Moving Through Hard Times: Herbs for Stress and Emotional Well-being

We often face demands that push us beyond our stress tolerance and prevent us from feeling well. The effects of disconnection, trauma, emotional suffering and long term stress often cause  serious impacts on our mental, emotional, spiritual and physical well-being. In this two class series, we want to share with you holistic herbal strategies for managing difficulties and rebuilding our nervous system resilience, so we can move through hard times with more ease and show up in our lives more fully, authentically, and with more satisfaction.

Feb 4th: Plant Allies for Emotional Well-Being

With Ember Peters, RHP (HANS)

How can herbal medicine support us in moving through emotional difficulties? While painful emotional experiences are part of being human, isolation and disconnection can make it much more difficult to face - we don’t have to be alone or without support. We exist in an ecosystem and our healing therefore must also be collective, relational, connected. Our plant allies are here to help us move through grief, anger, anxiety, depression, and other painful emotions with more ease and resource. 

In this workshop, we will explore:

• Barriers and obstacles to our mental health to better understand our experiences

• Expanding our healing process beyond self care towards connected collective care

• Herbal strategies for nervous system support

• Herb profiles on rose, linden, hawthorn, St John’s Wort, skullcap, motherwort, lavender, and lemon balm

Feb 18th: Herbs for Stressful Times

With Oren Hercz, RHP (HANS)

There is no doubt we live in stressful times. Chronic stressors like overwork, media overload, and economic uncertainty are considered “normal.” We may not realize how stressed we are until it makes us sick. Effects like fatigue, muscle tension, insomnia, anxiety, immune suppression, and digestive problems are just a few of the downstream effects of chronic stress. In fact, for the majority of clients in my clinical practice, chronic stress is a main contributing factor to their health issues. 

Fortunately, herbal medicine can provide much needed support. Adaptogenic herbs improve our overall resilience in the face of stress, so that we can have more flexibility and stamina. They can help profoundly shift our baseline stress level, so we can live with more ease, even in the face of daily stressors.

In this workshop, we will explore:

• Understanding the physiology of the stress response, so we can manage it wisely

• How adaptogenic herbs help regulate our stress response while preventing long term negative health effects – and how to take them

• Herbal profiles of 8 adaptogenic herbs, differentiated to help you understand which ones are most appropriate for different types of people

• When herbs are not enough, and which lifestyle strategies best complement herbal support for stress

Class recordings will be sent out to all who register.

Sliding scale payment options - $70/$50/$30