Herbal Holiday Gifts for YOU! 🎁

A brief update this time, to let you know about some herbal holiday gifts we’ve put together for you & yours!

Herbal Activities Calendar

The best way to learn herbalism is to do a little bit every day – so we’ve built you a whole activities calendar that will feed itself automagically right into your own calendar of choice (Google, Yahoo, Outlook, etc). You can even set notifications so that you don’t forget to try fun new herby things!

• View the Herbal Activities Calendar
• Instructions for adding the Herbal Activities Calendar to your calendar system.

Herbal Wallpapers

Each week we’re putting out a matching set of herbalism wallpaper images for your phone and your computer. The desktop version has a mini materia medica info, and the one for your phone has a tiny bite-size bit of info – and a lot of herbal beauty & inspiration.

They’ll help you learn your botanical Latin names, they’ll help you with plant identification, they’ll help you learn herbal actions, and best of all, they’ll help you fit herbs into every day!

• View & Download Herbal Wallpapers

20% Discount on EVERYTHING

Until the end of December, you can use the code CHAMOMILE at checkout to get 20% off of everything we offer!

You can use this code for gift purchases, too! Your loved one will be automatically enrolled in the course you buy for them. Remember to check “This is a gift” during checkout.

Every course, every full program, all the one-off courses… the discount works on everything. It works for the payment plans, too.

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Don’t forget to use code CHAMOMILE at checkout!

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

<silence> Hi,

Speaker 2: 0:15

I'm Katya here at Commonwealth Holistic Herbalism in Boston, Massachusetts. Just popping into the pod to let you know that this year for the holidays, we have some gifts for you. Um, I'm really excited and I really hope that you like them. So the first thing is that , um, I have been creating this herbal activities calendar and it is filled with all kinds of fun activities for you to do every day of the week, basically. Um, so all different recipes, all different types of activities that just kind of help you make a little space for herbs in every single day, even if you don't have time to like sit down and really study, it's just like a little bite-sized thing that you could still do. And even if you didn't have time to do it, just reading about it and thinking about doing it is also really valuable because it's keeping your mind where you want it to be, which is on the plants . So that calendar, you can access two ways. One way is there's a link in the show notes to just view the calendar, and you could do that at any time . But there's also a link with complete instructions and a little video. It's not hard , um, to set the calendar to automatically feed into whatever online calendar you like to use, so that if you have like your Google calendar or whatever on your phone and it sends you little notifications, you can tell this, send me notifications for the herbal stuff, and then like once a day you'll get a little thing that pops up and is like, try this tea, or make a cup of tea for yourself, or like, whatever, all different kinds of things. So you don't have to do that. You don't have to make it feed to your online calendar if you don't want to or if you don't like to use an online calendar. Um, you can access it both ways, but it is really fun. Like, you know, our phones interrupt us all the time for things that we don't really want to do, like stressful things and work things and all this stuff. And I feel like once in a while your phone should interrupt you with something that you actually want. So that is one of the big drivers for me, is just like, let your phone tell you. Alright , plants. Alright , herbs, it's good. Um, excellent. So that is available. It's free. You don't have to do anything except like click the link and then set it up, set up notifications or don't. Either way. Um, you can get to that and do fun herbal activities every day. All right , the second cool thing that I made for you is also a technology thing. So I made , um, or I am continuing to make every week a new set of a desktop and phone wallpapers. And they're a coordinated set. They're not identical. The plant is the same, but um, the, the information is not the same. So on the wall , on the desktop version, it has a picture of a plant, a different plant every week, and some basic information, some basic like material medica information about that plant. And the idea is every time you look at your computer to do things you maybe don't wanna do, right, like accounting or taxes, like whatever you have to do on your computer. I mean, you could put this on your work computer too, like whatever. Every time you look at your computer, oh, here's some information I can learn right now. Like just a , a little bit that you can like kind of capture in your mind, but it's like the most important information that will trigger for you your deeper knowledge about that plant. Or if you don't know that plant yet, it will begin your journey with that plant. So then the phone wallpaper is coordinated. There's obviously not as much space on the phone for me to put the full material medica information on the phone wallpaper, but it still has the same plant and like a tiny little bit like super bite sized bit of information about that plant. So again, every time you look at your phone , um, it's telling you something about a plant and there's a fresh one every week. So you can just, I mean, if you really love one, you can keep it for as long as you want of course, but you can go and download a fresh one every week and that can just be your herb of the week. Or maybe not, maybe you prefer a different herb of the week, but regardless, like it's really fun to just be like, oh, like this week right now. Well, it has been pine, I I'm about to launch the fresh one for this week. Um, but it has been pine, so you could also just be like, oh yeah, I've always been meaning to work with Pine and I really haven't done that yet. I'm just gonna make pine my herb of the week too. So you're seeing it on your desktop wallpaper, you're seeing it on your phone, wallpaper, maybe you get a chance to have a little tea through the week or whatever. And you're, even if you don't have time to do any other form of studying, you're learning stuff about herbs automatically all the time. Just by looking at these devices that are so much of a part of our lives, we might as well make them work for us. Right? Alright , so there's a fresh set of wallpapers every week. They come out on Fridays. I won't tell you what this week's is because I'm very excited about it. Um , but that'll be coming out in just a moment or depending on when you're listening to it, it already came out, but you can go and grab it. And the page that has the wallpapers to download , um, has all of them archived. So if I picked something this week that you don't love, no problem. Just scroll down until you find a plant that you're super interested in and download that one instead. It's totally cool. Um, awesome. And then if you are a student with us also, I coordinate different posts in the student community, in our private student community that share information from the activity calendar and information from the wallpapers and like push it a little further and learn a little bit more and do a little bit more stuff and everybody gets to talk about it. So it's, it's a very fun integrated way to be like focusing on one herb at a time without having to spend a whole lot of time every day doing it. So the herbal activity calendar, the herbal wallpapers , um, both of those are updated all the time. So like you just always have a new thing coming to you and I'm so excited to be moving into 2025 with these cool things that, that just are gonna help you. Like even if it gets stressful, even if like whatever happens, there's just gonna be this one little thing in your life that is just like funneling plants at you <laugh> constantly. And I am really hoping that it's gonna make your days feel great. All right . And then the other thing that I wanted to remind you was that this is December and a few are listening to this podcast episode and it is still December. Um, then don't forget that it is our semi-annual 20% off sale use code chamomile at checkout to get 20% off anything, everything. You can use it as many times as you like. You can use it on gift orders . So like if you have a friend who's also interested in herbalism, you can buy a course for them and then check the little box that says this is a gift, and it'll ask you to put in their email address and it will set the account up for them. Or if they already have an account, it'll just add stuff to their account and it'll email them and all that kind of stuff. Um, and so the 20% off works on that too. It works on payment plans, it works on every payment. So if you set up a payment plan for a course right now, it will take 20% off every single payment of that plan, which is really cool. Um, okay, so again, the code is cha meal . You'll find all of our courses@online.commonwealthherbs.com. And if you have any questions or if you're like, boy, I really wanna learn, but I don't know where to start , uh, maybe you have some background information or you're just not really exactly certain which course would best meet your goals, just email. I am so happy to help you figure that out. And also I'm really excited to get to know you. So shoot me an email if you send it to info@commonwealthherbs.com, it goes directly into our , uh, like, you know, mailbox where r and I both see it. Um, so yeah, ask anything you want, just let us know, so, okay. Yay, I'm very excited. So go and get your herbal activity calendar link in the show notes, get the free wallpapers. And don't forget, the sale code for December is chamomile . It's also, you know, when you go to the website online.com and wealth herbs.com. It is also on a banner right at the top. So if you like, have a total brain fart for a minute and can't remember how to spell chamomile <laugh> , listen, there's so much going on right now, <laugh> , maybe like brains don't always work. So it's on a banner right there at the top too. You'll see it. Alright everybody, we will have new episodes of the Holistic AR Zone podcast for you very soon. We have some really cool topics lined up and um, I'm just really excited to share them with you. So, until then , uh, this is wherein would say, take care of yourselves, take care of each other, get the herbal activity calendar and the herbal wallpapers. And don't forget that the sale code is chamomile for 20% off of everything and drink some tea. Bye.