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One of my favorite poems goes like this:

The small man builds cages for everyone he knows, but the sage, who has to duck his head when the moon is low, keeps dropping keys all night long for the beautiful, rowdy, prisoners. – Hafiz.

When I was struggling with my personal health issues and desperately trying to keep from escalating the pharmaceutical dump truck of pills used to keep my child’s food allergies from killing them, I asked my doctor what the long term plan would be for my then 5 year old child. “More drugs” she replied. This was totally unacceptable to me and I started researching possible solutions. One doctor told me to keep my son indoors during spring, one doctor told me to spend thousands of dollars on allergy shots, both not a good long term solution. After a lot of research and looking in to alternative medicine I found my way forward in herbalism which seeks to bring the body into balance so that it can do the job of healing itself. Five years later with the epipen stored safely in our medicine closet we no longer use prescription or over the counter drugs to support our health. I have taken over 400 hrs of herbal courses, foraging courses and herbal formulating courses on my path to because a part of the American Herbalist Guild. I’m halfway to the 800 hrs of botanical medicine education and need 400 hours of clinical experience. I am working on my Materia Medica which, when complete, will contain 150 plants that I will know backwards and forwards, inside and out. I’m a student of nature, a curiosity junkie and I absolutely love sharing what I’ve learned with others. Maybe you have sat in a doctor’s office looking for answers, listening to the paper crumple as you shift uncomfortably. Maybe you have sat up with a child or a loved one listening to them struggle for breath and wondering how much more steroids, albuterol and antihistamines it’s going to take to keep them breathing. Or maybe you’ve sat down in the grass and picked a flower and wondered what it’s name is. If this is you, come join me you Beautiful, Rowdy Prisoner.