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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Kate Husted
- Apr 30, 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...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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
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...
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
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...
Kate Husted
- Jan 26, 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...
Kate Husted
- Sep 30, 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...
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...
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,
Kate Husted
- Jun 20, 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...
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...
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...
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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