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Episode 11313th October 2025 • The Frontline Herbalism Podcast • Solidarity Apothecary
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Welcome to the Frontline Herbalism Podcast with your host, Nicole Rose from the

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Solidarity Apothecary.

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This is your place for all things plants and

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liberation.

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Let's get started.

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Hello. Welcome back to the Frontline Herbalism Podcast.

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I hope you enjoyed the mini series about the different nervous system states.

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I hope it was interesting and helpful.

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Please let me know.

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Sometimes it's like I'm just talking into the abyss and other times I get loads of emails or

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messages on Instagram or whatever.

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But yeah, let me know how it's resonated and

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landed.

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This is just a mini, mini, mini, mini episode to remind you that the Herbalism PTSD and

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Traumatic Stress course is open for enrollment today only.

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Technically it's meant to close at midnight tonight, Monday.

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But yeah, got to take the baby to nursery if he's well enough in the morning.

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So it will be.

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Yeah, I will, I will shut it down probably about 8am after I've dropped him off.

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For all you last minuters,

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which you know is fine.

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I also sign up to stuff last minute, so.

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Yeah, but please don't miss it.

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I'm not, it's not going to be available until

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next March.

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Like the end of next March, like the spring

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solstice time.

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I haven't confirmed the final dates yet,

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but yeah, just, you know, I've got like a bunch of podcast episodes about the course.

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I talk about it a lot,

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but you know, no one is turned away flack funds.

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So you're super welcome to join it now and then pop a donation in later on or you know,

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join with the payment plan or join for like a couple of pounds a month or just join it for

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free like,

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and not worry about it in the future.

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Like it's really designed to be inclusive and

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I know people are probably like overwhelmed and stressed, but even if you just listen to

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one little lesson a week, you would, I'm sure, have some like life changing shifts around how

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you're feeling and understanding what's going on in your body and learning about herbs that

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can support you.

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Because like me,

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nearly everyone I know needs support right now.

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It's not been a good year.

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I don't know anyone that's had like a thriving

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year apart from maybe ******* Donald Trump or something.

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But like, yeah, people are.

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Yeah, I know that people are kind of

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struggling and this,

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you know, this course is like a resource for you.

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And it also contains a massive resource library where I've tried to kind of like

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signpost to various like herbal books and other teachers and especially like black and

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brown and Indigenous herbalists.

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Um, you know, there's like, I, I'm quite like on it with stuff like referencing like I

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always try and include where I've learned something from and include that in the

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resource library.

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And I include all the research papers if I found something from a research paper about a

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plant.

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So yeah, it's kind of,

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it's all there for you to kind of dive in as much as you like.

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If you haven't heard me talk about the course.

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It is an opportunity to develop an in depth

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knowledge of plant medicine, trauma and nervous system physiology grounded in an anti

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oppressive analys.

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Um, so there's eight modules.

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One about what is trauma.

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The second is all about like an introduction

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to herbalism, things like herbal safety, understanding herbal energetics and herbal

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actions, looking at herbs for like the kind of basics like sleep and nutrition.

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And then we dive into like how does trauma shape the body?

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You know, like how does it,

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how do we express distress? Like and also like how does trauma lead to

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kind of chronic illness patterns?

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And then how can we shape it back? So we do a ******* lush, nerdy deep dive into

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the nervous system.

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We look at polyvagal theory, so these theories of these different nervous system states like

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fight, flight and freeze.

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And we look at what kind of goals can we set

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for ourselves to feel different.

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And then module five dives into collective responses to traumatic stress.

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So plant medicines are just one tool in the toolbox.

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There is a bunch of other things that we can be doing together and on our own that can help

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us,

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you know, shift how we're feeling and process traumatic memories and ultimately work towards

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a world where we're not traumatizing each other, you know, where we're ending like male

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violence and sexual abuse in the home, for example, or you know,

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resisting genocide.

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Like yeah, I'm trying to politicize this stuff

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and kind of anchor plant medicines in this much bigger kind of struggle for liberation.

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And then the last two modules are all about the plants.

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So I dive into nervines, which are herbs with an affinity for the nervous system.

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And we look at how do you work with them, like how do you choose a plant to work with?

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Like again, safety things, decision making strategies.

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And then we look at herbal relaxants,

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we look at nerve tonics for kind of depleted and burnt out and stressed bodies.

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We look at hypnotic or sedative nervines that can help you have like a really embodied,

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full, deep sense of relaxation and sleep better.

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We also look, look at cardiac nerve ions that have an affinity for the heart and the cardio

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cardiovascular system.

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And then finally we look at stimulating

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nervines.

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So some herbs that can help us support when

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we're in a shutdown or depressed state.

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And then the last module is all like hyper practical working with plant medicines.

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We do all the medicine making stuff from tinctures to glycerin to infused oils.

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We have case studies, we look at like ethical and sustainable ways to like harvest,

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harvest plant medicines.

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And yeah, it's super duper comprehensive.

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If you're new to herbalism, I think, I think it's a fantastic introduction that I wish I'd

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had at the beginning of my herbal journey.

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If you're already herbalist, it will really give you that kind of insight into nervines

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and help your practice because I'm sure you've got shitloads of experience as well of, of

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like how herbs affect different people differently.

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So yeah, you'll kind of get my experiences of working with different people, you know, like

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for example, refugees in northern France or people fleeing Ukraine and other people in

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acute distress as well as people healing from incarceration and kind of chronic long term

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trauma stuff.

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And you know, where do we go with plant medicines in that context?

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So if you're working with human beings in the world, which I assume you are, this will be

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beneficial for you because trauma affects literally every person when we frame it as a

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wound or a disturbing or distressing experience.

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Like, you know, this is something that's like affecting people's bodies, affecting people's

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health.

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So if you care about,

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you know, holistic health and wellness and all that jazz, like I think you'll find, find,

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you know, a lot of value in the course.

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So anyway, I'm going to stop talking about it

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because I said it was just an announcement episode.

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If you have any kind of problems at checkout, please email support solidarityapothecary.org

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and we will pick it up, me and my amazing admin helper,

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Chantelle.

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And you will still get access to the course.

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I don't have much time today to check emails, but you won't be turned away from it.

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Like I'll make sure you get in within the deadline.

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Like well, not within the deadline but I will get back to you within a few days.

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I'm just not sure if the Bubs is going to go to nursery or not because he's still

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recovering from his virus.

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But anyway, please, yeah, please check out the course page from the link in the show notes.

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Yeah, please join it if you're keen, otherwise it will be coming back next March, next

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spring.

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Yeah. And thanks for listening.

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I'm not 100% sure what my plans are for this

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week's episode because of my baby being a nursery, but what I am excited about is that

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I'm gonna try and start scheduling in some interviews before my friend's inquest so that

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we can have more interviews on the show,

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which I've been waiting for this whole, like, postpartum period.

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So that's exciting.

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If. Yeah, if you're interested in being on the

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show, if you're involved in, like, a grassroots herbal project,

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passionate about these things, just, like, get in touch.

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Let's make it happen.

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Yeah. Okay. All right, take care.

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Thanks.

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Bye.

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Thanks so much for listening to the Frontline Herbalism podcast.

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You can find the transcript, the links, all the resources from the show at solidarity

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apothecary.org forward/podcast.

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