This week we’d like you to meet Ashley Bissonnette-Murphy, who is one of our Clinical Mentorship students. Ashley is advanced in her mentorship, and she’s been seeing her own clients in our Student Clinic and Free Clinic for a year. She does great work!

You can find Ashley at hwapothicaire.com and on social media at @hwapothicaire. Definitely jump on her mailing list to get her excellent monthly newsletters!

We mentioned our free Herbal Business Productivity mini-course in this episode. It’s part of our comprehensive Herbal Business Program!

And if you’re interested in becoming a clinical herbalist, you can learn more about the education you’ll need, how to get it, and what the process looks like here: Build a Career as a Clinical Herbalist.

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This is the fourth in a series about herbal businesses. These videos cover what each kind of herbal business is and what kind of work you’d be doing, what kinds of education and experience you’ll need to get it started, and a few tips to help you along the way.

This video focuses on building a Compounding Herbal Apothecary – but as you’ll hear right up front, part of this now involves avoiding calling it an “apothecary”, because that word is regulated in every state. 😱 (Don’t worry, Katja has a dozen business-naming suggestions to get you started!)

A compounding apothecary (whatever we call it) is someone who makes custom products for clinical herbalists’ clients and ships them out. That way, a clinical herbalist can focus on clinical herbaling, and someone who makes really great medicines can focus on making the blends that each individual client needs! We don’t have to do it all – we can collaborate with each other! 💓

Interested in starting a different kind of business? Check out our episodes on starting an herbal products business, starting an herb shop, and starting a clinical herbalism business.

The courses mentioned in this episode include:

• The Herbal Business Program – which covers every aspect of GMP compliance, as well as every other part of running your business, from getting registered, paying taxes, and getting insurance to building your website and marketing without selling out – even hiring employees!
• The Family Herbalist Program (Materia Medica + Medicine Making)
• Foundations of Phytochemistry
• Fundamentals of Formulation
• The Community Herbalist Program
• Herb-Drug Interaction & Herb Safety

All of our courses include twice weekly live Q&A sessions and you can ask questions in the discussion thread attached to every lesson – we answer them ever day! Plus we have a student community where you can get support from other business herbies too!

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Discomfort and evasion are natural responses to our world. Our ancestors, from a single-celled organism up to Mitochondrial Eve, all survived only because they had strong drives to avoid uncomfortable and dangerous situations. But in our modern world, avoiding all discomforts can stunt our growth, or make us seem more fragile than we really are.

This is not about “grinding through” difficulty, or hurting ourselves in an effort to be “good”. After accounting for one’s own personal state of ability/mobility/resilience, and after accommodating one’s needs, and after receiving adequate nourishment and rest – then it is good to challenge ourselves, to face some discomfort and move through it.

Here are the key principles:

• Each step forward makes the next one easier.
• Choose your battles.
• Do this work from a place of strength.

And of course, herbs can help us along the way! Herbs can boost our endurance, settle our anxious minds, fortify our nerve[s], or help us enter and maintain the state of flow. Adaptogens, evergreens, yarrow, st john’s wort, solomon’s seal, kava, and calamus are some of our allies for this, and may serve you as well.

Mentioned in this episode:

• 190: Herbs A-Z: Glycyrrhiza & Gynostemma
• 014: Alternatives to Adaptogens for Burnout
• 072: Rooted & Ready Alterative/Adaptogen Herbal Formula for Endurance, Resilience, & Detox
• EVRY DAY YEAH: Herbal Tea for Workouts & Recovery

Ready to do some evasion-evaporating work, but want to line up some herbs for backup? Check out our Neurological & Emotional Health course. This course is a user’s guide to your nerves & your emotions – including the difficult and dark ones. We discuss holistic herbalism strategies for addressing both neurological & psychological health issues. It includes a lengthy discussion of herbal pain management strategies, too!

Like all our offerings, this is a self-paced online video course, which comes with free access to twice-weekly live Q&A sessions, lifetime access to current & future course material, twice-weekly live Q&A sessions with us, open discussion threads integrated in each lesson, an active student community, study guides, quizzes & capstone assignments, and more!

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You can find all of our online herbalism courses at online.commonwealthherbs.com!