92. Finding Balance Through Feminine Softness: Cassie Hower on Self Care with Herbs

The Elder Tree Podcast

Cassie Hower is a Clinical Herbalist, Flower Essence Practitioner and Plant Medicine Maker with a deep passion for the natural world. She is an Earth Medicine Practitioner and is passionate about keeping the earth and plant world at the forefront of her mind when working with clients.

Cassie believes we were born to live in alignment with nature and that connection to nature is foundational in living a vital, happy and healthy life. Alongside nature connection, she offers her clients food and dietary suggestions, lifestyle adjustments, individualised herbal medicine treatment and flower essence therapy along with a loving and supportive nature to help guide these changes to become a life long practice.

Food and nutrition has been a big part of Cassie’s plant medicine journey- after experiencing gut related health issues in her late teens and early twenties, she made many positive changes to her diet. These changes were heavily influenced by tuning in and listening to her body and what felt good.

Cassie shares how a breast cancer diagnosis when her youngest child was just 4 months old, was the trigger for her increasing interest in plant medicine- seeking some balance after experiencing cancer treatment.

During her herbal medicine studies, Cassie describes feeling quite disconnected from the herbs and shares that it wasn’t until COVID lockdowns when she found herself spending lots of time in nature in the bushland surrounding her house that a deep connection with the plants began to form.

For Cassie self care is all about increasing vitality and bringing in more pleasure and she shares how she’s much better now at hearing the whispers from her body when this is necessary.

Cassie shares how tapping into her feminine softness and the rhythms and cycles of her body helps to shape what self care looks like for her. She loves incorporating herbs into her daily routines using herbal infused oils and she shares some lovely recipes.

Cassie also shares her passion for flower essences and how creating and using these special medicines deepens her connection to the plants.

If you’re looking for ways to make self care a priority more consistently, you might like to join my supportive circle Restore your Nervous System beginning this Spring- be sure to listen to the end for a special discount.

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You can connect with Cassie via her website here and on instagram here

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During this episode, Jess shares details on the upcoming release of her live online offering Restore your Nervous System, released Spring 2024- if you’d like to learn how to nurture and nourish yourself using herbs, flower essences and food as medicine, you can join here and enjoy a 10% discount with code SELFCARE, I really hope you’ll join me!

**SHOW NOTES**

Cassie shares her journey with Heidi Merika’s courses and books- you can find out more about Heidi here

Cassie also shares a course she is currently studying with Stephanie Hazel, host of our Sacred Herbalism segment. You can find out more about Stephanie here

Jess and Cassie met through Estuary Learning, you can find out more here

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