🌀 Path to Practitioner Potency is open — if you're an herbalist ready to close the gap between what you learned in school and what actually works in the clinic room, this is where you build real confidence and real skills. Learn more and join here: https://www.skool.com/path-to-practitioner-potency-3445/about 🌀Ginseng for Fatigue & Natural Birth Wisdom with Doula SonnyA red ginseng energy experiment, then a doula's take on birth, fear, and the postpartum void. This episode is really two conversations in one. First, Lila and guest Sonny Dahood, a doula and herbalist based in New Hampshire, break down a two-week red ginseng experiment Sonny ran for fatigue. She reports unexpected wins beyond just energy, including deeper sleep, fewer sugar cravings, and a "clean" motivated feeling with none of the jitteriness she usually gets from stimulants. Lila explains why ginseng, despite its energizing reputation, can actually be one of the best sedatives in the herbal toolkit when the picture is right.Then the conversation shifts entirely into Sonny's work as a doula. She and Lila get into home birth versus hospital birth, the fear and stigma around out of hospital birth, the systemic issues baked into modern maternity care, and why the way we're born may shape our health for decades. They also cover placenta preservation, herbs used to support labor like black and blue cohosh, postpartum Ayurvedic care, and the postpartum depression and anxiety that so often goes unaddressed once the focus shifts entirely to the baby.What We Cover:Part 1: The Ginseng ExperimentWhy Lila reaches for red ginseng specifically, and how it differs from American ginsengSonny's day by day experience with ginseng: energy, motivation, cravings, and sleepThe lesser known link between ginseng and better sleep, straight from Michael Tierra's teachingsDosing ginseng, from saturation dose to long term maintenancePart 2: Doula Work & BirthWhat drew Sonny to doula work and her own home birth journeyHome birth vs hospital birth outcomes, interventions, and the fear narrative around eachHow the medical model designs care around edge cases instead of the average birthThe push toward more autonomy in hospital births, and what's still stuck in the old modelHerbs used to support labor, including black and blue cohosh, red raspberry leaf, and evening primrosePlacenta preservation options: encapsulation, salves, prints, and burialWhy the generational trauma of depleted birth may be compounding across generationsPostpartum depression, postpartum anxiety, and how the system checks on baby but forgets mom ✨ Want to learn more about Sonny's work? ✨ 🌿 Visit her website: https://sonshineraine.com/ Links and Resources:🪬 Pattern Assessment Quiz → https://tally.so/r/n05N1y🪷 Work Together → https://my.practicebetter.io/#/668479726434574754765a95/bookings?s=6824ecf3c407a619c22bcefa&step=date🌿 Website → https://tvnhc.com🧪 Herb Drug Master Class With KP Khalsa → https://buy.stripe.com/aFafZgcjr2HM95og019Ve0b
