Expanding Offerings Here at The Nettle Witch, MD

Health coaching and new features for paid subscribers

How do we live in the space between what is and what could be? How much do we accept what is and live within its constraints? How much do we challenge the system to create the system that comes next? As an inveterate idealist, I find myself wandering this space rather often. As someone with a big imagination in a crumbling industry, I feel a strong pull toward creating a map for and with others toward what is to a new way of operating in the world. This vision isn’t so much about healthcare specifically. It’s about exploring where the culture is repairable and where it needs to be knocked down and rebuilt. It’s about exploring leaving our current culture of sterility and returning to a culture of fertility. It’s about meaning, belonging, and enchantment.

I want to bring The Nettle Witch, MD's specific vision of healing out into the world more. If you’re looking for someone who can support your physical, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing, and would like to beta test my health coaching services at a significantly discounted cost, please reach out via email or DM on Substack. To get started, I’m looking for about 5-10 people to help me fine tune my approach. To be clear, I will not be ordering lab tests or prescribing medication (at least not until I figure out how much malpractice insurance costs for a solo practitioner). My vision of health is also not about biohacks or longevity. This is about reconnecting to the earth, to our communities, to ourselves, to meaning, to magic.

If any of you are feeling intrepid, I’m also looking for volunteers for an experiment. I'd love to interview you (anonymously) as a sort of holistic check-up. Then we'd share a few of the challenges and joys of your life as it is and explore where something could shift to help you feel more enchanted with/in your life. Based on those shifts I'd “prescribe” 1-3 action items for people facing similar seasons of life. It wouldn’t be totally confidential like a doctor’s appointment would, but more like a community service because many of us find ourselves hung up on similar challenges. You would have full approval prior to publishing. This series would be published for paid subscribers. If you’re interested in learning more, please comment, email, or DM me.

This is a pheasant nest in my yard. A perfect example of the fertility and renewal of this time of year.

I'm also expanding my paid offerings here on Substack. The way I look at it, the free subscription will offer the theory, the ideas I'm wrangling with, creative writing, and continue the plant encyclopedia. In addition, I’m creating a Healthcare Skill Share, a compilation of existing high-quality online resources about first aid, with additional video supplements from me where needed. It will also include my salve and tincture making videos and some new videos about how to ID the plants you need to make medicine.

Paid subscriptions get more into the practice. Here are some upcoming topics we’ll be exploring:

• The specifics of how to reclaim our attention (and how to do a sit-spot or a wonder wander)

• Use of creative practices to thrive

• How to eat to support your gut microbiology

• Inulin!!!

• Engaging in natural movement and moving meditations

• How to create meaningful rituals

• My experiments with traditional handicrafts and why you might want to

• How to build engaged community and connections in real life

• Wherever my curiosity moves from what and why to how

If you’re feeling ready to step out of pleasant, numb neutrality to experience the wonders and the heartbreaks of this world, I hope you’ll consider joining us. Sometimes when the mainstream way isn’t working, you just have to step off that path, sit by the fire, and sing a song. Perhaps our song will stir the hearts of others enough that they’ll accompany us in imagining another way.