How’s your relationship with your body? Are you getting along? Are you adversaries? Do you ever feel like your body betrays you? How...

Back when I was a baby student herbalist, my teacher gave me the assignment to do nothing but sit quietly with a plant and listen. I...

The world serves us an all-you-can-eat buffet of reasons to feel defeated. The stories we hear and the stories we tell ourselves shape...

The onset of Spring can push us. The world is waking up, we’re filling with inspiration and plans. Goals are blossoming, the lure of...

You might be well aware that a certain Hallmark holiday is coming up this weekend. If you know me, you might also know that I’m not...

The Earth is rotating on its axis (surprise!), and right now in the Northern Hemisphere, it’s carrying us very close to the festival of...

What a wild time to be alive, no? If you’re feeling unmoored by political disaster, or other upheavals in your life, you’re in good...

In the fall I made this Sunflower photo the wallpaper on my phone, because Sunflowers help my heart feel lighter every time I see them. ...

Last post I talked about whiteness and how its very existence creates a hierarchy. Whiteness tells us that we’re only worthy when we’re...

Today I want to talk about whiteness. Why is this clinical herbalist talking about whiteness, you ask? I see it as my role to help people...

Nobody loves a good ghost story more than me.  Ever since I can remember I’ve been tortured and simultaneously delighted by the...

My Celtic ancestors believed in a veil between this world and the Otherworld, the realm of the unseen.  The realm of spirits, faeries, Godde

Exercise For Consulting Your Root: When I'm hesitating, I’m really grateful for my practice of consulting my body...

When we confront our shadows, we need not be afraid of grim truths.  We don’t need to turn away, deny, distract.  We can stand in flames...

Tonight, the very first sliver of New Moon appears. It's a good time to begin something new, to experience a fresh thing...

In times of overwhelm, our care for self tends to fly out the window. Don't forget to take care of yourself. Sometimes it's all you can...

White supremacy, patriarchy, ableism, homophobia, fatphobia, etc., are systems that were born of human rejection of our place in nature...

If, like me, you have any history whatsoever of restricting foods, going on diets, or trying to change your body, I'd be willing to bet that

Listening, and paying attention, is how we get the Earth's advice. As we move forward, making decisions about who we will be, let us be...

Just as the veil between this world and the Otherworld is thin at Samhain, it’s just as thin now, at Beltane. It’s customary to leave off...