These times call for potent healers. If you’re feeling the call of the plants, this episode is for you.
IN THE INTRO:
- There is no right way to be an herbalist
- Guidance for navigating your unique plant path
IN THE INTERVIEW:
- The soul’s need to connect with nature
- The most common mistake that newcomers to the plant path are likely to make
- Why an herb will help one person but not another
- The vital ecology of the human being
- Seeing beyond symptoms (and the insufficient approach of merely managing them) to the root cause of illness
- An overview of the four phases of herbalism: indigenous/folk, vitalist/energetic, molecular/biomedical, evolutionary/integrative
- “I’m woo to the max, but I’m also scientific to the max”
- Healing is open-ended and endless, and to know healing is to know life itself
- The (in)significance of the past when trying to heal forward
- The herbalist is first and foremost and forever a student of nature
- Plants are the living, healing intelligence of the earth
- The transference of healing intelligence from nature into the plant and then from the plant into the person
- We can understand health and disease simply by understanding nature
- Narrowing down possible herbal remedies to find the right remedy for the right person- what is the ecosystem behind the symptom?
- Why some people get overwhelmed when they start walking the plant path
- Perceiving with the heart v memorizing information (bodily understanding is superior to intellectual knowledge)
- My favorite personal health reference library
- Herbal medicine should be accessible to anyone and everyone
- Helping others using medicinal plants, and crafting the most potent herbal remedies
IN THE OUTRO:
- My Top 5 Reasons to Be an Herbalist
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