The Healthy Herb Podcast

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The Healthy Herb Podcast explores the world of home herbalism to help you build greater health, resilience, and joy in everyday life. Whether you’re just getting started with herbs or deep into your plant path, each episode offers grounded, practical wisdom you can apply right away. Though the show is no longer releasing new episodes, the archive is packed with timeless tips, herbal insights, and empowering conversations. Binge now and reconnect with the healing power of plants.

  1. FEB 12

    A Super Food for Menopausal Women: heart, cognitive, digestive and hormonal health in one yummy food

    Brighid discusses the humble beet as a super food for menopausal women. This common food has many benefits. It improves cardiovascular, brain, hormone, digestive, joint and libido health. Discover them anyways that beets can make you healthier and fun ways to prepare it! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    57 min

  2. FEB 5

    Healthy Menopause: Raw or Cooked Food? What is best for nutrition?

    Now that we have covered what foods are best to eat for menopausal women, we need to know what the best ways to prepare them are. Are raw vegetables better than cooked vegetables? How do we get the most nutrition and easiest assimilation of foods? Brighid discusses 5 ways to best prepare food.  She also reads an excerpt from the book Botanical Medicine for Women's Health by Aviva Romm.  Brighid offers her favorite beet salad recipe and why it an important vegetable for menopausal women to eat. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    54 min

  3. JAN 29

    Healthy Menopause: Top 5 Foods for Menopausal Women

    Learn the top 5 food categories that are important for menopausal women to eat to ease uncomfortable symptoms and build health. Do you already eat these foods?  How can you get more of them into your diet?  Why are they important for building health as we age?  Plus Brighid shares about gifts of menopausal emotional swings and a lemon tahini dressing recipe. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    43 min

  4. JAN 21

    Healthy Menopause: Optimum Nutrition part 1

    What is optimum nutrition for the menopausal years? This episode discusses nutrition basics, beneficial for everyone. What is the ideal diet for health? Listen to find out! It's simple and delicious. Plus a bonus recipe at the end of the episode for an easy weeknight vegetable dish. Brighid starts the episode with an excerpt from Susun Weed's book The New Menopausal Years:  The Wise Woman Way.  She then speaks about where her personal perspectives on healthy eating derive from, what she considers the healthiest diet, tips and tricks to get there and a recipe for Sweet Potato Brown Rice Fritters. Enjoy! If you like this episode, please rate and review on your podcast app and share it with a friend who would like it too!  Thank you!     Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    34 min

  5. JAN 15

    Healthy Menopause series: Introduction, defining peri-menopause and menopause

    Healthy Menopause series introduction. This is the first episode in a new series of The Healthy Herb Podcast that is all about how to be healthy and thrive in our menopausal years. In this episode, Brighid delves into how menopause and perimenopause are defined, for better or worse.  She talks about the history of the definitions and the surprisingly recent look at the stages of menopause by the medical community. Enjoy this offering of information and inspiration for women who want to move through menopause with health, vitality and personal power. Send an email to solidagoherbschool@gmail.com with questions, stories or resources that you want Brighid to share with this growing community.   Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    1 hr

  6. 10/30/2024

    The Roots and Herbs of Halloween

    Discover the Celtic folklore and wisdom behind Halloween and herbs that are associated with the holiday including apple, rose, hawthorn, mint, sage, rosemary, mugwort, and elecampane, plus excerpts from Herbal Rituals by Judith Berger are read. Botanical Anthology Autumn HerbRally Nourishing Infusions course Herbs with full podcast episodes: rose, hawthorn, sage, rosemary, mugwort, elecampane instagram facebook website email me: solidagoherbschool@gmail.com   Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    1h 6m

  7. 03/28/2024

    Coffee: History, Folklore, and Medicine

    Discover the story of coffee through its history, folklore, and medicine. Learn more about coffee with The Plant Wonder Collective on their instagram and on their patreon Study Circle. Find Brighid on instagram, website, and Facebook. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    1h 3m

  8. 03/05/2024

    Have an Epic Herb-Inspired Spring Day

    Come along on an epic herb inspired spring day. Harvest and eat wild food, make a spring tonic syrup, create herb journals, read herb fairy stories, make tea, plan an herb garden for skin care, sip a cordial. Botanical Anthology Spring Edition 2024 Botanical Anthology print version Solidago Herb School Instagram Facebook Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    56 min
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The Healthy Herb Podcast explores the world of home herbalism to help you build greater health, resilience, and joy in everyday life. Whether you’re just getting started with herbs or deep into your plant path, each episode offers grounded, practical wisdom you can apply right away. Though the show is no longer releasing new episodes, the archive is packed with timeless tips, herbal insights, and empowering conversations. Binge now and reconnect with the healing power of plants.

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