The Medicine Woman’s Vision: In Picture and Story

The Medicine Woman’s Vision: In Picture and Story

As any of you who have been following this blog for any length of time know, my partner Wolf is an incredible artist, and has created countless illustrations to accompany my writing and work. He was the one who drew my first logo, back when I was still doing medicine making under the name Bear Medicine Herbals, with the sweet grizzly bear, Oshá in flower, and the blue moon in the background. The deeply felt and exquisitely expressed magic of his art perfectly matches what I want to convey through my writing and healing work.   It was to him, then, that I turned to when I realized that all of the recent transitions in my life and work required a new pictorial representation. I very much wanted it to represent both a return to my original medicine woman...

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Now Even HIS Mother Approves! – Herbalist Humor

Now Even HIS Mother Approves! – Herbalist Humor

Nearly 300 full color pages that informs minds, warms hearts, and ruffles feathers. Winter Issue Releases Dec. 3rd www.PlantHealerMagazine.com (spread this herbalist humor poster freely)

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Becoming An Herbalist “Professional” or Not – Part 1

Becoming An Herbalist “Professional” or Not – Part 1

Whether To Become a Professional Herbalist or Not Choosing Our Path – Part I by Jesse Wolf Hardin excerpted from a longer article in the upcoming Winter issue of Plant Healer Magazine pro•fes•sion: 1. a paid occupation, esp. one that involves formal training and qualification. We each have an ultimate personal role to fulfill, one that by its very nature maximizes our abilities and imparts maximum meaning to our daily acts.  While it may look something like the roles we see others assuming, it will in certain ways be significantly different from what everyone else does, a position, purpose and way for which we alone are ideally suited.  We’ll need to choose again and again between options and paths as we progress in that fulfillment, basing each choice...

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Creek Indian Medicine, PHM Excerpt by Phyllis Light

Creek Indian Medicine, PHM Excerpt by Phyllis Light

Creek Indian Medicine by Phyllis D. Light Intro: Phyllis is one of the more naturally insightful herbalists we know, as well as one of the few in our community blessed to have grown up in a place-based healing tradition.  Southern Appalachian Herbalism is informed not only by African, Celtic and other European strands, but by the perspectives and practices of the indigenous peoples of the region.  We are pleased to share with you the following excerpt from Phyllis’ column in the upcoming issue of Plant Healer Magazine, an introduction to Creek Indian medicine and materia medica in particular.  To read the twice-as-long version with more history and plants included, subscribe to: www.PlantHealerMagazine.com A Bit of History My traditional herbal training...

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Plant Healer Sneak Peek… & Community Alert

Plant Healer Sneak Peek… & Community Alert

Plant Healer Sneak Peek… & Community Alert Releasing Dec. 3rd is the Winter issue of Plant Healer, Issue #9, continuing our mission to not only inform and inspire, but also assist the revitalization of our folk herbal community. New Content We’ve added 2 new departments this quarter.  The first is called “The Herbalist Mother: An Intuitive Approach To Health, from Pregnancy to Childcare,” that will be written by Sabrina Lutes an other contributors.  The second is a column focused on each person finding and developing their unique gift and role within the herbal community, entitled  “Choosing a Path.”  And Kiva’s always anticipated “Medicine Trails” column has been renamed “Medicine Woman,” in concert with her upcoming Medicine...

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