In this first Q&A episode turned blog-post, my dear friend Emily sits in the interviewer's chair and brings your questions to me. Join us as we weave through the heart of Herbs and Dreams: why herbs and dreams belong together, how the plants become our teachers and allies, and how to tend a dreamweaving practice that actually grounds into the rhythm of your life and lasts the long haul. 

The questions traverse diverse terrain including...

• How there is a higher order that dreams us and has been dreaming us all along

• How to begin meeting the wild medicinal plants where you live

• What to do when dream journaling feels overwhelming

• Why a dreaming practice ebbs and flows through the seasons of a life

• Why our hardest dreams, nightmares and recurring dreams, are often the most important medicine of all

• The teachers and plants that have shaped my path

• ... and a bit more of my story.

Do you have questions you'd like to hear answered? Send them our way to support@herbsanddreams.com . And enjoy! 

This post is a blessing and a prayer to the summer in your heart. Having just crossed into the season on the heels of a solstice that felt like sweet medicine, I reflect on the turning of the wheel and the particular gift this time of year offers: permission to revel in the warmth, the light, and the beauty, and to shine your fullest, most authentic self.

Today, I want to focus on some of the fun parts of a dreaming practice because honestly, we have to enjoy something if we are going to stick with it, right? If we don't find enjoyment and pleasure and delight in a practice, then in the long term, it's really probably not going to stick around in our life rhythm.

“One side benefit of a dream weaving practice is a growing sense of enchantment and wonder in each and every day. MAGIC!”

Many people today are intimidated at the idea of growing and making their own medicine - believing it is too hard, or requires an amount of expertise that they don't have access to. But what most don't know is that growing many medicinal herbs is easier than growing most food plants. Because herbs prefer a "wild gardening" approach - their medicine is stronger when they are not pampered.

So... you can grow your own! 

Here's a list of 10 easy to grow, medicinally versatile to add into your garden this year. Enjoy and thank you for growing medicine for the people!

The question of AI is touching every corner, every industry, every field of study, every brain….as a dream midwife and ambassador if dreams, I feel it’s my duty to share what I’m tracking on the matter of AI and Dreaming.

A blog post for the basic folk method for crafting your own herbal medicine: if you can cook, you can do it!

This blog post reflects my beliefs on dreaming. Having a strong cosmology about dreams is helpful because it creates a container in which a beautiful dreaming practice can flourish. Dreaming works within the constructs of what you believe! I have compiled various teachings that I've learned from others, as well as experienced in my own dreaming as to what works for me!

If you want more dream energy, and dream juice, than these books will really help to both ground and also deepen your relationship with your dreaming practice. These books will catch you up on the dream literacy that, in my opinion, we all should have been given as children.

Dreamers should be safe travelers, but how does this actually look and feel in practice? What about spiritual protection on the dreaming path?

Dreamweaving our way across the threshold. Humanity is currently in the crux of collcective initiation and our task is to find a new way through to the light of rebirth. From where do we resource this new way? The answer is clear - our dreams.

I’d like to make a bold declaration - when an herb shows up in a dream the herb is there to heal you, the situation, the field you’re working in and the world at large (all of these of course, are really the same thing right?)

Why? Because my friends, plants are healers.

Over the years of being a dedicated dreamer and dream teacher, I’ve tracked 7 common stumbling blocks that can creep up on the path. It happens to all of us - we’re human! But dreamers too, should cultivate discernment. Here’s how!

Helping people sleep with herbs is one of my specialties… I love it, because it works. Do we need to be sleeping deeply to have a rich dreaming life? Not necessarily. But regardless - good sleep comes first to cultivating a strong waking life container to hold, ground and weave our dreams.

Dreamers, allow me to introduce you to the patron herbal healer of dreamweavers everywhere.

For those beautiful souls just embarking on the journey of learning herbalism, I’m here to tell you - don’t go into overwhelm. Instead, focus on building relationships. Focus on falling in love. Love will lie a steady foundation to hold you for a lifetime of seasonal herbalism, serving yourself and those around you by the fruits of your love.

This meditation practice from Seasonal Herbalism helps you to connect deeply with the Dream of the Earth, to awaken your ability to dreamweave with the Earth, and pulls you into a deeper sense of belonging within the web of life.

As beginners embark on the study of herbalism, the amount of plants to learn can be overwhelming. But seasonal herbalism wants us to start where we are. Look beneath your feet. When you orient your studies to exactly where you are - Belonging and membership within the web of life will return to you along the way.

What is the Dream of the Earth, how is she dreaming us, and how can we align our dreamweaving practices with her Great Dream? How do herbs help us become more receptive to her whisperings?

What do our earliest dreams mean? As a dreamweaver and dream teacher, I am very very curious about a person’s earliest dreams…

The best way to learn about dreamweaving is through a dream. Dreams come with instructions from our souls on what is ours to do next. Great Bear is a guardian, protector and dreamer for dreamers, dreamweavers and herbal healers.