09/04/2026
Learning about herbs isn't enough to become an herbalist.
I spent years working in healthcare before becoming an herbalist, including medical billing and hospice. And one thing that became very familiar was the language of diagnosis, symptoms, medications and management.
Then I got deeper into herbalism and realized something:
It's very easy to leave conventional medicine and bring the same way of thinking with you.
Headache → What herb?
High blood pressure → What herb?
Constipation → What herb?
Anxiety → What herb?
We changed the medicine, but did we change the way we think?
Herbalism isn't supposed to be a long list of natural replacements for pharmaceuticals.
You can memorize 100 herbs and what they're “good for” and still struggle when a real person is sitting in front of you.
Why?
Because the herb is only one part of the equation.
How can you understand what an herb is doing if you don't understand the body it's doing it to?
You need to be able to look beyond the symptom.
You need to understand the person.
You need to understand patterns.
You need to understand why you would choose one approach over another instead of reaching for whatever herb you've memorized for that condition.
That's the difference between collecting herbal information and actually learning how to think like an herbalist, and that's a major part of my educational philosophy.
I don't want my students dependent on lists telling them, “Use this herb for that.”
I want them to understand enough to reason through what they're seeing and make educated decisions about what comes next.
If that's the kind of herbalist you're trying to become, applications for the Student Membership Vault are open.
Comment VAULT and I'll send you the enrollment information.
