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Healing House Natural Wellness

Healing House Natural Wellness Centre is a multi modality community based wellness centre located in New Westminster.

We specialize in Herbal Medicine, Holistic Nutrition, Mental Health Counselling, Aromatherapy, and Supplements.

11/17/2025

🌱 MOTIVATIONAL MONDAY: The Power of Reclaiming Your Healing

Natural healing isn't just about the herbs, the nutrition, or the protocols. It's about something deeper—it's about reclaiming YOUR power.

When we step into natural medicine and bring nature's support into our lives, something shifts. We stop waiting for someone else to "fix" us. We stop believing our health is something that happens TO us. Instead, we realize it's something we actively CREATE through our choices.

Every herb you choose. Every meal you nourish your body with. Every night you prioritize rest. Every moment you manage stress differently. These aren't small things—they're declarations of responsibility for your own future.

Natural healing restores what modern medicine often takes away: the understanding that YOU are the expert on your body. YOU have agency. YOU have the ability to influence your health trajectory through the choices you make, starting today.

This is where real transformation begins. Not in the absence of struggle, but in the presence of PURPOSE. When you understand that your wellness is YOUR responsibility—and that nature is here to support you—everything changes.

Your body isn't broken. It's asking you to listen. And when you do, when you bring in natural support and honor your body's wisdom, healing becomes possible.

What's one choice you can make TODAY to reclaim your health?

With love from the plant world,
Petra 🌿

11/16/2025

✨ SELF CARE SUNDAY ✨

As we settle into deep autumn, the season invites us inward. The days grow shorter, the air cools, and our bodies naturally crave rest, warmth, and gentleness. This is the perfect time to slow down and nourish yourself from within.

When inflammation rises—whether from seasonal shifts, stress, or immune challenges—self-care becomes medicine.

Here are 5 powerful self-care strategies to support your body through autumn:

🌿 **1. Warm Herbal Rituals**
Swap cold drinks for warming teas. Ginger, turmeric, and cinnamon are anti-inflammatory powerhouses. A daily herbal ritual signals to your nervous system: it's time to rest.

🌿 **2. Prioritize Sleep & Darkness**
Autumn's longer nights are a gift. Aim for 8+ hours and honor your body's natural rhythm. Deep sleep is where real healing happens.

🌿 **3. Move Gently, Not Intensely**
Trade intense workouts for grounding practices: slow walks in nature, gentle yoga, tai chi. Movement that feels nourishing, not depleting.

🌿 **4. Manage Stress Through Nervous System Care**
Chronic stress fuels inflammation. Try breathwork, meditation, journaling, or time in nature. Even 10 minutes daily shifts your physiology.

🌿 **5. Eat Seasonally & Locally**
Root vegetables, warming spices, and seasonal produce are nature's anti-inflammatory toolkit. Your body knows what it needs—listen.

Slowing down isn't laziness. It's wisdom. It's prevention. It's you choosing to support your body before inflammation takes hold.

This autumn, give yourself permission to rest. Your nervous system will thank you.

With love from the plant world,
Petra 🍂

11/13/2025

Hello from healing house!
Just a brief commentary that if you are not signed up to receive newsletters, the autumn wellness guide is out! it has some beautiful sections on seasonal self assessment and an introduction to some of my favourite autumn root herbs, some nourishing food guidance, nervous system practices, and preparation strategies to build resilience before winter .
This isn’t a rigid program or another set of rules to follow perfectly. It’s a collection of ideas, invitations, and clinical wisdom gathered from years of guiding clients through seasonal transitions. Take what resonates from it, adapt what needs adjusting to your needs, and trust your body’s feedback above all else. autumn is asking you to slow down, to nourish deeply and to prepare wisely. This guide is here to help you answer that call with confidence, clarity, and the support of Herbal wisdom .

11/07/2025

A big part of what I do these days is teaching and public speaking. I’m so incredibly passionate about the message of herbal medicine and its potential for support within complex inflammatory issues.
Today I’ll be speaking with Dr. Tracey Stroup on her podcast called “eat pray faith with Tracey Stroup” - you can find it on Spotify . We will be talking about the gateway between autoimmune and cancer and how they are related and I will be speaking about the role of Herbal medicine in complex inflammatory issues .
I had the privilege of sharing the stage with Stacy at the annual Annie Appleseed natural cancer support symposium in Florida last year. She gave a beautiful talk about the power of peptide therapy in cancer and shared some remarkable case studies.
She is a naturopathic physician , a wonderful public speaker, and quite frankly just a really nice and special human being out to serve and share her many gifts with the world.
I’ll be sure to share the link later when the podcast goes live, but in the meantime, I hope everyone has a wonderful day!
Sending my love from the Plant world ,
Petra

11/06/2025

What is Inflammation Really? 🔬

Inflammation gets a bad rap, but here's the truth: it's your body's intelligent response to injury, irritation, or threat. When you cut your finger or catch a cold, inflammation rushes in like a rescue team—bringing immune cells, nutrients, and healing power to the site. That's acute inflammation, and it's actually protective.

The problem? When inflammation becomes chronic.

Your immune system has two main branches: Th1 (cell-mediated immunity) and Th2 (antibody-mediated immunity). In a healthy body, these work in balance. But when they tip out of sync—when one dominates—your body gets stuck in a state of constant alarm. Th1 dominance fuels autoimmune attacks on your own tissues. Th2 dominance drives allergies and hypersensitivity. Either way, inflammation lingers and intensifies.

Chronic inflammation is silent. You don't always feel it happening until it becomes inflammatory disease—autoimmune conditions, chronic pain, digestive issues, brain fog, and more.

Here's what I've learned working with hundreds of clients: chronic inflammation doesn't appear out of nowhere. It has sources. Heavy metals. Chronic stress. Infections. Leaky gut. Nutritional gaps. Endocrine disruptors. Finding and addressing these root causes is everything.

This is where plant medicine shines. Certain herbs are powerful immune modulators—they help rebalance Th1/Th2 function, calm overactive immune responses, and support your body's natural ability to resolve inflammation. Combined with nutrition, lifestyle shifts, and genetic insights, we can help your body remember how to heal.

The key? Don't wait until inflammation becomes disease. Address it now.

With love from the plant world, Petra 🌿

11/05/2025

It’s been one heck of a journey!
From what I thought would be a terminal illness diagnoses in 2023 to focussing on supporting others who are experiencing a similar path. I don’t know what to say except for “Hi! I’m Petra, I’m a clinical herbalist with a doctorate in natural medicine and I support clients who have been on a similar journey with chronic inflammatory illness.”
Last year, I remember sitting on the plane with my mom as I flew from Vancouver British Columbia to Florida in the United States to speak on herbal approaches to chronic inflammation and cancer . I remember looking at her and saying “I can’t believe this is my life, this time last year, I thought I was going to die.”
I guess this post is a reintroduction, but also a celebration of living life without fear, and of choices and the mystery that time reveals. So hello, welcome to my Instagram, you are welcome here and I’m happy to have you.
With tremendous love and gratitude from the plant world ,
🌿Petra

10/27/2025

Welcome back to Monograph Monday!

Today we'll be exploring the beauty of American Cranesbill (Geranium maculatum). This often overlooked herb was very popular during the time of the eclectic physicians movement and holds a variety of very important uses in the standard materia medica.

This plant is a member of the geranium family which boasts of about 400 different species which have been utilized for a long time in ancient medical practices throughout the world.
This beautiful herbal helper spans Ayurvedic practice, TCM, a variety of indigenous cultures, and the common western herbal pharmacy as well.

Its use spans many of our body systems such as having a special affinity for the Ears, Eyes, Nose, and Throat and has been used for everything from medicinal eye wash to throat ulcerations and thrush. It also has many traditional uses for the skin in healing wounds and has been shown in research studies to boost dermal fibroblast proliferation. In the digestive tract it shines for its traditional uses against diarrhea, but also its specifics for issues with IBS/IBD, along with gastric and peptic ulcers.

Lastly, in recent research studies it was shown to have anti-cancer properties found to be cytotoxic to the Neuro 2-a murine neuroblastoma cell line - leading to further research and study on this amazing herbal ally!

I hope you enjoyed this Monograph Monday and please know I am sending tremendous love and healing from the plant world,
Petra

10/23/2025

🌿 Herbal History and Culture - Honoring Harriet Tubman: The Healer, the Herbalist, the Guide 🌿

For this week's herbal history and culture post, I wish to honor not only Harriet Tubman the liberator, but also Harriet Tubman the healer — a woman whose courage extended beyond the Underground Railroad and into the medicine of the earth itself.

Harriet was not only a conductor for freedom — she was a keeper of plant knowledge, using herbal medicine to tend to wounds, soothe fevers, and protect those in her care. She gathered wild plants from the woods and swamps — herbs like wild lettuce, mayapple, and cotton root — to create remedies that supported the sick and strengthened the weary.

Her healing hands carried the wisdom of African, Indigenous, and Appalachian traditions, forming a bridge between cultures of resilience and remembrance. In times when access to medical care was denied, the earth itself became the medicine — and Harriet was its faithful steward. 🌿

In honoring Harriet Tubman, we honor the legacy of the herbal healers who came before us — those who risked everything to preserve the old knowledge and pass it quietly from hand to hand, root to root, heart to heart.

May her memory continue to inspire us to stand in our truth, reclaim ancestral wisdom, expand out minds in embracing and understanding the earth's many herbal cultures, and use the gifts of the green world to heal and uplift our communities. 🌱✨

With love from the plant world,
Petra

10/22/2025

🌿 Why Are We Synthesizing Nature Instead of Protecting It?

Why are pharmaceutical companies racing to create new drugs from plant-based constituents for inflammatory illness — instead of governments working to remove the toxic, inflammatory chemicals that helped create these diseases in the first place?

It’s an uncomfortable question, but one worth asking.
We live in a world where inflammation is epidemic — not just in the body, but in the environment itself. Pesticides, plastics, heavy metals, endocrine disruptors, and stressors saturate our air, food, and soil. And instead of turning our gaze toward removal and restoration, we often turn toward refinement and replication.

When a plant’s constituent — say, curcumin from turmeric or salicin from willow — shows clinical promise, it’s extracted, isolated, and synthesized into something patentable. But in that process, the spirit of the plant, the synergy of hundreds of co-factors, and the balance that nature designed are lost.

A whole plant doesn’t just offer a single “active ingredient.” It offers relationship — between flavonoids, alkaloids, enzymes, vitamins, and volatile oils that harmonize to buffer the body’s systems.
That’s why herbal medicine works not by suppression, but by restoration. Not by attacking one pathway, but by inviting balance across many.

Imagine if, instead of investing billions in turning nature into products, we invested those resources in detoxifying our planet, restoring soil health, and supporting human connection to the plants themselves.

Because the true medicine was never meant to be separated — from the plant, from the earth, or from us. 🌱
With love from the plant world,
Petra

10/21/2025

In the Heart of the Apothecary 🌿✨

These past few weeks have been a whirlwind in the apothecary — shelves lined with bottles, herbs hanging to dry, and the scent of roots, resins, and leaves filling the air. Each order that comes through feels like a quiet moment of gratitude — a reminder of the deep trust so many of you place in this work, in me, and in the natural world itself. 💚

Every formula I create begins with connection. Before a plant becomes medicine, it’s a living being — one that carries story, spirit, and wisdom. I believe that intention matters just as much as the herb itself. The mindset, the care, and the respect woven into the process all play a part in the healing that follows. 🌿

Thank you, truly, for your continued trust — for choosing to walk this natural path and allowing me to be part of your healing journey. The apothecary is buzzing, my heart is full, and I am endlessly grateful. 🌾
With love from the plant world,
Petra

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907 12th Street
New Westminster, BC
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Monday	9am - 6pm
Tuesday	9am - 6pm
Wednesday	9am - 6pm
Thursday	9am - 6pm
Friday	9am - 6pm
Saturday	9am - 6pm

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http://www.healinghouseherbal.com/

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