The Gutsy Herbalist
HERBS. NUTRITION. INTUITION.HEALING
Welcome to Your Healing Journey.
Gutsy Herbalist was birthed to bridge a love of gut health, herbal medicine, and the body's ability to heal with the main focus on helping mothers, women, families, and communities regain their vibrancy and prevent chronic disease.
Let us heal ourselves, so we can heal our families, heal our communities, and heal the world.
Why a Functional or Holistic Approach?
Healthcare is a billion-dollar industry with the latest cutting-edge science and pharmacies stocked with meds - and yet still no healing and we are the sickest we've ever been as a society. What gives?
Functional and holistic medicine are different.Functional medicine understands the body is connected and works to address the root of what is going on.
Functional medicine asks "Why are these symptoms happening in the first place and how do we address those so healing can occur?
Imagine a garden plant, sickly, yellow, limp, and falling over. Conventional medicine comes along, and paints the leaves green and stakes the plant to stand up straight - address the symptoms. Functional medicine asks "What is going on with the root system, does this plant need amendments, is it getting enough sunlight and water? Functional medicine works to get the plant to flourish on its own.
Working together with me is exactly that. My goal is to explain to you why your body is having symptoms, why the flares, the brain fog, the fatigue, the something that just isn't right, and then we work together on the action steps to get your body thriving again like it knows how to do. Just like adding good compost and sunlight to a wilted plant brings it back to vibrancy, addressing your fundamental needs allows you to flourish like you were designed to.
If you're tired of hearing "This is how it is" or "Here's another med to try" or you know deep in your bones there's a different way...you've found the right place.
Welcome to your healing. Now let's flourish.
🌻 You know there is another way of doing things, but you're unsure of how to get started
🌻You've been passed off from doctor to doctor without answers
🌻You're feeling run down, fatigued, exhausted, or just not feeling yourself and wanting your energy back
🌻You've hormones are acting up or you have a hormone condition
🌻You've been told surgery is the only option
🌻You've been struggling with Hashi's, Endo, IBS, SIBO, other GI dysfunction, adrenal fatigue, or other similar conditions and needing support
🌻You have skipped, irregular, heavy, or painful periods
🌻You feel like your body or mind is always against you or broken
🌻You're wanting to be your healthiest self to avoid chronic illness
🌻You feel "off" and don't know why
Is this for you?
Why I feel called to do this work.
I feel called to do this work, and I mean that from the deepest part of my bones, like my body won't let me do anything else. And lucky me, I love it.
When I worked in hospitals I saw a lot of medicine and almost no healing. I saw people stabilize and go home, only to come right back in with the same complaints. There seemed to be no answers, just more medications, that caused more side effects.
I could see the defeat as people put all of their trust into the system only never to figure out how to feel better. Sound familiar?
When my own health started acting up, like a "good girl" I went to my primary care doctor. I talked for about three minutes about my GI complaints and anxiety before I was interrupted and offered FOUR medications and to have my gallbladder removed. Something felt off, I never filled my meds and never went back.
I began researching reflux, irritable bowel symptoms, depression, and anxiety symptoms and discovered they were not separate, but indeed all connected. From that day forward I started deep diving into nutrition, stress reduction practices, meditation, ancestral and herbal medicine - a decade later I wound up here.
Where's here? Here is a space where I listen to your full unapologetically beautiful story. Here is a space where I help you untangle what is causing your symptoms and provide education on why your body is responding the way it is and how you can realign. Here is where when you say "Something doesn't feel right" and I believe you. Here is where we find the root cause and address it as opposed to slapping band-aids on. Here is where you start feeling alive again.
I do this work because I am TIRED of seeing people feel unwell only to be ignored, offered new medications, and pushed out the revolving door while big companies make big money with no big results. I believe when you heal, your families heal, your community heals and eventually, the world heals.
Here's to being GUTSY and healing.
Hannah
I'm Hannah. I'm a wife, mom, herbalist, functional nutritionist, avid journaler, ex-nurse, gardener, good food lover, hiker, bookworm, and forever student.
This is my decade-long and counting healing journey that took me from hiding in bed and too tired to cook dinner for my daughter, to living a full life with vibrancy, joy, full energy...and still growing.
I created Gutsy Herbalist because I saw the divide between science and the sacred and had a dream to bridge them together to help moms and busy women turn the lights back on and become their own healers.
A bit about me.
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