Ep 182 Elle Jenkins - Creating a 'Seed to Packet' Business with Australian Medicinal Herbs

Do you fancy the idea of growing your own medicinal herbs for tinctures & tea Todays guest Elle from Australian Medicinal Herbs took the plunge following a career sidestep when she was diagnosed with PTSD & replaced a 17 year career in the police force with a seed to packet business that slowly but surely healed her trauma, engaged her girls & now helps people all over Australia. Today she shares her unfolding story  & offers practical guidance & wizened encouragement to get growing in order to take agency of your own health through the potency of healing herbs.“Life is change - all the small steps you take lead you to another door or another window”"Herbal medicine is slow medicine & our bodies have adapted to this for generations. Our bodies have certain responses to plants that they don’t to other medicines but we need to be connected & not detached"More Like This:Jane Stevens Futuresteading epCarolyn Parker Futuresteading epPod Partners Rock: Australian Medicinal Herbs 5% discount code - future5Support the ShowCasual Support - Buy Me A CoffeeRegular Support - PatreonBuy the Book - Futuresteading - live like tomorrow matters, Huddle - creating a tomorrow of togethernessWe talked about:From domestic violence policing to medicinal herb tincturesPTSD diagnosis after 17 years.Refocusing on her small children & her own healthHow permaculture opened her up to a new way of beingDiscovering the truth about our long supply chain food systemHerbs paved her path to healing post PTSDSeeing herbal remedies as MEDICINEMullein is her secret love Tulsi - a regulator which will find balanceTrusting that your body knows what to do with itself to build vitality“I don’t recognise the person I used to be  - if you take steps towards this, you will eventually get there, be brave enough to persist”Normalising ‘grounding practice’Pushing back on handing over our health autonomy to doctorsHave we normalised anxiety? What are the natural solutionsManaging the rocks in our trauma backpack so it doesn't thwart usMethodically building a life that is home based, nourishing & flows in a seasonal rhythmConnecting to land & place & looking at things as a whole systemEmpowering her daughters to live the life they are called to.Keeping the Futuresteading podcast alive - GRATITUDE!Support the show