Pine: One of the Best Herbs for Processing Grief

<p>It’s grief season again when all the feels come up and the year's losses become more palpable and clear.</p> <p>As a clinical herbalist with over 15 years of experience, I have found Pine to be a very helpful herb in processing grief.</p> <p>Pine opens the lungs and airways as a bronchodilator thanks to alpha-pinene and other volatile oils.</p> <p>This can help us take a deep breath and begin to reach into the darker spaces inside the heart, lungs, and chest.</p> <p>Pine also has anxiolytic and anti-depressant qualities, so it can help lift and ground us while we dive into these pools of grief.</p> <p>My favorite way to use pine is to steam it on the stovetop in a large pot of water.</p> <p>Just take some boughs or branches and place them in hot water and keep the temperature low enough, so it steams without boiling.</p> <p>Refill the pot with water every few hours.</p> <p>You can pour this Pine tea into a mug and drink it. Pine is high in Vitamin C and will reach right into the heart with its evergreen wisdom.</p> <p>Grief is hard to bear alone, so call in this evergreen plant friend (isn’t that a wonderful image to hold during loss, the evergreen spirit?) to support you this holiday season 🌲</p> <p>Recommended Book: "Herbal Rituals" by Judith Berger https://www.blurb.com/b/9715213-herbal-rituals</p> <p>UrbanDevi Women's Retreat April 17-24, 2023, in Playa Negra, Costa Rica: https://bhakticenter.org/urbandeviretreat/</p> <p>Save $200 on the Roots and Spheres Course through the Nightlight Astrology Kickstarter 2023: <br /> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nightlight2020/nightlight-daily-horoscopes-2023</p>