This episode introduces the two bonuses as part of the Herbalism, PTSD and Traumatic Stress Course launching on Saturday 22nd March!

Links & resources from this episode

• Herbalism, PTSD and Traumatic Stress Course - https://solidarityapothecary.org/herbalismandptsdcourse/
• Join the course waiting list - https://mailtrain.solidarityapothecary.org/subscription/fmbLcOZlJ

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Welcome to the Frontline Herbalism Podcast with your host Nicole Rose from the

Solidarity Apothecary.

This is your place for all things plants and

liberation.

Let's get started.

Hello.

Welcome back to the Frontline Herbalism

Podcast.

I'm so sorry for disappearing for ages.

Yeah, the whole family got a really bad virus and I lost my voice for like three weeks.

I literally couldn't talk, couldn't sing my baby to sleep, nothing.

It was very frustrating.

Pretty much everyone I has been sick kind of

no matter what their sort of baseline health was before.

It just feels like there are all sorts of viruses around including the famous Covid and

the new variants.

But yeah, we kept testing negative for Covid

but obviously we sort of stayed in the best we could and stuff and yeah, just, just rode it

out with all the herbal things.

It wasn't very fun seeing my baby sick.

But yeah, he's a champion and he did really

well and he's, yeah, back to himself now.

So yeah, I just wanted to kind of say hello.

I'm going to be publishing more content now as the herbalism PTSD and traumatic stress course

is launching in like 12 days on the 22nd of March.

By now I'd imagined doing like a bunch of shows every week, maybe another series and

sending loads of newsletters and designing loads of things online.

But I just, yeah, just haven't been able to.

And I'm still kind of in this position where I'm pretty much like full time mum.

I have help two afternoons a week for about an hour and a half each time.

So yeah, there's not much time to podcast unfortunately and I do my best to write my

Instagram captions and stuff when I'm napping.

And yeah, I'm luckily still kind of got a

backlog of like herbal things in the herb shed that I've been sending out in the herbal care

packages.

And I've got amazing volunteers like someone called Ellie who's been sending out the

prisoners herbal books.

So it's awesome that the Solidarity Apothecary

can kind of keep going through this sort of like maternity leave period.

We're visiting a nursery next week and yeah, just to get some help a couple more mornings a

week so that I have a little bit more capacity to organize and stuff.

So yeah, okay.

So I just wanted to announce a kind of inex,

like two exciting bonuses with the Herbalism PTSD and Traumatic Stress course.

And if you haven't heard about the course, I'm going to be recording an episode soon all

about it in like A little bit more depth,

kind of like an updated version.

But, yeah, for anyone who is kind of interested in the course now and is kind of on

the fence about it,

I just want to share about two things that are, like, specific to this launch that are a

bit of an experiment.

So one is that I'm going to be having a kind of, like, lottery for people who join the

waiting list at least one week before the course opens.

So the waiting list is literally an email newsletter.

It's not an obligation to buy the course by any means, but it's if you're interested in

hearing about the course, you know, getting emailed when it launches, it just kind of

gives me your consent to do that.

And, yeah, I will then spam you for the period that the course is open, which is like two

weeks.

But, yeah, like, I'm trying to encourage people to sign up to this waiting list because

it means that I know who's interested in the course and I have a bit of a feeling about how

the kind of launch might go.

Right.

But, yeah, I have created these amazing, like, nerds.

Nervine sample kit.

So a nervine is a herb with an affinity for

the nervous system.

And the course, like, really focuses on these

different kinds of plants that can support people's nervous system and therefore support

people experiencing and recovering from trauma.

So, yeah, the kind of.

The curated kit will include 10 different

medicines and they'll be chosen by you out of a kind of list that I send you of plants that

are featured in the course.

So if you, for example, can't have tinctures, then you can opt in to have glycerites, which

are like a fantastic alternative to alcohol.

Or you might just want 10 different teas, for example.

Or maybe you've tried glycerin and you don't like it and you just want tinctures.

So, yeah, I'll kind of make it bespoke to you and it will include medicine that I've made

myself from the land where I live.

And if it's not something I've made myself, it

will be from something I've made with, like, herbs from, like, a company like the Organic

Herb Trading Company,

for example, who are like a local company in Somerset where I am, who have only kind of

organic and like, fair, wild certified herbs.

So, yeah, and there'll be plants from the

course.

So it means that, like, when you're studying the content, you can then kind of, like,

straight away, like, have an experience with that plant.

Like, say, for example, you're reading about Lavender.

You can then try some of this amazing infused lavender oil and yeah, kind of like instantly

have that like tactile embodied experience with that plant if that makes sense.

Because I know it's really difficult for people to like a, like afford medicine making

ingredients, have the confidence to do it,

have the skills to do it.

Also.

Shameless plug.

There's like one or two places left on my

practical medicine making course in June.

So if you do want an opportunity to learn all

of those kind of like hands on skills, I do teach that.

But yeah, I'm really excited.

What will basically happen is if you join the

waiting list now like within the next week I will get all your emails, put them into like a

groovy kind of lottery system thing, software and then that just like randomly chooses five

people and no matter where you are in the world,

I will send you a little pack.

I'm hoping not everyone is going to be like in

the US or even worse on like mainland Europe because of customs.

But I am committed to just.

Yeah, whoever joins has an opportunity to.

Yeah, to receive those herbs.

And that's also like, that's not determined by

price.

So that's not just for people that are paying

the standard price or the resource price, that's people who are accessing the course

wherever they are on the sliding scale, including nothing, if that makes sense.

Okay. And then the other bonus is a first day bonus.

So for anyone who joins the course the very first day it opens, I'm going to do the same

thing.

I'm going to take everyone's email and put them in the software and pick a lucky person

who can have a free place on my practical medicine making course.

So yeah, there are people on that course who are getting a free place already, who've

applied for a subsidized place, for example.

But yeah, I've also also set aside a place for

someone from the herbalism and PTSD course to join us.

Obviously that might not be possible for you if you're in like the so called United States

for example, but maybe you know someone that could go on your behalf or you could move it

to next year for example or yeah, whatever.

But I just, yeah, I think it's like a nice exciting bonus again, a way to kind of like

get a massive head start on herbalism in practice.

So yeah, so that's for people who join on the first day and yeah, just I'm gonna record like

I said, a separate episode all about the herbalism, PTSD and traumatic stress course.

And yeah, I think, I think that's it for today.

I'm so sorry for being absent.

I'm gonna be sharing more episodes about sort

of herbal support for trauma and.

Yeah, and then once the course launch is over,

I'm then gonna publish the Herbalism for Sustaining Resistance series, which has been

kind of going on my Instagram,

like, very popular of people learning about different herbs that support the immune

system, for example.

And then I'm going to do a series about state

violence, like, kind of circling back to my Herbalism and State Violence book.

And by that point, mid summer, I might have some more childcare, so I might finally be

able to start doing interviews.

Because like I've said before, I've got like a

whole spreadsheet of people that I'm just dying to interview for this podcast.

Like, there's so many people doing amazing herbalism work, amazing community organizing

and mutual aid work that I would love to just showcase.

So, yeah, watch this space.

Anyway, thanks for your patience with me being

away.

I hope you're okay.

It's sunny outside.

I think spring is coming.

I'm sure all the herbalists are happy.

So, yeah, thanks for listening.

Bye.

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