Your 2021 Integrative Healthcare Holiday Gift Guide

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By Avery St. Onge

The holiday season is officially upon us, which means its time for Integrative Practitioner’s annual holiday gift guide.

We get it, 2021 has been a busy year, and many of us haven’t even begun to shop for our loved ones. Fortunately, we’ve put together a comprehensive gift guide full of goodies that are sure to help destress and center your friends and family for the upcoming year.

This list is compiled of gadgets that the health gurus in your life are sure to love. Whether they’re looking for help with sleep, aromatherapy, or mindfulness, we’ve got the perfect gift idea. By the end of the article, you may even want to buy yourself a gift. Why not? Self-care is important. 

From the staff at Integrative Practitioner, we wish you a happy holiday season and a healthful New Year.

This article is not sponsored, nor do we receive any compensation from included companies. Photos are courtesy images.

DowDow Sleep Device

The DowDow sleeping device is a great gift for all the insomniacs in your life. With one gentle tap, a blue light appears on your ceiling that guides your breathing. As it expands you inhale and as it retracts you exhale. At the end of the exercise, your body should be in an ideal state for sleep.

“I bought 2 one for myself and one for my 15-year-old granddaughter,” one reviewer said. “I cannot even express how much I appreciate this non-medicinal sleep assistance.”

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• DowDow

Microgreen Growing Kit

This sustainably made microgreen growing kit allows you to have fresh, homegrown, nutritional greens all year round. Ingarden’s lab tested microgreens have shown to have long-term health benefits such as promoting gut health, supporting a healthy immune system, and increasing energy levels. This self-sufficient, automated indoor garden set is a great gift, even for inexperienced gardeners.

On the Ingarden website one review read, “…ingarden has made being healthy so convenient. It also looks so pretty in my living room. I love that I can grow microgreens so easily.”

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• Ingarden Microgreen Growing Set

Core Meditation Device

With gentle vibrations and an audio, this device guides your meditation and tracks your heartrate. On a corresponding app, you can choose a program from the meditation library. The device includes built-in ECG, which tracks your heartrate’s response to each session. It’s a great gift for anyone, whether they’re new or old to meditation.

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• Core

Affirmation Card Set

This mental health affirmation card set is made by Etsy seller, UnbrokenMama. The cards are full of heartfelt affirmations for friends who struggle with stress, depression, and anxiety. With cards reading statements like, “I am worthy of care” and “I will care for my mind, body, and soul”, this card set is sure to help with your loved ones’ journey to self-love.

An Etsy reviewer wrote, “My heart felt full in receiving these, knowing they were made with love and care, and with the intention that my clients will feel that whenever they see these affirmations during our sessions.”

Available Products: 

• Mental Health Affirmation Cards

Gratitude Journal

This adorable gratitude journal includes daily prompts and monthly check-ins that will help your friends stay on track with their practice of gratitude. With a beautiful layout, this journal includes uplifting affirmations and activities that will spark joy in your loved ones’ day-to-day.

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•  Gratitude Journal

Headache Patches

This headache patch set is made with all natural essential oils with an herbaceous-mint scent that help counter symptoms associated with migraine and headache. The Natural Patches of Vermont Headache and Migraine Essential Oil Patch Set are packaged in a small portable tin, for aromatherapy on-the-go. This is a great gift for friends that struggle with chronic headaches.

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• Headache & Migraine Patches

Heat Therapy Pillow

Inspired by traditional Chinese medicine, the Kanjo Heat Therapy Acupressure Pillow combines heat therapy and acupressure. The pillow is studding with non-invasive plastic roses that mimic the effects of acupuncture, helping alleviate body pain, stress, headaches, and migraines. It’s a wonderful gift for your friends looking for natural pain remedies.

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• Heat Therapy Pillow

Stress Relief Lamp

This amethyst crystal lamp can be used as a soothing night light or a meditative object. The crystal has soothing effects that enhance meditation, relieving stress and anxiety. Conscious Item’s Stress Relief Lamp can stand alone on its base or be removed and held during meditation. Made with natural stone, each lamp is a unique shade of purple.

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• Stress Relief Lamp

Candle Making Kit

This make-your-own candle set is packaged in a giftable box, with step-by-step instructions and all-natural candle making ingredients like nature wax and lavender + Ylang fragrance oil. The Mindful Soul Candle Kit is cruelty-free, vegan, toxic-free, carcinogen-free, mutagen-free, and phthalate-free. This is a great activity to do with loved ones of any age, and the best part, you get a final product that you’ll actually use. 

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•  Candle Making Kit