Rest of Life, 4-Month Sleep & Self-Care Program
Transform Scattered Self-Care & Subpar Rest into Secure Self-Care & Sweet Sleep
Mentorship & Herbal Remedies:
Build Your Personal Care Blueprint & Improve Your Restoration.
Yes, Rest of Life, as in the sweetest sleep.
And yes, Rest of Life as in setting yourself up for Personal Care through your lifetime.
My herbalism-based program offers personalized self-care structure and plant-based remedies, tailored to the unique needs of sensitive, compassionate individuals. The program aims to:
- Build in self-care that’s responsive to pain points in your days and weeks,
- Promote physical and mental relaxation,
- Offer mentorship to help you learn what it takes to make your Personal Care practices secure and sustainable, and
- Evoke new insights about what’s been getting in the way of your best rest & secured self-care.
If you’re interested in plant-based remedies for anxiety, stress, and to support your sleep, my services can provide you
- Structure to build & secure your self-care practices,
- Guidance on using customized herbal remedies for stress & anxiety, and
- Mentorship in learning what works best for you to find calm each day.
Maybe you have had big, hard things in your life that prompted you to say, “I’ve gotta prioritize me now…” or “Wow, I’m tired of getting the short end of the stick.” Or perhaps you’re on a journey to find your own permission to honor your needs, because you’re more used to stepping up for others.
Oof- it’s a process to find our ways, as compassionate people, to understand that we’re not OK in relation to others until we’re OK in ourselves.
And this has a direct relationship with self-care..
This program is an incubation for you to tend to your Personal Care needs.
Perhaps you’re undertaking the noble work of shoring up your boundary leaks, finding new coping mechanisms, uncovering and transforming negative internalized messages, or expanding your comfort zone. Good for you!
Maybe you want to avoid exhaustion from neglecting your own needs. This program will guide you in recognizing and preserving the essential elements of your well-being.
It’s not easy to put all the needed pieces together to care for yourself consistently, and sometimes you need a mentor!
Through this program, you may discover and cultivate a stronger sense of self-preservation with the grounding, calming, and centering qualities of plants.
This includes:
- Joyful ways to develop a stronger foundation for self-care,
- Awareness to soften the impact of stress and anxiety on your sleep, and
- Connection with plant allies that uphold the work of solidifying your boundaries.
The reason my program helps people with these fundamental discoveries is that its structured approach, which guides individuals through a deliberate process. It offers a combination of awareness-building and botanical resources so that their well-being is built into everyday.
Rest of Life will help fortify you in 3 Ways.
It’s a trifecta of these elements that can help you secure sweet sleep and sustainable self-care practices.
- Elevated Awareness about what helps and hinders your restoration
- Plant Allyship to calm stress and anxiety and support your sleep, and
- Process & Practice with mentorship that guides you in learning how to use botanical remedies and awaken senses to secure a nurturing environment within yourself
Brief Bio & Training for My Clinical Herbalism Practice (click to read more)
I started offering counseling work in 2004 and have been working as a therapist since 2009, and while I’m not acting as a therapist in my herbalism work, it informs my practice. I started studying botanical remedies in 2012 and began offering herbalism consultations in 2018. My training combines rigorous self-study, structured learning through herbalism school, and ongoing mentorship with herbalists who have many years of practice, as well as some trainings that are adjacent to herbalism that I have been able to undertake as a therapist.
I first learned about aromatherapy because I wanted to support people who were working with trauma, and I was drawn to how quickly plant aromas can affect the limbic system. I was exploring various trainings that were not cognitive-based, but embodied, non-verbal ways of working. This led me to take an intensive course in anatomy and physiology, observe an herbalist in practice, and begin learning how to make botanical remedies with raw plant materials. I then started attending herbalism conferences and enrolled in Arbor Vitae for a year before taking on mentorship for several years, and continued self-study. I still participate in mentorship and keep my learning fresh with herbalism courses related to the nervous system, stress, trauma, and, most recently, depression. Additionally, I am trained in somatics.
A Transformative Mentorship and Herbalism Program
for Personalized Stress Management and Daily Ease
In my experience, sensitive, compassionate people struggle with their Personal Care routines because they:
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- Didn’t have the chance to focus on their needs earlier in life because that wasn’t encouraged or emphasized, and discovering your needs later in life is complicated.
- Need to break out of more traditional approaches to self-care to work with the nuance of their realities.
- Lack personalized support to identify and safeguard their unique self-care needs.
- Often aren’t sleeping well enough to bolster their mental health and are missing opportunities for their anxiety and stress levels to be eased the way deep sleep can do that.
This program is different than wellness programs that instead of imposing a model or specific treatment on you, I help you identify your own needs and work with plant-based methods that complement your unique ways of being.
What’s Included in the Rest of Life Program?
A Four-Pronged Process of Botanical Care
During our time together, you’ll learn the basics of using herbal formulas for stress and anxiety, and sleep support.
- Personal Care Herbalism Learning: I’ll provide you with four recorded 20-minute videos and illuminating homework that helps match you to your plant allies. The homework consists of four engaging worksheets that allow me to make your customized botanical remedies. You’ll also learn how to use teas and aromatherapy to ground, calm and transition from one part of the day to the next.
- Mentorship: Through a care-based relationship that we’ll build together, I help you learn from mistakes and reasons to celebrate that I’ve witnessed over the years in offering herbalism to people. We’ll explore topics like adjusting your home space so that it’s conducive to restoration and your unique Personal Care routines, and what best facilitates use of botanical remedies.
- Eight Live Calls: We’ll meet for an hour twice a month to discuss what you’re learning, formulate your remedies and talk through how to bolster and bring joy to your Personal Care rituals.
- Two Botanical Remedies: I’ll formulate one stress and anxiety remedy, and one sleep support formula. You’ll have these towards the end of our first month of working together so you can gain support as you begin working with them.
The four-pronged process is essential so you can:
- Benefit from Comprehensive Support that enables you to apply your newfound knowledge immediately and tailor your Personal Care practices to suit your distinct needs, garnering lasting transformation and well-being.
- Experience Gentle Structure & Accountability to help you gain momentum and appreciation of the crucial aspects of your body-mind’s needs, and how to ensure they’re maintained
- Cultivate Realistic Expectations of yourself and for the remedies, and
- Develop your Awareness in a way that gradually builds from one piece of consciousness to another. It’s a kind awakening. 🙂
You’ll have access to me between calls and a written protocol sheet as a crucial reference for how to work with your remedies and care practices.
Cost & How to Get Started with the Rest of Life program
The cost of the program is $1,600 (or $400 a month for four months) and includes: 8 live calls, the creation of two customized herbal formulas, a document with your personalized protocols, learning materials and information about how to connect with ethical and high-quality botanical remedy-maker/s who will dispense the formulas. (Cost for herbal remedies is separate and will likely range from $20 to $90)
Discount for buddy & group sign ups! If you and a pal want to do this program together, you’ll receive a $200 discount. This would be four monthly payments of $350 or $1400 as one payment. Please note– you will both need to schedule the 8 calls at the same time. I can work with groups of up to 3 to 5 people for a further discount of $300, which is $1,300 per person or 4 payments of $325.
I recognize this cost means my program not accessible to everyone. Please read more about this.
Ugh…capitalism! There’s no perfect way to address it, and trust me, I’ve tried various models, but alas there’s a lot behind the scenes to keep this work running that makes accessibility difficult on my end as a practitioner and your end as a service seeker. I extend empathy if you’re needing to read this.
Please see if any of my freely available material, such as my blogs or my lower-cost Personal Care Blueprint course gets you started with what you need. I developed these offerings to provide affordable and free resources. It’s a considerable amount of insight, distilled from my years of experience providing herbalism consultations and self-care guidance as a therapist, as well as what I learned in my personal journeys. I truly hope there’s wisdom and encouragement to support your growth there!
If you have no budget and want to work with an herbal practitioner, you may want to reach out to an herbalism school. They often have free consultations with students who are supervised.
If you have some budget and think your needs are very aligned with my offerings, please email me with a sense of what your budget is, and I’ll let you know when I anticipate having a sliding scale spot available.
How to Get Started
Step 1: Discovery Call: Book a free, 20-minute discovery call to see if Rest of Life is a good match for your needs by clicking here. We’ll have a chat about your interest in the program and what it offers. If it seems like it’s not the right fit, I’ll help you think about other options.
Step 2 Payment: If we determine it makes sense for you to start the program, I’ll send you a link to make a payment. You can make 1 full payment of $1,800 or four monthly payments of $450.
Step 3 Schedule, Herbal Fun Forms & Learning: After I receive payment, we’ll schedule our live calls and I’ll send you what I call Herbal Fun Forms. They’re fun because they’ll get you curious about your potential plant matches, but they’re also crucial because they’ll provide me needed info to begin customizing a formula for you. I’ll need the Herbal Fun Forms 2 business days before we our first call, and it’ll take you about 30-minutes to complete them. You’ll also have immediate access to the Personal Care Blueprints Digital course, which you can do throughout the first month of our time together.
Step 4: Live Calls & Mentorship: I’ll send you a Zoom link for our calls, and we’ll begin working on building out your Personal Care Blueprint. Between each call, you’ll have an activity (either a 5 to 20 minute video or audio with transcript if you prefer to or need to read,) or a worksheet that engages you. We’ll cover the topics of: how to work with herbal remedies, daytime calming, importance of transitions in your daily life, how to cue your system for sleep, specific herbs for tea blends, aromatherapy support and botanical body-care. You’ll also be able to ask me questions between calls.