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Back to SearchYou Don't Have To Be Perfect
Episode 150
The “wellness” space online is saturated with One Weird Tricks and Simple Easy Solutions that promise to make you perfect. Perfect hair, perfect skin…
5 years, 4 months ago
Our Top Topical Herbs for Acne
Episode 149
When you’re dealing with a skin problem, it’s good to come at it from both directions: internal and external. Today we’re focusing on the external re…
5 years, 4 months ago
5 Herbs We Got At The Grocery Store This Week
Episode 148
When you think about where to find excellent herbs, where does your mind go first – the forest? The farmer’s market? Ye Olde Herbe Shoppe, perhaps? L…
5 years, 5 months ago
4 Herbs We Give To Our Dog
Episode 147
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 c…
5 years, 5 months ago
Herbs Help Us Feel Our Way Through Difficult Times
Episode 146
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…
5 years, 5 months ago
An Herbalist's Guide to Successful Self-Experimentation
Episode 145
In this episode we explore the skills and disciplines necessary to conduct a successful self-experiment. Self-experimentation in this context might m…
5 years, 6 months ago
COVID Revisited
Episode 144
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:
He…5 years, 6 months ago
A Case Study: Herbs and Nightmares
Episode 143
Dreaming matters: it’s a critical part of our identity-building and experience-processing work, and vital to our ability to regulate our emotions. Bu…
5 years, 7 months ago
4 Medicinal Mushrooms: Shiitake, Maitake, Reishi, Lion's Mane
Episode 142
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 …
5 years, 7 months ago
Herbs and Grief, at the Death of the Year
Episode 141
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 univers…
5 years, 8 months ago