June 4, 2019
Stinging Nettles - Urtica dioca - Part 1
This will be a four part series. Each week we will explore a little more about this plant. Part one I will talk about the naming and identification of the plant. The only real homework assignments my herbal students get is to exp...
March 10, 2016
I've been thinking a lot about medicine and healing. Not suprizing given that my work is supporting people find healing with plant medicine. More specificallly, I've been thinking about the way we heal, the wounds and patterns that create dis-ease and how the plants su...
January 7, 2016
It's January. Time for fresh starts and resolutions. If you are into that kind of thing. Resolutions feel too much like pressure to me, so I don't make them. Instead, I prefer to see every day as a clean slate. A chance to make wise choices. A chance to forgive myself...
September 25, 2015
What is so radical about self care? And why is an herbalist talking about it?
In my practice as an herbalist and in my life as a mother of young children I see the exhaustion and weariness mothers are pushing through. I see it every day. I myself live it too many days....
August 27, 2015
"So, you're like a natropath right? What is an herbalist? What does an herbalist do? Why would I go see one?" These are the kinds of questions I get from people almost every single day. It's easy to see why it's confusing. There are as many methods of practicing herbal...
July 9, 2015
This will be the first blog post in a series about Radical Self Care. The interwebs are ablaze with stories about exhaustion, adrenal fatigue, depression and other malaise of our time. While it may seem an inevitable by product of our productive society, I would argue...
June 18, 2015
Is that really a thing? It seems like so many of the plants used as herbal medicine are weeds. Every spring cities and neighbours engage in all out war against the eternally useful (and dare I say pretty) dandilion. But unfortunatly it is true.
Just as with animals, pla...
May 7, 2015
Happiness, it is really what we are all striving for in life. Every person just wants to feel joy and love most days.
Life brings a great deal of fluctuation. Some times it can seem hard to keep up and keep going. There are so many influences that shape our happiness....
April 23, 2015
In previous blogs I have talked about lifestyle and diet changes you can make to support reducing PMS symptoms. We also learned about what a healthy menstural cycle looks like. This post has the herbal goodies you have been waiting for. Diet and lifestyle can do a gre...
April 5, 2015
Spring is well and truly upon us in Southern Alberta. Most of us look forward to the flowers and leaves and sunshine with happy anticipation. For some spring means pollen and pollen means misery! Itchy eyes, runny noses, sneezing, headaches – all symptoms of seasonal...