ebook though...
Black Bean and Buckwheat Soup
Winter is all about slowing down not only our lifestyle but also our bodies. It's a time to treat our bodies to nourishing soups, stews and slow foods. It governs...
Wattleseed Chocolate Chai
You may have noticed a theme with the Journal posts, maybe not. I tend to alternate a health & wellbeing post with a recipe post. And I usually try to...
Skin Glowing Soup
Autumn, the season of the Metal Element - a theory that originated in Chinese and Taoism philosophy. As Amanda from Auricfields Kinesiology explained in our last post, the Metal Element is the...
Easter Celebration Tart
There are so many celebrations throughout the year. Birthdays, anniversaries, graduations, housewarming, engagements, weddings....And that's before we even get started on the set holidays such as Easter, Mothers and Fathers Days...
Coconut & Cacao Bliss Balls
What's your go to snack when your energy starts lagging? When you can feel your eyelids getting heavier, you still have another hour or two at work yet you feel...
Wilted Watercress Salad
Just when you think summer is coming to an end, it coughs and splutters and the Melbourne skies throw out mid 30 degree weather like we are having this week....
Chocolate Lovers
Valentine's Day is approaching. It's a day where people show their affection for someone else by sending cards, flowers and chocolates along with messages of love. With around 150 million...
Pimped Up Water
For some, drinking enough water can be a chore. Some can find plain water so boring, my mum always said she would rust if she drank too much water! Staying hydrated is...
Salted Caramel Fudge
Now doesn't that name just conjure up memories of childhood, a bygone era, a time where you never thought about how bad sugar was for your teeth - your only...
Spring Detox Smoothie
Winter well and truly is a distant memory, and Spring is starting to gain the hint of heat of that Summer will bring. The leaves are back on the trees, the...
Strawberry Granola Tart
It's been sad and frustrating watching the events of the past week to say the least. The actions of a few people has caused untold damage and trauma to the farming world,...
Kale, Broccoli & Berry Salad
Ah Spring is definitely here! The sun is warming, the bulbs are going crazy. As much as I love the nourishing foods of winter, I have to say the last...
Matcha ice cream fingers
I love nothing more than being in the kitchen, it's my happy place. With the right contributing factors I could spend an entire day there; experimenting, filling the cupboards and...
Roasted Cauliflower & White Bean Soup
Winter has been long and cold this year! Even now as I write this, the wind is blowing and the rain is light yet consistently falling, not enough to really...
Chickpea and Avocado Guacamole
I was on the search for an egg free high protein breakfast. I have always loved eggs, but they don't love me so I have almost completely cut them out of...
Beetroot & Black Bean Burger
It's the middle of winter in the Southern Hemisphere and root vegetables are gloriously abundant! What better way to celebrate the vibrantly beautiful beet than with this burger. And black beans...
Decadent Hot Chocolate
As a kid on a cold and wet day I used run all the way home from school hoping to see mum putting freshly laid picklets on the table, mugs of...
Buckwheat Bread
This bread is nutty, full of texture and although it's dense it has a lightness to it. And it's my saviour! I have two of the celiac genes. Which means that I...
Spiced Granola
Granola is one American term I love! It sounds so much more enticing than muesli doesn't it? And so much easier to write on the shopping list too. Go on,...
Raw Chocolate Mousse
Is there anything more deliciously decadent than a soft, billowy chocolate mousse? There are possibly as many chocolate mousse recipes as there are spaghetti Bolognese recipes! And that's even before...
Peanut Butter Caramel Crunch
The last few posts have been health and beauty related...essential oils, cleaning, natural beauty tips...which have all been great. But we're talking peanut butter AND chocolate here! Together. In your...
Chocolate Caramel Cheesecake
My raw cheesecakes are usually made with fresh seasonal fruits. There's nothing better than enjoying fruit when it's at its best - full of flavour, nutrients and grown locally. This...
Seedy Berry Bites
I made these delicious morsels for the first time about 18 months ago. I fell in love. They are delicious, nutritious and super easy to make. What more could you...
Warm Chia Pudding
The chia pudding. Hands down, my all time favourite breakfast. I have to stop myself ordering it when I'm out for breakfast since I eat it so much at home....
Warm Apple Pie Smoothie
Winter breakfasts can be challenging when you are not only gluten free but also intolerant to starches. So even gluten free grains are out. Yes that's right. No quinoa, no...
Raw Bounty Donuts
If you read my interview last month, you will know I have had a life long love affair with donuts. Cinnamon ones have always been my favourite, I will take those over...
Peanut Butter Seeded Cookies
The lid on my food processor broke. Completely. I picked it up after being washed and it fell apart. I checked my receipt and yes I am in warranty! I...
Blue Majik Sea Foam Raw Cheesecakes
Raw cheesecakes are a constant in my house. Different flavours, some on repeat and some on demand. When I started making raw cheesecakes I made a large cake. Now I...
Raw Snickers Cheesecake
Since I made this cheesecake a few weeks ago, I have not been allowed to make any other flavour. This conversation seems to have been on repeat ever since I...
Blueberry Chia Pudding
This is my favourite breakfast by far! I love the ease, the versatility, the goodness of a chia pudding. I’ve made it with water, with almond milk, with...
Golden Gaytime Raw Cheesecake
I decided that my birthday this year was the perfect excuse to make a cheesecake with my favourite flavours. I wanted it to be something I hadn’t made before and...
Raw Pronuts
We’ve had Cronuts - croissant-donut and we’ve had Cruffins -a croissant-muffin hybrid. PLEASE LET ME INTRODUCE YOU TO THE PRONUT Well, they’re donuts with protein so I am calling them...
Smoky Baked Beans
THIS RECIPE WAS INSPIRED BY ONE INGREDIENT.... Natural Hickory Smoke. I bought it at The Essential Ingredient at Prahran Market in Melbourne. I have always loved a good smoky flavour and...
Blueberry Coconut Raw Cheesecake
Raw cheesecake was the first raw dessert I came across. I was in Combi in Elwood ordering some juices and I saw these "raw" desserts in the cabinet. It was...
My Favourite Smoothie
There are so many different and wonderful smoothie recipes out there. And sometimes if you (meaning me!) make a smoothie by just throwing it all in together it’s hit and...
Raw Salted Caramel Slice
Who doesn’t love caramel slice?! Caramel slice has been floating around since before time began. The original slice I find a little rich and sweet for my taste but this...
Nachos Dip
The first time I tried a Mexican dip at a party I was hooked. It was delicious layers of refried beans, avocado, sour cream, grated cheese and tomato. I mean...