S.2 - E.9 - Courageously Navigating Life and Going for Our Dreams with Grace MacNeil

Summary:

Grace MacNeil is a trained herbalist, an Arvigo therapist, and the founder of Monarch Apothecary where she creates artisan herbals and soaps using herbs sustainably, harvested and cultivated in a 24 acre farm in southern Indiana since 2006 for the local and internationally community. She is a Certified Advanced Holistic Doula through The Matrona, Certified Cupping therapist and Reiki practitioner. She is the co-founder of the Heartland School of Herbal Studies and mom to three grown children. She was born with an amniotic band syndrome and spent much of her childhood having reconstructive surgeries. Her interest in Plant Medicine started 1995 when she got pregnant from her first child and read the book Hygieia: “A Woman’s Herbal” by Jeannine Parvate Baker a herbalist from Utah. In 2000, she moved with her husband to North Carolina and began her professional herbal education training completing a 2 year and 400 hr certificate program in herbal medicine at the North Carolina School of Natural Healing with the herbalist Himani Ellis. Grace offers the Arvigo®Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy along with holistic assessment, herbal consultation, FIRE and biomagnetic cupping, self care massage instruction, and other supportive modalities such as: herbal remedies.

Show Notes:

  • When I became pregnant with my oldest son it was 1995  there was an herbalist in Utah, Jeannine Parvati Baker who is also a midwife who actually had written a book called Hygieia ‘A Woman’s Herbal” in my heart I knew I wanted to have my son at home and work with plants to heal the postpartum.

  • I had a calling that told me that I had to leave the mountains, that I had to take this medicine to places that were not being served so we ended moving to a farm in Southern New Hampshire where I taught herbal medicine in the school and offered my medicines for 5 years.

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