NATURE’S ROLE IN OUR MENTAL HEALTH - how our disconnection from nature impacts the mental health epidemic + how to release shame with Jaskrit Bhalla

What's The Juice

Olivia Amitrano

Organic, Organicolivia, Plantmedicine, Herbalremedies, Herbs, Medicine, Alternative Health, Education, Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Health

4.9 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2023

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Ep 81. Today’s guest, Jaskrit Bhalla, is a permaculture designer, California Naturalist, and student of herbal medicine. At such a young age, her work is making a major impact on the environment and her local community. She has a way of inspiring those around her to take action wherever they can whether it’s composting at home, making broth with food scraps, or reducing waste in tiny ways. I think you're going to find this episode super inspiring and actionable!

Here's the juice:

how to use herbal medicine to replenish your mineral stores after being on psycho-pharmaceuticals
ways you can incorporate healing foods, kitchen medicine, and herbs into your daily routine
what “permaculture” is, and what “healthy soil” means
how we’ve gotten so far away from what our land needs
why local, decentralized food systems are crucial
and how can we do our part in our own backyard, even in urban environments, to bring diversity back to the soil and ecosystem

She is so wise and poetic when it comes to both how she tells her story and how she lives her life… you’re going to want to compost and go outside to touch plants immediately after listening to this episode!

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Good morning podcast family. Week 4. It's getting good. It's getting juicy. I told you I love the season so much. I'm loving your feedback and I'm really excited for you to hear today's episode. So today's guest, Jasker Bala, is a permaculture designer, a California naturalist and a student of herbal medicine. We love our fellow herbalists. And at such a young age,
0:22.4	her activism and work is making a major impact on the environment and her local community.
0:27.8	And she just has this way of inspiring you to want to take action wherever you can, whether it's
0:33.0	composting at home, making bone broth with your food scraps, or just reducing your waste in tiny ways.
0:39.0	Jasker was born in New Delhi, India, and raised in Southern California.
0:42.7	She was raised in a family with strong values and high expectations, and she grew up grappling
0:47.3	with perfectionism and shame, which many of us, myself included, can relate to.
0:52.5	After hitting a wall with her mental health obstacles,
0:54.9	she had a nervous breakdown that she talks about in this episode that eventually led her to an
0:59.1	inpatient holistic mental health program that changed her life and interestingly enough
1:03.4	brought her back to her roots. We chat in depth about the presence of shame in her life,
1:09.0	which was very much influenced by cultural factors,
1:11.7	and that's something that I know so many women can relate to. And she also shares how she was
1:16.6	finally able to overcome that shame and radically accept herself by connecting with the natural
1:22.3	world and the imperfection of plants. She talks about how plants and even mountains held her in this way that humans
1:28.5	simply could not and how she learned to lean on those forces of the natural world to transform
1:33.2	her mental health. In this episode, Jaskrit also shares how she used herbal medicine to replenish
1:37.9	her body and her mineral stores after years of being on very necessary psychopharmaceuticals.
1:44.1	She talks about easy ways you can
1:45.5	incorporate healing foods, kitchen medicine, and herbs into your daily routine, what permaculture
1:50.5	exactly is, and furthermore, what healthy soil is and why we've gotten so far away from what
1:55.8	our land needs. She's going to tell us why local and decentralized food systems are crucial
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