Kate HustedJun 23, 20214 minHow'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...
Kate HustedMay 1, 20212 minThe 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 HustedFeb 12, 20212 minPleasure Practice: A Valentine For YouYou 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 HustedJan 28, 20213 minNew Beginnings + Rune ReadingsThe 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 HustedJan 15, 20212 minJust 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 HustedJan 5, 20213 minOn DepressionIn 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 HustedNov 30, 20203 minNot Your Basic Wellness BitchLast 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 HustedNov 17, 20204 minOn WhitenessToday 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 HustedOct 20, 20203 minThe OtherworldMy Celtic ancestors believed in a veil between this world and the Otherworld, the realm of the unseen. The realm of spirits, faeries, Godde
Kate HustedJul 10, 20202 minWe're Not In Kansas AnymoreIn 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 HustedApr 22, 20203 minWhat The Juniper Told MeThat 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 HustedFeb 26, 20207 minCultivating Your Intuition: Exercises and HerbsRecently 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 HustedJan 27, 20204 minA Wellspring Flows to You: Celebrating ImbolcThe 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 HustedOct 1, 20194 minHow My Herbalism Has Changed Around FoodIf 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 HustedAug 31, 20195 minBack To School: Immune-Boosting HerbsA 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 HustedJul 4, 20196 minMama's Little Yellow Fears: Herbs For AnxietyWhen we experience anxiety, it's the symptom of an unhealthy reltionship to fear itself. I've personally experienced two kinds of anxiety,
Kate HustedJun 21, 20195 minFare Thee Well My Honey: Herbs For Letting GoMakin' 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 HustedJun 5, 20195 minEveryone 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 HustedMay 6, 20194 minEveryone Wants to Have More Energy, Part 1: Resilience Scale and Mushroom ElixirI recently taught a class for the students of my local soup kitchen's culinary program. In preparation, the program director asked the...
Kate HustedApr 28, 20196 minWooing The Sleep God: 10 Rituals and 10 Herbs To Sleep Well As A ParentSleep feels good. I love the creamy feeling on my skin when I submerge beneath my bed covers. It's a sensual experience, inhaling the...