Anna's Journey: Healings and Herbal Wisdoms

Walking in the Way of Traditional Herbalism — A Story Rooted in the Language of Plants

There are moments in life when something ancient stirs within us—a quiet knowing that the earth itself is trying to speak.
For me, that voice came through the leaves, the roots, and the fragrance of healing plants that seemed to whisper truths I could not learn from books alone.

Anna’s Journey: Healing and Herbal Wisdoms is the story of that calling.
It’s the story of how a young woman, curious about God’s creation and the mysteries of health, found her purpose walking among herbs, tending the land, and learning to listen to the living world.

This book, releasing November 20, 2025, is a gathering of those experiences—a weaving of herbal teachings, reflections, and real encounters with nature’s pharmacy. It’s a blend of memoir and herbal wisdom, told through the seasons of both the garden and the soul.

🌾 A Journey Rooted in the Language of Plants

Plants are not silent. They hum with energy and purpose. Their leaves turn to the light, their roots reach for nourishment, and their flowers express joy in color and scent.
When we learn to see them this way, herbalism becomes something more than ingredients and remedies—it becomes a relationship.

Throughout the pages of Anna’s Journey, you’ll walk with me through gardens and wild places where plants speak a language older than words. Each herb carries a story—some known to science, others carried through generations of traditional healers.

You’ll meet herbs like Wild Yam, whose gentle strength has long supported women’s vitality and balance; Calendula, the bright flower that teaches resilience through softness; and St. John’s Wort, a sun plant that reminds us that light is a medicine of its own.

The book invites readers not only to learn about these plants, but to listen—to sense their spirit and meaning. Each chapter unfolds a lesson, not through instruction, but through lived experience—through the scent of crushed leaves, the rhythm of daily tending, and the quiet revelations that come only when one works closely with creation.

🌼 Wisdom Passed Down Through Practice

My journey into herbalism began long before I had a name for it. I was drawn to plants as if remembering something forgotten. Over the years, I studied, practiced, and observed what the ancients always knew: that nature’s design is intelligent, purposeful, and personal.

In Anna’s Journey, I share how each plant became a teacher. You’ll read about the seasons I learned to trust the rhythm of the soil more than the noise of trends, how the slow work of growing, harvesting, and crafting herbs taught me patience, and how understanding the “energetics” of plants transformed my approach to healing.

Every herbalist comes to realize that true learning happens through the hands and heart as much as through the mind. When I describe how Yarrow closes wounds or how Rose softens a hardened heart, it isn’t only about chemistry—it’s about connection.

This is herbal wisdom the way it was always meant to be passed down: through observation, devotion, and gratitude.

🍃 The Calling to Serve Through Creation

Herbalism, at its deepest level, is an act of service. It teaches humility—because no matter how much we study, the plants will always know more. It asks us to listen, to tend, and to give back.

In the book, I write about the years when I first began formulating products by hand at Creation Farm—balancing the spiritual practice of herbal work with the precision of craft.
Each cream, salve, and tincture taught me something new about the harmony between people and plants.

There were seasons of trial and discovery—learning to trust intuition alongside science. Wild Yam, for example, revealed its gifts slowly. I saw how it could soothe and strengthen, not only physically, but emotionally. I began to understand that when we reduce a plant to a list of active compounds, we miss its story—its personality.

Anna’s Journey gives readers these stories. It’s less about recipes and more about revelation—the kind that happens when a person devotes their life to learning what creation is already trying to say.

🌻 What Readers Will Discover

This isn’t just a book for herbalists. It’s for anyone who has ever wondered how nature heals—body, mind, and spirit.

Inside, readers will discover:

🌿 The Art of Observation — How to read the signs of the seasons, the growth patterns of herbs, and the subtle ways nature teaches timing and balance.

🌾 Energetic Herbalism in Everyday Life — How the temperament of a plant (cooling, warming, moistening, or drying) mirrors our own inner states, and how choosing herbs intuitively can restore harmony.

🌸 Practical Herbal Wisdoms — Lessons from years of traditional practice, from harvesting to blending, that show how the best remedies begin with simple, mindful attention.

🌼 The Role of the Healer — Understanding that healing is not about control—it’s about cooperation with the divine order already written into creation.

🍃 Stories from the Garden — Real experiences from my life as an herbalist, farmer, and teacher that reveal how much wisdom the soil itself holds.

Each chapter offers both reflection and practical guidance—sometimes through direct teaching, and sometimes through story, parable, or poetry.

🌸 Walking in the Way of Traditional Herbalism

Traditional Herbalism is more than an ancient system of medicine—it’s a way of seeing the world.
It recognizes that every element of life is interconnected: the roots with the rain, the sun with the soil, and people with plants.

Through Anna’s Journey, readers are invited to walk in that way—to return to an older rhythm of living where healing is not something done to us but something we participate in daily.

I share stories of standing in the dew-covered garden at dawn, where the air feels alive with purpose; of gathering herbs under the guidance of intuition rather than schedule; of drying plants slowly, respectfully, as one might handle something sacred.

These aren’t just romantic notions—they’re reminders that how we approach healing matters. Every act of preparation, from harvest to blending, carries energy. When done with care, that energy becomes part of the medicine.

🌿 What Makes This Book Different

Anna’s Journey isn’t a “how-to” guide in the modern sense—it’s a why-to.
It invites readers to rediscover their place in the healing conversation between humanity and nature.

While the book includes practical knowledge—discussions of plant energetics, the value of seasonal herbalism, and the making of balms and tinctures—it’s written from the inside out.
Readers don’t just learn about herbs; they learn to see the world differently through them.

It’s this shift in perception that transforms herbalism from a practice into a path.

🌼 Why This Journey Matters Now

We live in a world that often treats nature as a commodity—something to extract, label, and package. But true herbalism has never been about ownership. It’s about relationship.

This book arrives at a time when many are returning to the garden—seeking reconnection, rest, and renewal.
Anna’s Journey speaks to that longing. It doesn’t promise quick fixes or miracle cures. It invites readers to slow down, to learn the language of plants again, and to remember that healing—real healing—takes time.

As readers move through the chapters, they’ll find their own reflections mirrored in the seasons, the soil, and the plants themselves. Each herb becomes a companion in the reader’s own journey of restoration.

🌾 A Glimpse Inside the Chapters

Without giving too much away, here’s a taste of what’s waiting:

“The Calling of Wild Yam” — A story of rediscovering strength after exhaustion, and how one humble root taught me that restoration is not resistance, but surrender.

“The Garden as Teacher” — Lessons from planting, pruning, and waiting—how each cycle reveals the balance between effort and grace.

“The Language of Flowers” — An exploration of beauty as medicine; how fragrance, color, and form carry messages for the heart.

“The Oils of Gladness” — A meditation on the healing nature of essential oils, drawn from the biblical reference “anointed with the oil of gladness,” connecting scent, memory, and mood.

Each story is layered with herbal teachings that readers can apply, yet leaves space for reflection—bread crumbs, as you said—that lead them deeper into curiosity.

🌿 An Invitation to the Reader

Whether you’re new to herbalism or have walked this path for years, Anna’s Journey welcomes you into a deeper relationship with nature and the healing wisdom written into it.

It’s a book to read slowly—to sit with, to underline, to carry out into the garden. It’s an herbal journal in story form, reminding us that wisdom doesn’t come all at once. It comes leaf by leaf, season by season.

If you’ve ever felt drawn to the scent of crushed herbs, or to the stillness of tending plants, you’re already part of this story.

🌸 Release Date

📘 Anna’s Journey: Healing and Herbal Wisdoms
🗓️ Available soon
💚 Published under Creation Farm Press

Follow along here on our blog and at CreationPharm.biz/blog for updates, previews, and excerpts leading up to launch day.

Because this journey isn’t only mine—it’s for all who believe that healing can be found in the garden, in the heart, and in the simple act of walking gently with creation.