Today (Sunday 12th April 2026) is the LAST DAY to join the Herbalism, PTSD and Traumatic Stress course!

Links & resources from this episode

• Herbalism, PTSD and Traumatic Stress Course – https://solidarityapothecary.org/herbalismandptsdcourse/
• What’s inside the Course – Episode 87
• All about the Solidarity Pricing and Sliding Scale – Episode 88
• Commonly Asked Questions about the Course – Episode 89
• What Other People have said about the Coures – Episode 90

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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.

This is just a little courtesy episode to remind you that the Herbalism PTSD and

Traumatic Stress course closes today.

So yeah, get the.

On it.

No, I'm just joking.

If. Yeah, so today's the day.

Basically it's crunch time in terms of deciding if you're ******* up for joining.

Now it is open again at the end of September for anyone who is like, I don't want to

******* use this like capitalist ******* scarcity marketing tactics.

Do you know what I mean? Like,

but at the same time it's ******* closing.

So yeah, last chance to dance.

I'm gonna talk through a couple of reasons, if you're still on the fence, about why it may be

a transformational experience for you to join it.

I will put in the show notes as well links to several other podcasts where I've talked about

the course in much more depth.

Unfortunately, it's a Sunday so it's quite difficult for me childcare wise.

But my amazing ******* glorious assistant Chantelle from Herbs, Roots and Remedies will

hopefully be online like checking emails and things.

If you have a trouble, if you have any trouble joining it.

As long as you email the supportoldartypothecary.org or the info

account within the time frame of when I'm going to close it,

we will ******* make sure that you like get access.

Does that make sense? Like I don't want people losing sleep over

some problem at checkout and not being able to join it.

So yeah, so please just drop us an email if you're struggling in any way.

And yeah, as soon as Bubs is at nursery, touch wood.

I hate saying that because then he'll get a fever or something.

But Monday morning I'm gonna take it offline, take it off the website so it's not possible

to join.

It is annoying having to do open and closed enrollments, but the reason I do that is

because I don't want to be marketing every day of my life and doing this much high energy

promotion.

Because I want to be a herbalist who supports people experiencing state violence.

Which means I want to do one to one support with folks via the Black Flag Herbal Clinic.

Via my clinic.

I want to make medicine.

I want to get hundreds of care packages out.

I want to get thousands of books to prisoners

out.

I want to ******* do what the solid art

apothecary does best.

So having it open and closed in these periods means that I can focus on it for a short time

and then I can,

yeah, kind of like wrap things up, make sure everyone that signed up has access, like,

troubleshoot any problems, like answer this new influx of people and their questions about

the course and stuff.

Like. So, yeah, it's kind of.

That's why it's like that, if that makes sense.

And I do think there is an element of, like,

encouraging people to make a decision.

Like, I'm terrible.

Like, if a course is available all year long,

it will just sit on my, like, wish list.

Do you know what I mean?

So anyway, but I'm just gonna quickly.

While baby boy is having a bath,

someone else has given him a bath.

I'm not doing this while he's in the bath.

That would be very neglectful.

I'm just gonna run through a couple of the

reasons why.

Yeah, you should join the course if you're.

If you're interested.

So you can.

I'm just reading this from the course page.

By the way.

You can develop a personal plant medicine

practice.

Right?

So besides all the trauma stuff, you can learn how to create your own herbal remedies for

nervous system support especially.

You can learn tincture making and herbal teas and oils and glycerites.

And yeah, you can master the practical skills to build this, like, epic personalized herbal

medicine cabinet that can support you through a lifetime of experiences.

And I know it's difficult with online courses to get that actual practical confidence, but

******* loads of people have worked through this course and given the feedback that from

my instructions they felt confident enough to,

you know, gain the confidence in like, safely harvesting and preparing and working with

plants.

So, yeah, I do think it gives that to a lot of

people who are kind of happy to follow, like, basic instructions and then just have a go

and, you know, you can email me with any troubleshooting questions.

And yeah, it's just like a fantastic introduction to herbalism to help you.

Yeah. Develop those, those medicine making skills and build that kind of apothecary for

yourself and other people.

And then, yeah, in terms of trauma,

like,

you can, through this course, understand trauma through a liberation lens.

So there is a structure and recorded, you know, course lectures about the reductionist

nature of trauma and, you know, frameworks such as kind of like faulty brain chemistry,

for example,

and you can explore how systemic oppression shapes our bodies and our nervous systems.

While learning empowering frameworks that honor your experiences,

you gain a deep understanding of how trauma manifests physically from sleep disruption to

chronic inflammation, and how plants can support healing on multiple levels.

The thing I get the most feedback on in this course is the trauma content in the sense of

people are like,

in hell.

I needed that framework.

Like it just brings it all together.

And I think I can't remember who it was, I'm

sorry, off the top of my head, but someone wrote in a recent testimonial, they were like,

I've realized that my body has saved its own life like hundreds of times over.

And you know, you can go from like pathologizing yourself that you are broken and

up and all of these things and actually just realizing that like, no, you have been in a

survival mode in a state that is completely makes sense in terms of evolution and yeah,

survival,

but that, you know, you don't have to stay kind of stuck in that state.

And you can shift states, hopefully with support from herbal medicines.

Okay. Learn the language of the nervous system so you'll develop an in depth knowledge of

nervous system physiology and nervous system states that can help you make sense of how you

are feeling and enable you to choose the plant medicines.

Your body would be strengthened by being able to understand, describe and communicate to

others.

How we are feeling can be truly revolutionary.

And I wrote about this in an email yesterday where I shared like my biggest ******* regret

in life.

And that is basically spending my 20s and half of my 30s, well, maybe not half the first few

years.

Being really ******* traumatized.

Being in a state of traumatic stress because

of so much internal distress in my landscape, like in my inner landscape.

And how developing a language that can help me name how I'm feeling, understand what's going

on in is just ******* life changing.

Because that's how we can then, you know, learn the tools to shift out of it.

And I know now when I'm triggered and I know when I'm in like safe or social and I'm

feeling, you know, kind of.

I hate the word regulated, but you know what I mean?

Like I'm,

you know, being able to connect with other people and plants and take care of myself and

have clear like quality thinking.

And I'm not living this intensely kind of like trauma driven life because of this kind of

like unresolved unintegrated traumatic stress.

******* side note on that.

Lots of people are in a ******* traumatized

state because they have to be because they're living in like an active ******* war zone or a

place of ******* genocide,

you know, like,

or just, you know, like in prison.

And it is kind of, you know, like dog eat dog

survival.

So yeah, understanding those nervous system

states can help us understand, you know, like systemic oppression as well.

So anyway, I'm not saying that, you know, like,

oh my God, I'm going off on one, but I talk about this loads in the course about how for a

lot of people there isn't this kind of like post aspect of traumatic stress and you know,

how we can kind of like,

like interrogate the concept of PTSD for example.

Anyway, side rant.

But yeah, having that language of the nervous

system is ******* life changing.

What else is life changing is building a life changing relationship with plants.

So discovering how the more than human world can offer connection and stability when you've

had your trust in humans shattered.

So learning to develop long term reciprocal relationships with plants that go beyond just

like taking medicines and through foraging, growing and medicine making practices, you'll

create meaningful connections that support you through life's challenges.

With plants, you are never alone.

So like, this is like the mainstay of my herbal practice.

Like it is all about ******* relationships.

Like it isn't just a herb that we take that

helps, you know, our nervous system feel different.

It is that life changing relationship with plants where,

you know, we know their names and we know what they look like and we can sit with them and we

can ******* talk with them and we can harvest them and you know, make nourishing meals with

them.

Like it is a relational experience that humans and plants have had since the dawn of *******

time.

And it is only ******* colonialism and

capitalism and all these systems of oppression that have just ******* severed that connection

to the more than human world and to plants especially.

So yeah, this course is like one route back to that, if that makes sense.

Okay. Skillfully navigate nervines.

So, you know, the big focus of the course is

about nervines.

So these are plants with a, you know, specific

affinity for the nervous system.

And through this course you can learn which

herbs can help with different manifestations of traumatic stress, from anxiety to

sleeplessness to emotional flooding and dissociation.

And you'll learn how to match specific plants to your unique constitution and needs.

So in all of my plant profiles, I go into depth about how to work with that plant.

Like, is that a plant that has an affinity with people that are in a more like frozen

shutdown state, or is it more like reducing the level of fight and flight in someone's

system?

Which herbs can support panic attacks specifically?

Which herbs have more of an affinity with nightmares, which are more for people that are

depressed.

There's so much ******* nuance here.

It's not just, oh, this herb is for anxiety.

It's like, well, what is that anxiety caused by?

Like, what's going on for that person?

You know, how can that trauma be kind of like reframed?

And also, you know, like, all the kind of,

you know, other collective responses to traumatic stress are included in the course.

So we look at what is the role of, you know, mutual aid?

What is the role of like, resistance?

Like, **** me, like, I want ******* child abuse to be ******* stopped.

I don't want to support anyone else who's been through childhood ******* abuse.

So it's like we can't just heal and recover ourselves and, you know, work with herbs and

have this life changing experience.

Like, we need to like, funnel that energy into like ending this root cause of this *******

oppression, you know? Oh my God.

Okay.

And finally, yeah, develop herbal resilience for collective liberation.

So in a world full of injustice and oppression, that can be deeply traumatizing,

we need plant medicines more than ever.

Connect with plant medicine traditions that have supported human healing for generations.

Learn how these time tested practices can help us navigate contemporary struggles from

climate change to state violence.

You'll discover how plants can help us build

resilience while working toward collective liberation.

So in every ******* lesson, I'm quoting, like all different authors.

I'm sharing links so that you can buy their books so you can follow their work.

I'm sharing research papers, like, there's a whole ******* drive of resources of people's

voices who have contributed to,

you know, connecting these dots to collective liberation.

And, you know, like, herbalism is just like one part of that picture, if that makes sense.

But a big part of the course is, you know.

Yeah, just like sharing examples from my

organizing in my life of when, you know, oh, okay, we worked with valerian and you know,

in this case and blah, blah, blah, supporting these people fleeing this invasion or when we

work with this herb in Calais and blah, blah, blah.

Like, I share a lot of that, like, rich embodied life experience with these herbs and

how they have shown up for people experiencing distress.

So it's not just kind of like theoretical knowledge, you know, like it's lived, embodied

knowledge.

And that's something that comes up in

testimonials a lot.

It's like how much people appreciate that

nuance and that depth.

Okay, I'm gonna stop talking because my bubs is coming back,

but yeah, just again, last chance to enroll.

Please don't miss it.

If you're interested in joining, I have to be a really horrible, like, boundaried person

after it's closed and just be like, I'm really sorry I can't let you do it.

Which isn't the easiest for.

And my, you know, people please.

The tendencies.

But sorry, I hate the time people pleaser.

It's very patriarchal, isn't it?

It's like hell anyway, side.

Side rant.

But yeah, no one is turned away for lack of funds.

There's a whole podcast episode about that as well.

I will put a link in the show notes to all the other episodes, talking about the course, all

the other things you need.

And yeah, don't miss it.

If you're curious about it, if you're

interested, if you want to just become a plant geek.

You know, not gonna lie.

Plant hot, right?

So rock and roll.

Anyway, I'm gonna stop talking now.

I think I'm a bit hyper.

I've had like four coffees today because I was

visiting the.

The baby daddy with my son, so haven't, you know,

left a village in a long time.

So I'm like,

oh my God, I'm gonna stop talking.

But yeah, please join the course if you're

interested.

And I will be back soon.

Take care.

Thanks so much for listening to the Frontline Herbalism Podcast.

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