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Scenario

When pursuing herbal medicine creates family tension around lifestyle and legitimacy

My husband and I moved to his family's rural property to start growing medicinal plants, but his relatives think we're naive city hippies playing with weeds while I feel like they're dismissing knowledge I've spent years cultivating, and every family gathering becomes tense with unspoken judgment about our life choices.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Plant-based life paths can isolate practitioners within their own families when different worldviews about health, work, and knowledge collide.

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Dipa
Dipa works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Herbal medicine across traditions?”

Peri

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