by Melanie | Sep 10, 2017 | Mental Health, Plant-based Medicine
One of the unexpected lessons I’ve received in the past few years could be summed up like this: “Be careful what you claim to teach.” When my life seemed to be burning down around me this time last year, I found myself thinking about all the years...
by Melanie | Apr 25, 2017 | Foundations of Herbal Medicine, Herbal Medicine, Plant-based Medicine, YouTube Live
It happens to every herbalist I know. A client starts doing much better after starting her herbs. As she describes the improvements there’s a noticeable sense of relief in her voice. Then she stops. “Of course, it might just be a placebo effect,” she...
by Melanie | Apr 19, 2017 | Foundations of Herbal Medicine, Herbal Medicine, Meet the Herbs, Plant-based Medicine, YouTube Live
Herbalism isn’t monolithic. It’s cacophonous. It’s as difficult to contain as dandelions and peppermint. The most useful way to grow food or medicine is to cultivate a garden. And a garden isn’t a wilderness. It’s a collaboration between...
by Melanie | Apr 3, 2017 | Foundations of Herbal Medicine, Herbal Medicine, Plant-based Medicine, YouTube Live
In many Germanic languages “poison” is named by a word equivalent to English gift (such as Old High German gift, German Gift, Danish and Swedish gift; Dutch gift, vergift). This shift might have been partly euphemistic, partly by influence of Greek...
by Melanie | Aug 23, 2016 | Food as Medicine, Healing Journey, Plant-based Medicine, Self-care
It’s very rarely the first thing a new client mentions to me, but once we’ve established some trust and rapport, I often start to hear certain familiar fears and questions bubble up around the edges of the conversation. “I’m not focused on...
