Ep. 98 Carley Nadine, Herbalism and Holistic Nutrition for deep nourishment and wellness that works!

Topanga Moon

This is such a gorgeous and juicy summer episode that I am thrilled to share! I have wanted to talk about herbalism and holistic nutrition on the podcast for a while now and having Carley Nadine on the podcast to share her expertise is perfect, she inspires me so much and her information and knowledge is so grounded and approachable - it really is wellness that works!In our beautiful conversation today we dive into:

• Carley’s recent apprenticeship at Herb Pharm, her eat-pray-love year, connecting to herself and knowing she needed to immerse herself into the herbalist world. After being a city herbalist for so long she knew she needed to go out into the vast landscape and fully dive into the herb world. Divinely timed, living in community with 8 other women, working with the land and having a strong connection and communication with the plant world.
• Plant sits: taking a tincture of a plant you don't know and working with it to uncover what it is and how it works with your energetic body.
• Sitting with hawthorn, potent for the heart, opening of the heart.
• The mind-body connection when it comes to holistic nutrition. Developing a spiritual practice over time and seeing how much that impacted her health. Feeling like she needed to be perfect when it came to food, looking at all problems as a one-juice-away from achieving the ultimate health, being all about the physical body. Finally realizing how much our mind is connected to our health, how our gut is connected to the brain.
• Hormone health and women being disconnected to their cycles and living in a masculine world - this connection to stress and dysregulation.
• We have 4 cycles in our menstrual cycle, seen as the 4 seasons - mimicking nature and the moon. We have this internal need to be connected to plants, we have an internal herbalist inside of us.
• 4 cycles: menstruation is our inner winter, the follicular phase is the springtime, our ovulatory is our inner summer, the luteal phase is our inner autumn. Discussing Carley’s favorite herbs for each of our menstrual seasons to support us during each time - such as dandelion root, which represents the sun, the moon and the stars.
• We discuss cramping in periods and if it's normal for us to experience. Looking at it like our bodies are trying to tell us something. Could be a sign of inflammation and trying to remove seed oils from the diet to see if there is a difference.
• A lovely tip for excess estrogen is eating a raw carrot salad.
• We discussed Carley’s thoughts on oat milk and my experience of feeling anxiety when drinking oat with my coffee.
• We discuss gorgeous summer infusions and Carley’s recipes she shares on her instagram like her spruce tip and nettle vinegar. She discusses using herbs in our vinegars for our food and great for the gut!
• We talk about what is inspiring Carley at this time which is nature!

I am so excited for you to hear this jam packed episode filled with so many health and herbal tips! Connect with Carley and her offerings here:https://www.carleynadine.com/be sure to check out her gorgeous recipes on her instagram;@carleynadine_And check out Topanga Moon here:@topanga_moonHappy summer season!