The Gutsy Herbalist
HERBS. NUTRITION. INTUITION.HEALING
Welcome to Your Healing Journey.
Gutsy Herbalist was birthed to bridge a love of gut health, herbal medicine, and the body's ability to heal with the main focus on helping mothers, women, families, and communities regain their vibrancy and prevent chronic disease.
Let us heal ourselves, so we can heal our families, heal our communities, and heal the world.
Why herbal medicine...
We have been co-evolving with plants from the beginning of time. Not so long ago, plants were our only medicine.
Herbs have been found in tombs, their seeds found in satchels of ancestors. Humans understood the importance of plants as allies, not just as food, but as a means of overall health.
As humans, we are natural beings. Our bodies are made from nature. When we consume plants and herbs, our body understands their divine intelligence. Unlike pharmaceuticals, plants work with our body not against it; plants nourish, replenish, revitalize, and restore balance, opposed to shutting down and suppressing.
Herbal medicine understands that all bodies are different, some of our constitutions run hot, some cold, some of us are dry while others are damp and retain fluids. Plants also have unique qualities such as warming, cooling, drying, moistening, and by using specific herbs we can help the body find balance and healing in a way that is deep, gentle, and lasting.
Why an herbal approach?
Because herbs have and always will be our first teachers.
🌻You're feeling run down, fatigued, exhausted, or just not feeling yourself and wanting your energy back
🌻You've hormones are acting up causing skipped, irregular, heavy, or painful periods
🌻You've been feeling run down due to inflammation or an autoimmune condition
🌻You're always feeling cold, tense, and depleted
🌻You feel like your body or mind is always against you or broken
🌻 You want to feel nourished before/during/or after pregnancy
🌻You have GI symptoms like bloating, reflux, constipation, intolerance to foods
🌻You are constantly getting sick and catching everything going around and want to bolster your immune system.
🌻You're wanting to be your healthiest self to avoid chronic illness
🌻You feel "off" and don't know why
🌻You are G tube dependent and interested in transitioning to real food, blenderized feedings.
🌻 You know there is another way of doing things, but you're unsure of how to get started
🌻You've been passed off from doctor to doctor without answers
Trust me, I understand, most of these were me until I found herbal medicine and a food as medicine approach.
How can herbs better support you?
Why I feel called to do this work.
I feel called to do this work, and I mean that from the deepest part of my bones, like my body won't let me do anything else. And lucky me, I love it.
When I worked in hospitals I saw a lot of medicine and almost no healing. I saw people stabilize and go home, only to come right back in with the same complaints. There seemed to be no answers, just more medications, that caused more side effects.
I could see the defeat as people put all of their trust into the system only never to figure out how to feel better. Sound familiar?
When my own health started acting up, like a "good girl" I went to my primary care doctor. I talked for about three minutes about my GI complaints and anxiety before I was interrupted and offered FOUR medications and to have my gallbladder removed. Something felt off, I never filled my meds and never went back.
I began researching reflux, irritable bowel symptoms, depression, and anxiety symptoms and discovered they were not separate, but indeed all connected. From that day forward I started deep diving into nutrition, stress reduction practices, meditation, ancestral and herbal medicine - a decade later I wound up here.
Where's here? Here is a space where I listen to your full unapologetically beautiful story. Here is a space where I help you untangle what is causing your symptoms and provide education on why your body is responding the way it is and how you can realign. Here is where when you say "Something doesn't feel right" and I believe you. Here is where we find the root cause and address it as opposed to slapping band-aids on. Here is where you start feeling alive again.
I do this work because I am TIRED of seeing people feel unwell only to be ignored, offered new medications, and pushed out the revolving door while big companies make big money with no big results. I believe when you heal, your families heal, your community heals and eventually, the world heals.
Here's to being GUTSY and healing.
Hannah
I'm Hannah. I'm a wife, mom, herbalist, functional nutritionist, avid journaler, ex-nurse, gardener, good food lover, hiker, bookworm, and forever student.
This is my decade-long and counting healing journey that took me from hiding in bed and too tired to cook dinner for my daughter, to living a full life with vibrancy, joy, full energy...and still growing.
I created Gutsy Herbalist because I saw the divide between science and the sacred and had a dream to bridge them together to help moms and busy women turn the lights back on and become their own healers.
A bit about me.
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