Futuresteading
This is a conversation about the future. About creating a culture that values tomorrow. We reckon a slower, simpler, steadier existence is the first step - one that’s healthier for humans and the planet. We call it Futuresteading. Each week we chat to community builders, ritual makers, food growers, health wizards and environmental wisdom keepers, gathering practical advice and epic solidarity - so we can all nut this thing out together. Join our nitty, gritty, honest and hopeful convo every Monday during our 16 episode seasons. Support the pod by shouting us a cuppa >>> buymeacoffee.com/futuresteading
Futuresteading
E183 Elle Jenkins Creating a 'Seed to Packet' Business with Australian Medicinal Herbs
Do you fancy the idea of growing your own medicinal herbs for tinctures & tea Todays guest Elle from Australian Medicinal Herbs took the plunge following a career sidestep when she was diagnosed with PTSD & replaced a 17 year career in the police force with a seed to packet business that slowly but surely healed her trauma, engaged her girls & now helps people all over Australia. Today she shares her unfolding story & offers practical guidance & wizened encouragement to get growing in order to take agency of your own health through the potency of healing herbs.
“Life is change - all the small steps you take lead you to another door or another window”
"Herbal medicine is slow medicine & our bodies have adapted to this for generations. Our bodies have certain responses to plants that they don’t to other medicines but we need to be connected & not detached"
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We talked about:
- From domestic violence policing to medicinal herb tinctures
- PTSD diagnosis after 17 years.
- Refocusing on her small children & her own health
- How permaculture opened her up to a new way of being
- Discovering the truth about our long supply chain food system
- Herbs paved her path to healing post PTSD
- Seeing herbal remedies as MEDICINE
- Mullein is her secret love
- Tulsi - a regulator which will find balance
- Trusting that your body knows what to do with itself to build vitality
- “I don’t recognise the person I used to be - if you take steps towards this, you will eventually get there, be brave enough to persist”
- Normalising ‘grounding practice’
- Pushing back on handing over our health autonomy to doctors
- Have we normalised anxiety? What are the natural solutions
- Managing the rocks in our trauma backpack so it doesn't thwart us
- Methodically building a life that is home based, nourishing & flows in a seasonal rhythm
- Connecting to land & place & looking at things as a whole system
- Empowering her daughters to live the life they are called to.
- Keeping the Futuresteading podcast alive - GRATITUDE!