Gina Kearney RH
I write about the living world, herbs and their personalities, flower essences, shamanic practice, and the quiet intelligence of nature that most of us were never taught to hear. If you feel called to plants, to slowing down, to building a real relationship with the natural world, this is for you.
A promise I made to a tree
Dear Reader, Many years ago, I made a promise in a dream to a tree. There was a tree where I used to live, and I would drive by it every day. One night in a dream I was standing in front of it, and as I was standing there feeling into this tree, I felt in my heart the words, "Be the voice of the plants." I really didn't know what that meant. But boy, did it take over my life. I left my career, went to study clinical herbalism, and later made a similar promise to the flowers. Today I am...
Wired and tired, or waking at 2am?
Dear Reader, Two kinds of people come to me with sleep issues. The first cannot settle. The mind is racing, their body is exhausted. They're wired and tired, lying there unable to stop. The second falls asleep fine. But wakes at two or three in the morning and cannot get back to sleep. Both are running on empty. Both spend the day riding peaks and valleys of energy. Both reach for coffee in the morning and crash after lunch. Sleep is when the body repairs itself. When the nervous system...
Perimenopause and what the plants actually do
Dear Reader, The sleep is off. The energy is harder to find. The body feels unfamiliar. That is what perimenopause looks like in my clinical practice. And underneath the physical symptoms, almost always, a deeper question. Who am I becoming? What does this next chapter look like on my own terms? The plants meet both. The physical symptoms and the threshold. I wrote about what herbal medicine actually does for perimenopause. Which herbs I reach for most often and why. What the clinical picture...
Three doors open in June.
June in Florida feels full. The fruits are heavy on the trees, the flowers are vibrant, the heat settling in for good. Everything that was reaching is now arriving. I'm noticing the same thing in the work. Consultations feel deeper and I'm witnessing something beautiful happening — as the group circle around this work grows, the two-way conversation with nature, our innate skill that is often overlooked, is opening in ways that genuinely move me — sometimes to tears! This is an invitation to...
Today, at 6pm, we sit with the season itself.
The Monthly Gathering meets live on Zoom this evening at 6pm, will you be joining us? This month we are sitting with the season itself. We will practice being present with the earth under our feet — tuning into the particular energy of this moment: the spring blooms, the buds, the quality of aliveness that is available right now and nowhere else. We will learn how to receive what the season is offering, both in the natural world around us and within ourselves and discuss seasonal medicinal...
Even this is spiritual
We tend to think of spiritual experience as the beautiful moments. The meditation that drops you into deep stillness. The walk in the forest where everything suddenly makes sense. The moment of grace that arrives unexpectedly and reminds you that something larger is at work. But what about the rest of it? The argument that goes too far. The diagnosis that changes everything. The ordinary Tuesday that feels like it will never end. The grief, the confusion, the days when nothing feels sacred at...
You are already enough
Not when you've healed enough. Not when you've done enough inner work. Not when you've read enough books, taken enough courses, or finally understood yourself well enough to feel worthy of a full, beautiful life. Now. Exactly as you are. You are enough. I know how hollow that can sound when you're in the middle of something hard. When the body is struggling, or the heart is heavy, or the life you're living feels like it belongs to someone else. I'm not asking you to pretend those things...
Everything is alive. The plants have been waiting.
I want to tell you something about the plants. They are not passive. They are not inert. They are not simply collections of chemical compounds waiting to be extracted and consumed. They are alive. Intelligent. Responsive. And they have been in relationship with human beings for as long as human beings have existed. Every culture, in every part of the world, has known this. The plants were the first medicine, the first teachers, the first allies. Before books, before schools, before the...
Two invitations — one this Thursday
Something shifts in May. The earth is fully awake now — gone is the first shy green of early spring, now spring is openly, abundantly, unmistakably alive. The buds have become leaves. The blooms are everywhere. The light is longer and the air carries something that feels almost like an invitation. This is Beltane season. The midpoint between the spring equinox and the summer solstice. The moment when the living world is at its most generously present and asking, quietly, whether you are...
One evening a month. For you.
What if once a month, you gave yourself one evening? A space to arrive. To breathe. To go within and let nature meet you exactly where you are. I've been thinking about this for a long time — about how many of us are genuinely walking a path, genuinely committed to the inner life, and yet have no consistent place to practice it. No anchor. No regular moment each month that belongs entirely to ourselves and to our relationship with the natural world. We read. We listen. We gather information....
I write about the living world, herbs and their personalities, flower essences, shamanic practice, and the quiet intelligence of nature that most of us were never taught to hear. If you feel called to plants, to slowing down, to building a real relationship with the natural world, this is for you.