Hey, that was fun! Yes, I am now a certified Family herbalist. Now I can really mean it when I say I am studying for my Master Herbalist certification. I can't believe the amazing things I have learned and I actually think it's sticking!
I had serious doubts about going with the SNH (Dr. Christopher's School of Natural Healing), maybe it wasn't glitzy or new age enough for all the other things I've been looking into the last few years, mainly muscle testing...I'll not be distracted here. Bottom line I believe that this is a most God glorifying program, acknowledging the Creator at every turn! The clincher for me was the "Fundamentals of Herbology "video (part of the FH course) - it was the last assignment. Then and only then did I really believe that this is the way the Lord would have me go. I'm not even sure I can put a finger on why I resisted this avenue but I was in torment for about a month, wrestling, praying, researching and getting nowhere.
The truth is I could not really say exactly why I wanted to be an Herbalist until the word "Vitalist" was explained in the video. This is what I've believed in all my life! This is what I want to be identified with, and taught! The wholistic approach. I believe this way in my spiritual walk, I should learn to apply it in my natural journey as well! So, this was me, easily swayed, and vulnerable, way too excitable; a wave upon the sand. This is me now, a sponge, still excitable, but having direction.
Today happens to be day #1 of my second cleanse. My head feels a bit tight but it's much easier now having been off of coffee for over a month. Just taking it easy, couching it, crocheting all day and listening to "A Healthier You" programs, and getting inspired! And staying near the ladies room too , I might add!
I purchased the next level: Nutritional Herbalist" a few weeks ago, it's slow going with our family birthday stretch, holidays, etc. I'll dig in deep after the new year and our routine settles (wishful thinking). But I'm on my way and so very satisfied with this decision.
Showing posts with label Master Herbalist. Show all posts
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Sunday, December 18, 2016
Tuesday, October 18, 2016
I'm A Student!
A student enrolled in the School of Natural Healing!
A new deal for me and at first very frightening! I've never taken any courses before that were tested! I was home schooled and, well, I did get my GED - don't scoff at that! But that was when I was young and before coffee.
So, what do I think.
I have a few thoughts bouncing around in my head as I study on my Family Herbal course.
I have to say I am not convinced about the mucusless diet...heresy? Well, how can I say that when I haven't tried it! I am very happy about the encouragement and emphasis on a good clean, even vegetarian diet. I totally agree on so many aspects of the diet...you know, I think I shouldn't give my opinion until I've given it a go. Which by the way was supposed to be this week and my heart just wasn't into the 3 day fast yet. Not with ripe avocados and arugula needing to be chewed and savored. I'll wait until all my favs are put away...
My other thoughts? Some of the notions of disease causes are hard for me to wrap my head around. Is it because it is an old book? Why would I put more trust in more modern methods, except discoveries and studies are being made all the time. Would I find a few pits in every cherry pie I choose? Oh, gosh I can't imaging taking a collage course.
Besides a few pauses I absolutely love the herbal formulas and find them completely understandable. I've ordered a pile of herbs seeds to do my own harvesting. I'm enjoying the first book, "Herbal Home Health Care". I'm really excited to dig into the "Herbs to the Rescue" book. I purchased many other books that are being used in these master herbalist courses. I'll be able to get into them later either on my own or actually as a master herbalist student! I'll just see where this takes me.
So thankful for this time in my life. Comfortable, secure, in plenty. No wretched longing or resentment. No sadness and betrayal...just to mention a few blocked emotions recently released. I tell you I have never felt so content in my life. I worked so hard to be where I am now...and how futile my struggle was to get here, how every path "I " choose was the hard one! I actually can't say I got myself here at all, because the beat it all, storm it all, tear it all away girl was paddling up stream the whole way. When did I let go and take the current? I guess the wind needed to get knocked out of me. I kind of got discouraged the other day, " What do I want?", to Christian, " The angry, get it done, raging Me? Or the peaceful, smiling, tired alot, living in pigpen Me..." You know which one he was happy to be living with! That actually made me feel better.
Cool thing is: I actually can pursue a life long dream, or at least take that first hesitant step toward becoming a Master Herbalist. My children are part of my this, my husband is part of it, I'm not struggling or striving...
I say all this with complete awareness that tomorrow all could change...
I'm just so grateful for what I was able to see, learn, feel, enjoy, eat, love today.
A new deal for me and at first very frightening! I've never taken any courses before that were tested! I was home schooled and, well, I did get my GED - don't scoff at that! But that was when I was young and before coffee.
So, what do I think.
I have a few thoughts bouncing around in my head as I study on my Family Herbal course.
I have to say I am not convinced about the mucusless diet...heresy? Well, how can I say that when I haven't tried it! I am very happy about the encouragement and emphasis on a good clean, even vegetarian diet. I totally agree on so many aspects of the diet...you know, I think I shouldn't give my opinion until I've given it a go. Which by the way was supposed to be this week and my heart just wasn't into the 3 day fast yet. Not with ripe avocados and arugula needing to be chewed and savored. I'll wait until all my favs are put away...
My other thoughts? Some of the notions of disease causes are hard for me to wrap my head around. Is it because it is an old book? Why would I put more trust in more modern methods, except discoveries and studies are being made all the time. Would I find a few pits in every cherry pie I choose? Oh, gosh I can't imaging taking a collage course.
Besides a few pauses I absolutely love the herbal formulas and find them completely understandable. I've ordered a pile of herbs seeds to do my own harvesting. I'm enjoying the first book, "Herbal Home Health Care". I'm really excited to dig into the "Herbs to the Rescue" book. I purchased many other books that are being used in these master herbalist courses. I'll be able to get into them later either on my own or actually as a master herbalist student! I'll just see where this takes me.
So thankful for this time in my life. Comfortable, secure, in plenty. No wretched longing or resentment. No sadness and betrayal...just to mention a few blocked emotions recently released. I tell you I have never felt so content in my life. I worked so hard to be where I am now...and how futile my struggle was to get here, how every path "I " choose was the hard one! I actually can't say I got myself here at all, because the beat it all, storm it all, tear it all away girl was paddling up stream the whole way. When did I let go and take the current? I guess the wind needed to get knocked out of me. I kind of got discouraged the other day, " What do I want?", to Christian, " The angry, get it done, raging Me? Or the peaceful, smiling, tired alot, living in pigpen Me..." You know which one he was happy to be living with! That actually made me feel better.
Cool thing is: I actually can pursue a life long dream, or at least take that first hesitant step toward becoming a Master Herbalist. My children are part of my this, my husband is part of it, I'm not struggling or striving...
I say all this with complete awareness that tomorrow all could change...
I'm just so grateful for what I was able to see, learn, feel, enjoy, eat, love today.
Tuesday, September 27, 2016
Schools For Natural Healing
I am so excited about the possibilities of taking those courses on herbal mastery! I actually looked up a few other schools and found one I actually liked better: Trinity School of Natural Health.
Master Herbalist
Trinity School of Natural Health
Cost: $1600 if paid in full PLUS books which come to about $270.
Time: 1 year course - you have 2 years to complete
Curriculum: Books only. Self taught program - in other words there isn't a program. You read the book and take an online exam (open book), one for each book/course. There are 13 courses.
Pros:
Cost
Time
Course material is just what I wanted:
Aromatherapy and Kinesiology are on the list
Cons:
No study guides or assignments. What are we paying for? The exams?
Dr. Christopher's School of Natural Healing:
Cost: $5,125 online some books may be needed
Time: 3 years and 3 months
Curriculum: taught level by level. Books and study guides, DVDs, lectures and online testing. There are 22 courses. Very in depth covering topics and assignments.
Pros:
Very thorough
Study guides
Course material
Cons:
Time - I don't want to commit to 4 years
Money - While the cost isn't bad in my eyes for that much schooling, it still isn't feasible for me.
Curriculum- Lectures, DVDs, many of the courses are made up of only lectures. This sounds painful!
And then there is this Master Herbalist Certification Seminar... No, not feasible for this time in my life.
Think this is bad? You should have seen me last night in Menards choosing a vacuum cleaner. I had the 2 in question dissected and spread all over the floor of the isle. I picked one, first choice...
ooooh is that a clue?
My thoughts now are to take Dr. Chris Family Herbalist (the $200 3 month course) and get a feel for the whole shebang and go from there. Thought #2 is to purchase books from the Trinity School and do them completely on my own...I would love to have a plaque for my efforts though, so sad, I still don't understand why it's $1600 and no study guides! I was completely willing to fork it over! Was.
So disappointing!
Update 10/6/16: Now add Genesis School of Natural Healing
Time suits, same $ as Trinity, assignments and study groups, client profiles(!) Homework stuff...now maybe there's something to put your $$$$$ to. Anyhow, the book list pulls in Dr. Christopher's stuff.
SOLD...but I'll wait, I need to graduate my two oldest babes and get some more family members with driver's licenses!
Master Herbalist
Trinity School of Natural Health
Cost: $1600 if paid in full PLUS books which come to about $270.
Time: 1 year course - you have 2 years to complete
Curriculum: Books only. Self taught program - in other words there isn't a program. You read the book and take an online exam (open book), one for each book/course. There are 13 courses.
Pros:
Cost
Time
Course material is just what I wanted:
Aromatherapy and Kinesiology are on the list
Cons:
No study guides or assignments. What are we paying for? The exams?
Dr. Christopher's School of Natural Healing:
Cost: $5,125 online some books may be needed
Time: 3 years and 3 months
Curriculum: taught level by level. Books and study guides, DVDs, lectures and online testing. There are 22 courses. Very in depth covering topics and assignments.
Pros:
Very thorough
Study guides
Course material
Cons:
Time - I don't want to commit to 4 years
Money - While the cost isn't bad in my eyes for that much schooling, it still isn't feasible for me.
Curriculum- Lectures, DVDs, many of the courses are made up of only lectures. This sounds painful!
And then there is this Master Herbalist Certification Seminar... No, not feasible for this time in my life.
Think this is bad? You should have seen me last night in Menards choosing a vacuum cleaner. I had the 2 in question dissected and spread all over the floor of the isle. I picked one, first choice...
ooooh is that a clue?
My thoughts now are to take Dr. Chris Family Herbalist (the $200 3 month course) and get a feel for the whole shebang and go from there. Thought #2 is to purchase books from the Trinity School and do them completely on my own...I would love to have a plaque for my efforts though, so sad, I still don't understand why it's $1600 and no study guides! I was completely willing to fork it over! Was.
So disappointing!
Update 10/6/16: Now add Genesis School of Natural Healing
Time suits, same $ as Trinity, assignments and study groups, client profiles(!) Homework stuff...now maybe there's something to put your $$$$$ to. Anyhow, the book list pulls in Dr. Christopher's stuff.
SOLD...but I'll wait, I need to graduate my two oldest babes and get some more family members with driver's licenses!
Tuesday, September 20, 2016
What I Want to Be When I grow Up...
I have always had many irons in the fire. A point of pride. Until I turned 45 and my mind forcibly slowed down, before or after my body did who knows, who cares, I'd go from wanting to be a opera singer to mechanic in a relative short period of time. I didn't understand until I became very much older, say 45, that I didn't fail lifelong aspirations. After all I did not, obviously, become a mechanic neither an opera singer, nor the other 20 things I wanted to be. It's just for a very short or prolonged period of time I had a passionate cause I believed in which everyone, including myself, must become more enlightened and therefore a better person by knowing all there was to know about said current obsession.
I have had 2 passions that have outlived all others. I have suppressed them in all sorts of ways. For honorable causes such as raising God fearing, decent citizens and simple laziness. The very fact that when we fall in love with a subject, absorb all we can, become novices; suddenly we...I realized I, only understand a fraction of what I want to know! How frustrating for someone already strung out too thinly, way to much on the plate and way too many needy ones about. Too much work to learn anything more than what an armchair quarterback can offer. There even have been times I thought, embarrassingly, that that was enough to constitute me offering my opinion on the subject, only to seriously fall short and flat on my face as a know-it-all knowing nothing...
I want to be...
#1. a writer. That is going to take a lot of work and way more practice than I've committed to in the past. I finally finished a book...in my head. Don't worry I have been taking notes. In time it will work out. And it won't be written in a houseboat floating down the Amazon. I fear that would be too distracting. And, I conclude, I would be missing out on grandchildren. And seriously getting down and making myself type right - that would be a wonderful skill to master....uuuugh!
#2. A alternative medicine practitioner. I can't get away from wanting to help people feel better. It's so important to me that I myself feels better, you should too. I want to say and do something for you - if you wanted me to. I have so many friends that suffer from issues and it makes me almost want to have that problem just to find out how to overcome it!
"Become a Faster EFT Practitioner" "Become an Energy Healer" yadda yadda yadda. Or more down to to earth how about going back to what I wanted to do before my babies were born: A master herbalist.
At the library I pulled Dr. Christopher's Every Woman's Herbal off the shelf for the 3rd time. At the back I "saw" for the first time: Dr. Christopher's School of Natural Healing. Really! I looked it up and it's a total can-do for me! I am so excited. I found a blog writer who actually offers $100 off for signing up using her affiliate link. I even have the blessings of Christian!
Oh, I know. Its a baby steps thing and maybe Master Herbalist is too far down the road at this point to talk about. But to actually start, oh, my. I already have 3 of his books!
As I go along I can get sidetracked after the Family Herbalist course (beginner) and grab a course in Reflexology, and or Iridology (while I love the idea I don't see myself there in that one) or Aromatherapy!!! (that is something I could get started on).
So this winter, during hibernation time I hope to get started on my way to be a Master Herbalist, well at least a Family Herbalist. I should blog about it, even just for the writing practice. After all I am a bit more grown up this year.
I have had 2 passions that have outlived all others. I have suppressed them in all sorts of ways. For honorable causes such as raising God fearing, decent citizens and simple laziness. The very fact that when we fall in love with a subject, absorb all we can, become novices; suddenly we...I realized I, only understand a fraction of what I want to know! How frustrating for someone already strung out too thinly, way to much on the plate and way too many needy ones about. Too much work to learn anything more than what an armchair quarterback can offer. There even have been times I thought, embarrassingly, that that was enough to constitute me offering my opinion on the subject, only to seriously fall short and flat on my face as a know-it-all knowing nothing...
I want to be...
#1. a writer. That is going to take a lot of work and way more practice than I've committed to in the past. I finally finished a book...in my head. Don't worry I have been taking notes. In time it will work out. And it won't be written in a houseboat floating down the Amazon. I fear that would be too distracting. And, I conclude, I would be missing out on grandchildren. And seriously getting down and making myself type right - that would be a wonderful skill to master....uuuugh!
#2. A alternative medicine practitioner. I can't get away from wanting to help people feel better. It's so important to me that I myself feels better, you should too. I want to say and do something for you - if you wanted me to. I have so many friends that suffer from issues and it makes me almost want to have that problem just to find out how to overcome it!
"Become a Faster EFT Practitioner" "Become an Energy Healer" yadda yadda yadda. Or more down to to earth how about going back to what I wanted to do before my babies were born: A master herbalist.
At the library I pulled Dr. Christopher's Every Woman's Herbal off the shelf for the 3rd time. At the back I "saw" for the first time: Dr. Christopher's School of Natural Healing. Really! I looked it up and it's a total can-do for me! I am so excited. I found a blog writer who actually offers $100 off for signing up using her affiliate link. I even have the blessings of Christian!
Oh, I know. Its a baby steps thing and maybe Master Herbalist is too far down the road at this point to talk about. But to actually start, oh, my. I already have 3 of his books!
As I go along I can get sidetracked after the Family Herbalist course (beginner) and grab a course in Reflexology, and or Iridology (while I love the idea I don't see myself there in that one) or Aromatherapy!!! (that is something I could get started on).
So this winter, during hibernation time I hope to get started on my way to be a Master Herbalist, well at least a Family Herbalist. I should blog about it, even just for the writing practice. After all I am a bit more grown up this year.
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