How Plants Saved My Life : My Background, Expertise & Passion

My Personal Story about How herbs, nature, and conscious recovery changed everything

I drank for 35 years.

I was a working mother, a wife, a career woman trying to do it all — managing kids, relationships, expectations, pressure, and ambition. 
I WAS LIVING THE "PRESCRIBED LIFE" !!

And like so many of us, I drank. It was normalized. It was rewarded. It was everywhere.

At the same time, I spent decades working in the natural products industry — with mission-driven, fair-trade brands, plant stewards, ethical farmers, and companies rooted in reverence for the Earth and human health. I worked with elixirs, creams, raw materials, and living plants. I saw firsthand how plants are grown, cultivated, harvested, and respected for their potency and intelligence.

I also watched what happened when large chemical and mass-market corporations bought up many of those natural brands — and how we are now seeing similar patterns emerge with pharma, mushrooms, and cannabis.

In this video, I talk about:

The realities of drinking culture and survival

My experience inside the natural products world

The difference between whole plants and isolated compounds

Seeds, soil, cultivation, harvest timing, and potency

Why plants are alive — not passive ingredients

And the importance of rapport with plants

The turning point came when I asked a therapist for a prescription for anxiety and panic attacks — and instead, she recommended a natural, plant-based route.

That decision — and those plants — saved my life.

Even while I was still drinking, herbs supported my sleep, my immune system, my nervous system, and my resilience. And when alcohol was removed, my body, mind, and spirit were able to recover far more quickly with the help of plants.

This is not about replacing one dependency with another.
It’s about supporting the body’s innate ability to heal.

Today, I coach and support people who are choosing (or curious about) an alcohol-free lifestyle, helping them thoughtfully and safely incorporate herbs and plant allies as part of nervous system repair, emotional regulation, and embodied recovery.

This is about:

Education, not dogma

Empowerment, not shame

Nature as ally, not commodity

If you’ve ever questioned your relationship with alcohol…
If you’ve felt dismissed, over-medicated, or unheard…
If you’re curious about plant-supported recovery that honors the whole human —

This conversation is for you.
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 This episode is also available as a full video experience on YouTube.