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Eight showings, no offers, and one interested person. I'm still waiting, and this week I'm feeling how deeply depleting that can be. 🤝 Share this Video : https://youtu.be/H9SO4PznHko   🌿 Subscribe for herbal tips and wellness insights: https://skyh.to/SUB   In this third episode of How to Wait, I share an honest update on selling our home and how the uncertainty has been showing up in my...

What if waiting could teach us how to watch? In this second episode of How to Wait, I'm sitting with the Page of Cups from the Herbal Tarot, the plant damiana, and the wildness of a place I'm still waiting to call home. With one foot in my old life and one reaching toward the new, I'm exploring what it means to let the land shape me before I arrive with plans of my own. 🤝 Share this V...

What do we do with the part of ourselves that is ready to begin when life is asking us to wait? 🤝 Share this Video : https://youtu.be/ZqDkWzkcygo   🌿 Subscribe for herbal tips and wellness insights: https://skyh.to/SUB   In this first episode of How to Wait, a new series following Savoring the End, I share what it feels like to live between two places: preparing to leave the garden I've tend...

After the final episode of Savoring the End, many of you reached out to ask more about our move: how it came about, where we're going, and what I've been processing along the way. This epilogue is my chance to share that fuller story. 🤝 Share this Video : https://youtu.be/oL7-4p2TWFE   🌿 Subscribe for herbal tips and wellness insights: https://skyh.to/SUB   I talk about my long-held long...

Valerian, Valeriana officinalis is one of our most well known herbal allies for sleep and nervous system support, but it does not affect everyone in the same way. 🤝 Share this Video : https://youtu.be/UJPnJWZUt3U   🌿 Subscribe for herbal tips and wellness insights: https://skyh.to/SUB   In this Herb of the Month episode, I share the story of how my brother and I both took valerian and had two ve...

What does it mean to savor an ending? In this final episode of the series, I reflect on change, transition, and the tender work of letting go. As my family and I prepare to move into a new home, I share some of the emotions that arise when one chapter closes and another begins. 🤝 Share this Video : https://youtu.be/frtSymG4Q5Q   🌿 Subscribe for herbal tips and wellness insights: https://skyh.to/...

In this episode of Savoring the End, I reflect on the changing winds of early autumn and the feeling that something in the air is asking us some big questions about our next steps. 🤝 Share this Video : https://youtu.be/ZyIXMLz7yWU   🌿 Subscribe for herbal tips and wellness insights: https://skyh.to/SUB   Drawing inspiration from the film Chocolat, I explore the wind as both a force that calls us...

There is a strange pause in the garden right now. Summer isn't quite over, but autumn hasn't fully arrived. Some plants are still blooming brightly, while others have already gone to seed. 🤝 Share this Video : https://youtu.be/miISIwjRO2Y   🌿 Subscribe for herbal tips and wellness insights: https://skyh.to/SUB   In this episode of Savoring the End, I explore the doldrums, an old sailing...

As late summer reaches its peak, the garden begins to bow beneath its own fullness. In this episode, I explore Doyo, the transitional season associated with the Earth element and how we have to work this time of year to stay grounded.   🤝 Share this Video : https://youtu.be/HXaWr_d4uy4   🌿 Subscribe for herbal tips and wellness insights: https://skyh.to/SUB   I’ll take you on a tour of my garden...

Meet Jewelweed (Impatiens capensis), one of my favorite late-summer plants for cooling, soothing, and tending hot, irritated skin. 🤝 Share this Video : https://youtu.be/H4etBI78_Q0   🌿 Subscribe for herbal tips and wellness insights: https://skyh.to/SUB   In this month’s Herb of the Month, I take you into the garden to meet Jewelweed up close. I’ll show you how to identify it, harvest its juicy,...

What does it mean to let something end? In this episode, I’m taking you into the late summer garden to explore the simple practice of deadheading and what it can teach us about letting go. As I remove spent blooms from my petunias, I reflect on the ways we continue to hold onto things that have already completed their cycle and how much energy that can quietly require. 🤝 Share this Video : https:...

Late summer has always felt like a sacred threshold to me. The garden is overflowing with life, yet there is a quiet awareness that the season is beginning to turn. In this episode, I share some personal reflections on savoring these final weeks of summer and the herbs, foods, and practices that are helping me prepare for the transition into autumn. 🤝 Share this Video : https://youtu.be/_xwG8sBde...

In this final episode of A Devotional Life in a Broken World, I spend time with Yarrow, one of our oldest and most enduring medicinal plants. For thousands of years, Yarrow has accompanied humanity through injury, grief, and survival. She has never promised a world without wounds. Instead, she teaches us how to tend them with courage and keep walking. 🤝 Share this Video : https://youtu.be/jgI5kFg...

In this fourth episode of A Devotional Life in a Broken World , I sit with Rose and one of the most tender questions I know: What is faith, and how do we find it again after it has been wounded? 🤝 Share this Video : https://youtu.be/oWRqQLw4GLo   🌿 Subscribe for herbal tips and wellness insights: https://bit.ly/4iRnpyX Drawing from my own childhood experiences with Catholicism, stories of my gra...

In this third episode of A Devotional Life in a Broken World, I spend time with Clematis, a plant that offers no herbal medicine, no harvest, and no practical utility but simply climbs toward the light and offers its beauty freely. 🤝 Share this Video : https://youtu.be/SthCESqL8-4   🌿 Subscribe for herbal tips and wellness insights: https://bit.ly/4iRnpyX Watching Clematis has made me wonder how...

In this Herb of the Month episode, I introduce you to Creeping Charlie (Ground Ivy, Glechoma hederacea) and explore why this resilient little plant deserves a place in our herbal practice. We'll look at its identifying characteristics, medicinal actions, energetic qualities, historical uses, and practical ways to prepare and work with it. I also share why I believe its abundant presence may be...

In this second episode of A Devotional Life in a Broken World , I sit with Motherwort, a plant whose very name holds a beautiful paradox: lion hearted strength and deep maternal tenderness. Together we explore what it means to remain open and vulnerable while also protecting what is sacred within us. 🤝 Share this Video : https://youtu.be/hppSxc_y_FY   🌿 Subscribe for herbal tips and wellness ins...

What does it cost to begin? What am I willing to be stung by in order to be fed? These are the questions I sit with in the opening episode of a new five part series exploring what it means to live a devotional life in a world where many of our spiritual, cultural, and ecological containers feel fractured. Rather than offering answers, I want to create space for honest inquiry, trusting that the qu...

In this episode, I bring my exploration of the Divine Mother to its culmination. Over the past several episodes, we have journeyed together through Fire, Water, Earth, and Air, discovering the many ways the Divine Mother reveals herself through the living world. Now I gather those threads together and explore what it means to find hope, belonging, and connection in a culture that often feels disco...

Before there was prayer, before there was song, before there was language, there was breath. Across ancient traditions, breath and spirit were understood to be one and the same, revealing air as one of the most intimate ways we experience the sacred. 🤝 Share this Video : https://youtu.be/VzCcEMv8xW8   🌿 Subscribe for herbal tips and wellness insights: https://bit.ly/4iRnpyX Drawing from mytholog...

In this episode of The Divine Mother Series, I explore fire as an expression of the Divine Mother through the lenses of desire, devotion, and the ancient practice of tending the sacred flame. Drawing from the stories of Hestia, Vesta, Brigid, and the lineage of women who have served as keepers of the hearth across cultures and centuries, I reflect on what happens when our deepest desires are shame...

In this episode, the second in my Divine Mother in Water series, I go somewhere more personal and more tender than the first. I share two near-drowning experiences I had while surfing in Costa Rica, and what happened to my relationship with water afterward, the panic attacks, the years of avoidance, and the long, slow path back to trust. I also hold space for a listener who shared something extrao...

In this episode of The Divine Mother Series, I explore water as one of the deepest expressions of the Divine Mother through stories from my recent pilgrimage to Italy, reflections on sacred wells and Marian traditions, and the healing wisdom of rivers, springs, and holy waters. I share how water has long been understood as a source of memory, devotion, prophecy, and healing, weaving together mytho...

In this first episode of The Divine Mother Series, I explore the archetype of the Divine Mother through the power of Earth, place, and sacred sites. I weave in reflections from my recent travels to Italy, encounters with sacred images of the Goddess, and contemplations on hunger, craving, and earth grief in a rapidly changing world. I weave together the symbolism of Mary Magdalene, the Black Madon...

In this episode, I explore what it means to see clearly in a world that often does not want to see. I weave together personal stories of rage and anger and share the story of Cassandra, the woman who was never wrong yet never believed. I will talk about what that pattern feels like in the body and in everyday life. Living in the suburbs, raising children, and moving through a culture that feels di...