Living holistic and healthy is a lifestyle for The Local Rose’s Shiva Rose. After fleeing her homeland of Iran after the revolution, she spent her childhood as a refugee, trying to assimilate into a new life. Even at a young age, she understood her own spiritual connection to nature after she saw a tree cut down and cried for hours. At the age of 26, she gave birth to her first child and was diagnosed with a life-threatening auto-immune condition. In trying to treat her affliction, she found that Western medicine wasn’t working for her, and made the choice to completely switch up her diet and way of living to holistic and natural. Rose explains, “I turned to my passion in life when my marriage dissolved and I needed solace. I created the blog The Local Rose, moved to be closer to the wild and made sure to spend time in forests and the ocean.” We got the lowdown on what her natural skin remedies are, what her beauty routine is and why we really are what we eat.