Welcome!
Hello, and welcome to Wild Soul Herbalism!
I’m a Registered Nurse and Herbalist who believes everyone can live a healthy and full life. The plants are ready and willing to show us how to access the incredible power and wisdom within us.
As we develop a relationship with the natural world, we nurture our relationship with ourselves.
The natural world is our path to wholeness. Because after all, we aren’t separate from nature, we are nature.
With 21 years as a nurse and 28 years in healthcare, I have experience in acute care, home health, primary care, and public health. Throughout my career, I have gained extensive knowledge, and fortunately, during an especially challenging time, I discovered herbalism.
Thus, as a nurse and herbalist, I believe that allopathic and alternative medicine can coexist and should complement each other, working together to bring us wholeness.
My training as a clinical herbalist has provided me with a solid foundation, but my true passion lies in growing herbs and educating others about herbalism.
This publication aims to help you understand herbal medicine and embrace a holistic lifestyle utilizing herbs. If you're interested in learning about herbal medicine, I invite you to subscribe.
What this publication is:
Holistic herbalism: how we can achieve holistic wellness through the natural world, primarily by working with plants.
Herbal gardening & conservation: how we can be better stewards for the plant world.
Awakening our wild souls: so we can live fully and freely as we were meant to be.
Plant spirit medicine: the spiritual side of herbalism
What this publication is NOT:
How to treat certain diseases and conditions
Medical advice or diagnosing medical conditions
Free Subscription Benefits:
Monthly newsletter
Herbal information & inspiration from the natural world
Personal essays that provide a different perspective
Wellness inspiration
Podcast
Occasional extra goodies, such as information in the form of a PDF
Paid Subscription Benefits:
Wild Soul Herbal Community Member - $5/month or $50/year
(Each month will be a little different)
Bonus content with PDF downloads & occasional eBooks
Workshops on:
Medicine making, herbal gardening, & herbal first aid, etc.
With PDF downloads
Private podcast with bonus episodes
Private chat - where we can ask questions and start conversations on herbal topics
Read Wild Soul Herbalism Disclaimers here.
AI Disclaimer:
I don’t use AI to generate ideas, write drafts, or help me write any of my content (including notes). Instead, I prefer to do the whole process myself. However, I do use Grammarly for typos and catching grammatical errors, which most of the time it just wants me to add commas, lol.
My writing may be rough around the edges, but this is my voice (100%), and I don’t want or need AI to do it for me. I also use Canva for my graphics, such as the one below, but again, I have a general idea of what I want to create.
Sometimes I spend waaay too much time fiddling around with my work on Canva, but I love the tools it provides to help me make eBooks and infographics for my website and for this SubStack.
All of the photographs you see here are mine (taken with a DSLR camera), and I use Adobe Lightroom to crop and adjust the lighting on each photo. I prefer to keep my photo editing quick, simple, and painless.
I know we could go down the rabbit hole about “what AI is,” but basically, I wanted you to know that what you read and see here is from the mind of a person who is here to write and share their content.
