28 Dec Drea Moore
My name is Drea Moore (she, her) and I’m known as the “sober herbalist.” I’ve been sober a decade and a half and I am a clinical herbalist and educator. I teach about building awareness of the non-alcoholic herb community, the dilemma this identity poses in healing spaces, and the wildly interesting medicine making skills used to create strong liquid extracts without alcohol.
The ethos of sober herbalism is to empower people to make plant medicine that is accessible to everyone and to dismantle structures of thinking about herbal medicine that prevent us from accessing our personal authentic relationship to plants. I make medicine that is strong by using my body, my consciousness, my narratives and my fearless conviction that experimental methods, chance, energies and unknown forces guide and hold the power to co-create with plants.
When I am not firmly standing in my sober herbalist archetype, I am also a core faculty member of “The Land of Verse”— a global online herb school based in San Francisco. I am a guest teacher at the California School of Herbal Studies, where my original teachings on the subject of sober herbalism are available as an archived recording. I teach up and down the West coast and I’m writing a book about my work. I can be tracked on instagram @soberherbalist and on the internet at www.soberherbalist.com where I regularly hear from folx who are reaching out for support and empowerment as they journey through herbalism sans alcohol.
Drea will be sharing Wild and Free Sober Herbalism
