Sky House Herbs

In this Herb of the Month episode, I share one of my favorite heart centered nervines, Motherwort. Leonurus cardiaca is an ancient plant with a long history of use for nervousness, heart rhythm support, insomnia, and overall cardiac care. 🤝 Share this Video : https://youtu.be/iQDa7xBmLqE   🌿 Subscribe for herbal tips and wellness insights: https://bit.ly/4iRnpyX I take you into my garden to meet...

In this episode, I explore why spring is one of the most powerful times of year to support your digestion and metabolism. As the light shifts and days grow longer, your body naturally begins to reset. I walk through the science behind these changes, including how blue light influences your circadian rhythm, hormone balance, and energy levels. 🤝 Share this Video : https://youtu.be/2ylGOJ1mUys   🌿...

In this episode, I explore the energy of Venus in Aries and how it influences the way we relate, create, and express desire. This is a bold and activating placement, one that invites courage, passion, and movement, but can also bring intensity or imbalance if not supported. 🤝 Share this Video : https://youtu.be/aVUlqmBGORQ   🌿 Subscribe for herbal tips and wellness insights: https://bit.ly/4iRnp...

Become a herbalist → https://bit.ly/HerbalProgram   Spring flowers carry unique personalities, life cycles, and ways of being in the world — and so do you. In this video, I guide you through a reflective quiz to help you discover your spring flower ally: the plant that mirrors who you are this season. 🤝 Share this Video : https://youtu.be/i6ds3sFZh8U   🌿 Subscribe for herbal tips and wellness in...

Discover how to embrace the energy of spring with 4 powerful herbs. Learn how these plants can help you clear out stagnation and revitalize your spirit. Become a herbalist → ⁠ https://bit.ly/HerbalProgram ⁠   As we transition from the heaviness of winter into the vibrant energy of spring, many of us feel a stirring within. How can we harness this momentum to create meaningful change in our lives?...

Become a herbalist → https://bit.ly/HerbalProgram   What if the plants around you were already speaking to you? In this video, I share a gentle and relational way of working with herbs as an oracle. This is not about rigid meanings or fixed systems. Instead, it is an invitation into curiosity, presence, and deep listening. 🤝 Share this Video : https://youtu.be/UDrcrq7-fQI   🌿 Subscribe for herba...

In this episode I am joined by my husband Adam Ellenbos of Nightlight Astrology to explore the upcoming Venus square Jupiter transit and what this moment may invite in our lives. Become a herbalist → https://bit.ly/HerbalProgram   🤝 Share this Video: https://youtu.be/cGtuA5f_YXE   🌿 Subscribe for herbal tips and wellness insights: https://bit.ly/4iRnpyX Astrologically, Venus square Jupiter can b...

Become a herbalist → https://bit.ly/HerbalProgram   In this episode I explore the energy of spring through traditional Chinese medicine, herbal wisdom, and seasonal living. Spring is connected to the wood element and the health of the liver and gallbladder, which influence vision, creativity, and renewal. 🤝 Share this Video : https://youtu.be/Bak9QYZjI94   🌿 Subscribe for herbal tips and wellnes...

There are times when the world feels unsteady, when the ground beneath us seems to shift, and we find ourselves simply needing a place to rest. In this seventh Gentle Friday gathering, we come together around the warm hearth of community to do just that—nothing more, nothing less. We begin by checking in with three words, feeling the collective pulse of where we are. From there, we explore the dee...

Become a herbalist → https://bit.ly/HerbalProgram   In this episode I explore one of my favorite adaptogenic herbs, Rhodiola rosea, often called the Arctic root. This remarkable plant has been used for centuries in Siberian and Scandinavian traditions to support endurance, vitality, and resilience in harsh climates. 🤝 Share this Video : https://youtu.be/9Ia9f7WsuRo   🌿 Subscribe for herbal tips...

Become a herbalist → https://bit.ly/HerbalProgram   There is a particular kind of tiredness that arrives in late February. Not the bone-weariness of December, but something softer—a deep, watery stillness that asks us to wait just a little longer. On this Gentle Friday, we gathered as a community to sit with that feeling. We checked in with three-word check-ins, shared what we’re carrying, and exp...

Become a herbalist → https://bit.ly/HerbalProgram   In this episode, I explore why so many people struggle to truly learn herbalism and how shifting from memorization to relational learning changes everything. I also speak about the fear many people carry around not being expert enough. Herbalism does not require perfection. It requires curiosity, humility, reverence, and time. 🤝 Share this Video...

Become a herbalist → https://bit.ly/HerbalProgram   February can be such a hard month for so many people. In this episode I talk openly about the winter blues, the impact of late winter light, and why this season can feel especially heavy on the nervous system and mood. Low energy, low motivation, and emotional tenderness are common this time of year, and there are real biological and seasonal rea...

Become a herbalist → https://bit.ly/HerbalProgram   There are weeks when the world feels like a windstorm, rattling the frames of our carefully placed lawn furniture. There are Februaries that press upon us with their damp dark, asking us to stay underground a little longer, to wait. In this fifth episode of Gentle Fridays, we gather not to fix, but to be. We come together to practice the art of r...

In this episode I share five of my favorite herbs for focus and calm, especially during seasons of overwhelm. 🤝 Share this Video : https://youtu.be/EIozKcr_kbI   Before we talk about any plant, I begin with something essential. We have to know what calm actually feels like in our own body. If we are disconnected from our inner sense of peace, we may not recognize it when an herb gently nudges us...

There is a kind of solace that arrives not as an answer, but as a deeper question. It finds us when we sit still enough to feel the weight of what we’re holding—the fear alongside the hope, the weariness next to the resilience. This fourth Gentle Friday is an invitation into that kind of spaciousness. Together, we arrive just as we are. We breathe into the quiet, we name the mixed-bag feelings in...

We gathered on a Friday not to escape, but to arrive. To let the churning settle. To name what we were carrying—exhaustion, anger, disorientation, hope—and in the naming, find we were not alone. 🤝 Share this Video : https://youtu.be/AxwroMghnNw   This is the third Gentle Fridays gathering, recorded in February 2026 as the Saturn-Neptune conjunction reached its exact degree. I read from David Whyt...

In this episode, I share five core herbs I return to in times of crisis, emotional overwhelm, and uncertainty. 🤝 Share this Video: https://youtu.be/cxzC43VUtpc   After the intensity of the past weeks, I wanted to offer something quieter and more grounding. This is not about fixing or pushing through. It is about returning to what helps us stay steady, present, and human. 🌿 Subscribe for herbal t...

This week’s episode is not a normal herbal teaching. I am coming to you as a person living just outside of Minneapolis, as a clinical herbalist, and as someone feeling a lot right now. I feel upset, angry, overwhelmed, and also deeply grateful all at the same time. And I want to be honest that I cannot show up this week pretending everything is fine. In this video, I share an on the ground reflect...

Welcome to a space of quiet centering and shared breath. This is Gentle Fridays, a weekly gathering for rest and co-regulation—a practice rooted in the understanding that our nervous systems seek calm and connection, just as animals in a herd breathe together to find safety. In this session, we come together to acknowledge what we’re feeling, to place our ingredients on the table before making the...

In this episode, I explore the idea of robustness—what it means to stay steady, rooted, and responsive in the face of challenge. From a seasonal and herbal perspective, robustness is a measure of health: not the absence of difficulty, but our capacity to meet life as it is without losing our center. Winter is a time that naturally asks us to slow down, turn inward, and build reserves. Drawing on l...

Sometimes, the world asks us to hold more than we thought possible. In these changing times, how do we stay rooted, regulated, and connected to our own sense of strength? Welcome to Gentle Fridays. This is a space of quiet gathering, a co-regulatory container for our collective nervous systems. Together, we practice the ancient, mammalian art of finding calm alongside others—through breath, shared...

Have you ever found yourself asking, “Why am I always cold?” In this episode, I explore coldness through a vitalist and herbal lens, understanding it not as a problem to fix, but as a signal from the body. From a Western herbal perspective, feeling cold can reflect environmental exposure, stress and depletion, lack of nourishment or rest, grief, or a vital force that has grown tired. Rather than f...

In times like these, many of us are carrying more than we realize—in our bodies, our nervous systems, and our hearts. This pop-up livestream is an invitation to pause, gather, and sit with the plants together. I’ll begin with a short centering practice, followed by a gentle check-in, and then I’ll share a handful of herbs I’m finding especially supportive right now for stress, overwhelm, grief, an...

Winter asks something very different of us than the rest of the year. In this episode, Herbs for Hibernation (Not Hustle): Reframing the New Year, I invite you to step away from the pressure to optimize, fix, or reinvent yourself—and instead explore winter as a season of maintenance, nourishment, and sacred smallness. 🤝 Share this Video: https://youtu.be/VzKlsEsfyQA   Rather than pushing for grow...