In this episode of the Hot  Mess Therapy Podcast, we talk with yoga instructor, business owner, and herbalist Lindsay Hess.  Lindsay speaks with us about trauma awareness, her past trauma, yoga, and even gives us a couple of must-have herbs for our gardens!

The Four F’s of Trauma: Fight, flight, freeze, and fawn.

Some books we talked about:

Yoga for Health with Richard Hittleman

The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk

Plant Spirit Medicine by Elliot Cowan

The Herbs

Lindsay talks about the herbs skullcap and stinging nettle.  Skullcap helps with sleep and anxiety and stinging nettle helps as an antihistamine.

Skullcap (Scutellaria) – used for anxiety and sleep. Can be grown in the garden or purchased as a supplement from your favorite health food store.

Stinging Nettle (Urtica dioica) – used for allergy relief. Use caution when handling live stinging nettle. As the name says, it will sting you!