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🌿 Medical Herbalist & Shamanic Healer (30+ years). Empowering your unique life journey through plant medicine, sound healing and shamanic practices 💖

Sorrell Robbins

Plant Spirit Medicine Woman ⋅ Medical Herbalist ⋅ Cacaoista ⋅ Hypnotherapist ⋅ Reiki ⋅ Shamanic Healer ⋅ Teacher

Sorrell began her journey into the healing world of plant spirit medicine over 25 years ago, training as a Medical Herbalist at University, initially focusing on Western Herbal Medicine in a very scientific way, qualifying in 1999. Very early on her path as an apprenti

ce healer, experiences led her to discover and train in many other, and some more esoteric forms of healing including Hypnotherapy, Hypnobirthing, Clinical Aromatherapy, Therapeutic Massage, Advanced Reiki, Gong & Sound Healing and also Shamanism and Cacao Ceremony. The training in shamanic traditions is eclectic, with over 25 years of training and continued mentorship with Indigenous Shamans from Peru, Ecuador, Medicine people from North America, Pagans, Druids, Cacaoistas and Plant Spirit Medicine Healers. Sorrell now weaves together her medical and shamanic traditions together into her private clinical practice, and runs regular online Cacao Ceremonies for all to access these healing gifts. It is her joy to share these powerful healing techniques and also support others in their quest for personal connection to spirit. Sorrell has been a teacher of natural health, from beginner to advanced post graduate. Her clients include Low-impact Living Initiative, The Institute of Traditional Herbal Medicine and Aromatherapy, Learn-Direct , The Shoreditch Spa, and The University of West London. Sorrell now teaches privately, running a variety of both live events and online courses in Herbal Medicine, Plant Spirit Medicine & Shamanism. Sorrell works with a strict code of confidentiality & ethics and will be happy to talk to you about any health issue you may be experiencing. To make an enquiry or to book an appointment please email: sorrell@plantspiritmedicinewoman.com

09/05/2026

If you're going to get through hayfever season with your sanity intact, you need
a tea blend that lasts longer than a week.

Here's the formula I give my clinic patients every spring.

Equal parts:
🌿 Nettle — the histamine balancer
🌼 Eyebright — for itchy, watery eyes
🌸 Elderflower — to drain the sinuses
🍃 Peppermint — to cool the system and clear the head
🌼 Chamomile — to soothe the allergic fire

Buy 50g of each (250g total). Mix in a large airtight glass jar. Store in a cool,
dark cupboard.

At 3 cups a day this blend will last you 6 weeks — right through the tree pollen
peak and into the grass pollen surge. At 6 cups a day during peak symptoms,
you've got 3 weeks of serious support.

Steep 1 heaped teaspoon per cup for 5–10 minutes. Don't rush it — the medicine
needs time to move into the water.

The full guide — including a comparison of tea vs. capsules and the kidney
capsule bio-hack for high-sensitivity sufferers — is on the blog.

https://buff.ly/ozQXZ1g

07/05/2026

Hayfever isn't one thing. It's a constellation of symptoms — and each one has a
different herbal ally.

Swipe through to find yours. 👉

🌿 Itchy, watery eyes → Eyebright
🌿 Sinus headaches → Peppermint & Elderflower
🌿 That strange taste at the back of your throat → Goldenrod
🌿 The cough that just won't shift → Thyme

These are the herbs I reach for in my clinic every spring — not to suppress the
symptoms, but to support the body's intelligence in moving through them.

The full guide — including a season-long tea formula and a clinical bio-hack for
high-sensitivity sufferers — is on the blog now.

https://buff.ly/ozQXZ1g

06/05/2026

There's a particular cruelty to hayfever season.

The world is at its most beautiful — hedgerows frothing with elderflower, meadows thick with buttercups, the air warm and alive — and your body declares war on all of it.

The itchy eyes. The relentless sneezing. The foggy head that makes it hard to think, let alone enjoy any of it.

In my clinic I see this every year. And what I've come to understand is that hayfever isn't just an immune overreaction — it's a signal. Your body is overburdened. The lungs, the liver, the kidneys are all working harder than they should, and the pollen is simply the last straw.

The good news? Nature doesn't just cause the problem. It holds the solution too.

I've written a full guide to navigating hayfever season naturally — the herbs that actually work, a season-long tea formula, and a clinical bio-hack for those who feel like nothing touches their symptoms.

Read it here: https://buff.ly/ozQXZ1g

05/05/2026

This week I've been writing about gardens. About soil bacteria and herbal tea and the quiet magic of getting your hands dirty.

But underneath all of it is something simpler.

The belief that nature wants you to be well. That it has everything you need, if you know where to look.

That's what my work is built on — whether I'm prescribing herbs, holding a shamanic healing session, or sitting with someone in a cacao ceremony. We come back to nature. We come back to ourselves.

If something in this week's posts has stirred something in you, I'd love to work with you.

There are lots of ways in — from a one-off herbal consultation to deeper healing work. Have a look and see what calls to you.

👉 https://buff.ly/fohwVh1

With love and petrichor 🌱
Sorrell

02/05/2026

Did you know there's a natural antidepressant living in your garden soil?

It's called Mycobacterium vaccae — a bacterium you inhale and absorb through your skin just by being outside, just by weeding, just by getting your hands dirty. It stimulates serotonin production in the brain. Quietly. Naturally. Without a prescription.

And that's just the beginning.

Studies show gardening lowers cortisol more effectively than almost any other form of relaxation. Plants grow in fractal patterns that our brains are literally hardwired to find calming — looking at a fern puts you into the same brainwave state as meditation.

In my latest blog post I've pulled together the science, my own herbal toolkit for getting the most from your time outside, and my favourite two-herb brew — fresh rosemary and lemon balm, steeped five minutes, drunk in the garden.

Simple. Powerful. Free.

👉 https://buff.ly/LuyX4fW

01/05/2026

I want to share something personal today.

In my early twenties, I was lost. A few years of intense drug experimentation had left me hollowed out — chemically dependent on something outside of myself just to feel OK. The drugs were, I realise now, a kind of weedkiller to my soul. Each time, I came back a little weaker.

What brought me back wasn't a therapist or a programme. It was a garden.

Not in a dramatic way. Just — weeding. Planting seeds. Getting my hands in the earth and forgetting, for a little while, everything that had happened. No buzz. No high. Just presence. Just peace. Just the quiet miracle of being alive in a body that was touching something real.

That was the beginning of my path as a herbalist. The garden led me to the plants, the plants led me to 30+ years of practice, and the practice led me here — to you.

Whatever you're carrying right now, I genuinely believe the garden has something for it. Not as a cure. As a companion.

My latest blog post is the full story — and the science behind why the earth heals us the way it does.

👉 https://buff.ly/LuyX4fW

29/04/2026

I recently came across a line that stopped me in my tracks.

Comedian Zach Galifianakis, in his new Netflix show This Is a Gardening Show, says:

"If I were to offer a remedy to the human condition, it would be a garden."

And I thought — yes. Exactly that.

Not a supplement. Not a protocol. Not a five-step plan.

A garden.

I've been a Medical Herbalist for over 30 years, and some of the most profound healing I've witnessed — in myself and in the people I work with — hasn't happened in a clinic. It's happened with hands in the earth, with the smell of rain on dry soil, with a cup of tea made from something that was growing five minutes ago.

There is something in the garden that modern medicine hasn't yet found a way to bottle. And I think, deep down, we all already know this.

I've written a new blog post exploring exactly why — from the antidepressant bacteria living in your soil, to the healing power of fractal patterns in plants, to what happened when I brought community garden groups to Margate and watched the class system simply dissolve.

It's a personal one. I hope it lands with you.

👉 Read: Why Gardening is Medicine – For All!
https://buff.ly/LuyX4fW

28/04/2026

If this week's posts have resonated with you, here's where to start.

Knowing the herbs is one thing. But menopause isn't a generic experience — it's your specific body, your specific history, your specific storm. What works beautifully for one woman may not be right for another.

So before you reach for the nearest supplement off the shelf, here's the action list I give my clients:

🌿 Start a daily Nettle infusion — a simple, powerful first step for building mineral reserves and supporting your blood.
🌿 Find a 10-minute Yin Yoga session on YouTube — Yoga with Kassandra is a wonderful place to start. Ten minutes on your living room rug is enough.
🌿 Read *Set Boundaries, Find Peace* by Nedra Glover Tawwab — the language of your new power, clearly laid out.
🌿 Book a 1-to-1 herbal consultation with me — and let's build a prescription that's actually designed for you.

You haven't lost your way. You just weren't given the map. Until now.

🔗 Book your consultation: https://buff.ly/uXNjJ1y

25/04/2026

Nobody gave us the map.

When I qualified as a Medical Herbalist back in 1999, I was already sitting with women navigating the menopause transition. And the same frustration came up again and again — not a shortage of information, but a shortage of the *right* information. Practical, plant-based, and rooted in how a woman's body actually works.

So I've put together the herbal crew I return to most often in clinic — one ally for each of the six biggest challenges of perimenopause and menopause:

🌿 Exhaustion — Rhodiola for the adrenal handover
🌿 Rage & boundaries — Nettle to build the backbone
🌿 Joint pain — Black Cohosh for targeted reset
🌿 Hot flushes & insomnia — the Cooling Crew: Sage, Schisandra, Rose & Motherwort
🌿 Brain fog — Lion's Mane & Rosemary for the rewiring

This isn't about replacing your GP or your HRT. It's about having a full herbal prescription alongside whatever path you're walking — so you're not white-knuckling your way through.

Swipe through the carousel, save it, and share it with someone who needs it.

🔗 Read the full guide: https://buff.ly/o4xyK7m

24/04/2026

For almost a year, I woke at 3 AM. Every single night.

I lost count of the months eventually. Racing heart, soaked sheets, a mind spinning in the dark. There were nights when I understood, in my bones, why women reach for anything that promises relief.

But somewhere in those quiet hours, something shifted. Instead of fighting the waking, I started using it. Breathwork. Chanting. Journalling the things I was too busy to hear during the day.

It was during those 3 AM vigils that I truly stepped into my power as a Shamanic Teacher.

The sleeplessness of menopause is real, and it is brutal. Your hypothalamus is reacting to the hormone shift and firing heat spikes through the body at the worst possible time. The herbs help — Sage, Schisandra, Rose, Motherwort — and I cover all of them in detail in the guide.

But I also want to offer you this: in many shamanic traditions, the hours before dawn are considered the thinnest time. The ancestors are close. The inner voice is loudest. What feels like insomnia may also be an invitation.

Are you in the vigil right now? You are not alone, and you are not broken.

🔗 Watch the full video and read the guide: https://buff.ly/o4xyK7m

22/04/2026

"90% of your hormones just evaporated."

For most of us, that sentence lands like a diagnosis. A breakdown. Something to be fixed, patched, or managed into invisibility.

But I want to offer you a different frame.

In 28 years of practice as a Medical Herbalist and Shamanic Teacher, I've sat with hundreds of women moving through this transition. And what I've witnessed, again and again, is not a machine failing — it's a woman concentrating.

The part of you that kept the peace, said yes when she meant no, and held everyone else together? She is stepping aside. The Concentrated Crone — fierce, truthful, and spiritually potent — is stepping forward.

This is an initiation, not a malfunction.

In my latest guide, I've mapped out the full herbal and shamanic landscape of menopause — from the Adrenal Handover and the 3 AM Vigil, to staying juicy, clearing the liver, and reclaiming your lineage.

Whether you're using HRT, going fully natural, or somewhere in between, there is wisdom here for you.

I'd love to know — does this land for you? Are you feeling like you're breaking, or becoming?

🔗 Read the full guide: https://buff.ly/o4xyK7m

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