Between the Rock and the Hard Place: Defending Work Inside a Broken System
I have debated for a while now on whether to write this post. I don’t want to sound insensitive, or like I am living in denial or as if I...
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Lauren
Jun 24, 20227 min read
Plant Magic: And Also, St. John's Wort
I'm sappy about plants. I may act like a science-brain person on the outside, but on the inside, I do this because I believe in plant...
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Lauren
Dec 4, 20216 min read
Integrating Practice: The Complex Relationship between Traditional and Modern
Despite my ramblings on plant medicine and my years of training as an herbalist, I consider myself a medical provider first. I spend most...
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Lauren
Jul 10, 20218 min read
Gardening for Good: Holding Space for Native Species
Last year was a terrible garden year for me. We had just moved into our new home in the oldest part of Radisson, an HOA in Baldwinsville,...
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Lauren
May 30, 20215 min read
Hawthorn, the Playful and the Joyous
Plants have personalities. There are some that are solemn, others that can make you feel closer to Spirit or others dig deep down inside...
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Lauren
Apr 4, 20216 min read
Water the untamable, the undefinable.
Water is tricky. Not only because it is actually the element where most of its energy lies hidden in concealed places, but also because...
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Lauren
Mar 7, 20219 min read
The Menstrual Cycle: Perfectly Imperfect
The human body is capable of incredible things. It is the most complex machine in existence, and if history if any guide, we are just...
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Lauren
Dec 30, 202011 min read
Depression: The Stuck and Sullen Cold
Welcome back to our year’s end series on mental health. Today I again welcome back Suzanne Campbell, who has contributed significantly to...
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Lauren
Dec 16, 202010 min read
Mental Health Vol. 2: Anxiety, A Tale of Air and Fire
Stress and anxiety are not the same thing. Unlike stress, anxiety does not require an external trigger. Rather, it is the relationship of...
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Lauren
Dec 4, 20208 min read
A 2020 Trilogy for Mental Health: Burnout, to Begin with
As COVID wears on, as election season turns into an election saga, the seasons change and the holidays go from one to the other (and each...
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Lauren
Oct 11, 20207 min read
The Lovely Lymphatics: A Look at an Underestimated Lifeline
This cold and flu season will be an interesting one. Not only are our immune systems dealing with the usual fall (and winter) favorites...
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Lauren
Aug 29, 20206 min read
The Weight of the Warrior, and the Case for Blue Vervain
This particular post is a bit more personal for me than usual. Those who read my last entry heard me discuss the importance of building...
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Lauren
Jul 9, 20206 min read
Creating Allies in the Plants: Foundational Learning for Herbalists
As much as I don’t love the heat (us Pitta personalities do better in the cold) I do love Summer. Everything around us is overflowing...
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Lauren
May 9, 20208 min read
Wonderful Wildcrafting: Building a Skillset for Successful Plant Identification
Despite the fact that it’s the coldest May I can remember in quite some time, I’m getting pretty excited about all the lovely plants I...
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Lauren
Apr 5, 20207 min read
Keeping Our Humanity: Notes on Fear, Trust and Salvation During COVID-19
This is not a post on plants, or medicine, or nutrition. I want to take some time to talk about something bigger than all of that,...
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Lauren
Mar 14, 20206 min read
Considerations for COVID-19
Hi friends. Let’s be honest, we are all scared. There’s a virus running around our world that has overwhelmed our resources, people are...
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Lauren
Feb 1, 20207 min read
Remembering Coltsfoot
This past week, my fellow followers of the witchy ways and I prepared to celebrate Imbolc. For those of you not familiar, Imbolc is the...
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Lauren
Dec 21, 20194 min read
Lessons from December
In my Upstate New York home, the snow is on the ground. It has been for a while now, and it will stay off and on until around May. That’s...
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Lauren
Nov 10, 20194 min read
Herbs vs. Allopathy: A Brief PSA
I live in two very different worlds. Ten years ago, I started my training as an herbalist and started working in nutrition and food...
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Lauren
Jul 20, 20195 min read
Friend or Foe? Invasive plants, medicinal uses and Purple Loosestrife.
When I was driving home from work last night, I spotted one of my favorite upstate NY plants out of the corner of my eye: tall, bright...
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