Integrative health, nutrition, herbalism, and Christian trauma-informed coaching—tailored to your needs.
The practice
Healing Thistles is for women who are tired of being reduced to a symptom or a quick plan. The work is whole-person. It pays attention to the body and the nervous system, to the complexity of trauma, to food and clinical herbalism, and to the presence of God with the brokenhearted.
Clinical Herbalist & Life Coach
Trauma-informed mental health coaching and clinical herbalism for women living with the physiological effects of trauma, stress, and anxiety—the nervous system, fight-or-flight response, cortisol, and inflammation. Whole-person care—body, mind, heart, and story—and, when you welcome it, faith.
Offerings
Each area of care is valuable on its own. Together, they support more of the person—body, mind, and heart.
We consider sleep, stress, digestion, inflammation, movement, and the habits that restore or deplete each person. Integrative health looks at how these work together in your life. It is practical support, coordinated with—not instead of—your medical care.
Food is part of how mood, sleep, and the nervous system find a steadier rhythm. Nutrition coaching covers how food supports the body, including inflammation, blood sugar, and daily energy.
Herbal support is chosen to assist the body, not to override it. Clinical herbalism offers plant support chosen with care for your constitution, medications, and season. It is never a substitute for needed treatment.
Coaching is skilled support for women living with the aftereffects of trauma, stress, and anxiety. It is not clinical psychotherapy, and faith is integrated when desired.
“He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.”Psalm 147:3
A gathered heart
Healing is not the mind overruling the body, or the body silencing the mind. It is mind, body, and heart brought back together, so healing can take root.
Why the thistle
The milk thistle is both guarded and medicinal. Its spines are not a failure of softness; they are how the plant keeps what is tender. In this practice, protection is honored. So is the possibility that what once had to be sharp may, in time, become a place of healing.
Inside the opened flower, beneath the thorns, the seeds wait. That is where the plant keeps what is most potent—the part long trusted to help the body release what it no longer needs. Reaching them is not a gentle errand. The bracts catch the hand. Still, what is hidden there has always asked for patience: a costly way in, and a cleansing worth the cost.
This is not a promise of easy restoration. It is an invitation to walk, with wisdom and faith, toward wholeness.
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