Blissful Herbs - nurturing body & soul

14/11/2025

Do I not have the coolest kids, like, ever?

Is there a single other herbalist in the whole wide world, whose child goes out on an ELECTRIC UNICYCLE to gather wild-crafted herbs from the forests & fields for her?

Whose son rides said same electric unicycle (you can see his helmet hanging in the 4th slide) from the bus stop to the airport so he can have his flying lessons in preparation for his first solo flight?

Whose eldest daughter just accidentally freebirthed her first baby (I wasn't there, devo 😫 but all is well)

Whose courageous other daughter is literally taking on the actual neo-Nazis of Australia, exposing their (not so) hidden agenda of pa€dophilia?

I came home from a pre-natal visit to find this gorgeous abundant harvest of bonny herbs, green & lush from the rich deep soil of these mountains! Oh I am going to make the BEST infused oils with these!

At the pre-natal visit, I met for the first time three midwives involved in a new hospital homebirth service.

Our shared client asked about using herbal tinctures during third stage. Here's how that conversation went:

MW 1: "Oh - Blissful Herbs?"

Client: "Yes. That's her." Nods towards me.

Three pairs of eyes turn in my direction

Me: "You've... heard of Blissful Herbs?!?" (slightly incredulously)

All MWS, talking over the top of each other: "Yes! Of course! Our last client ... Stacey ... Placenta Release .... cord ties ..."

Me, a little stunned: "I'm so glad you heard of my work -"

Them: "So it's YOU?

Me: "It me"

🤣🤪☺

I feel super chuffed that midwives from a hospital homebirth programme have heard of my products and have found them effective.

Then to come home to this profusion of gorgeous herbs.

What a wonderful Spring day.

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12/11/2025

This King Parrot sat on the window sill and bobbed its head cutely at me til I came out to feed it.

There's snow on the mountain!!! went up the hill to frolic in it.

And I harvested a beautiful crop of Plantain for the dehydrator - wonderful herb to make infused oil for skin care, and also wonderful in a tea for the lungs - add Thyme & Mullein.

10/11/2025

New Lotus Birth Kits!

These are notoriously difficult to photograph well, and they actually look better IRL than in the photographs.

Each kit comes with everything you need for your lotus birth slow third stage:

🌿 A lined placenta bag (lotus style or round based)
🌿 Lotus birth herbs to scatter on the surfaces of the placenta
🌿 An organic muslin in which to wrap the placenta before placing it inside the drawstring bag
🌿 A Goldenseal Cord Care Kit, for applying antiseptic Goldenseal to the umbilicus
🌿 Instructions

This is just a sample- more available on the website!

www.blissfulherbs.com.au

10/11/2025

Hi lovely ones.

As well as letting me be harassed by neo-Nazis, who assaulted my daughters IRL

and deactivating my account as a result of enabling those goons to hack all my Meta accounts across three platforms so that I lost 50K followers,

and then refusing to restore my spuriously deactivated account,
.. the Meta gods have also seen fit to allow this fake account to impersonate me.

Please report the fake account!

Please unfollow it.

Thank you!

I hope Flor and have some kind of success with their protest against Meta.

10/11/2025

Blissful Herbs will be at the Steiner School Fair!
.. in the form of contributions for their epic hampers as raffle prizes!

We have some brilliant small (& large) businesses around our town, and I know quite a few of these excellent folks - brilliant artisans and wonderful community-weavers as well.

Proud to have Blissful Herbs there, right alongside:

Jess .herbals (our organizer)
Brooke .cloth
Chris & Claire
Crystal




And many others!

Saturday 15th November, see you there, and I hope you win a hamper!

🌿💜🌿

09/11/2025

And here is The Midwife's Kit - as promised.

There's one option with the pen torch and another with herbal salves:

Nourishing herbal teas, fragrant bath herbs, tinctures and tonics, small-batch, soothing hand-poured salves and balms, hand-made all-natural soap, cute accessories and depth of herbal knowledge and experience from Julie Bell, Wise-woman Doula and Wild-heart Herbalist, based in the mountain town of W...

09/11/2025

I know some folks have been waiting patiently for the new crop of lotus birth placenta bags to arrive. They're now here, photographed, and up on the site:

Nourishing herbal teas, fragrant bath herbs, tinctures and tonics, small-batch, soothing hand-poured salves and balms, hand-made all-natural soap, cute accessories and depth of herbal knowledge and experience from Julie Bell, Wise-woman Doula and Wild-heart Herbalist, based in the mountain town of W...

08/11/2025

I was literally talking to some random reporter who called me yesterday, & said this exact same thing: we need EXPANSION of women's birthing rights & options - not more restriction.

07/11/2025

Isn't there so much story in this picture!

The beautiful, healthy baby.

The relief & triumph on Jess's face.

And the kindness, pride & love from the midwife who is bearing witness.

This is our 'why'.

🌿💓🌿

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The incredible moments we get to witness — strength, surrender, and new life. ✨ Jess and Sam welcomed their third child, and first daughter, Olive, at home. This was Jess’s first homebirth — undisturbed, physiological, and deeply healing. 💛

07/11/2025

I love videos of real, raw birth (without the trending audio etc) - because birth stories teach us things. It is wonderful when women so generously share their intimate moments because we learn from them & it adds to our collective knowledge.

See how she carefully unloops the umbilical cord. Taking care not to cause traction to the cord so the placenta does not get yanked. The watching midwife keeps the energy calm.

The shower is a common place for babies to be born! And see how the baby makes their transition to earthside breathing & lets out a l***y cry.

Attending births is an absolute privilege & sacred trust that I never take lightly ... and even to witness a birth via someone's birth video is a privilege, too.

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What would happen if we got excited about birth?

One of my favourite things to witness is the change when people go from fearing birth to being curious or even excited. It helps to work with the process of physiological or vaginal birth, it can also help to prepare for a C-section birth. Regardless of how you are wanting to have your baby, it’s worth working on that mindset shift.

The aim isn’t to eliminate all anxiety, the birth process is a huge transition, I would say being a bit anxious or nervous is probably ok 😂

When we are fearful, we’re tense. Tense does us no favours in birth. Our support team also need to work on their fears, we don’t want them bringing those fears into your birth space.

How do you do that? Well, we could work together 💜
Choose who you follow & listen to carefully, research different options, chat through fears with care providers & support team. There’s so many things you can do, it’s also something you can do even before you’re pregnant.

Video is me meeting my 3rd bub 💜 midwife & videographer