Selima & Tami of Iwilla Remedy

When you first started learning herbalism, did it feel like this?

“I love herbs… but where do I even start?”
“I feel like I have to become an encyclopedia of herbs to learn this.”
“I’m more of a hands-on learner than a book learner.”

This is one of the most common struggles I hear from people beginning their herbal journey.

In this video, I show you a simple framework for studying herbalism that makes everything start to click.

Start here: https://youtu.be/A0jMZSPrmvs

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Soft Is Strong Too is an in-person, interactive herbal experience created especially for Black mothers who have learned to be strong—often at the expense of rest, ease, and their own bodies’ signals.

This workshop offers a supportive space to slow down, exhale, and explore herbal care as an accessible, everyday tool for nervous system support and self-tending.

Together, we’ll talk honestly about stress—how it lives in the body, how it accumulates over time, and how constant responsibility shapes our health and aging. Through guided discussion, sensory practices, and simple body-based check-ins, we’ll explore what it means to listen inward and how to notice what your body is asking for in real time.

The heart of the workshop is hands-on medicine making. Participants will learn about a curated selection of calming, supportive plants that help the body receive, soften, and shift out of fight-or-flight.

Together, we’ll create a versatile herbal blend that can be used in multiple ways, practical medicine you can return to again and again. We’ll also explore gentle aromatic practices, including scent and steam, as simple ways to signal safety to the nervous system and invite rest back into the body.

@mentalblkmom and I hope to see you there!

Get tix here -> www.eventbrite.com/e/the-herbal-reset-a-mentalblkm…

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Day 1 at Organic Growers School Spring Conference complete! I was pleasantly surprised to teach to a full and overflowing room! Who knew so many people would be interested in learning about the benefits of bitter plants. Thanks to all who attended for your curiosity, questions, laughs and courage…taste testing gentian root is not for the weak 😂

So I cover a lot in the talk from how bitter plants support our bodies to how they have and are being engineered out of our food. In discussing what we have lost I have a section about cultural devaluation, I’d like to share below:

“There is another dimension to this conversation that goes beyond access and into value because it isn’t only that certain communities were denied grocery stores and healthier food choices. It’s also that their food knowledge was often dismissed.

Many traditional foodways in Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color have long included bitter greens, roots, and herbs, turnip and collard greens, sorrel, bitter melon, and countless regional variations. They were cultivated through land-based knowledge, seasonal awareness, and generational wisdom.
Bitterness, in many of these traditions, was understood as strengthening, blood cleansing, grounding and protective. But in dominant food culture, these same foods were frequently labeled “poverty food” associated with lack rather than wisdom. 

When a food is stigmatized, it becomes something you want to distance yourself from. As communities gain economic mobility, there is often pressure to abandon the foods associated with past hardship, perceived or otherwise.

Meanwhile, those same ingredients are later “rediscovered,” rebranded, and sold at premium prices in wellness spaces, detached from the cultural contexts that preserved them.

What we eat is never just nutritional. We can’t separate our diets from history and cultural legacy or ancestral intelligence. Our modern food system reflects who is valued, whose knowledge is protected, and whose is dismissed. If we are serious about restoring health, we have to be just as serious about restoring context.”

❤️❤️❤️

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Thank you for the love! There's still time to register and tune into the weeklong free herbal gathering! Swipe to check out tomorrow's sessions.

Link to register for free 👉🏾 iwillaremedy--herbalismconferences.thrivecart.com/…

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Tomorrow we begin.

The 2026 Virtual Herbalism Conference opens its doors for a full week of free masterclasses, potent conversations, and plant wisdom from 39 beloved herbalists. Body, mind, spirit, lineage, community — this is herbalism in its wholeness.

Join us live… and if you want lifetime access to all 30 sessions, bonuses, and the Rooted Routines course, be sure to secure your VIP pass.

See you inside. 🌿

Link to register for free 👉🏾 iwillaremedy--herbalismconferences.thrivecart.com/…

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It’s here! I’m delighted to share the first look at the 2026 Virtual Herbalism Conference hosted by Herbal Academy, a gathering rooted in this year’s guiding theme: Wholeness.

In herbalism, wholeness is more than a concept. It’s a way of seeing the world.
This conference is a celebration of that integrative wisdom: where body, mind, spirit, plants, and people all meet in harmony.

And it’s an extraordinary lineup of herbalists and healers speaking at the upcoming conference – whose work embodies this fullness of practice and perspective!

And the best part? You’re invited to completely and generously join for free!

Register here 👉🏽 iwillaremedy--herbalismconferences.thrivecart.com/…

Link also in bio!

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Selima & Tami of Iwilla Remedy

Have you ever taken Ashwagandha and wondered why it helped someone else… but felt confusing for you?

Is it actually about the herb, or about who it’s for and who it’s not?

I break this down in my latest video, including how Ashwagandha can affect stress, anxiety, hormones, sleep, and why experiences can vary so widely.

If you’ve ever questioned whether this herb is really a fit for your body, the full explanation is in the video 🌿

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GIVEAWAY ALERT 📚 We all love herb books, right?! 📚

Today Herbal Academy has something truly special to share, an Herbal Bookshelf Giveaway, featuring 12 books written by speakers from the 2026 Virtual Herbalism Conference, including Sajah Popham, Rosemary Gladstar, Cat Seixas, Felicia Cocotzin Ruiz, and more! 

Register for the giveaway, and one lucky winner will be chosen to receive these incredible herbal texts!

May the odds be forever in your favor!

iwillaremedy--herbalismconferences.thrivecart.com/…

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When people talk about Ashwagandha benefits, do you feel clear… or more confused?

Some people feel calmer and more grounded.
Others feel tired, flat, or unsure if it’s helping at all.

In the new video, I walk through why Ashwagandha works differently some, how to think about context, and what actually matters when working with this herb as a herbalist.

If you’ve ever tried it or considered it, your questions are answered in the video 💚

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Need a Podcast Recommendation? 🌿
Listen in for a fabulous conversation with Herbal Academy lead educators Lindsey Feldpausch, RH(AHG), Selima Harleston Lust, MA, and Pamela Spence on the topic of Holistic Herbalism for Interconnected Health ~ it's on Mountain Rose Herbs Herb Radio now!

https://youtu.be/vZ9NyWnYng4

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