PLEASURE AS THE PRESCRIPTION with Master Herbalist Kelsey Barrett

We are back and so grateful to welcome cosmic sister and healer Kelsey Barrett to Soundfood.  Our conversation opens up a portal into the healing realms of pleasure and taps into the tendermost layers of the psycho-emotional body. Whether you are celebrating Valentines or not;  Kelsey’s whole being reverberates so powerfully with beauty and Eros that your heart is bound to soften, expand and heal with us in this one. Kelsey Barrett is a clinical herbalist based in San Diego. Focusing on detoxification, density nutrition, and chronic illness, Kelsey uses her own intuition and clinical expertise to reveal the deepest roots of disease and foster intimacy with self, health and the natural world. Her herbal and environmental insights have been published in Vogue, Edible East Bay, GOOD Magazine and Gestalten, and she is currently Director of Herbal Education at Verse, a three year online clinical herbalism certification program. Our conversation covers everything from Kelsey’s rocknroll roots, to how she discovered the path of Clinical Herbalism, studying at Esalen Institute with the masters, the connection between our emotions and physiology, and the inspiration behind her online clinical herbalism certification program. Kelsey shares her own herbal non negotiables, why consistency matters, and how connecting with your ancestry can have a powerful effect on your health. She highlights how important welcoming intimacy and play is to a wellness routine and shares how she can literally see the truth in others.  She demystifies some of the current wellness fads and offers practical, informed feedback on how we can begin to utilize the healing powers of plants to transform our daily lives.  Thank you, Kelsey, for being so open, grounded, and luscious. We love you!    CONNECT Kelsey Barrett: Website | IG Host @nitsacitrine @soundfoodspace Subscribe to Mercurial Mail (our monthly newsletter)   MENTIONED Scarlet Sage Herb Co  Kelsey’s Spotify Playlist Verse mountainroseherbs.com Honey Mama’s  Matthew Wood — Herbalist  Esalen Mark Whitwell  TriHealth Ayurveda  Dr. Singha’s Mustard Bath  OSEA  Living Libations  American Herbalists Guild  Theodore Payne    YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE: EP. 85: AWAKENING SPRING VITALITY with Colin Hudon EP. 78: PLANTS FOR THE PEOPLE with Herbalist Erin Lovell Verinder EP. 35:  The Sacred Language of Plants with Kate Clearlight   NOURISH This podcast is made possible by your donations and the symbiotic support of our partners: Offer a donation to us here   LIVING LIBATIONS: enjoy 15% off all botanical beauty alchemy with this link https://livinglibations.com/soundfood (discount automatically applied) MIKUNA: enter SOUNDFOODFAMILY for 25% off clean, single-sourced plant protein products Mikunafoods.com LIVING TEA:  SOUNDFOOD for 15% off all tea nourishment  livingtea.net SUPERFEAST: enter CITRINE for 10% off our favorite tonic herbs + superfoods superfeast.com  OSEA: enter CITRINE for 10% off oseamalibu.com sea-to-skin magic CHRISTY DAWN: 15NITSA for 15% off farm-to-closet  christydawn.com LAMBS: use code CITRINE for 10% off your EMF protective gear  getlambs.com   P.S. We would be so grateful if you felt inspired to leave us a review on APPLE OR SPOTIFY!