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06/21/2026

🌿 Nettle Pesto

One of the easiest ways to begin working with herbs is by bringing them into your kitchen.

And stinging nettle is one of the most nourishing plants to start with 🍃

Rich in minerals, chlorophyll, and traditionally used to support:
✨ energy + fatigue
✨ seasonal allergies
✨ inflammation
✨ nervous system nourishment
✨ overall vitality

Nettle is often worked with as a tea or infusion…
but it also makes an incredible spring pesto.

Bright.
Earthy.
Deeply nourishing.

🌱 INGREDIENTS

2 cups fresh nettle leaves (lightly steamed or blanched)

2 garlic cloves

½ cup walnuts, pecans, pine nuts or pumpkin seeds

Juice of 1 lemon

½ cup olive oil

Salt + pepper to taste

Optional: parmesan cheese or cheese alternative

🌱 HOW TO MAKE IT

Lightly steam or blanch nettles to remove their sting.

Add nettle, garlic, nuts/seeds, and lemon juice into a food processor.

Slowly drizzle in olive oil while blending until smooth.

Add salt, pepper, and parmesan if desired.

Enjoy over pasta, toast, roasted vegetables, or grain bowls.

✨ Herbal Tip:
Nettle is considered a deeply nutritive tonic herb — meaning it works best consistently over time, helping nourish and strengthen the body gradually.

Save this for your spring herbal kitchen rituals 🌿

06/20/2026

🌿 Vanilla Honey Herbal Marshmallows

Soft, fluffy, vanilla-y homemade marshmallows infused with marshmallow root for gentle digestive + nervous system support.

This is one of my favorite examples of how herbalism can feel:
cozy
comforting
approachable
and genuinely delicious.

✨ WHY MARSHMALLOW ROOT?
Marshmallow root is traditionally used to:
🌱 soothe digestion
🌱 calm irritation + inflammation
🌱 support dry or sensitive tissues
🌱 hydrate the body
🌱 nourish the nervous system

And when paired with vanilla + honey?
It becomes the dreamiest herbal treat.

🍯 INGREDIENTS

1 cup strong marshmallow root cold infusion

3 tbsp unflavored gelatin

¾ cup honey

1 tbsp vanilla extract

Pinch of sea salt

Arrowroot powder for dusting

🌿 HOW TO MAKE THEM

Make a marshmallow root cold infusion:
Add ¼ cup marshmallow root to 1½ cups cold water and steep overnight. Strain.

Pour ½ cup infusion into a mixing bowl and sprinkle gelatin over top. Let sit for 5 minutes.

In a saucepan, warm remaining infusion with honey, vanilla, and sea salt over low heat.

Slowly pour warm mixture into gelatin while mixing on high speed for 8–10 minutes until thick, glossy, and fluffy.

Transfer into a parchment-lined dish.

Let set 4–6 hours.

Dust with arrowroot powder and cut into squares.

✨ Optional:
Dip them in dark chocolate.
Add cinnamon.
Put them in herbal hot chocolate.
Eat directly from the pan (highly recommended).

These are genuinely SO good and such a fun way to bring herbs into everyday life 🌸

Save this for your herbal kitchen recipes 🍵

06/19/2026

🌾 Herb of the Week: Oatstraw (Avena sativa)

Some herbs stimulate the body.

Some sedate the body.

Oatstraw does something quieter:
it restores the body.

In herbalism, oatstraw is considered one of the most nourishing tonic herbs for the nervous system — traditionally used for burnout, depletion, chronic stress, exhaustion, anxiety, and recovery after prolonged overwhelm.

As we explore in our blog post “Oats: The Soothing Cereal of Herbs,” oatstraw works less like a quick fix… and more like long-term nourishment.

It’s naturally rich in:
✨ magnesium
✨ calcium
✨ silica
✨ iron
✨ trace minerals

Which is why herbalists often work with it through overnight infusions — allowing the minerals to slowly extract into the water over many hours.

This is especially supportive for people who feel:

emotionally exhausted

overstimulated

“wired but tired”

disconnected from their body

depleted after long periods of stress

And perhaps most importantly…

Oatstraw reminds us that healing doesn’t always have to be intense.

Sometimes healing looks like nourishment.
Rest.
Consistency.
Slowing down enough for the nervous system to finally exhale 🌿

✨ Read the full blog post:

Save this for your nervous system support toolkit 🌾

06/17/2026

This is the part no one really talks about…

Changing what you eat isn’t just about food.

It’s about identity.
Habits.
Comfort.
Even your lifestyle and relationships.

You can know something is causing inflammation—
bloating, skin issues, fatigue…

and still take years to actually change it.

(Not because you don’t care…
but because it’s hard.)

In this conversation, we talk about something that comes up again and again:

🌿 You can’t rush people into change
🌿 You have to build trust—with your body and with the process
🌿 And sometimes the deeper work comes later

Because let’s be honest…

It’s way easier to drink a “weird” herbal tea
than to change the foods you’ve been eating your whole life.

But what if we reframed it?

Not as restriction.
Not as “what I can’t have.”

But as:

✨ What can I add in that actually nourishes me?
✨ Where can I find joy in the process?

That’s where things start to shift.

🎙 This is part of a deeper conversation inside our HERBAL HAPPY HOUR

To watch the full video click - link in bio!

Tags - @‌thewanderschool, _wild_woman_medicine

06/16/2026

🌿 Marshmallow Cold Infusion Lemonade

Sometimes the most supportive herbal remedies are also the simplest.

This cooling herbal lemonade combines marshmallow root with fresh lemon for a drink that feels deeply soothing during warm spring and summer days ☀️

Marshmallow root is traditionally used to support:
✨ digestion
✨ hydration
✨ dry or irritated tissues
✨ nervous system soothing
✨ cooling inflammation in the body

Unlike many herbs, marshmallow is best prepared as a cold infusion — slowly steeped over several hours to draw out its soothing, mucilaginous properties.

The result?
A soft, silky herbal lemonade that feels incredibly nourishing and refreshing.

🌱 INGREDIENTS

¼ cup dried marshmallow root

4 cups cold filtered water

Juice of 1–2 lemons

Honey or maple syrup to taste

Optional: mint, cucumber, edible flowers

🌱 HOW TO MAKE IT

Add marshmallow root to a jar with cold water.

Cover and let steep 4–8 hours or overnight.

Strain the herbs.

Add fresh lemon juice + sweetener if desired.

Serve over ice.

✨ Optional:
Top with sparkling water, mint leaves, cucumber slices, or edible flowers for a beautiful summer herbal mocktail.

This is one of my favorite ways to remember that herbalism can feel:
soft
cooling
simple
and deeply supportive 🌸

Save this recipe for your summer herbal rituals 🍋

06/15/2026

🌿 Oatstraw Bath Soak

Sometimes nervous system support looks like:
turning your phone off
running a warm bath
and letting your body soften for a moment.

This mineral-rich herbal bath soak was created for the evenings when you feel overstimulated, emotionally exhausted, anxious, or disconnected from yourself ✨

Featuring:
🌾 Oatstraw → nourishing nervous system support
💜 Lavender → calming + relaxation
🌼 Chamomile → soothing stress + tension
🛁 Mineral salts → grounding + restorative support

This is one of my favorite ways to transition out of “doing mode” and back into my body.

🌿 INGREDIENTS

1 cup Epsom salt

½ cup sea salt or pink salt

½ cup dried oatstraw

¼ cup dried chamomile

¼ cup dried lavender

Optional: a few drops lavender essential oil

🌿 HOW TO MAKE IT

Combine all ingredients in a large jar or bowl.

Mix gently.

Add ½–1 cup to a warm bath.

Soak for 20–30 minutes.

✨ Optional:
Place herbs into a muslin bag or tea sachet for easier cleanup.

✨ Ritual Tip:
Light candles.
Play soft music.
Drink herbal tea.
Let this be a moment where your nervous system feels safe enough to slow down.

This isn’t just self-care.
It’s nervous system nourishment 🌙

Save this for your next reset ritual 🍵

06/15/2026

🌿 Cleavers Overnight Infusion

Sometimes the gentlest herbs are the ones that help us move the deepest.

Cleavers is one of herbalism’s favorite spring allies for supporting:
✨ lymphatic flow
✨ fluid movement
✨ puffiness + stagnation
✨ skin health
✨ gentle seasonal cleansing

This soft, clinging plant is often worked with during springtime as the body naturally begins shifting out of winter heaviness.

And one of the simplest ways to work with it is as an overnight infusion 🍃

🌱 INGREDIENTS

1–2 cups fresh cleavers (or ½ cup dried)

4 cups filtered water

Optional: lemon slice

🌱 HOW TO MAKE IT

Rinse fresh cleavers well.

Add herbs to a large jar or pitcher.

Pour in filtered water.

Cover and let steep overnight (8–12 hours).

Strain and enjoy throughout the day.

✨ Herbal Tip:
Cleavers is traditionally worked with consistently over time for gentle lymphatic support and movement. Think soft support — not harsh detox.

You can sip it cool, add lemon, or combine it with herbs like nettle, lemon balm, or mint for extra nourishment.

Simple.
Supportive.
Seasonal.

Save this for your spring herbal rituals 🌱

05/26/2026

🌼 Herb of the Week: Cleavers (Galium aparine)

There’s a reason cleavers shows up every spring.

It’s one of those plants that meets the body exactly where it’s at this time of year—
supporting movement, clearing stagnation, and helping things flow again 🌱

As Alicia Cielle Heiser shares in this blog:

“Cleavers… help flush toxins and waste out of the body, while supporting the lymphatic system and relieving swollen glands and excess fluid.”

This is why it’s often used when the body feels:
– heavy
– sluggish
– puffy
– or just… a little stuck

What I love most about cleavers is that it’s not harsh.

It’s gentle.
Nourishing.
A true spring ally.

You’ll often find it growing wildly along roadsides and in gardens—clinging to everything it touches (hence the name 😉)

And just like that… it reminds us:

🌿 the plants we need are often already around us

If you’re curious how to actually work with this plant—
from teas to infusions and beyond…

👇 read Alicia’s full blog here:
https://www.artemisiaacademy.com/post/cleavers-the-herb-that-clings-to-you

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05/25/2026

Sleep issues aren’t always about sleep.

More often… they’re one of the first signs your nervous system is overwhelmed.

When your body has been in a constant state of stress—
moving, doing, thinking, reacting all day—

it doesn’t just turn off when your head hits the pillow.

In fact, for many people…

that’s the first moment their body finally has space to process everything.

And that’s when the mind starts racing.

Not because something is wrong with you—
but because your system hasn’t had a chance to come back down.

In this episode, I share my experience with chronic sleep struggles and how I started to understand them through the lens of the nervous system.

🌿 This is where herbal support, daily rhythm, and small grounding practices become so powerful.

→ Watch / listen to Episode 2 of The Healed Healer

https://youtu.be/jFXtXh33xh4

05/20/2026

It didn’t change overnight.

There wasn’t one thing that suddenly “fixed” my sleep.

It was a series of small shifts…
that slowly started to make a difference.

Learning how to work with my body—
instead of trying to force it to calm down.

Understanding what those heightened states actually felt like…
and having tools to gently bring myself back.

And over time…

sleep started to feel easier.

More consistent.
More supportive.
More like something I could trust again.

🌿 This is what I share in Episode 2—
not quick fixes, but simple, grounded ways to support your nervous system so your body can return to rest naturally.

→ Watch / listen to The Healed Healer — Episode 2

https://youtu.be/jFXtXh33xh4

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