4 Herbs We Give To Our Dog
An herbalist’s dog is going to get some herbs in her dinner every now and then. Our dog Elsie sure does! Choosing herbs for dogs doesn’t need to be complicated or difficult, and there are a lot of the...
24 Jan 202132min
Herbs Help Us Feel Our Way Through Difficult Times
It has been a rough few… weeks? Years? Well, a while, anyway! In the last month more than ever, people have been asking us how to get some space, how to find ways to feel grounded, how to find some ca...
17 Jan 20211h 12min
An Herbalist's Guide to Successful Self-Experimentation
In this episode we explore the skills and disciplines necessary to conduct a successful self-experiment. Self-experimentation in this context might mean making changes to dietary, lifestyle, & movemen...
21 Dec 20201h 14min
COVID Revisited
This week we take another look at COVID-19 and its long-term effects. First, we check in on what have been our top 5 herbal interventions for COVID: Herbal steams – with aromatic herbs, to fight infec...
11 Dec 20201h 4min
A Case Study: Herbs and Nightmares
Dreaming matters: it’s a critical part of our identity-building and experience-processing work, and vital to our ability to regulate our emotions. But not all dreams are good. When nightmares happen, ...
20 Nov 20201h 19min
4 Medicinal Mushrooms: Shiitake, Maitake, Reishi, Lion's Mane
Yes, they are herbs too! Medicinal mushrooms are an important part of our herbal practice, but it looks like we haven’t profiled them on the podcast before today – so it’s time to correct that lapse. ...
6 Nov 20201h 16min
Herbs and Grief, at the Death of the Year
Samhain, Halloween, the death of the year – this is a good time to talk about grieving, and about how herbs and grief can go together. It’s a universal human experience, but one we don’t often allow o...
1 Nov 20201h 16min
Herbs As Mantra - Mental Reset & Redirection
This week we listened to a talk by a Buddhist teacher about mantra chanting practices, and one particular facet of their purpose: to be a mental reset or redirection, a way to get a hold of your mind ...
24 Okt 202050min
