About In Your Hands: Herbal Self-Care for Emotional Bodies
Psychotherapist and herbalist Quai offers herbal remedies, practical self-care tools, and honest context. The show takes self-care out of commodified spaces back where it belongs: In Your Hands. Quai explores both the practical and the systemic, holding the complexity of what makes this work challenging and powerful. Whether strengthening practices, navigating harm reduction or recovery, working with intergenerational patterns, or curious about plants, listeners find thoughtful frameworks for crafting wellness that works for their particular bodies, histories, and needs.
The False Start: Why Starting Self-Care Is Harder Than It Looks
Wanna tell me something about the show? Send a text! Most of us have had the experience of really wanting to take better care of ourselves, and then watching it not quite take flight. We can think of this as a False Start. But what if the problem is about the set-up and what can be overlooked? Come explore why starting is harder than it looks. Through two client stories and an honest look at what getting started actually requires, you'll come away with a different understanding of what a Fals...
27 Jan 2026
From Profound to Forgotten: Integration After Therapy, Journeys & Shifts Pt. 2
Wanna tell me something about the show? Send a text! Come explore plants as integration partners! This episode has some music woven in as you discover how plants can anchor you—grounding you and bringing you back to what’s emerging when life pulls you in a hundred directions. (If you haven’t listened to Part 1 yet, start there to understand why integration matters.) In Part 2, you’ll learn when herbs fit: for digesting what’s confusing or overwhelming, working with intergenerational patt...
27 Jan 2026
From Profound to Forgotten: Integration After Therapy, Journeys & Shifts Pt. 1
Wanna tell me something about the show? Send a text! This episode is designed to help you integrate as you listen. Thoughtful pacing, intentional music, and space to reflect on what you personally need - not just information, but an experience that invites you to tend what's emerging. Most integration teaching focuses on what to do after something profound happens. This episode goes deeper: when integration actually starts, how to approach it based on your specific patterns, and why the timin...
27 Jan 2026
How to Make Leftovers You Actually Want to Eat
Wanna tell me something about the show? Send a text! Leftovers sitting in the danger zone between 'I should eat that' and 'I really don't want to'? This episode covers how to make leftovers genuinely satisfying—from planning ahead, adding flavor and moisture back, reheating without drying things out, and smart storage. When leftovers are done well, they become a gift to your future self instead of a chore. 🔗 Full episode transcript 📚 Resources Mentioned Resource for Food S...
27 Jan 2026
Contexts You’ve Been Leaving Out of Your Self-Care Journey
Wanna tell me something about the show? Send a text! What if your personal growth is taking the time it needs because you're working against forces bigger than you and your system needs a layered approach? This episode explores intergenerational patterns, systemic conditions, and what it actually looks like to build well-being. Understanding this is clarifying and gives you a compass. Come explore the layers you haven’t had the chance to see yet. 🔗 Full episode transcript Connect...
27 Jan 2026
How Herbal Remedies Are Different From Medicines
Wanna tell me something about the show? Send a text! People think herbs are just natural medicines, but that misses everything unique about them. Come learn what makes herbs different, when to use each approach, and overlooked ways plants can support you. 📚 Resources Mentioned How Herbal Remedies Differ from Medications (visual material from episode material)An online directory of practitioners with various specialtiesHow to Find an Herbal Practitioner (and where to find one) 🌱...
27 Jan 2026
Why Lavender Isn't for Everyone—And How to Know What's Right for You
Wanna tell me something about the show? Send a text! Lavender: universally calming or widely misunderstood? This one's for people who love it and people who don't. Come explore lavender as a boundary healer—working physically and emotionally—plus other herbs for the variety of needs that get oversimplified as 'calming. 🌱 Herbs Mentioned: Lavender, Lavandula angustifoliaTulsi (Holy Basil), Ocimum tenuiflorum, Ocimum x africanum, Ocimum africanumMilky Oat, Avena sativ...
27 Jan 2026
Can't Figure Out When to Do Self-Care? Try This
Wanna tell me something about the show? Send a text! You know you need self-care, but weeks pass without it. What if the answer isn't willpower, but building containers that make care feel natural and organically fit your days? Come explore how to create anchors you won't want to let go of and learn how to help your system know what's next. Essential Oils Mentioned: Rosemary, Rosmarinus officinalisPeppermint, Mentha × piperitaLemon, Citrus limonPine, Pinus 🔗 Full episode transcript Con...
27 Jan 2026
Why We Forget to Take Our Remedies (And What Actually Works)
Wanna tell me something about the show? Send a text! You've got that remedy, and I know you have good intentions, yet somehow it sits unused. There's so much more to working with it than willpower and memory! Come on in for ideas that help you reach for your remedies when you need them. 🔗 Full show notes with transcript Connect with me: 📧 Newsletter 🎙️ Send a voice message 🌿 Herbalism consultations 👥 Therapy practice 💬 Email: quai[@]discoverspace.me --- Healing with p...
27 Jan 2026
Your Onramps to Herbal Self-Care (Start Here!)
Wanna tell me something about the show? Send a text! Welcome to the show. This episode introduces who I am, why I'm doing this, and who it's for. We'll talk about 'on-ramps' - the context and orientation that support self-care. I'll share how I approach systems and care, why herbal care is worth considering alongside other approaches, and how herbs ask ions different from the ones we're used to. Whether you're building care foundations, a practitioner looking for resources, or working toward ...
17 Dec 2025
In Your Hands Trailer
Wanna tell me something about the show? Send a text! Welcome to In Your Hands: Herbal Self-Care for Emotional Bodies. I'm Quai, psychotherapist, herbalist, and your guide through practical tools, plant remedies, and the real context we need to build sustainable self-care. New episodes launch in January 2026. Subscribe now so you don't miss it.
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