Hello and welcome to Psychic Teachers. I'm your host Samantha Fei.

And I'm Deb Bowen.

And today we're talking to our dear friend, Asia Suler, about her wonderful new book, Mirrors in the Earth.

Asia is a writer, teacher, earth intuitive and ecological philosopher who lives in the folds of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

She's the founder of One Willow Apothecaries and an Appalachian grown company that offers handcrafted herbal medicines and educational experiences and herbalism, animism, ancestral healing and earth centered personal growth.

Asia has guided over 20,000 students in 70 plus countries through her immersive online programs.

With her writings and teachings, Asia helps people embrace their unique medicine through a joyful engagement with the natural world.

But most importantly, she's just our dear friend and you might remember her because she's been on Psychic Teachers and she's been on in Light and Dempath a couple of times too.

So if you enjoy this talk, be sure to check out those in the archives. Asia, welcome to the show. We just love you and love your new book.

Oh, I'm so excited to be here with you too.

I'm so much for joining us. I'm so excited. I have several questions and I know some method us too. So let's get started, shall we? So happy you want to start us off?

Yes. Well, I just love the opening of your book where you talk about how you got into this whole world of herbalism and teaching.

And I was really surprised to read in that very those very, very first pages when you talk about the first time you walked into your school of herbalism and how you felt.

Like kind of like an imposter's what's that called the imposter syndrome like you didn't know what you were doing. You didn't even know what a tincture is.

I think so many people can resonate with that where we are soul feels called to do something.

We take a leap of faith. We sign up for the class, the course, whatever it might be. And then we're like, oh, why did I do this? Why am I here? I'm not meant to be here.

So can you just kind of walk us through the beginnings of that journey for you and how you came to know, no, this is where I belong.

Yeah, so I was diagnosed with the chronic pain condition in my late teens and the experience really pushed me into the living world.

So I often say that the world inside my body was so uncomfortable. I went outside and I started sitting with the trees and talking to the creek.

And I really developed this profound relationship with nature. It was my solace and my safe space. It was a place where I really found hope and possibility.

And this was before I knew any plant names at all. I mean, I think I could probably I'd be a maple.

And that was probably about it or a pine. But it didn't matter because I made up my own names. I would be like, you know, the tall tree with the top that looks like a crown or you know, whatever it was.

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