Kate Husted

Clinical Herbalist

Durango, Colorado

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    How's Your Relationship With Your Body?
    Kate Husted
    • Jun 23, 2021
    • 4 min

    How's Your Relationship With Your Body?

    How’s your relationship with your body? Are you getting along? Are you adversaries? Do you ever feel like your body betrays you? How...
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    The Day I Met The Bone Keeper...
    Kate Husted
    • May 1, 2021
    • 2 min

    The Day I Met The Bone Keeper...

    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...
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    Pleasure Practice: A Valentine For You
    Kate Husted
    • Feb 12, 2021
    • 2 min

    Pleasure Practice: A Valentine For You

    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...
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    New Beginnings + Rune Readings
    Kate Husted
    • Jan 28, 2021
    • 3 min

    New Beginnings + Rune Readings

    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...
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    Just some casual chaos...
    Kate Husted
    • Jan 15, 2021
    • 2 min

    Just some casual chaos...

    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...
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    On Depression
    Kate Husted
    • Jan 5, 2021
    • 3 min

    On Depression

    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. ...
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    Not Your Basic Wellness Bitch
    Kate Husted
    • Nov 30, 2020
    • 3 min

    Not Your Basic Wellness Bitch

    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...
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    On Whiteness
    Kate Husted
    • Nov 17, 2020
    • 4 min

    On Whiteness

    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...
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    The Otherworld
    Kate Husted
    • Oct 20, 2020
    • 3 min

    The Otherworld

    My Celtic ancestors believed in a veil between this world and the Otherworld, the realm of the unseen.  The realm of spirits, faeries, Godde
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    We're Not In Kansas Anymore
    Kate Husted
    • Jul 10, 2020
    • 2 min

    We're Not In Kansas Anymore

    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...
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    What The Juniper Told Me
    Kate Husted
    • Apr 22, 2020
    • 3 min

    What The Juniper Told Me

    That Juniper held me and wrapped me in an unconditional love, day after day. When I asked it what to do with my fear, its answer completely
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    Cultivating Your Intuition: Exercises and Herbs
    Kate Husted
    • Feb 26, 2020
    • 7 min

    Cultivating Your Intuition: Exercises and Herbs

    Recently I was struggling to make a decision. The decision had to do with a creative project I might or might not bring into the world...
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    A Wellspring Flows to You: Celebrating Imbolc
    Kate Husted
    • Jan 27, 2020
    • 4 min

    A Wellspring Flows to You: Celebrating Imbolc

    The wheel of the year is turning. It may feel like these depths of winter are long and never-ending, like time has skidded to a slow stop...
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    How My Herbalism Has Changed Around Food
    Kate Husted
    • Oct 1, 2019
    • 4 min

    How My Herbalism Has Changed Around Food

    If you haven't read Part 1 of this series, Health At Every Size: The Evidence, do so first, it provides important context for what...
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    Back To School: Immune-Boosting Herbs
    Kate Husted
    • Aug 31, 2019
    • 5 min

    Back To School: Immune-Boosting Herbs

    A Mom friend of mine recently requested that I write about back-to-school herbs. It's that time of year again! Our kids are venturing...
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    Mama's Little Yellow Fears: Herbs For Anxiety
    Kate Husted
    • Jul 4, 2019
    • 6 min

    Mama's Little Yellow Fears: Herbs For Anxiety

    When we experience anxiety, it's the symptom of an unhealthy reltionship to fear itself. I've personally experienced two kinds of anxiety,
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    Fare Thee Well My Honey: Herbs For Letting Go
    Kate Husted
    • Jun 21, 2019
    • 5 min

    Fare Thee Well My Honey: Herbs For Letting Go

    Makin' Things Hard What Mom hasn't heard the smug, needling voice in her head: A Good Mom wouldn't be doing this right now. Maybe you're...
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    Everyone Wants to Have More Energy, Part 2: Magic Pills and Adaptogens
    Kate Husted
    • Jun 5, 2019
    • 5 min

    Everyone Wants to Have More Energy, Part 2: Magic Pills and Adaptogens

    Have you ever learned about a treatment or technique and thought "maybe this is the thing that heals me, the missing puzzle piece." I...
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    Everyone Wants to Have More Energy, Part 1: Resilience Scale and Mushroom Elixir
    Kate Husted
    • May 6, 2019
    • 4 min

    Everyone Wants to Have More Energy, Part 1: Resilience Scale and Mushroom Elixir

    I recently taught a class for the students of my local soup kitchen's culinary program. In preparation, the program director asked the...
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    Wooing The Sleep God: 10 Rituals and 10 Herbs To Sleep Well As A Parent
    Kate Husted
    • Apr 28, 2019
    • 6 min

    Wooing The Sleep God: 10 Rituals and 10 Herbs To Sleep Well As A Parent

    Sleep feels good. I love the creamy feeling on my skin when I submerge beneath my bed covers. It's a sensual experience, inhaling the...
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    Kate Husted

    P.O. Box 1222

    Bayfield, CO 81122

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