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SARAH THE SOUL SCOUT
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A BITTER LADY MAKING BITTER MEDICINE.
Hi, my name is Sarah and I'm an herbalist.
As an herbalist and embodiment teacher and student, I am most curious about bitterness, the bitter flavor, and herbal bitters. As a food and flavor, bitter is one of our taste profiles and we need bitter foods and flavors for a well rounded palate - plus a lot of healthy foods are bitter in flavor! Herbal bitters are medicinally used as a digestive aid before (or after) a meal to stimulate digestion. They are also popular in cocktail recipes as a flavor enhancement, both in alcoholic and "mocktail" beverages.
I'm bitter as a citizen of America because the only times I've felt like country united was in the months following 9/11 and during the current Covid-19 Pandemic - and even then, after the initial trauma of shock, we went back to hating each other again. During panic, I've seen compassion. During peace, I see war. I see an exhausted people who are sick and tired of being sick and tired. But learn how to turn bitter into bittersweet, and bittersweet into sweet. So most days, I operate on bittersweet, and despite the horrors of our history and faults with our modern world, I still enjoy the beauty of the little things, and count myself very blessed to be here.
As a woman, I'm bitter at both the real and perceived gender war between the masculine and feminine and how they are expressed across the genders. These expressions must be healed - together. We need to stop pretending we don't need each other. It's time to bring honor to your sex. I've put away the scared little girl -
today, I am a woman on fire.
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BITTERNESS MUST BE INTEGRATED
Bitterness unchecked will harden the heart, constrict the lungs, and cause tension both in the body and in relationships. Latent resentment, buried disgust, and dishonest fear will cause a slow deterioration of vitality.
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EMOTIONAL HERBALISM CLASSES
BITTERNESS + NAUSEA + HUNGER
Intro Tasting Bitterness Class is free on YouTube! The tasting bitterness class will be broken down over a longer course someday, but right now it's a part of an Emotional Herbalism series on 3 common uncomfortable emotions people experience: bitterness, nausea, and hunger.
IS MY BITTERNESS SLOWLY TURNING TO RESENTMENT?
In this class, we'll explore the flavor and emotion of bitterness using taste and biblical history, using religious ritual as an example for using bitter herb rituals in your personal life. The purpose of creating habits around exploring your own bitterness is to stay aware of this difficult emotion so it doesn't turn to resentment or malevolence unconsciously.
I FEEL SICK TO MY STOMACH... ALL THE TIME.
Do you experience chronic nausea? Sipping peppermint or ginger tea on the regular because your stomach is upset so often? Maybe there's something more going on than just physical symptoms. What are you not digesting well in your emotional life? We'll explore learning to tell the difference in nausea patterns, herbal and somatic remedies, and more.
EMOTIONAL VS. PHYSICAL HUNGER... WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?
In this class, we'll explore methods like intuitive and mindful eating, sensory and flavor meditations, cooking and land connection routines to get back in touch with your food and nourishment systems. We'll explore food as self love and responsibility, as well as how to identify what we're REALLY hungry for in life!
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INJUSTICE EMBITTERS LIVES.
8 Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. 9 And he said to his people, “Look, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we; 10 come, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and it happen, in the event of war, that they also join our enemies and fight against us, and so go up out of the land.” 11 Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh supply cities, Pithom and Raamses. 12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were in dread of the children of Israel. 13 So the Egyptians made the children of Israel serve with [d]rigor. 14 And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage—in mortar, in brick, and in all manner of service in the field. All their service in which they made them serve was with rigor.
Exodus 1: 8-14 (NKJV)
injustice is real.
reality is reason enough to be bitter.
but bitterness dims our light when left untreated.
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