Herbal Consultation - Lavender
60 Minute Meeting with 30 Minute Follow Up Meeting
Herbal Consultation - Yarrow
6 Week Timeframe - 3 60 Minute Meetings
Herbal Focus
Herbal Standards & Values
Introduction:
I sell natural soap, herbal aromatherapy bath salts, essential oil candles, sustainable herbal cleansing burn bundles, essential oil body butter, and herbal facial care products, among other seasonal items.
I grow all of the herbs that go into my products without pesticides.
Many of the items I make were inspired by relationship with my mother and grandmother, both Herbalists that I learned from throughout my childhood and teen years. For instance, my Lush Lilac Body Butter and Perfume are both inspired by my grandmother's lilacs that she grew that lined our driveway growing up, and my Rose Hydrosol is made from heirloom roses that I got from her before she passed.
Everything I make goes through my own personal product tests and standards.
I take a lot of care in creating quality products and use careful sanitation standards when I'm creating! Everything I'm creating is imbued with my own history, positive intentions, and Reiki energy.
The scents I purchase and make are made up of ONLY true essential oils - meaning that there are absolutely NO hazardous materials used.
This includes NONE of the FOLLOWING:
✖ Carcinogens: These are materials known or thought to cause cancer.
✖ Mutagens: Materials that change the DNA of a cell, harming the cell and causing diseases like cancer.
✖ Reproductive toxins: Toxins that adversely affect reproductive organs and increase the risk of birth defects.
✖ Organ toxins: These are toxins that can cause adverse effects or disease within specific bodily organs.
✖ Acute toxins: Toxins that can cause adverse effects from a single exposure. Generally, this would be accidental exposure like spillage or ingestion.
My products are much higher quality than other similar products!
I take limited commissions - just send me a message to find out more!
History and Traditions:
I grew up in the Ozarks to a family of farmers and herbalists who were all women, known traditionally as "granny women" in the Ozark folk tradition of herbalism.
I took a lot of our traditions for granted until I formally started studying herbalism in 2018.
I am currently a certified Clinical Herbalist through The Bitter Herb Academy, my Sacred Earth Arts mentorship, with additional advanced courses that I've taken through The Herbal Academy and The School of Evolutionary Herbalism.
I am also a certified Aromatherapist through Heart of Herbs Herbal School.
I continue to expand my products every day as I learn more about herbalism.
Ozark folk traditions use herbs that were growing here when my European ancestors came here from Scotland, Prussia, Iceland, and Germany, incorporating native traditions as well as those of black ancestors and Shamanic European practices.
I use my herbs with respect to those who have been marginalized and taken from historically, and respect how the traditions have evolved over time and practice.
Focus and Intent:
My focus and intent are also important in the creation of my products. Positive intentions are infused in my products through Reiki and energy work, and I focus on creating positive changes and aspects in your life as my products touch you and as you use them in your own life. I also use medical astrology in my work with herbs, picking herbs during the right sign and time to ensure highest quality, along with blessings and energy work according to folk traditions, and my own personal traditions and experience with Reiki.
Sustainable Pesticide-Free Harvest:
I sustainably harvest the herbs that I use from my own property in Kansas City and my family property in the Ozarks. I never use pesticides and refer to these herbs as "home-grown" or "wildcrafted" in my product ingredients lists. I use biodynamic farming methods in growing my plants. Biodynamic farming practices and farming methods include avoiding chemical soil fertilizers to enhance soil fertility, consideration of biological organisms (from living organisms in the soil to animal health), diverse crop rotation, cover crops, green animal manures, as well as meeting guidelines for perennial and annual planting.
I only use the healthiest herbs, and I harvest and create with plants through the astrological cycles that allow them to benefit you the most. For instance, if I want to imbue moon energy into one of my creations, I create that product on Monday (literally Moonday!) during the planetary hour of the moon.
I make sure that I use plants that grow in abundance and never over-harvest, leaving behind at least half a stand of plants to grow for the future when I am wildcrafting.
Everything else I use for my business is small-business sourced, sustainable, recyclable, pesticide- free and/or organic & very high quality.
This is an excerpt from Karen Bishop, a Clinical Herbalist writing for the Eclectic School of Modern Herbalism.
It’s a thoughtful observation in the loss of herbal wisdom in exchange for the convenience of modern medicine.
This is my personal philosophy and what inspired me to create my small business, and I agree with this profound statement wholeheartedly.
“I found many turn of the century documents describing effective medicinal uses. I discovered many wonderful fathers of herbalism and eclectic medicine. I found myself fascinated by the information that I learn while reading their documents. To my surprise, the discovery that hit me the hardest in an emotional way was that our federal government once promoted and encouraged the use of herbs and weeds as medicine. I read through almost the entire Bulletin written by Alice Henkel, Assistant in Drug and Medicinal Plant Inventions from the Department of Agriculture and felt a sense of deep betrayal because in this country, we once had knowledge of inexpensive and effective ways to treat ailments with common natural remedies. I am not insinuating that modern medicine has not had wonderful discoveries that have led to life extension and health for so many Americans and people around the world, because I know it has, but it seems to me, after further research, that it has also caused much harm in the pursuit of profit. As I contemplated this bulletin further and read through other old documents, I do believe that modern medicine is wonderful in the treatment of acute illnesses and injuries but falls short in the care of chronic ones.
I never realized how far we have drifted in the field of medicine from our origins and could benefit tremendously from rediscovering the wisdom of many of the herbalist that came before us. I could only imagine how medicine was practiced before the development of the American Medical Association and for-profit pharmaceutical companies, before the invention of commercial farming practices and the “science” of newly created GMO products, before the invention of Industrial Animal Factories and concentrated animal feeding operations, when food, herbs, and weeds were our medicine, and people where not commodities, but humans & individuals."
Disclosure:
These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration.
These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
Herbal consultation sessions are for informational purposes only, and are not intended to diagnose or treat any disease.
You are encouraged to speak with your medical practitioner or healthcare provider about all herbal products, dietary changes, or supplements that you choose to use.