Blackthorn's Botanical Wellness: A Green Witch's Guide to Self-Care

by Amy Blackthorn

“Every word of Blackthorn’s Botanical Wellness is carefully thought out and deeply impactful, as Blackthorn offers in-depth information about all of the ways plants and other allies can help us care for ourselves, especially if we are among the traumatized and cast aside. There’s no spiritual bypassing here—just an ever-sweet and profoundly informative book that will throw a considerable, necessary punch into your wellness routine.” —Cassandra Snow, author of Lessons from the Empress: A Tarot Workbook for Self-Care and Creative Growth
 
“The best life starts within, looking outward,” writes Amy Blackthorn in this simultaneously practical and personal guide to wellness and healing. Blackthorn, a master herbalist, aromatherapist, and prolific author, explores methods of wellness management using both mystical and mundane tools and techniques.
 
Amy’s book features essential oils, plants, meditation, tarot, astrology, and personal sigils tailored to your own specific needs and circumstances. She also describes her own journey to well-being and shares the lessons she’s learned, including how to develop healthy mind-body habits and to stop relying on fear and shame-based rituals for self-care that ultimately produce results that are the very opposite of what is desired. Instead, Blackthorn’s Botanical Wellness supplies holistic solutions that enable you to lead your best life.

According to Blackthorn, self-care isn’t “me, first”; it’s “me, too.” In clear, accessible, friendly language, Blackthorn’s Botanical Wellness teaches the skills to put these important lessons into practice.


Find tools for managing health, chronic illness, and self-care
Create a lunar self-care calendar
Embrace the emotional well-being of aromatherapy
Work with plant spirit allies
Empower yourself with spells and rituals

Genres: Witchcraft, Nonfiction, Self Help, Tarot, Paganism, Health

233 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 1, 2022

Reviews

[Kate E · Rating 5 out of 5]

I cannot recommend this book highly enough for anyone who has experienced trauma or chronic illness and is looking for herbal solutions (teas, oils, etc) to compliment therapy and medication. As someone who has experienced both childhood trauma and chronic pain herself, Amy integrates knowledge (and belief) in modern medicine with folk magic wisdom. She provides contraindications for the herbal remedies she recommends, and has a very real-world attitude in her writing and approach. This is a book I will go back to over and over again.

[Jamie Barringer (Ravenmount) · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some helpful advice and information, but not a universally engaging book. If you are into tarot, astrology, interacting with plant spirits, magical rituals and uses for essential oils, or developing magic sigils, this book may be great for you, especially if your interest in plants leans more towards those popular for use in commercial essential oils.

[kimahee · Rating 3 out of 5]

Overall had some useful information about the medicinal and magical uses for plants and their essential oils. My biggest issue was that it was supposed to be a book about BOTANICAL wellness, but only half of it actually ended up being about plants. The other half was chapters about numerology, astrology, trance ritual, and tarot.

[Stephanie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I just received the book today and am looking forward to studying it. It is absolutely packed with useful information and organized in a simple, easy-to-navigate format. The illustrations are also quite helpful.

[Sam · Rating 5 out of 5]

Definitely a book to keep on hand. I'm only just learning how important self care is. As Amy explains in the book, if we don't stop to care for ourselves, our bodies will do it for us. I'm eager to start the 28 day lunar self care routine and use the tarot spread that she had recommended!

[Sandy Mclaughlin-rodriguez · Rating 5 out of 5]

Jam packed with usefuk, detailed information and infused with Amy's humor, I highly reccomend this book!

[Wendy Lu · Rating 3 out of 5]

cute :) really affirming discussion of chronic issues and disability in the front, reminded me a lot of being a kid making potions with my friends in the church parking lot lol

[Elizabeth · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really enjoyed the recipes provided

[Mitchell Stern · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is good but somewhat repetitive if you’ve read herbalism books before.