What is Mental/Emotional Wellness in this Modern World?

What is Mental/Emotional Wellness in this Modern World?

July 22, 2026

 One of the key elements which can be found in all of these promising healing modalities - from traditional shamanic healing, to clinical EMDR sessions, to somatic experiencing therapies - is the repetition of whole and fulfilling practices combined with accelerators. Many of the most exciting new projects supporting mental health do just that. 

   An exciting development in the front line in supporting mental health combines our pervasive use of technology with holistic therapies that have been shown to forge and fortify new pathways in our brains —> making way for recalling ancestral wisdom and having the mental / emotional bandwidth to hear the call back to Earth. Newly launched, Medicinal Media is providing exciting steps on finding our ways back to fulfillment and mental health rather than numbing to cope. It was founded partially by the LALA - or Dr. Lisa Michelle Wilson - Foundation, and is yet another example of humanity finding ways back to Earth.

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5 Minute Postpartum protein waffles (with medicinal 🌿 Plantas)

5 Minute Postpartum protein waffles (with medicinal 🌿 Plantas)

May 18, 2026

This Apple Cinamon Oats protein waffle recipe is generally affordable, easy to prepare, and filling in all of the right ways. Making a double or triple batch to leave behind, frozen in a tuperware for your client to just post in the toaster is very popular with clients as well!

  Now, ya'll know i' measure by memory + feeling, but here goes;

Ingredients:

🌾 3 cups (ish) non gmo flour
🌿 1 handful whole non gmo Oats
🧪 1 heaping tabelspoon baking poder
🍏 1 Apple, peeled and finely chopped 

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Anécdotal Tips, Recommended Reading, and Herbal 🌿 Allies for Breastfeeding

Anécdotal Tips, Recommended Reading, and Herbal 🌿 Allies for Breastfeeding

March 13, 2026

Anécdotal Tips, Recommended Reading, and Herbal 🌿 Allies for Breastfeeding

Breastfeeding Supprot + Resources by brittany

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Notes on Cultural Appropriation

Notes on Cultural Appropriation

March 08, 2026

Notes on Cultural Appropriation

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A few notable Grant opportunities (including due dates + where to apply) for Doulas and Reproductive 🌿 Wellness Advocates

A few notable Grant opportunities (including due dates + where to apply) for Doulas and Reproductive 🌿 Wellness Advocates

March 02, 2026

  Being well-supported económicly, as well as recognized for your hard work grows both your inspiratión and abilities. And, while having your application or proposal accepted can be exhilarating, it's important to remember that on average you will hear at least ten "no"s before you hear one "yes". When you are not awarded a grant or outside funding You applied for, it can still be a wonderful opportunity to receive constructive feedback, as well as to begin building your relationships with relavent organizations.....

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2026 Grant and Other Funding Opportunities for Survivors

2026 Grant and Other Funding Opportunities for Survivors

March 02, 2026

 When you are not awarded a grant or outside funding, it can still be a wonderful opportunity to receive constructive feedback, and also to begin building your relationship with possible future funding opportunities and/ or applicable resources.

Below, please find a few of our favorite reminders for your application process;

  •  Clearly profess your cause, as well as the solution(s) your proposal offers to the identified cause, early on in your proposal. If You do not catch your readers' attention early on it can be difficult to keep them engaged in your proposal.
  •  Project sustainability !! Clearly....

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FAQs - OIS Skills Immersion Retreats with Earth 🌍

FAQs - OIS Skills Immersion Retreats with Earth 🌍

March 02, 2026

  Our Skills 🌿 Immersion Retreats in Perú are family friendly, and include investments into local indigenous communities right where we learn, dance, and pray.

   Check out these FAQs surrounding our Skills Immersions with Amazonía, Quechua Nation, and moving through Perú's 🇵🇪 múltiple geographic regions.

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A few Resources for Reconnecting with our indigenous Nations of Europe

A few Resources for Reconnecting with our indigenous Nations of Europe

February 21, 2026

Remembering our pre Abrahamic indigenous Ancestors who we're born to Lands now called 'Europe'

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The Medicinal Cotton Tree, Herbal Ally for Survivors

The Medicinal Cotton Tree, Herbal Ally for Survivors

October 15, 2025

  With over 40 relatives in the Cotton family, we can look to them to provide head to tow support for the Survivors. How many generations have survived because of Cotton? Through the winters, tapestrys containing recipes and Instructions woven on a loom, spun in fine chalk living the Coconut Shell. How many Humans have died because of Cotton, elslaved, toturred, trafficked and murdered.

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A Nourishing Stew Recipe (Spoiler Alert!...There is no recipe)

A Nourishing Stew Recipe (Spoiler Alert!...There is no recipe)

October 15, 2025

Recently, during an Herbalism Class Lecture, an attendee asked a brilliant question, following a tiny tangente on the many outstanding benefits of Lionś Mane Mushrooms. Their question was regarding any favorite stew recipes I have which incorpórate Lionś Mane Mushroom. This got brain sparked up, with wanting to share me favorite stew recipe of all time; the 

         FEEL YOUR BODY STEW

  ´Feel your body´stew is not new, but instead is the SAME old recipe that´s been done a thousand million ways since Humanity began to cook with heat. 

   We start out with just one key medicinally nutritional members of the Plant Nations, for our purposes today that shall be Lionś Mane Mushroom. In addition to their ability to support Human cognitive functioning through the growth of new healthy nerve pathways, Lionś Mane Mushroom is a wonderful source of proteína and amuno ácidos.

 

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Singing Your Medicine, 🌿 Herbal Respiratory Support

Singing Your Medicine, 🌿 Herbal Respiratory Support

October 14, 2025

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Original Instructions Full Spectrum Doula 🌿 FAQS

Original Instructions Full Spectrum Doula 🌿 FAQS

October 01, 2025

Why is Herbalism such an integral portion of our Full Spectrum Doula currículum?

  Pregnancy is a time in a woman's life when she must take up all of her strength, count her blessings, and go to battle in order to bring back her child(ren). She must be willing, just as a warrior .......

 At Original Instructions School are persistently dedicated to the quality and truly holistic education of our students. We understand that the basic knowledge of how to recognize, interact with, and benefit from nutritive herbal medicine and foods that are readily available in your area is not the intellectual property of anyone but belongs to all Human Begins.

   In order for Doulas to act as a true resource and advocate for mothers and their families we believe that they require at least a basic understanding of how to nourish, support and cleanse the female body in the same way our foremothers have for generations;

 with the help of medicinal foods, teas, steams, and baths.

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